Well, that didn’t take long. From this entry, it seems that I bought my snowboard on Feb. 9. Yesterday, Feb 22, I cracked it as I hit an unseen rock at Keystone.
Ugh. I’ll have to wait and see how much it affects the ride. Hopefully not too much, as I didn’t even realize that my board was cracked until I took it off to walk back to the car.
Also, we spent more time in the Voyager (8 hrs) than we did on the mountain (7 hrs). Stupid I70. Where’s my monorail?
I am either too smart or too dumb to use iTunes — I don’t know which. iTunes comes with a bunch of internet radio sites preinstalled. For about 3 months, I’ve been trying to figure out how to add a new bookmark to that list, but to no avail. I poked around the menu options and the preferences pane endlessly, but iTunes defeated me.
It turns out that when you open an internet stream in iTunes, it automatically gets added to your library. In other words, when you play the stream, a “bookmark” is added automatically. Duh.
I created a new playlist called “radio sites” and stuck all of my already existing library entries into it.
Also, I just found out that the little green button does the same function as the Window | Zoom menu. Since I use keyboard shortcuts all the time, I guess I never investigated what the little colored buttons do in the title bar, and I could never figure out the shortcut for “Zoom”.
Now that I think about it, the answer is probably that I’m too dumb to use this software. Oh well.
Apparently, the Voyager doesn’t like cold weather all that much. It wouldn’t start today, and so I had to work from home, not that I minded of course. I sat at home, doing what I do every day at the office, namely writing software and listening to music (and goofing off on the internet).
And I realized that you can apply this simple litmus test to your job to find out whether you’re oppressed by your job or not.
If you can answer “yes” to all three questions, congratulations — you have a good job. You either work from home or you have an office door that you can close. You are free to concentrate fully on producing value without worrying that you are disturbing your coworkers.
If you can choose what you want to listen to, but need to wear headphones, you probably work in a cubefarm. And while your corporate culture may be egalitarian and efficient, you aren’t empowered.
Just for completeness of discussion, if you can answer “yes” to questions (1) and (3) but not (2), you probably work at a coffee shop or something. Sure you can play Ani when it’s your turn to choose the music, but it also means you have to listen to Creed or something when the new quiet-and-intense-but-in-a-creepy-kinda-way guy gets his turn. In case you were wondering, your job sucks.
Way back when, during the days of yore, when we were younger, thinner, and better looking, I was hanging out at Jake’s house, not really doing anything in particular, when all of a sudden, we heard a loud “Aarrrgh!” from downstairs.
Jake and I looked at each other in silent confusion. A minute later, Jake’s older brother Ian comes wandering upstairs with a sewing needle (with thread through the eye) stuck in his ear. Apparently, Ian felt the need to pierce his own ear.
Another Ian fact that may seem completely random at this point, but is absolutely crucial to our story is that Ian had a bad accident skiing when we were all in 7th or 8th grade. He hit a tree and was incapacitated for quite some time. I figure most of us already know this, but just in case you forgot, you’re now reminded.
In any case, I’m starting to babble. On with story of my weekend!
I went snowboarding this weekend. The day started out with kinda crappy hardpacked conditions, but a steady snow ensured that we had about 6″ of fresh powder to play in. If you’ve never skiied or snowboarded in powder, you haven’t lived. It was, in a word, epic.
During the course of our frolicking, we decided to frolick amongst the trees. Now I am a decent snowboarder. Not great, but not sucky either. I was having an ok day and figured I could handle the trees.
Maybe not.
Kinda out of control, I ended up slamming into a tree at some decent speed and smashed the entire left side of my face into the trunk. Dazed, i sat there for a while collecting my thoughts. A few minutes later, I managed to escape the evil woods.
My friend Heidi was waiting for me and here’s how the conversation went:
So yeah — I hit a tree while skiing and pierced my own ear, but I did them both at the same time. Take that, Ian.