Decomposing Train

I’m typing this while riding on my recumbent exercise bike. I’ve modified an old art table so that the main chassis and pedals of the bike fit underneath, and added slats across the top of the table to hold my laptop and external keyboard and mouse steady.

It was inspired by the treadputer featured on Lifehacker awhile back, and I see that they also featured something called the Geek-a-cycle ™. It’s a little tricky remembering to keep the legs working while concentrating on typing, but hopefully this will help me achieve my daily exercise goals a bitter easier. I’d post some pics, but really, it’s just a table high enough for me to sit underneath and pedal without knocking my knees on the underside.

One thing I’ve noticed is that my spelling ability really takes a hit when using this. The keyboard is a little too high and off-center to hit the keys properly at the speed I normally type. Ah well, at least the WASD keys are comfortable for gaming. Now, to try and burn a few hundred calories in Oblivion…

UPDATE:  Well, I didn’t get around to playing Elder Scrolls IV, but I did manage to trawl through my daily reading list.  End result: 54 mminutes, 10.24 miles, 542 calories.

I’ve been following the Hans Reiser trial and conviction for the murder of his wife, via Wired.com’s Threat Level column.

I was a little bit shocked to read (very early this morning, thanks in part to the huge iced coffee I drank earlier combined with tummy trouble caused by a plate of tasty-but-damaging General Tso’s Chicken) that he’s finally led the police to the corpse as part of a deal to broker a reduced prison sentence. Asperger’s Syndrome, my ass. The guy is a freakshow, and so are the other people (well, one other person) involved. I predict there will be a movie deal soon.

At least the Linux-geeks have something new to giggle about.

The thing that struck me most about the digging-up-of-the-body is that, apparently, one of Reiser’s lawyers was handcuffed to him while he searched for the shallow grave and when Reiser found it, he and the lawyer dug up the body together. Do they tell people in Law School, “Someday, you might have to dig up a corpse.” I wonder what the billable rate is on that?

Ok, so I have only just this evening finally gotten around to watching Batman Begins.  I liked it.

I am sure other people have already written a ton of fluff about the movie, so I won’t bother.   It is a good film, though.  Probably the best superhero and/or comic book movie I’ve seen in a long while.

I will definitely be going to see The Dark Knight in the theater.

My good friend Rydell is at Nerdapalooza right now, and somehow managed to con MC Frontalot into calling me to wish me a Happy Mother’s Day. It is July 5th. To my credit, I answered the phone by screaming “Happy Mother’s Day” into it first.

It is 3:46am, on a… Wednesday… I guess. And for yet another fucking night there are huge fucking noisy machines tearing the road up 10 feet away from my bedroom window.

FUCK YOU, NOISY MACHINES.

THREE FUCKING FORTY-SIX FUCKING A FUCKING M???

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, NOISY MACHINES.

The new road looks nice, though.