Fluffy Logic

JRA Bike Shop – you truly are Seattle’s friendliest bike repair shop. And I’ve been to a few.

via JRA Bike Shop, Friendly bike repair in downtown Seattle.

January was the coldest in Dublin for more than 45 years
January was warmest on record for Seattle area

Ruby on rails “just works”, apparently. Someone should tell them what “works” means.

While (for the Nth time) failing to find an item that Ikea’s website claimed was in stock, I asked a helpful staff member “Why?” and I finally got an answer. The floor works on a JIT deployment system, whereby just enough stock for the day is brought out overnight, depleted on the day, and re-filled again overnight with just the right amount to keep most customers happy until EOD. This works great for 90% of their customers, that 90% being the 90% that don’t arrive at the store an hour before closing time, which is of course my favourite time to shop in the giant warehouse. So, the moral of this story is: If you want to purchase something specific in Ikea, and the computer says it’s in stock, don’t wait until the end of the day. It’ll be in stock, but not on the floor, and you won’t find it. And the staff won’t get it, as they’re not allowed take things off the pallets until they’re in place.

Suspicious suitcase blown up at Burien Park and Ride

From king5 news

If only 2% of our electricity comes from non-renewable sources (source: http://www.seattle.gov/light/FuelMix/ ), instead of the 89% of irish electricity (source: http://www.energycustomers.ie/electricity/index.aspx, how does that affect the carbon footprint of appliances? (Or in other words, I don’t accept that one tumble dryer load generates 2kg of CO2)

I’m all for saving the world, and all that, but, everything in a context. Plus – if I were put wet clothes on the clothesline outside today, I’d return to find them frozen. Not something I’m about to try.

Mostly for my own benefit – because, strangely enough, there’s no link to this on the gmail page!

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coffee

Originally uploaded by ooleary.

I wasn’t given a “McCain 08″ option when I ordered coffee this morning

http://current.com/items/89365080_rep_sherman_marshall_law_threatened_over_bailout

I know that OpenOffice is supposed to do everything Microsoft Office does, but did they have to replicate that annoying paperclip functionality? And with a lightbulb?