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I’ve decided that I want to learn a “speed solving” algorithm for the Rubik’s Cube.
I already know a pretty easy-to-memorize algorithm that takes about a minute to two minutes to solve pending how much work needs to be done at each “step”. For whatever reason, I enjoy solving it – even if it’s very predictable [...]

On my way to work on Wednesday I saw a low-speed car accident. I’ll set it up for you.
The accident happened at a stop light. Both cars were side-by-side at the red. The truck was probably the equivalent of a 24′ Uhaul (but wasn’t a Uhaul – it was another local delivery truck that was [...]

I built the Lego 8294 Excavator set and took a series of photos to make a time lapse.
While the video isn’t the greatest thing ever (I haven’t really done this before today!), I wanted to share it. I figure this is the only way I’ll learn.
Enjoy!

Nothing major to report. Just lots of little things.
Today’s Wednesday, so I picked up some comics on the way home. It was a good day for some titles that I’m a fan of – Deadpool, Farscape, Hellboy and Army of Darkness. I’m going to need to get a new box to hold comics and another [...]

Here’s some topside shots from our Bahamas trip.
The thumbnails don’t reflect the actual composition of the images, so click through if you’re interested!

I’m currently at the dealership getting some minor work done on my Jeep. The heater dial only works when it’s in the “high” mode and I get a small amount of weird feedback when in 4WD. The first is likely a really quick fix. The second, not so sure. We’ll see. I’m also getting the [...]

I’m absolutely amazed with the number of aspiring web indexes/search engines there are. I’m equally amazed at how many of them compare themselves to Google in some fashion. As mentioned below, I’ve been paying more attention to my access logs and the number of spiders/crawlers/bots/whatever you want to call them is crazy.
The only tip I [...]

The internet isn’t new. There is a certain etiquette that most people should be aware of by this stage of the game. One thing not to do is to hot-link to content on another person’s site.
Why shouldn’t you do this?
First because it’s not your stuff. It’s like borrowing someone’s car without telling them. Even if [...]

One thing that I’m not used to is people just being friendly. It’s purely a function of living in a big city (Boston) where people just ignore everyone around them and go about their business. If someone just said “hi” to you randomly on the street, it’d come across as really strange and likely confusing. [...]

We’re at the airport waiting for our departure. We got here early since it’s an international departure but we got to the airport super fast, flew through check-in and security was a total non-issue. Even the cab showed up early this morning.
Now we have about an hour and a half wait – though probably more [...]