Anyone else ever felt this way? Hahaha
Thankfully the Tilted Twister lego robot has been invented to help advert this phenomenon. Man… I wish technology like this existed back when I first started dealing with the rubik’s cube 
Its definately been a while since I’ve encountered this phenominon but still its something that makes me laugh.
After going away camping for the second time this summer (this time only for 2 nights), and coming home to 895 new items waiting for me in Google Reader, I’ve started wondering if I really need to give a flying one about all these important things that have been going on since I last sat in front of the computer.
It also makes me think about the time that I’ve probably wasted wading through all of these on a daily basis. I think that I’ve probably not noticed that I have that many posts fly by me on a daily basis because I take them on numerous times a day, and don’t get a realistic count of the time I’m wasting and the clutter that I’m causing.
My downfall in the past was coming across a site that had a post or theme that was interesting to me. If I saw the familiar little RSS icon in my firefox bar, I’d subscribe to it, and file it into my categorized folder system and then just read away. This snowballed and now I’m seeing that I’m a slave to RSS feeds and need to cut the crap.
My plan of attack is to evaluate my feeds as the posts come in. I thought about just hacking away right now, but instead I’ll take the time to actually read every single thing that comes in for a while, and make an educated choice in what gets cut and what stays in my list. Two that I know will stay are Lifehacker and the local news updates for my local paper. Other than that its fair game on the other hundred or so feeds that are dragging my productivity down. In about a weeks time I’ll post an update to discuss my methods and results in my assault on my RSS list.
The girlfriend thought that I was crazy for wanting to go camping by myself, but I couldn’t think of a better way to get away from everyone and everything for 5 days, and no better place than Banff, Alberta. I originally wanted to go to Bow Valley Campground, but it was full, so I continued into Banff. I’m glad I did as the convenience of a town less than 5km from the campsite was definately nice.
Tunnel Mountain campground is definately a nice place, where you aren’t side by side with other campers. Thats one advantage of being a tent camper in Banff is that the campground is much nicer… I rode my bike through the part that allows trailers, and its like parking along the highway. WAY nicer in a tent. Also, someone must of told the mosquitos to beat it this year as there was nothing but squirrels, birds, deer, and bears in the park. Saw 3/4, but no bears…
I went on a few sweet bike rides while in Banff, and the above map shows my favourite one. I started out in tunnel mountain, down into the townsite, around Bow Falls, out to the Trans Canada Highway, and then back up the other side of tunnel mountain. The ride back up that hill was absolute murder, but it still made for an awesome 19k bike ride. This was also the first time that I’d been on a bike in the mountains, and due to the obvious altitude difference I got wasted much quicker than I would at home. I can now see why athletes train at those elevations to better prepare their bodies for competition.
Anyway, here are some of the pics that I snapped while out in Banff:
So aparently when you go away from Thursday morning at 8am to Monday afternoon at 3pm, 919 interesting things happen in the world? I don’t believe it, but thats what Google Reader told me when I opened it up a few seconds ago.
I can take a guess that there are going to be heaps of posts about the new iPhone 3G in there, and I’m wondering if there is a way to filter them out somehow. I know that its probably the biggest cell phone launch ever, but do I really need to see a picture of the first guy at every store around the world? Not at all…
On an average day if I have to plow through 50-60 new posts I kind of breeze through them, but I really dont know what to do with this 919 that is staring me in the face… I’m tempted to just click “mark all as read” for all feeds, and pretend that this whole weekend, other than my awesome camping trip, didn’t exist (at least in the RSS universe).
This is kind of a neat feeling. Today I paid off my 2006 VW Jetta, almost exactly one year after I bought it. Kind of a neat feeling to have paid off my first brand new car in such a short amount of time, and also to know that I made the right decision to switch from a gas guzzling truck with a 350 in it to a smaller car that seems to run forever on 55 liters of diesel.
To celebrate I attached the bike rack that I bought almost 2 months ago, and threw my bike on it. Didn’t go for a ride on the bike, but instead just drove up and down the highway a few times to see if the rack would actually work with my car and bike without blowing off or scratching the car. Now that I know that everything is fine, I’m gonna take my bike camping with me this coming weekend to do a little mountain trail riding… in my 100% paid off car! woooooooo!
I headed down to Mountain Equipment Co-op today and got absolutely hosed on some new camping equipment. Not hosed in that I was buying garbage, but hosed in that I spent way more than I planned. I guess that’ll happen when you head into a cool store like that with all kinds of gear and gadgets that you need.
The one thing that I did head into the store knowing that I’d buy is the tent on the right called the MEC Funhouse 4 Tent. I chose this tent not based on its looks or usefullness, but rather for the endless pun possibilities based on its name. Why the hell is it called a funhouse? Is Pee-Wee Herman going to come screaming and yelling when someone says the magic word? God I hope not.
Anyway, I left MEC with a new tent, tent footer, sleeping bag, sleeping mat, pot set, camping pillow, and a bunch more stuff that I can’t remember right now, all to a tune of just under $800. Holy sheep shit! When I originally thought I was going to get a tent I was expecting somewhere in the $200 range… Funny how things went sideways once I got there, but whatever I got some good stuff, and it’ll make for a fun camping season.
Scott over at the Photoshop Insider has recently put together a series of photo calendars from his recent trip to Italy. Of course he teased us at first with just giving us the photos, but then today he was nice enough to provide us instructions on how to create your own photo calendars.
I think that I’m going to give this a rip. Maybe I’ll make the next calendar that will be on fridges all over the world, or maybe it will just be a series of desktop wallpaper for me to use, who knows. Either way, I’m glad that someone laid this out for me and you in a simple step by step fashion.
Just found this 04 night train… very low miles, and looks sweet. Would be nice if it had big radius pipes on it, but still those pythons look alright, and aparently sound good too. I’m in quite the pickle now as the train is my original choice, but I’m also taking a hard look at the street glide… why does it have to be so f’n hard to choose!!?
Now that Rogers has finally announced their rates for the iPhone in Canada (release date July 11, 2008), internet news sites and the blogosphere have been running rampant in their bashing of Rogers. Roger’s supposedly has the worst rates of any carrier in the world, and failed to up its image by offering price plans closer to what AT&T offer in the states. Anyway, a website petition has been started at Fuck You Rogers, and they hope to send 10,000 signatures and messages to Rogers on July 11 to show how unsatisfied their customers and potential customers are. Want to vent? Looks like this is the place to do it…
What better day than a monday to be spent cleaning out the garage. Since moving to the new house, the garage has been a non stop depot for all kinds of crap that we haven’t found a spot for yet in the house. Today thats going to change, because I’m going to move all that crap into the storage room! Not really the ultimate destination for that stuff, but I assume that if its lived peacefully in the garage for 3 months, it will find a nice home in the huge basement storage room as well.
The above photo is what I hope to accomplish today… yeah right… its definately not going to be today, but one day I hope!
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