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Posts from ‘June, 2008’

Good customer service at ‘Dick’s Sporting Goods’

I rode my bike out to the mall to return that rain suit I bought yesterday as it already ripped completed through the pants (nice product Eddie Bauer!). I noticed as I was cabling my bike at Target that the front wheel felt loose. After further investigation, it was REALLY loose. It was so loose [...]

Playing with Painter

Monster Attack!

Just drew one of a few pics using my new graphics tablet.

Microscope Photos

USB Microscope Pics Clover Fern Dollar

Mobile data plans are so expensive

I am looking for a mobile device for Twitter/IM/Blogging and got really excited today about the new iPhone. That was until I did some math and found the total cost of ownership (2 year w/o taxes) of a new iPhone. The phone, voice, and data cost is almost $2000 ($1,878.76 16GB and $1,978.76 32GB. Includes [...]

For the dog you hate: Disney’s Old Yeller dogfood

“It’s the food that takes your dog out back and shoots it. Brought to you by Disney.” From crowbar’s flickr stream

The injured ‘pet’ bumblebee

Last week there was what appeared to be an injured bumblebee. I say ‘appeared’ because I am not a bee doctor and have no idea how to actually tell that a bee is injured, except that it seemed sluggish and couldn’t really fly. Day 1 He was on the floor of our porch and tiny [...]

Deam Wilderness Fire Tower

I love this place, especially the view. Did some walking on a short trail. And took photos (mainly) of flowers.