Finally the long awaited ePUB format books are starting to show up on Penguin Publisher’s site! Here’s a search for the word ‘epub’ that turns up 682 results as of October 15th, 2008. Not all of them are available for download yet but a number of them are accessible right now.
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Getting ready to head home for the evening, last night (Sept. 18, 2008), I packed up my stuff, changed into my biking gear and headed out to where my bike had been securely locked while I was at work. I was a bit disappointed to find that my rear tire on my recumbent bike was flat. I had plenty of patches though, being an occasional commuter, I like to think I am prepared for such events. I removed the wheel and got the inner tube removed, patched and replaced in about 1o minutes. After pumping and pumping for much longer that it should have taken I noticed that it wasn’t holding more than 30psi and quickly dropped to nothing once I stopped. An hour later and 5 holes patched on the ancient rubber band I was kind enough to call an inner tube and I decided that there was no fixing the old oxidized piece of rubber.
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So, one of my friends and co-workers Eric, just came to my office and asked if I had a couple AA batteries that he could borrow. I searched and looked and finally found two in a Maglite flashlight I had in my backpack. I held the flashlight up and said “here’s a couple” and he said “Uh, you don’t have 4? OK, I’ll keep looking”.
I could have sworn that “a couple” meant two. I think he’s just focused elsewhere - his last day here is tomorrow.
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I’m always amazed by the generosity of my friends and family at this time of year. With only a week and a half, I not only raised the minimum for participation in this year’s ride but had to change my goal twice! I want to thank everyone who has contributed financially as well as those who support me in other ways each and every year for the MS150! I can’t do it without you and I really appreciate your kindness.
Here’s the original post about the ride and a direct link to my MS150 page.
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Late one night this week…
Googleearth gallery
> 2007 Tour de France route
> Noticed amazing Carcassonne which the route passed by
> Jump to Wikipedia to learn about Carcassonne
> A thought leads to Labyrinth the book
> Which makes me think of the (unrelated) Labyrinth movie
> Learn that the fancy manipulation of the ball is called Contact Juggling
> Search Youtube for Contact Juggling
> Amazing:
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So, I was really upset a month ago when one of my headlights in my Jeep Cherokee went out. It’s not the first time and that’s actually the reason why I was upset. I just replaced both of them one year ago and again, a year before that! For some reason I’ve felt that headlights should last longer than one year (apparently, misguided in these perceptions). They seem that they are not made of tissue and therefore one should expect them to not function like a short term, disposable item.
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The only thing good about being sick is that I get to sound like Barry White for a while. Whereas White was often affectionately referred to as “The Man with the Velvet Voice”, being sick, just makes me sound like him. It’s hard to make out with anyone while coughing up a lung.
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So, it’ll take a few weeks for me to get into the habit of consciously realizing that ’s 2008 let alone writing 2008 on any checks or other times I need to remember the date. So I’m sure you’ll understand when I say welcome to 2007 - Whoo hoooooo!!!!! Lets party like it’s 1999.
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I have recently upgraded my camera and purchased a new Nikon D300 to replace my D200 which I bought in the fall last year. The D200 that I am selling is in extremely good condition. It has always been well cared for and has had very few pictures taken on it.
In addition to the D200 camera body, I am including a Nikkor 50-200mm lens and the new cables, battery and charger that came with my D300 to replace the original used D200 items. All the original packaging and manuals (in both english and spanish) will be included as well as the Nikon D200 Digiatal Field Guide by David D. Busch.
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I’ve updated my resume with my current experience, position and responsibilities. It’s located here:
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I woke up at 6:30am to get a jump on the expected long lines at the voting booths today. Utah is switching to electronic voting machines across the state. The early voting has had notoriously long lines and today should be no different. As it turns out, the state has too few voting machines which as one would guess, create an environment which fosters lengthy lines and a healthy wait. Unfortunately, the sparse count of voting devices is not the only thing which will cause longer lines today.
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OK, so I have an equity line of credit at US Bank on my home which equates to an interest only loan/second mortgage. My goal has been to pay it off as soon as possible and so when I have a significant amount saved, I pay some of it down. Last month I went to my local US Bank office and deposited two checks, one for $8,000.00 and the other for $200.00. I explained that the $8000.00 check was to be paid on the principle of the loan while the $200.00 was for the next automatic withdraw and should be deposited in my checking account.
The clerk deposited the checks and claimed to have made the application of the $8000.00 to the principle, thereby reducing the amount of my total mortgage. She even gave me a new balance that seemed to reflect the applied money.
Today I went in to deposit some money for my next payment and learned that there was nothing due. Asking why, the clerk responded that “oh, you have paid an $8000.00 payment towards future payments so you have paid ahead of schedule”.
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Just got home from Bingham Cycles with the bike. I have to say that the Carbon/White color scheme is SOOOOO much prettier than the Team Gerolsteiner colors. It’s just plain cool. It has a beautiful carbon pattern showing through with the joints at the top of the seatpost and the cranks fading from black to the carbon fiber pattern.
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So, I’m going on a date tonight and I thought that if life itself hasn’t been motivation enough, maybe a date would get me to wash my car. I took it to the local Supersonic Car Wash today at 3:00pm-ish and wouldn’t you know it, as I drove out of the car wash with my bright and shiny Jeep Cherokee, it began to snow. It’s now 4:24pm and it’s really coming down. That’s life I guess. BTW, they did a great job on my car. If only they could control the weather…
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So, I don’t know if it’s that I just have too much time on my hands these days (there’s certainly not a lack of things I need to do, so maybe that’s not the case) or that I just need a break now and then but I took time to watch three movies at the end of last week: Memoirs of a Geisha, Bourne Identity and March of the Penguins.
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I mentioned in a previous article that my LG LST-3510A DVD/HDTV tuner had died and I had sent it off to get repaired. I seems that a firmware update was all that was needed (I could see no other changes listed in the materials sent back except for a hand-written label on the back of the unit saying that the unit had been refurbished and that a firmware update had been performed. The unit seems to be working well. So, LG came through on the last day of the warranty. I hope the unit lasts a bit longer this time…
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Well, I recently discovered that my blog was listed on blogshares. My account wasn’t active till now. The Mecworks blog stock is now extremely undervalued (IMO) at B$.85/share with a total valuation of B$1,951.14.
Have you ever wanted to get in on something good from the get-go? Now’s your chance! My personal feeling is that this stock is going through the roof. Of course, I’m biased… :)
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Apparently my blog is listed on blogshares. I have not heard of this site before…
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On Tuesday this week, I went to my sister’s place for dinner with my family up in Park City, UT. It was my birthday and we had a great time being together and eating dinner. My sister fixed a low-carb pumpkin cheesecake. I asked her for the recipe and she pointed me to this blog entry where she got it.
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I recently ordered and received several audio books from Amazon.com. I already had several which include J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books:
In addition to this I have several others as well as several Old Time Radio (OTR) shows which are incredibly cool to listen to.
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