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2007-11-30 14:19:57

Beth and I are going house shopping.  We'll be moving up to Seattle in January, so we're up here this weekend looking for a place to live.  While we're here...
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    August 9, 2008 By Jesse Doerr @ 8:57 pm

    With time comes hobbies.  Besides, I always need a new project to spend money on right?

    New seat for the motorcycleI’ve got my bike back from storage and I’m loving it.  I found an excelent bike shop down in Portland to get it running from me and had a real nice day driving it up to Seattle.  Now it’s sitting nice and snug out in the garage/new fenced area that I built for it.

    With the new wrap on the pipes, the bike is looking hot.  The old leather bags don’t quite fit the look anymore, so I’m talking to a metal worker I know about whipping me up a lugage rack to hold my stuff.  The biggest item of note is the new seat.  I ordered the Vintage Sport Touring Seats w/Driver Backrest from Mustang seats. Boy was that a good decision.  It is an unbelievable difference from the stock seat that came with my bike, and I’ve been told that these seats really get a lot better after they’ve had time to break in.

    New plants in the fishtank.The other little project that I’m starting to work on is setting up my fish tanks again.  While I was in college I had one tank setup that I got a lot of enjoyment out of.  This time I’ve built a cabinet that will hold two of them. Right now I have both of the tanks setup with the lights and air on.  I just picked up some of the plants today too.  I think I’m going to let them get established and start growing for a little bit before I start introducing some fish.

    The plan is to setup a couple of schools of comunal fish and a few breeding pairs of cichlids.  I might even throw in an eel.  I think  it’s going to be a real neat setup when it’s all done. I’ve added a picture gallery for each of the tanks, here and here.  I’m going to try and post a new picture each week. I think it will be neat record of the progression of the tanks and their development as the plants and fish grow.

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    Rubbish
    2007-05-22 10:15:47

    James at Progression has a good post about quality (or a severe lack thereof) in blog fiction, and all online-print. He writes:

    I think that people aren’t terribly willing to shout about quality as far as the internet is concerned. If you went onto someone’s fiction blog and left a comment that tidied up some language, or made writing tips, you’d probably be termed ‘teh troll’ (or some-such similar insult). But you’re only giving advice! So, what to do? Well, that’s well out of my hands, and yours, and probably anyone else in the world. There are very few ways to legitimise the use of the internet as a mass-publishing tool, no ways to enforce quality controls on things that you aren’t uploading to your own servers, and no ways to stop people doing things that they enjoy...

    He uses as an example some of the awful stuff that...
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