I know I’m not the first one to post about this (far from it, I read about it in Lockergnome, for Pete’s sake), but this is really quite cool.
Click the title of this post to see the rest of this silliness.
This is about Arwen’s blog, and I’ve put the trackback url in the TrackBack an URL: field.
Hmm.
I was walking to work this morning, and there it was, locked to a “no parking” sign. Different handlebars (no surprise there – I had these weird antler-lookin’ things that were like aerobars, but wider & longer), and there were now toe-clips on the pedals. Different wheels (I’d had high-pressure tubes that used to blow out all the time). How did I know it was mine? It’s an old Nishiki 15-speed my mom bought for me when I was 15, dark-blue-purple, Shimano shifters on the back (I changed ’em when I worked at K-mart when I was 18), and it still had the “Champion Cycle” shield on the back of the crossbar (a bike shop in Chilliwack that’s be gone for 10 years).
I know it’s mine.
So what do I do? I’m thinking going the “nasty note” route. Something along the lines of:
Dear Rider. You’ve got my bike. It was stolen from the basement of my apartment building three months ago. The handlebars are different, but everything else is the same. If you stole it, I hope the karmic debt you’re trusting your life to in traffic doesn’t prove to be too much for you. If you bought it, you should know the person you bought it from is a thief. I suggest you return it to the building it came from.
I’ll put together the note tonight, and see if my bike’s in the same place tomorrow morning.
Arwen has a blog! So go check it out, ‘kay?
Issit just me, or do all their songs sound the same? I’m getting old, I know.
I could write stuff in Subscript if I wanted? How ‘leet.
Just thought I’d outline my maniacal way of finding things. I’ve had a few people ask, so here’s my general method of getting (even remotely) useful information out of this big web o’ ours.
1. Google (Don’t forget to hit that Group tab, too)
2. Google Toolbar <- Now with Popup Killer
3. FileMirrors if you have a filename, but no place to download from.
4. GetRight for downloading from flaky (or multiple) servers.
5. Copernic for freakishly overloaded searching.
6. Newzbin to see what’s “out there” in the NewsGroups.
7. E-Mule for everything else.
That is all for today children, and HEY…
…let’s be careful out there.
‘Cause I’m just so damned pleased with m’self.
ZR
I’m sure they’ve been out there forever and ever, but this is pretty coolio, foolio.
Go there and listen for yourself. or Jump to the “Listen” page.
Appears to have gone. I can’t believe that was that easy.
I just upgraded my Blog (running on B2 at Cafelog) to version 0.6.2 or something, and all I had to do was fix up ONE file (and with a little utility called Beyond Compare, THAT was even more of a snap).
