Archive for May 2008

Tour de Cure Training Ride #7 – Saratoga Gap

Wilmot and I rode Saratoga Gap today. It’s been a long time since I rode my mountain bike, and unfortunately I found that my rear down-shifter appeared to be worn down, making it almost impossible to switch gears. That made the ride slightly difficult, but since I have been on the trail many times, I [...]

Tour de Cure Training Ride #6

If you’ve been paying close attention, I skipped blogging about training ride #5.  This was primarily due to my stupidity and forgetting my GPS when I went for the last Wednesday lunch ride.  So, if you’re curious about that route, which was an out and back on Magdalena Road, you can check out the route [...]

Now that I work at Google…

…my Facebook ads are definitely targeting my employment. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that I’m seeing ads like: No offense, but these ads are kind of dumb. And, as I surfed Facebook today for about 5 minutes, I only saw maybe 5 other types of ads, which weren’t very intriguing (think – join our [...]

American Idol Season 7: Bye Bye Jason Castro

I know, I know – I predicted Syesha to leave tonight, but given how Jason Castro performed last night, his departure wasn’t at all surprising.  I think MSNBC summed it up well when they wrote: It was obvious after Tuesday night that Jason Castro was ready to go. He struggled with his first song, forgot [...]

Fixing Macbook Pro’s internal speaker output device…with a paperclip

I’m posting a solution to this because it seems like a common problem others before me have experienced… A funny thing happened to me yesterday. I removed my headphones from my Macbook Pro, and all of a sudden, a red light activated inside my headphone jack. I attempted to turn my volume up and down, [...]