http://www.electricrelaxation.com numba won stunna Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:45:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do advances in computing technology tend to show up in the consumer space first, or in a corporate environment? Or is there simply no correlation? I guess there are probably all sorts of measurement/range bias issues that render this an academically uninteresting line of inquiry, and perhaps even my bilateral ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/08/03/someone-probably-knows-the-answer-to-this Lisa and I completed the Half Dome hike in Yosemite this weekend. We drove up to Yosemite after work on Friday, stopping by the Oakland airport to pick up Allen, and then in Stockton to grab Ryan and his friend Meena. We made it to our camp grounds in Hogden ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/07/20/half-dizzome Jai's shoulder has healed to the point where he can play basketball again, so we've resumed our morning workout + games of 21 at the UCSF Mission Bay gym. We cleared the record. After the first day, Jai was up a half game. He then followed up an exhausting stream of ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/05/15/d-fee-ted I watched several good movies recently. A few of these were picked off of IMDB's "Best Sci-Fi" titles list (sorted by popular vote). The Day The Earth Stood StillThis is a classic Science Fiction movie (black and white, 1951), about an alien visitor who comes to Earth to warn humanity of ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/05/11/a-few-good-movies I wish I had found this years ago: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/rss/best_new_music When I get bored or motivated enough I'm planning on writing a little RSS transformer that transforms this feed into one that sources Mininova. Actually I think that's exactly what Yahoo! Pipes is supposed to be for... Update: Holy fuck, that was easy. I'm ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/05/03/pitchfork-best-new-music-rss-feed I had a slow leak in the rear of my bike which I managed to fix today. I knew that this was supposed to be really easy to do but a dangerous combination of laziness and unfounded intimidation almost lead me to bring it in to the shop down the ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/05/03/a-modest-achievement I had no idea that Automobile was such a Z32 fan. They named it one of the 25 most beautiful cars in history, and one of the 20 best cars of the past 20 years. I just got my car back from the shop (I took it in for what turned ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/04/07/glowing-review-of-the-z32-in-automobile-magazine I spent this past weekend at the Schweizer ski resort in Idaho with Lisa, Matt and Vanessa. It was incredible. The resort is massive; it felt twice as big as Tahoe and half as crowded. My personal on-board highlights included nailing a couple of real jumps -  I think I got ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/03/11/my-first-rail I bought my mom a Kindle for her birthday. My parents are visiting and they brought it with them so I could show them how to use it (it's been sitting unopened in a box since it arrived a few weeks ago). Not much point in doing a complete review since ... http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/02/13/kindle Baseless and unfounded speculation: the true cause for the decline in consumer spending is the Hollywood writers' strike. People are watching less TV, and therefore they're seeing less commercials, and therefore they're less induced to buy goods and services. Armchair economics is fun. http://www.electricrelaxation.com/2008/01/30/the-real-cause-of-the-consumer-spending-decline