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Day: September 20, 2008

Crushed Slug

Crushed slug stuck to the down tube of my bike. I found it after a ride at Addison Oaks.

Today Danielle and I managed to make it out to Addison Oaks park, where I did two laps on the mountain bike trails. One was on the normal route, the other was on the race route which includes a newly cut section of single track.

The ride went well, but I find it to be a bit more tiring than Stony Creek, because it doesn’t have as lengthy of sections for catching one’s breath.

On Wednesday when riding Addison I ended up with a crushed slug stuck to the top of my shoe. Today I ended up with one stuck on the down tube, so after driving home I decided to take a picture of it. Enjoy! (Click here for the high res version.)

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Time For A New Printer

Old parallel port printer cable connecting into the back of my work laptop, a Dell D610.

I guess I really need a new printer. After almost a year of limping along with a failing HP LaserJet 5L at home I’m finding I can’t even convince it to print any more. Today I was able to get it to print a test page while manually guiding the paper deep into the feed mechanism, but then I was unable to print properly from either my Mac or work laptop via lpr (to the JetDirect), or straight from my work laptop via parallel port.

Two pages bearing print did leave the printer eventually when connected via parallel port, but only half of the PDF which I needed to print (a free admission ticket to Addison Oaks for riding the mountain bike trails) was actually render correctly. Oh well. I guess it’s time to go to Kinkos.

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