Category Archives: General

cabelas customer service is amazing

I placed an order at Cabela’s on Tuesday and after completion I didn’t receive an email. Normally I’d login to my account to check its status but since they gave me the option of not creating an account and thus not needing another password to remember I took it. (THANK YOU!) To my amazement an actual person [...]

posterous rocks

A few weeks ago I had to setup a blog at work on short notice. Despite the fact that Drupal has pretty much all the blogging features we needed there’s some stigma around our website. The problem isn’t the website, it’s the content and its organization. However rather than try and explain that I elected [...]

solar project

This is just notes for now, will turn into the real deal soon enough. Update 2: http://www.solarpowerrocks.com/washington/ (long winded and annoying, but has info on incentives) http://solardat.uoregon.edu/NorthwestSolarResourceMaps.html (PNW solar potential) http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/lacey-washington.html (Solar path diagram- they’re kinda hard to read, but that’s basically the path the sun follows across the sky from equinox to equinox.) Update [...]

memories and coleslaw

L2 Check Mirrors

Just south of Amanda Park, dude in 20+ foot RV gets into fast lane (left lane) going up hill. I decide to pass on the right since this guy can’t read signs. “Slow moving vehicles stay right”. Big 4×4 Dodge truck in front of me passes him, I’m about 50% of the way past and [...]

kids fishing

I’m taking my niece to a kids fishing event this weekend. They cram a small pond full of trout and let the kids go crazy. If it’s anything like the derbies in Forks I went to growing up then it will be a cluster F of sharp/barbed & weighted objects. I’ll be wearing long pants [...]

google cellular

This is wicked cool, saw it on a TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJxA8eIWQUc about Phone+Internet (Phoneternet). Text 46645 (googl) instead of 411 and only pay txt messaging fees. In addition the number and whatever else you get back is already on your phone so you can refer to it again later. Example usage here: http://www.google.ca/mobile/sms/index.html Another option [...]

change into a truck

hah!

pandora fail

No matter how many times I downvote Jack Johnson it keeps coming back up.

steelhead failure

Went out for steelhead a few times over Thanksgiving break. I caught 2 tiny hatchery fish, steelhead jacks I guess, both about 20″ long missing an adipose. Calawah was low and really clear, I never do well when the river looks like that. Also hooked what looked like a sockeye in the dickey although it [...]