Nice Day = Lotsa Bikes

It's gorgeous outside. It looks like there's a lot of occasional bike riders who decided to cycle in to FSU today. Bike racks are crowded. They have been since before noon. Still crowded at 4:30. Although it's a little inconvenient to find alternate bike parking, I'd rather have to search for a spot every day if it means that people are cycling en masse.

So Much for Returnable Bottles

There's a dairy in Blountstown called Ocheese Creamery that sells their milk in returnable glass bottles. Basically, you pay $2 for the bottle + some money for the milk. Then you drink the milk and return the empty bottle to get your $2 back.

I bought a half gallon of their whole milk last week, drank it, then went to return the bottle today. I got it into the store, out of my backpack, set it on the floor. Somehow I knocked it over (it was on the floor) and it broke. That's a situation where nobody wins. Consolation prize: the bottle was in a plastic bag, so only one piece of broken glass fell on the floor and it was easy to clean up.

More Scary Debt News

This short article/graph shows that we should stop accruing debt as a nation until we can get some of the old principle paid off. I think that there's going to be a national margin call sometime in my lifetime.

Macs Don't Delete

I've never owned an Apple computer with the Macintosh OS, but I've used them before. One thing that always gets me (perhaps because I learned computer stuff on Windows machines) is that there is no equivalent to the "Del" button. The key that says "delete" actually serves a backspace function. I like to use both the backspace and delete functions.

Does anyone know how to delete the character after the cursor on a Mac?

Rock Climbing Improvement

I went to the FSU Climbing Club's meeting on Monday night and joined the group. I was pleased with the progress I've made. I was doing all kinds of things that I wasn't able to before spring break. I bought some climbing shoes over the break and I think they help a little and the experience helps a little.

I'm planning on going to the rock gym to get a month membership tomorrow after I get done at the Green Bicycle Project. Then the marginal cost of climbing is zero dollars, which means that I'll hopefully do it a lot more often and see a lot of improvement in the coming month.

Pick #181

Daft Punk - "One More Time" from Discovery

"The Internet" Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

I chuckled a little bit, but maybe it makes sense...I wonder what the acceptance speech will be like if the internet wins. I like the idea that "paper" should win because every peace treaty has been on a piece of paper.