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on the bike was a silver feather belonging to Ma’at, the Egyptian goddess and embodiment of truth, tied to the front; but I figured the police didn’t really need to know that.
The lock was a Masterlock Quantum 12. from Cycleworks, 55 Rt. 206 Stanhope NJ 07874, (973) 347-3733. The thief might have defeated it by:
- pulling the whole set over the top of the parking meter and walking off with it.
- watching me scramble the combination
- cutting the cable
Your online report has been approved and the permanent case number is 051014989.
update 9-19-05: here’s what I figure. I had purchased an inexpensive lock for an inexpensive bike. My main purpose was to protect it from joy riders on the playa and thieves in Hackettstown New Jersey. When I locked my bike up in the Mission District, San Francisco I should have been thinking about protecting my bike from an entirely different kind of criminal. I messed up. Oop.
I called Masterlock… there was no theft warrantee on my lock. The lock only cost $30… it protected me from the kinds of bad guys I was trying to protect it from.
If you are going over your cell phone minutes for the month, call your provider and tell them you want to switch to a plan with more minutes for the current month. With T-Mobile, you have to call them on the telephone, you can’t just use their web site to change your plan.
Likewise, if you are using less minutes, switch to a less expensive plan for the current month. I’ve done this several times now with T-Mobile. Before moving, I had a 300 minute plan. When I was driving cross-country, I upped to the 1,000 minute plan. Now I’m back down to 600 minutes.
Getting hit with overages of $0.40/minute is st00pid.
In a few months, after I settle down with a lease on November 15th, I might join in with my sister’s plan, getting 1,000 minutes for $30/month. I’ll wait to see how good T-Mobile service is in my new house.
My sister just got a Kromski Prelude from her hubby. She’s really into this spinning thang!
It was good.
I’ll be online for real (and conscious) to answer my 100+ emails tomorrow.
I’m off to Burning Man! I’ll be back online after September 6th or so.
Maybe I’m getting old… or maybe screen resolutions are getting too high. My linked 19″ and 17″ monitors are set at 1280 x 1024.
I find myself using the Windows Magnifier a lot recently, especially for looking at details of small pictures. Find it here: Start | All Programs | Accessories | Accesibility | Magnifier
Is this a Good Thing or am I just getting old? I’ve noticed for a long time that friends of mine often squint and move their head closer to their monitor to get a good look. I don’t like doing that.
Someone set us up the Google Bomb.
It’s a snarky hipster webzine prone to enthusiasms and girlish panics.
update 9-8-05
I am a Google god!
I’ve set “Subscribe to Comments” to “on” by default. That means unless you uncheck the box at the bottom of your comment, you will receive an email any time someone else leaves another comment on the post.
Tell me if you like this. If not, I’ll change it back.
I now have a California driver’s license, California license plates on my car, and I’m a registered Libertarian (After hanging out with the guy who ran for Congress on the Libertarian ticket last year, I was reminded that a large number of Libertarians are insane. No matter, the ideals of the party are closer to mine than the two bigs. So I checked the “Libertarian” box)
I made a reservation to get my license in Oakland yesterday. Turns out that making a reservation doesn’t get you much (read: “anything”). I ended up spending 1 1/2 hours waiting outside for a guy to spend 60 seconds filling out a form verifying my odometer reading. Then another hour waiting… then… blah blah blah. Well, I got to the car registration part and the lady said my car needed a smog test and she needed $211 from me. I was a bit suprised at the price so I went onto the California DMV web site that evening and they had a little form where I could figure out how much my registration would cost…. $110. I went to the San Francisco office today, told the lady what the web site said and she… … … agreed! She reduced the bill by $101! That more than paid for the $40 street cleaning parking ticket I had gotten that morning!
Bring a printed copy of your California Vehicle Registration Fee Calculator results to the DMV. It could save you money.
