January 2005 Entries
I'm in the first class lounge at Continential waiting for my flight to New Orleneas. Bachelor Party weekend.
Note, there are very few good reasons to have a Platinum Amex, but automatic access to the lounge + two guests is money. 2:30 PM and the drinks are free.
The camera is charged, the guests have signed the blog waiver, full coverage to follow.
Dear Corey Henderson (Gold pass holder) -
At 6am the base was at -8 and the summit at -13. The base temp peaked around 8 degrees later that day, with the summit peaking around -2/zero degrees.
Thanks for the email,
Dan Mxxxxxx
Snow Reporter
Mount Snow
-----Original Message-----From: Corey Henderson [mailto:mail@coxexh.com]Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:00 PMTo: info@mountsnow.comSubject: FridayCould someone tell me what the temperature was at the base or top of the mountain this past Friday Jan 21st?
Thank you,-Corey Henderson (Gold pass holder)
I’ve been having a problem with comment spam lately — spammers using the blog’s comment functionality to post links which will get indexed by google and artificially boost their page-rank.
A) Google has announced, with support from MSN and Yahoo, rel=”nofollow” which should lower the incentive for spammers using this technique. The .TEXT version requires a recompile at the moment and I’m not running the source based install, so I’ll have to wait a while before implementing this.
B) A HIP-CAPTCHA Control can be added to .TEXT to make it v.difficult for spammers to automate posting. Clearscreen SharpHIP. I have chosen to...
Saturday I attempted to qualify for the Jeep King of the Mountain event at Mt. Snow.
Signing up, I had no idea what the format of the course was. As an ex-college racer I figured it would be a fun event — racing GS gates with a few banked turns and some table top jumps or something. Well, the actual format was only five GS gates (I was thinking forty) and six or seven considerable jumps. At the beginning of the day there were eleven skiers and thirteen snowboarders. I skied.
After course inspection, they opened up the course to training...
I just added a search link on the left. I am using Google until the gang over at Telligent Systems gets the new .Text 1.0 hotness aka Community Server released. (I’m running .96 now)
I stole this idea from the MS Exchange Team blog You Had Me At EHLO...
Thanks to David Cumps for the original search button code
There seems to be a bit of javascript funkiness that is conflicting with my email link. Big giant shoutout to whoever can help me fix it.
As a relatively new iPod user, I’ve been doing the research on various alternatives to iTunes. I’ve already been the victim of an entire library deletion experience and let’s just say some swearing transpired.
I also needed to do an firmware upgrade on a friend’s iPod and was terrified of deleting all the music on it and needed some way to back it up first.
So what did I do? Well, early on I purchased Anapod Explorer which has all sorts of nice features including the ability to get stuff back off the iPod and do on the fly encoding from...
I’ve noticed lately that when meeting new people in social situations I tend to do this thing where I say stuff twice.
New person: “How are you doing tonight”Corey: “Excellent, excellent”New person: “Have you seen this band before”Corey: “Not live no, not live.”
WTF is that? Of course now that I’ve noticed it, it happens even more.
Hit some golf balls at Chelsea Piers on Friday. They run a smooth operation over there. Pretty reasonable economically (for Manhattan). It is all electronic, you get a card with X number of balls on it, stick it in the machine (not pictured) and it even counts down how many you have left. The best part is that the ball is raised up from a machine under the ground — height adjusted via aforementioned machine. You don’t have to do anything but stand there and whack away. You can rent clubs for cheap and they are very high quality for rentals. Includes...
I saw Tegan and Sara last night at the Bowery Ballroom.
Tegan and Sara are musical wonder twins from Canada.
The audience was filled with loads of girl-girl kissing. The trick when this happens to you is to squint your eyes and or only look peripherally and pretend that they are much better looking than the inevitably harsh reality. I have read conflicting reports to whether the girls themselves are gay or not, but I suspect even if they aren’t they don’t actively discourage the idea. Sara told a story on stage about a male “friend” who was there during Christmas...
Did anyone else see this Brad and Jen breakup quote: “Brad said that they spent the rest of the holiday working out how they would release the news of the split. They worked out together the reasons they would give and how they would protect the brand they have built up.” How messed up does your life have to be when your biggest concern in getting a divorce is protecting your brand?
Brad and Jen is somewhat upsetting, but nowhere near the level of Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson or Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola. How can I expect to find a (hetero)...
So I’ve decided to create a separate link blog. Following the lead of Waxy and Scoble.
There is simply a ton of random random stuff I come across that I don’t really feel is worthy of using this precious space and I don’t really have anything to add other than pointing to it … but some of it is really funny/interesting/cool and lots of y’all might be interested in it.
Corey’s link blog.
How does this happen? Who are the marketing geniuses geniuses behind this? Huge Century 21 sponsorship? I’m disoriented; confused. Bonus link to lyrics for What Would Brian Boitano Do?
TJ brought one of these up to Vermont for us to play. The game is very simple to play. You just round up anywhere from 2-4 victims and each grab a joystick. When you hit the start button in the center of the game the red light will begin to flash and begin to play a haunting music. When the right light turns green and the music stops the last person to hit their button gets the shock. If you think you want to cheat by pressing the button early (you would never do that would you) you get the...
The actual New Year evening was wrung in at the Snow Barn at Mt Snow Vermont — featuring Northern State. The crowd was good; they had the biggest tray of cheese you’ve ever seen; there is a big round fireplace in the back; foosball; smoke free; Vermonty bar goodness all around. The ladies from Northern State put on a great show. Hip-hop with Long Island flair. Highly recommended if they come to your town. Plus their drummer has an afro worth the price of admission alone.
After 18 years of going to Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine every winter — seeing countless moose crossing signs, moose hats, moose shaped doorknobs and not once seeing a goddamned moose I have finally done it. And I had a camera on me to boot! We were skiing on Sunday and saw some commotion on the side of the trail, but just assumed somebody had fallen into the woods. Luckily some ski patrol types were on the chair up with us the next time and mentioned how the moose on the loose was the big news at the mountain and that a...