LOTD – Poop Freeze

This little gadget is for the dog owners out there. Ever had a difficult time cleaning up after your dog due to loose stool (I’m beeing nice here)? Well, this is the product for you. Yes Poop Freeze lives up to its name. Freezes poop for easier cleanup.

Actually the reviews on Amazon are pretty damn funny if you have the time.

via Gizmodo

Scratchy Riding

Bike to Work Week – Day 4

Didn’t happen today. I was awoken at 3 am by a crying baby and discovered a very scratchy throat. Sleeping in didn’t help at all. When I eventually did get up I felt gross, tired, was a bit stuffed up. These are all bad symptoms to have when riding.

I got dropped off at work by my awesome wife.

Ride Fine

Bike to Work Week – Day 3

Nice ride in the morning. After work was a bit gross. The rain came out making roads slick and drivers hurried. Got home no problems though and even managed to not get wet. Enjoyed a fine home made pizza dinner. Yum.

Geeky Downfall

Just a little note here that I have changed how I handle the feed from gf-tech.com (my other blog for geeky work related stuff). I was importing items from the feed to this site, and having them appear as first class content. This made for easy consumption, and easy commenting. The commenting bit was the downfall. I’d rather have the comments on the original source of the story (gf-tech.com).

I now have a block on the top right of muddylaces that shows latest content from gf-tech.com. This will not show up in the rss feed for this site (that is a drag). It will link to a story on muddylaces, with a link to the full article which will take you to gf-tech.com so you can leave comments there.

An example is here: http://www.muddylaces.ca/firefox_extension_dragdropupload

If you have any strong feelings about these changes, please let me know.

Bike Weirdo

Bike to Work Week – Day 2

Gorgeous day for a ride. Warm, sunny, no wind. Perfect conditions for riding to work. No issues today, although some drivers continue to astound me.

I had one van start to pass me, only to slam on the brakes to make a turn. Why didn’t they just slow down a little before getting to me? They wouldn’t have to hit the brakes then. Wierdo.

Commute Skateboard

Ahhh, motorized forms of transportation are so much fun. My commute to work doesn’t warrant a car, don’t want a motorcycle, scooters are no good (parking), electric bicycles are laaaame. If I were in the market for motorized transportation, it woul have to be something that I can take into my office. How about a motorized skateboard? Perfect. I’ve seen these on TV before, and they were described as a way to surf on land. Hubless wheels that you put your feet through, lean to steer, have fun on the way to work. Now that is a commuter vehicle. 25 – 20 Km/H top speed.

Now, about the brakes? Are there any?

via Gizmodo

Pointer Story

What happens when you make a pointer laugh? The pictures tell the story.

Actually this is just Yoshi yawning. I happened to catch him on camera doing this, and thought the shots looked kinda funny.

Ride Situation

Bike to Work Week – Day 1

The 2006 Bike to Work Week is upon us. Today’s ride in was no problem at all. There didn’t really seem to be more bikes out than normal, but that didn’t surprise me. The ride home I did see lots of riders, and that was great, but they are scary to ride behind sometimes. The occasional rider really doesn’t know how to ride in traffic, and that can be dangerous.

Mix together inexperienced riders, unhappy traffic, and you get a dangerous situation.

Anyway, I hope the rest of the week is just as uneventful.

Security Simple

Drupal release 4.6.7 is now installed on muddylaces. This release is a security fix to patch a small hole with file uploads. The upgrade was nice and simple, just the way it should be.

Flower Duvet

It’s a good thing our pets are cute. They do some things that just make you shake your head.

Here, Yoshi is using a flower pot as a pillow. Yeah, that seems comfortable.

In these pictures, Aphro has situated herself between the duvet and the duvet cover. Just because the duvet cover itself was not comfortable enough, she had to get right on the duvet.