I came into the office this morning and was told that Great Hobbies, a local company, had a Segway and had, in fact, become a local reseller. "Oh, sure, whatever", I ignorantly stated. Then, slowly realization of the truth came to me and we hopped in a vehicle and headed on over...  •  To …

I've enjoyed reading Patrick Smith's regular column at Salon.com called Ask the Pilot. He's a commercial pilot who writes a regular question-and-answer type column for the news site that addresses people's common questions about flying. It's a good mix of technical flight explanations and …

Next week, I'm finally packing all my belongings into a rickety U-Haul and hitting the road for Toronto. Apparently things happen occasionally in that city and I want to keep abreast of the goings-on in Toronto and its environs. I've already been introduced to the Toronto edition of Craigslist but …

Last weekend we held the second annual silverorange frisbee golf tournament for charity. Despite some overcast weather that literally threatened to rain on our event, everything went really well and we had a great turn out. Thank-you to everyone who braved the hilly course at Strathgartney. Thanks …

Over the past few months, I've been noticing an interesting example of poor contingency design that I have yet to see handled well. Here's the situation:  •  I go to an e-commerce website I haven't visited in a while and I go to login to my account. I can't remember which of my normal five …

Driving into work today I noticed an interesting anomoly: a rally-ready Subaru WRX sitting auspiciously in the Kia parking lot. Hold on a second, that's not a WRX, that's a Sport-Pac Kia Rio! Upon googling "Kia WRX" I came across a hilarious article about the new Kia that describes the" …

Each of the last three times I made a post with more favicons to be added to the original collection, I honestly kept thinking that that would be it. Then I got some good suggestions and happened to run across a few more and a future installment started building. Well, now there are well over 150 …

I followed one of Jason Kottke's links today to a Salon article and found a fantastic reworking of Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son. The version on Salon is taken from an advertisement in The Nation magazine and Saturn is replaced by George W. Bush. I've always admired Goya's original and this …