Just Another Sunday: Bike Problems and Rice Plantations

Posted on 20 May 2013 Written by Leave a Comment
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There's a lot to love about living in the South Carolina Lowcountry, but one of the most interesting for me is the history, both natural and human, that abounds anywhere you bother to look. Yesterday was a great example. I went out with a friend for a 3 hour bike ride, but blew out a tire a bit more than halfway and didn't have what I needed to fix it, so we had to wait for my wife to come pick us up. I had my blowout on the Harriet Tubman Bridge that crosses the Combahee River in Beaufort County. Instead of waiting on the bridge, we headed over to the boat landing beside the bridge and down to the dock to hope for a breeze to keep the mosquitoes at bay. That mostly worked and as I was sitting on the dock, I realized where I was: just across the Combahee from a former rice plantation. I've been interested in the rice plantations in Beaufort County for a bit, but even more lately since I've spent a great deal of time driving between Beaufort and Charleston on Highway 17, … [Continue reading...]

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DorcoUSA Razors Review, Dollar Shave Club, and a Discount

Posted on 13 May 2013 Written by Leave a Comment
Pace Trial Pack and Discount Coupon for DorcoUSA

Last month, I ran out of blades for my Mach 3 razor. My folks generally give razor blades as stocking stuffers and I can't remember the last time I had to pick up blades on my own. Jesus, these things are expensive. Even with the Amazon Subscribe and Save discount, the Mach 3 replacement blades are $2.06 each and if you want the Turbos, you're at $2.75. A few months back, I heard about DorcoUSA, the company that supplies the Dollar Shave Club's razors. Dollar Shave Club hit it big with their viral video, and they're a huge savings over the cost of Mach 3 blades, but if you're going to be cheap, be really cheap and buy the blades directly from the supplier. So, I've been using the blades for a few weeks and they're really as good as anything else I've tried. My only caveat is that I'm using the 6 blades right now and that's a really large razor head. Honestly, I think 6 blades is overkill. But I picked up a sample pack with 6, 4, and 3 blade heads, so I thought I'd give the high … [Continue reading...]

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Are You Very Engaged at Work? You’re Likely a Horrible Employee.

Posted on 7 May 2013 Written by Leave a Comment
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I’ve mentioned before how I like to use Evernote in my daily life to archive and triage incoming information for later processing. Today was the day to sort out the triage folder, which is a pain, but it’s really great to find some of the older things I’ve wanted to read and haven’t gotten to [...]

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Helium by ClockworkMod: Best Android Backup App. Period

Posted on 24 April 2013 Written by 1 Comment
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About two weeks ago, my mostly new Spring Galaxy S3 took a big dump on itself and stopped making phone calls. That’s not true, it would make the call, but then drop it within 15 seconds. Tried everything I could to sort it out, but no luck. Thankfully, Best Buy was great with sorting out [...]

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Time.ly Calendar and Googlebot-Bandwidth Issues

Posted on 15 April 2013 Written by 9 Comments
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Tl:dr version: If Time.ly’s All-in-One Event Calendar is installed on your site and Googlebot or Slurp, or whatever spider/crawler is blowing up your bandwidth, use the robots.txt file to block access to the events listings and you’ll sort yourself out fast. Recently I’ve used a new plugin called Time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar. The free version [...]

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