Blogs I am reading: Season's first White Rock Local market is Saturday

White Rock Local's first market of the season is Saturday from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

This year, White Rock Local is planning on two markets each month, on the second and fourth Saturdays. On the first Saturday of the month, the market will include all kinds of fresh produce, natural meat and cheeses, artisan bread, pasta, preserves, tamales, cookies, honey and spices. Plus non-food items like flowers, plants, gardening supplies, clothing, ceramics, candles, body products jewelry and pet supplies.

The market that's on the fourth Saturday of the month — March 27 this month — will feature only food.

A full list of this weekend's vendors is available here. And a map locating the market is here.

Posted by Rachel Stone at Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:06 -0000 |

Personal Blog: Bicycling Directions Now on Google Maps

Google Maps now has an option to get directions recommended for bicycling! To try it out, I put in my home and work addresses. Unfortunately, it suggested that I ride 0.2 miles on Northwest Highway. No thanks. I’ve done it before but I’d rather avoid it if I can. I don’t want to get arrested, after all.

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Dragging the route around to try and get better directions, at one point it suggested riding on Central Expressway. “Bicycling directions are in beta.” Yeah, no kidding. They do suggest using some of the bike trails in the area, like the KT, which is nice. I wonder if there is any chance we could get the official Dallas Bike Plan routes into their system.

It also suggested an interesting alternative for getting from the KT to the Infomart. That’s one of the trouble spots on my current route so I may have to give this one a try.

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Posted on bike, dallas at Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:34:44 -0600 |

Twitter: stu42j: Another advantage of not driving a car: Just found a dollar in the street walking home from lunch.

stu42j: Another advantage of not driving a car: Just found a dollar in the street walking home from lunch.

Posted at Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:19:56 -0000 |

Twitter: stu42j: @fictionfiend I've been thinking of switching to T-Mobile. They seem to have better phones and better prices. Some phones will work on both.

stu42j: @fictionfiend I've been thinking of switching to T-Mobile. They seem to have better phones and better prices. Some phones will work on both.

Posted at Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:19:06 -0000 |

Bookmarks: Transit & Trails : Home

Posted by stu42j on bayarea california hike transportation travel trail map at Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:35:43 -0000 |

Bookmarks: Toll Free Termination Providers - voip-info.org

Posted by stu42j on voip at Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:59:22 -0000 |

Bookmarks: Voip.ms :: Worldwide VoIP Origination and Termination

Posted by stu42j on voip phone sip did at Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:56:29 -0400 |

Twitter: stu42j: @SerenitySprings You looking for a job?

stu42j: @SerenitySprings You looking for a job?

Posted at Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:44:58 -0000 |

Bookmarks: html5media - Project Hosting on Google Code

Posted by stu42j on html video flash html5 jquery ogg at Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:50:23 -0000 |

Twitter: stu42j: Two years worth of property tax and still no refund! #middleclassblues

stu42j: Two years worth of property tax and still no refund! #middleclassblues

Posted at Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:32:00 -0000 |

Twitter: stu42j: @SerenitySprings Totally, Herman Munster, right?

stu42j: @SerenitySprings Totally, Herman Munster, right?

Posted at Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:13:50 -0000 |

Blogs I am reading: Cat Perch

Is that a cat on your head?

Posted by (author unknown) at Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:24:55 -0000 |

Blogs I am reading: "Life in Quarantine," by Fully Sick Rapper - CollegeHumor video

Christian Van Vuuren was diagnosed with TB and has spent the last 55 days quarantined to a single hospital room. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, he made this amazing rap video. I hope he recovers, I want to hang out with him.

Posted by (author unknown) at Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:19:52 -0000 |

Netflix: Shipped: Night of the Living Dead


Director George Romero's low-budget horror classic continues to inspire heebie-jeebies, in part because of the randomness of the zombies' targets. As dead bodies return to life and feast on human flesh, young Barbara (Judith O'Dea) joins a group of survivors in a farmhouse hoping to protect themselves from the hordes of advancing zombies. But even with assistance in slowing down and killing zombies, soon only one person remains in the farmhouse.

Posted at Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 |

Bookmarks: STICKY: The LCD Thread - AnandTech Forums

Posted by stu42j on monitors lcd at Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:30 -0000 |

Netflix: Shipped: Robot Chicken: Season 1: Disc 1


This disc contains the episodes: "The Deep End," "Junk in the Trunk," "Nightmare Generator," "The Sack," "Nutcracker Sweet," "Gold Dust Gasoline," "Kiddie Pool," "Plastic Buffet," "A Piece of the Action," and "Toyz in the Hood."

Posted at Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 |

News: Google Goggles to Translate Text in Photos

At the Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off a new prototype of Google Goggles — Google’s experimental Android visual search application — that can translate text captured in photos.

Posted by stu42j at Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:13:12 -0000 | |

News: School used student laptop webcams to spy on them

Spying on kids at home! The laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators

Posted by stu42j at Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:53:24 -0000 | |

Twitter: stu42j: Starting snowing while hiking in OK. Cold and wet but very fun.

stu42j: Starting snowing while hiking in OK. Cold and wet but very fun.

Posted at Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:14:56 -0000 |

Twitter: stu42j: To quote @UnrulyDuckling: Snow-valanche!

stu42j: To quote @UnrulyDuckling: Snow-valanche!

Posted at Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:12:37 -0000 |

News: That's right, Firefly > Twilight (PIC)

Alan Tudyk is so damn cool.

Posted by stu42j at Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:07:18 -0000 | |

Twitter: stu42j: Oncor says power should be restored by 1pm. 1 minute later, power comes back online.

stu42j: Oncor says power should be restored by 1pm. 1 minute later, power comes back online.

Posted at Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:40:29 -0000 |

Twitter: stu42j: Well hell. How am I supposed to work from home when the power goes out?

stu42j: Well hell. How am I supposed to work from home when the power goes out?

Posted at Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:23:19 -0000 |

Personal Blog: More snow!

The power was out for about 2 hours today.

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Posted on snow at Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:08:31 -0600 |