I managed to get out and inspect my bike a bit more tonight. Turns out that I did more than just scrap the handlebars. Putting any downward pressure on the hoods bends the right side. When I hit I must have crushed the carbon. It will be interesting to see what they look like when…
Teachers Without Borders
During the day and lately most of the night I work as a Fellow for Teachers Without Borders at Utah State University. (funded by Cisco). What I actually do bores most people and causes my wife to roll her eyes and tune out anytime someone asks what I do. It’s a long story and involves…
Muffins
When you are not especially mobile because you trashed your knee and you aren’t supposed to bend it more than 30 degrees or else you might tear open a newly sewn together wound you appreciate the finer things in life. My wife makes the best muffins in the world. Period. Every year, at least during…
Cycling Reduces Your Risk of Cancer
So says a new study by some Swedish guys. Unfortunately, increases your chances of running into a rattlesnake by nearly 1,000%.
Open Any Document in Google Docs Via a Url
We are looking at ways to integrate the new Teachers Without Borders site with Google docs. Turns out that you can open: documents – .pdf, .doc, .txt, .html, .rtf and .odt spreadsheets – .xls, .csv, .ods presentations – .ppt By feeding the file url to this google url: http://docs.google.com/?DocAction=updoc&formsubmitted=true&uploadURL=DOCUMENT_URL Here’s an example if you needed…
Found Some Stuff
I managed to find my riding glasses and my bike computer today. Neither were cheap, but it is interesting how little you care about that stuff when there is a gaping hole in your leg. I left both in the van when my wife took me to the hospital. I wasn’t sure if I had…
Appreciate the Little Things
I took sort of an actual bath today. I love to shower so it really stinks that I have to find alternate means to clean up. I managed to sit in the bath and shower off a bit this morning without getting my wound wet or bending my knee. It was a pain but better…
Ways to Not Make Use of Your Health Insurance – Cyclist vs. Rattlesnake
Over the years I have seen a couple of bike wrecks. In one the rider’s frame was snapped in half and he took a LOT of skin off his back. It was a good thing he had a helmet. It cracked, but probably saved his head. The other wreck was the Cache Valley Century. At…
Something to Think About
My wife took the girls to Ogden today. While driving through the canyon the driver in front of here was driving erratic and she noticed that their hands moved a lot. When she got to Brigham City she discovered that the people in the car in front of her were speaking in sign language. Something…
Using Starling, Workling with Ruby on Rails
For the project we are working on for Teachers Without Borders we need a reliable asynchronous way to process tasks. There are a myriad of ways to do this and if you aren’t careful you’ll spend weeks second guessing yourself while investigate every possible option. Not that I would know that from experience. We chose…