.the gpb kids.

Nice Ride

Posted by Mike - February 11, 2008 at 02:02:32 pm

I saw this on Digg today and thought it was pretty funny.

I wonder if he does his own bike work.

Weekend Fun

Posted by Mike - February 11, 2008 at 07:02:37 am

The weather was beautiful over the weekend. I’ve been spending a lot of my free time programming side projects but yesterday was so nice I had to take advantage. So I went on my first bike ride in a few weeks. My plan was to do the usual route: up Park to Snake and then take Skyline to Grizzly Peak and come down Centennial by the Lawrence Hall of Science and the Botanical garden. Then I usually either go around the UC Berkeley campus to see what’s new or go down Claremont straight home.

Yesterday, however, Skyline toward Grizzly was closed so I had to go the other way toward the Chabot science center, then come down from the hills and take 13 to Berkeley before going up to Grizzly. I didn’t mind though cause it was so nice out.

The new front tire I put on a few weeks ago feels really nice. My turns are much smoother now and the bike feels more in control. But I think I’m leaking oil. I noticed it dripping out the bottom whenever I came to a stop light.

I devoted most of the rest of the weekend to trying to get Imagemagick to work on OS X. After having no luck from the binary install I checked out this guy’s post on how to Install ImageMagick from Source on OS X Tiger and got it sorted out. I think problem I had was not having the OS X Developer Tools installed. I still got an error when installing the jpeg library but it seems to work anyway.

I also got SVN sorted out last night. Now everything is on Google Code. It wasn’t until after I put everything there that I found out Mediatemple provides SVN hosting as well. Poop.

Microscopes and Bacteria and Plants, Oh My!

Posted by Jules - February 10, 2008 at 10:02:51 pm

I like playing around with microscopes, glowing bacteria, and autofluorescing plants (grape leaf petiole- that’s leaf stem to some of you). So pretty!  

Gaining Customer Trust

Posted by Mike - February 9, 2008 at 05:02:11 pm

“Unlike any of those computer-generated ‘guessimates’ that you get from the internet, we examine the value of your property accuretly.” (emphasis added)

Well… if they’re as good at property value as they are with spelling, I think I’ll use someone else.

Spelling and grammar on a blog are one thing, but on your business site? You should really have that checked, and rechecked. It makes you look terrible.

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