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mennonno sapiens – one giant leap for mankind: Boston’s Bike Pipe Dreams.
Amen.

Or maybe also a bad router.
Replacing the router did not improve the connection, it’s still going out. Then I noticed that the “DSL” light on the modem was going out which means the connection to the CO was being dropped. I didn’t notice that before, but judging from the current behavior, it’s probably what’s been [...]

There’s a long trail along the Charles, but I didn’t realize just how long it was. It starts as the Esplanade, then continues along the Charles to the Eliot Bridge where you can pick which side of the Charles you want to travel along to Watertown. I normally take the Cambridge side because I thought [...]

My router (an SMC Barracade WGBR14-N) is going bad. I spend a bit of time with tech support at Speakeasy, my DSL provider, and we determined that it was “most likely” the router. This morning, I was able to confirm that.
I’m miffed.
I paid extra for this thing because it was supposed to be “SOHO quality”. [...]

Last night I went to the Cape Cod League All-star Game at Fenway Park. It was an okay game. There was a huge storm heading in, and the game should probably have been postponed from the start, but I guess it’s hard to reschedule things like this, so they went ahead even though it was [...]

Another dining adventure. Since the economy is in the pits, many top end restaurants are having prix fixe menus to draw in new customers, so we’re trying some of them out.
Last night was Ruth’s Chris Steak House.
They had quite a large menu for a prix fixe, but as it’s a steak house, we went for [...]

Hahaha.
Looks like someone’s not too pleased at the pace of the race today.

The New England Classic starts tomorrow, so I took a few hours off work to go up to Woburn to help load the trucks and stuff.
Now I’m really bummed I’m not going. I’ve done it five years in a row and this year I won’t be going and I’m really kind of sad about it. [...]

Why did I not know Versus was live streaming the TdF?
I watched a bit of it this morning and it’s pretty good. It seems to be commercial free, but then I only watch about the last 20km. The free version is a smaller screen, but that seems fine to me as I’m not sure my [...]

Boston Beats Seattle for Most Rainy June Days
Take that, Knox.
* for certain definitions of “beat”

An out of town friend is visiting, so we went to the Sox game last night and co-incidentally it was Nomar Garciaparra’s first game at Fenway since he was traded in 2004. The game kind of sucked (losing 5-0) but it was cool to see him play again.
The seats were pretty good (loge box section [...]

[netflix] [IMDb]
This could easily be described as a Spinal Tap for folk music. The whole Second City crew is here again (after Watiting for Guffman, For Your Consideration, and Best in Show) for another winner. There are a few laugh-out-loud moments, but the real humor is in the absurdity of it all.
Irving Steinbloom was agent [...]

[netflix] [website]
Benjamin Bagby, Beowulf scholar and teacher, performs Beowulf as it might have been performed in meade houses of old. Whether he’s right or not, there’s no way to know, and he says as much in the DVD “extras”. The only thing we know for sure is that it was performed, beyond that, we know [...]

[netflix] [IMDb]
Apparently, this was a TV show, something I did not know, but then I rarely watch TV. This came recommended, so I watched it. It was pretty good, but it’s clear you should be familiar with the show to make full sense of the plot. It wasn’t until the very end of the movie [...]

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Jolly joker!