Troy Sandal

Last weekend I rode my fourth STP, a 200 mile bike ride from Seattle to Portland.  This year I was accompaniedied by some very good friends, including my wife Megan.  We awoke at 3:45AM and successfully departed Seattle at exactly 4:45 with 8 of our 11 riders.  Two of them caught up with us at [...]

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I have a friend named Sven. The best way to describe him is too smart for his own good. He’s a complete genius when it comes to torturing people with Rick Rolls. Just when I thought he couldn’t go any farther he pulls off his greatest stunt ever - the Rick Roll [...]

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I just had a great experience with the online Apple store’s customer service.  Last week I purchased an Airport Express to extend my home network.  In addition I bought a mini-DVI cable.  All of this is uninteresting.  What is is that today when the box arrived I found my Airport Express but not, to my [...]

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Moving to San Francisco 18 months ago I found myself asking people what they called the fog.  Most people simply responded with “why do you have to call it something?”  I have to call it something because I like nick-names.  Yeah, me and George W., we both like giving nick names.  Names like Tobbie, Chav, [...]

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 this is my first paragraph dictated with MacSpeech Dictate. I purchased MacSpeech iListen last year with the idea that it would help alleviate some wrist strain I’ve been experiencing. Having been a software developer all of my life I have deftly put some strain on them. And we promised a lot, I listen by MacSpeech [...]

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This entry is for Tom Leung, a co-worker of mine who is a dedicated blogger and recently nagged me to put something up on my blog. I had been thinking this very same thing last week and after spending 4 slow hours in a meeting yesterday I realized that, with a laptop in hand, [...]

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Back in 2000 I took a 30 day, 10,000 miles road trip across America. Last year a good frien, Kuo-Yu, was driving from New York to Seattle and wanted to know what there was to see. So I wrote him the following email. Seeing as I have some more friends doing the [...]

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At approximatley 10:01AM this morning I become the proud new owner of the latest Dandy Warhols album, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars.
It’s ripped into iTunes and I’m listening right now, and drooling. Will report back soon.
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This summer has been a fast and wild one. Work at Trumba is fantastic but has also been taking quite a bit of time. In addition the standard preparations for Burning Man took a good chunk out of summer. Plus there was STP training which ate up most my time through [...]

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