With Anne out of town, I decided to get some Geocaching done. From Friday night to Sunday afternoon I did 50. I really need to get a life. I went down to clean out South San Jose on Sunday, an area that Anne has no interest in. She likes places with water and there’s no …
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1. Cars Honking 2. Sirens (Police, Fire, Ambulance) 3. Cars crashing I’m listening to NPR on the way to work and they’re doing this story on catching tropical fish. For some reason they’re playing background sounds of cars honking. I’m looking around trying to figure out who keeps honking at me. These sounds are often …
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We’ve been busy adding RSS feeds all over Yahoo! We had previously released Yahooligans! Joke of the Day. Today, Ask Earl (a daily question and answer for kids) is available too. In Education, we now have Word of the Day and SAT Tip of the Day available. More to come soon!
Or pathetic, depending on how you look at it. A friend has placed a cache in my honor. How honoring/embarassing!
Let me first say thank you for driving up the price of my stock 50% in the last 3 months. Second, I have no idea why you’re doing this. Are we really worth that much more? Will the Google IPO bring lots of other fresh cash into the market? I have no idea. But apparently …
What’s a phoon? I just discovered them myself. Some guy runs a site that’s a collection of photos with people in faux running positions in various places around the world. It’s interesting, funny and bizarre.
I had my first Caltrain experience today. We went up to see the Giants play the Red Sox. Unfortunately the Red Sox lost, but I guess I could just be happy that my current hometown team won. Caltrain is actually quite a nice way to get to the game. They run special trains to get …
San Jose’s airport is close and convenient for us, but it sure sucks once you get there. It seems that it’s been continually under construction for several years and everytime you go, the traffic patterns are different. You used to be able to get right onto 101 from the airport. Now you have to sit …
Large parts of the web were broken this morning because Akamai, a company that provides critical infrastructure to the Internet, went down. Have I convinced you to stop typing ‘www’ yet? Thanks, Dave! — Akamai DNS problem Starting at around 8:30 am EDT (12:30 UTC), a number of sources started to report a widespread Akamai …
This weekend I found cache #1000. Wow, what a waste of time. 🙂 The actual cache was Ardenwood Scrabble, another excellent multi-cache from GeoWomyn_SF_CA. It was great to do it with friends as well. I did 455 caches in my first year, so I set a goal of 1000 by the end of the year. …