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Yes, it’s about time to leave the Oughts to the dustbin of history. Yikes, what a decade! ;)

Happy new decade and year to everybody. Here’s to a happier, healthier, and hipper 2010!

Retrospectively, here are some of the most popular or notable Celsius1414 posts of 2009. See the Archive for more.

“40!” and “Generations”

On my fortieth birthday. :)

“Don Cherry summoning demons”

Don Cherry begins the first of his dimension-rending, demon-summoning chants.

“Toasting Poe 200th”

Happy 200th Birthday, EAP!

“Walking poetry”

Given poetry’s basis in rhythm, it perhaps isn’t surprising how much walking has inspired poetry over the centuries. And vice versa.

“Nixing Google adverts”

Due to the recent changes in Google AdWords/AdSense user targeting, including increasing tracking of online behavior, I am getting rid of all Google advertising on Celsius1414.com, along with my other websites.

“Playing ball”

Playing ball with Pharaoh: a short series.

“No Scope!”

This is just silly awesome. From the Matchmaking machinima series, “No Scope Was Involved”:

10th Anniversary Matrix Marathon

• “The Matrix (1999)”
• “The Matrix Reloaded (2003)”
• “The Matrix Revolutions (2003).

“Bling Teeth”

Seen in grocery store. Collect All 10 Grillz! With a z.

“Inland Empire used to run on rails”

Cool article in the Sun tracing the early history of local railroads in the San Bernardino/Redlands area.

“Gripe Porcina”

Gripe Porcina en El Inland. Spied in downtown San Bernardino yesterday.

“Roomba Art”

Take one Roomba vacuum robot, set it to clean a room, and photograph it with extreme exposure times…et voilà! The Roomba Art Flickr group.

“Ow, my knee hurts”

The above isn’t a picture of the inside of my knee. However, it may look something like that at the moment. According to my doctor’s conclusion yesterday, I might have a partial tear of the meniscus.

“Linux Tools for Writers”

Aaron Peters of The Writer’s Technology Companion posted “Moving to Linux: Tools for Writers” last year, covering the basic text editors, word processors, and desktop publishing options in an article for beginning Linux users.

Alien Quadrilogy Marathon:

• “Alien (1979)”
• “Aliens (1986)”
• “Alien 3 (1992)”
• “Alien Resurrection (1997)”.

“Knee update”

Well, finally had an MRI last week to determine what is up with my right knee, and my doctor called yesterday to give me the news: small tear in the medial meniscus, a sprain in the medial collateral ligament (MCL), and a femoral bone bruise.

“Quick and easy iced green tea recipe”

I’ve been searching for a good method of making my own iced green tea for a while now, and after a bunch of experiments I finally have an easy way with good results.

“For all mankind…”

I was only six months old at the time, but I remember every detail thanks to recordings, photographs, and written accounts.

“How to get Mac OS X system info via the command line”

I always forget about the system_profiler command in Mac OS X. It gives you an exhaustive list of hardware and system details for the machine you’re on — or a remote server if you’re logged in via SSH.

“How to edit remote files with local vim”

So I finally got around to looking up how to edit remote files with local vim. You do need to have an ssh public/private key set up for the server in question.

“Where are Mac OS X Spaces preferences stored?”

While the options for Mac OS X’s Spaces are set in System Preferences, you won’t find them stored in the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist file.

“App Store disfunctionality”

Since I know Apple’s App Store takes forever to shuffle stuff through what I can only imagine is an assembly line of elves from Santa’s Workshop working in the off season, I waited the usual 2-3 days to check for NNW’s availability.

“Happy 10th birthday Celsius1414!”

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the celsius1414.com domain name registration.

“End(ing) Pavement”

I have decided to retire the End Pavement website and subsume its content back into my main Celsius1414 site.

“Closing the book on Grown Diaries”

Much like the recent retirement of my End Pavement outdoors blog, I am ending the Grown Diaries site and moving its content into my Celsius1414 website.

“Switching: Linux App Equivalents”

I have been in the process of planning out switching to Linux in 2010 for my main development computer (a laptop), as well as for various web and database servers I am responsible for at work.

“Nabokov discusses Lolita”

Video of Vladimir Nabokov discussing Lolita on a television interview program.

“Is ‘No Russian” art?”

Can a video game mission where civilians are ruthlessly slaughtered be art?

“Switching to Linux, but which one?”

In VirtualBox at the moment, I have three virtual machines…

Much like the recent retirement of my End Pavement outdoors blog, I am ending the Grown Diaries site and moving its content into my Celsius1414 website.

I’ve been writing the Grown Diaries off and on since the second half of 2005, but with some very large “off” gaps. It also moved from being about experiments with eating fruits and vegetables, and more about linking to “interesting things” related to fruits and vegetables. Which I can do anywhere. :)

Thanks to everybody for reading! URLs should be the same, substituting “www.celsius1414.com” for “www.growndiaries.com”.

The “new” RSS feed is at http://www.celsius1414.com/node/feed.

I have decided to retire the End Pavement website and subsume its content back into my main Celsius1414 site.

In late 2006, I broke out several different topics that used to appear on Celsius1414 into their own websites. After a year or so, I realized I was spreading myself too thin and got rid of a few. Only one of the satellite sites (Trolley Dodger) really took off, and so I have been debating the fate of the last two for some time — End Pavement and Grown Diaries. I’m still hoping to expand the latter (though I still might change my mind), but I think two or three blogs+websites will be more than enough for me to deal with.

Especially if I want to be doing any actual bicycling and hiking. :)

On a practical level, and apart from the blog and domain disappearing, not much is changing, the content has been integrated into Celsius1414 and life will continue. I believe all of the comments will come with as well, if my research is correct.

Links will not be redirected automatically as I am letting the endpavement.com domain expire, so please update your outbound links. However, I’m trying to make it as easy a transition as possible with simple substitutions of the celsius1414.com domain for endpavement.com.

Thanks to everyone for reading these past three years, and please do switch on over to the new (old) site if you have a mind to. I look forward to lots of new writing and lots of being outdoors in the year to come.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the celsius1414.com domain name registration. See last year’s post marking the 9th for a list of cool people sharing 10/8 as a birthday.

I have a long-running photography project that consists of pictures of the number 1414, which makes for a fun hunting game. (One of these days I might get around to putting all the 1414 pictures together in a gallery here on the site.) A recent capture and one of my favorites (because of the story behind it) is this:

At the annual Route 66 Rendezvous in San Bernardino, they mark off and number hundreds of locations in the streets of downtown where people park their classic cars. And this is where entry number 1414 was painted this year, near 5th and Arrowhead. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to the spot until several days after the event, so I don’t know what kind of old car was parked there.

Thanks to everybody for visiting and for reading!