I saw this in the parking ramp on the way to work this morning. I’m not sure whether the owner is saying “Take your preconceptions of my condition and screw them.” or “I’m a tasteless dorkwad.” It’s difficult to tell.

Taken from the north side of the Third (aka Central) Ave bridge. I decided to walk across the bridge to catch the bus.

After getting home, I realized how out of shape I really was. Walking about a mile, getting on the bus, then walking about a mile and a half, made my feet seriously hurt. Maybe it was the walking, but maybe it was the motorcycle boots I was wearing. I’m thinking it’s the lazy. :(

This hummer crashed into a Chrysler Sebring convertible in an intersection near my work.

Show the most-often-hit URLs from a squid proxy log:

tail -10000 access.log | awk '/GET.*DIRECT/ { i[$7]++;}; END{for (a in i) { if (i[a] > 100) printf("%-7s %s\n", i[a], a); }}' | sort -n

This weekend, I volunteered to do safety/communications for the Ironman Bike Tour, a fund raiser for the Minnesota division of Youth Hostels International. This is my fourth year volunteering for the Ironman and third year at the Lonsdale, MN rest stop. I think I really had my game on this year. Here's how I did it:

Radio preparation:

Kenwood TM-D700 in my F-350, crossbanding into the Burnsville repeater (146.210, no tone) at 50 watts.
Truck parked in the highest part of the parking lot, since the VFW building was down in a gully.

Inside the building:

Thanks to Minh, who caught a syntax error on line 32 of 1.0.3. This update (1.0.4) contains the fix.

Church & funeral home:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=8370520151963702998,44.921...

Cemetery:

Where: Peter's house (comment if you need directions, I'll email you).
Who: Anyone who wants some quiet writing/creative time.
When: 10A-8P, Sunday, November 25th.
What: Food, WiFi, lots of cozy places to sit, perch, lounge, etc.

Note: There are two cats in the house. Sorry in advance to those who have allergies.

Whoops. I must have been tired or distracted when I was working on 1.0.2, because there's a real brain-dead problem with SOCKS handling. I think it's fixed now. As always, feedback is welcome.

This version adds a much smarter parser which should work with multi-proxy "return" strings, as well as adding support for SOCKS proxies. I'd like to hear from folks who use multi-proxy returns or SOCKS proxies to see if this works for you now.