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Cross Country Trip 2009

tomicles — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:34:15 +0000

I am writing this as I sit waiting for my delayed flight to Boston from San Francisco. My younger sister decided to move from Boston to Portland and I am helping her move her car across the country. I’ve brought some toys to keep me connected and report my position along the way. Tomorrow there will be more photos of my setup as I get it installed in her car. My tracking site is located at the following URL: http://whereami.tomicles.com/ and if everything goes as planned it will update my position every 10 seconds or so while on the trip.

Are your text messages really private?

tomicles — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:15:59 +0000

I’ve posted a new blog entry over at Abrevity which talkes about some of the new issues with the recently ammended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and how they might make your text messages and other types of web communications available for e-discovery if your company gets sued, you know, the ones that you sent while you were at work. Check it out.

Lockline and OUT OF STOCK phones

Tomicles — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:06:11 +0000

So after SHDH this last weekend, where I didnt give a rats ass about my phone since it was being replaced, I called LockLine to get my phone replaced. They told me it would arrive tuesday and it would be $50 non-refundable deductable for the claim. Today I called to figure out why I had not recieved my phone yet, and they said it was on its way and gave me a tracking number. They then went on to say that there was a delay because the no longer have any MOTOROLA E815s and they were sending me a LG VX 8100 instead. Not only will the 8100 NOT connect to my system via bluetooth the way I want it to, i.e. BluePhoneElite, but it also has a completely different interface. I explicitly decided to go with the CHEAPER E815 instead of the LG 8100 when I purchased my phone, and still feel the same way. So now the question is, what phone do I get? I can go pick up a new E815 from Verizon for the Retail cost, and sell the LG VX 8100, or I can pick up something a little cooler, say a PDA phone or blackberry. I dont know what to do. Either way, I have a broke ass phone that goes straigt to voicemail usually, and a brand new VX 8100 that I dont think I want to open, as well as an unused Treo650 for Sprint that I can sell.

What PDA Phone do I buy?

Creepy phone calls that show up as from ” 1 ” on caller ID

tomicles — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:24:06 +0000

This afternoon I got my fourth phonecall from a strange number. The caller ID says the call is from ‘ 1 ‘ and when I answer, I can hear someone hang up the phone. The four calls have been coming in at random times during the past two weeks or so. I had a few entries in my phonebook that started with the number 1 as the contact name, and ive since changed them to something else, but I dont think they were in anyway related. I called Verizon to see if they could tell me that the phone number was actually ‘1′, but their systems are very lagged, and I have to check it on my next statement. The guy proceeded to tell me that I could ‘change my number’ if the problem persists. Like thats going to happen. Ive had my number since highschool and I’m not about to change it.

too sore, cant type, will try anywyas.

Tomicles — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:29:19 +0000

today was a slow day at work. I got to unpack and setup six multifunction dell printer/scanner thingies… Dell 1600n’s i believe. Kinda a cool unit actually. ~300 for a laser printer/fax/scanner with built in Ethernet. After I did that i just got to work on stuff at the office for the rest of the day. After work I went on my bike ride right away. I got through the vasona region real quick as usual, but then i ran into my friend Nick Baggarly, who heads up a non-profit organization called ‘drive around the world’. He just recently got back from his trip, and as I go on my bike ride every day I see his land rovers which have just returned. Today he happened to be outside working on them so i had a nice time talking with him for a bit. Check out his website linked above, his travels are for a good cause, to raise money for the Parkinson’s institute.

After talking for a bit with Nick, I continued on my bike ride to the top of St. Joseph’s Hill. As I approached about the 75% marker someone started to catch up with me, and i decided that I was just being too lazy for that to happen, so I picked up the pace and beat him to the top of the hill, just to be smashed on speed right before the top by some guy on a single speed. Ive decided that people shouldn’t be able to pass me going up the hill, unless they are very seasoned at mountain biking, OR they have a single speed bike. The single speed bikes seem to pass me all the time, and there is nothing i can seem to do to keep up with them. Part of the reason I’m so sore now is because I did push ups and other similar types of exercises at the top of the hill. I feel like I just had the first day of crew practice at the beginning of the season when they just kick your ass to get in shape. I guess its a good feeling. The other impressive thing about my ride today was the decent back down to LG. I went really fast. The guy on the single speed with no suspension went faster. I couldn’t believe it.

car accident on 17 at lark today

tomicles — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:24:57 +0000

I was driving back from Fry’s with Brian today, and just as we came across the Highway 85 bridge going south on 17, we saw this nasty accident going the other way. I don’t think anyone was hurt because there were no ambulances there, and lots of people were out of their cars already. There were about half a dozen cars involved with this pileup, but only one was flipped over.