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We’ve Always Been Miserable: A Compare and Contrast in YouTube

Posted in Art, Film, Reviews, Technology on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In the above video, comedian Louis CK talks about how, despite modern advances in technology, human beings are more miserable than ever. He makes strong points in favor of going back to the Stone Ages, or at least the 70s, when we had rotary telephones. He claims that having our needs met instantaneously has only [...]

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My Blog in Japanese

Posted in Technology, Things I Bet You Didn't Know on May 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »

WordPress (I use this for my blog) has an interesting Stats feature on the WordPress Dashboard (the main control panel). You can see what terms people search on to get to your site. Like, today, someone searched for “Katie Kelly’s Real Name” and landed on my blog. I can also see what search engines people [...]

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The Wiggle on Gmaps

Posted in Cycling, Leisure, Technology on November 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

So I surfed a little more around the Gmap Pedometer and went to the Message Board (Mileposts) to get the full skinny. Then I clicked Check This Route! There are a billion posts there describing routes all over the world. One post describes the infamous San Francisco Wiggle: The Wiggle is a way to get from [...]

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Google Maps Pedometer

Posted in Cycling, Leisure, Technology, Things I Bet You Didn't Know on November 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

So maybe a GPS system isn’t in your cycling budget. Here’s something my Mako teammate Russ White told me about. It’s called the Gmap Pedometer. Designed for logging walking routes, the Gmap Pedometer lets you map out all your usual routes just by double-clicking on a map.

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