A fire in my fireplace.

I liked the fire so much I flipped my living room around so that I would be facing the fire when using my PS3.

Time-lapse video after the jump.
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On Saturday I went to a haunted house to take pictures of models in swimsuits. What else would I do at a haunted house?

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14 miles from the west end to the east end.

I biked the Glenwood Canyon path. The path is right along I-70 through the entire 14 miles.

3 hours to drive there, 2 hours biking, and then 3 hours back. That made it a full 8-hour day.
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(My current watch, an Orient World time, is covered in numbers)

I realized today that I have memorized a bunch of numerical data as pointers to other stuff:

• We are going to have to be compliant with Section 508 in our product at work.
• I wish people would use ISO 8601 for dates and times.
• Although I used to use the 192.168/16 and 10/8 RFC 1918 networks, I am now using 172.16/12 for fun
• The normal CS 2^x numbers, where 2^10 = 1024, 2^12 = 4096
• 1000 seconds is 16:40
• Government forms: 1099, 1040, I-9, w-2
• And then a bunch of approximations: 2^20 is a bit over 1 million, 2^30 is a bit over 1 billion, etc

But, I was annoyed to discover that Section 508 only bans blinking from 2-55 Hz. I am still annoyed at car designers who think that a 50% duty cycle blink at 60 Hz is equivalent to half brightness.
What about people that can see 85Hz no problem?

I took a picture of this Velodrome a while ago (December 2008), and today I finally got to ride on this track.

Coming from a large mountain bike to a smaller track bike is a huge change. And then there is riding on that track. The first time I went into the turn was slightly scary, but I quickly got used to it.

Now I am going to take classes, and then see if I can keep cycling during the winter.

I like when simply reconfiguring stuff that I already have makes it work better. My internet connection was having issues when I was using hundreds of simultaneous connections, with new connections being hard to open. It wasn’t a bandwidth issue, as I wouldn’t be using all of my 7 down/1 up connection, and could max it out on 1 connection just fine. Now, I have no problems related to number of connections. (Maybe I could try to do a 1000 connections and then see if spawning connections works)

To resolve the issue, I had my router, a Buffalo WHR-G54S running Tomato do the PPPoE connection instead of on my TrendNet TDM-C400 DSL modem.

Shortly put, I bridged the DSL and ethernet connections on my DSL modem, and then had my router do the PPPoE connection.

The configuration on the modem is going to be modem specific, and in my case was to make a EoA(Ethernet over ATM) connection above the DSL link, and then bridge the EoA interface with the Ethernet interface.
Then I added the PPPoE connection in the router, so that the DSL modem was only seeing a single connection. This is different from having the router be in the DMZ of the Modem, because the modem isn’t handling any connections, and isn’t doing any NAT either. The router has to manage connections/NAT anyways, so might as well have it do the PPPoE also.

Due to the 8-byte overhead in PPPoE, the recommended MTU is 1492, 8 down from the 1500 MTU in raw Ethernet.

One issue now is that I can’t access the administration page of my modem, since the WAN port of the router is doing PPPoE for everything. One way to fix this is to have a switch between the WAN port of the router, a LAN port of the router, and the Ethernet port of the modem. Since the only way to get a packet over the DSL connection is through the PPPoE, the switch between the WAN and LAN ports on the Router isn’t a huge security risk.
(Actually, plugging the WAN into a LAN port on the router, and then plugging the modem into a LAN port might work. That is just awesome! Maybe some routers support doing PPPoE and local network access over the WAN port…?)

In this configuration, with 280 connections doing 500KBps down/50 KBps up, no issues creating connections, but my laptop is starting to have serious lag issues. Which is one reason why I ordered a new computer to replace this single core laptop. The cpu usage on my router did spike to .4 with 50 connections being opened out of 200, but no issues there.

I took this picture about half-way down the mountain.

A bike route where you are taking pictures of the tops of parachutes half-way down…

I biked up Lookout Mountain, just west of Golden. Actually, I parked in a Colorado School of Mines lot. It is a nice route, the slope is very consistent. Bit busy, though.

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I passed by this horse and 2 of its friends on the way home from work today.
Less than 8 minutes by bike from work to home, and I pass by 3 horses?

Maybe something is wrong when my “cooking” ends up with a block of green ice steaming in a saucepan on the stove.
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