Doug's Sounding Board

That was a really good book. I like how it followed linearly in time like it was a biography and the turk was a living thing. I also enjoyed the parallels between the turk and modern chess playing machines. You don’t even have to know or like chess to enjoy this book.

Last night Nicole asked if I was going to paint. I said I might. Then she said I should do something like play video games since I’ve been wanting to play lately. I know that really she was afraid I was going to mess up the paint already done or not do a very good […]

So I learned that my slow reps aren’t as slow as the very slow reps that people say are good. I also read about a study that showed that all were good and the ones who trained for slow were better at slow motions with resistance and likewise for the other speeds, which makes sense. […]

It was hard but I completed an hour on level 7. Level 8 here I come!

Sunday we decided that would need to rip out all the moldy smelly carpet, which means we need to pull out everythign in the room. While everything is out it’s the perfect opportunity to paint the room something that isn’t yellow. We went to OSH and picked out some paint and ran other errands before […]

On Friday afternoon a wet spot was on the floor of the computer room. At first it was thought that one of the dogs had peed in protest since the other one did so earlier in the day. But that night we saw the wet spot grew. Then we saw that the carpet was wet elsewhere and that various paper things on the floor had absorbed a lot of water.

I got another flat tire on my scooter today. The mile push home was a pretty good work out at least. The problem is that the tire is rated for 330lbs. I’m about 200 and the back part of the scooter is about 70-80 lbs. That’s all fine until you hit a dip or somethign […]

I’ve always had allergies. My parents thought abotu getting me tested but I was getting close to puberty and the allergists said that it’ll all change then so don’t bother. After puberty we never thought about tests again. I knew some people got allergy shots but I didn’t know that they purpose behind them was […]

I own the original (pre-special edition) Star Wars movies on laser disc. These are the remastered and cleaned up ones done by Lucasfilm in the early 90s. I have a goal of being able to record these to my hard drive and then to a dvd. Along the way, I’ve upgraded my capture card to […]

My pirate name is: Roger Vane You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that’s okay, because it’s much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr! Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.