Random Bytes...by Ross RaderRoss Wm. Rader's current home page. Odds and sods of current interest without much thought given to rhyme or reason. Hey, it keeps me out of trouble, hopefully it keeps you interested ;)Sine Qua Non- July 4, 2008 An awesome insight about cycling from BKW: "Cycling gives us the ability to achieve more than we could without it. Our relationship to cycling is a sort of marriage. But it’s married to more than us—we’ve wedded it to our lives. When it works, it can teach us not the value of sticking with something, but how walking away from anything robs us of more than the thing itself." - Belgium Knee Warmershttp://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/4/3775866.html Happy Jim Morrison day- July 4, 2008 37 years ago today, Jim Morrison died. How do I remember this every year He had the good taste to kick off the day I was born :)http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/3/3775078.html Sometimes its better not knowing...- July 3, 2008 I like looking commonplace things up on Wikipedia. Sometimes I'm surprised by the gap between what I think I know and what I don't know. Sometimes, I'm just surprised. For instance, take this excerpt from the Wikipedia entry about "watermelon". The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind (green and yellow) and a juicy, sweet, usually pink, red, or yellow, but sometimes orange, interior flesh. The flesh consists of...http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/2/3773418.html Live on Fox Business with Tom Sullivan- July 2, 2008 My interview ran for four minutes 1:40pm EST. I don't have a link yet, but if you come across one, please send it my way. I have done a fair amount of TV in the past, but I've always done it with the interviewer in the room. In this case, we did a remote, so I was in a small room with two operators, a camera guy and Ivan (a remote producer) It was a bit weird - sort of like a cross between radio and camera. I had to really try hard to remember that even though my brain said "this is just a...http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/2/3773175.html Waiting in the green room- July 2, 2008 I guess I overplanned in terms of arriving on time. I have a really bad habit of trying to show up exactly on time. Which means when I get lost or run into obstacles, I'm late. Trying to avoid this today, I left a bit early. Unfortunately everything went smoothly, and now I'm sitting here in "the green room" with 40 minutes to burn. When I arrived, they initially thought that I was here for "off the record" - a sports talk show. I thought for a split second about bluffing, but decided...http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2008/7/2/3772975.html |