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Public: My $1 Kobo cover - 12:54 AM 27/01/2012
I was in the market for a cover for my Kobo. I looked at different leather or moleskin ones, but didn't see anything awesome. I also found the price point to be around $20, which seemed kinda steep.

Andrea bought a fleece sleeve on Etsy for her Nook for $5 + $2 in shipping, but I want easier access to my reader than pulling it out of a sleeve everytime, and potentially dropping that sleeve in a puddle.

So I went to the library and I started measuring books. I held my Kobo right up to them, looking for the perfect fit. Then I paid $1 and went home and got setup.

A little glue, some exacto knives, and a lot of elbow grease, and behold. The perfect camouflage. This is a book I wouldn't hesitate to leave sitting on a beach chair in mexico. Go ahead and steal that other guy's kindle, but you can feel free to ignore my silly brown book.

Most of the build was trial and error. I made a hell-of-a-mess digging the pages out of the book, but the fit is almost perfect. People on the bus double take over my shoulder and those who I opt to show it off to are always impressed.
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Public - SOPA, GoDaddy, and Consumer Muscle - 3:57 PM 22/12/2011
NO SOPA. I don't care a lot about American politics, but when I have a chance to bend over a company who's trying to bend over the internet, I'll take it.

GoDaddy has officially been booted as my registrar and I've changed over to NameCheap.com. For $25 I transferred all 3 of my domains after a promo code (BYEBYEGD) surfaced on Reddit.

With this server is undergoing a domain registrar change, we may experience some downtime over the Christmas break. We'll do our best to keep it up, but be forewarned it could be out for a day or two. Potentially a week if the egg-nog is strong enough.

My only real fear here is not getting any @gordonbird.com email for the next few days... I sincerely hope they don't get black holed...

Either way, stay tuned for details.
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Public - 11 Years Strong - 5:20 PM 13/12/2011
In past years I've recounted the previous trips with their video's. Many of those are scattered around the web. I don't feel like compiling them at the moment, but I really should burn more copies of the compilation DVD just so it's out there. Anyway, here for a change of pace, are the blog-entries from the past 11 years of ski trips. You never really realize how cool it is to have something like this, until you put it all in the same spot.

2002: Jasper. Tyler and Gordon

2003: Jasper. Tyler, Gordon, Cam, Pete

2004: Sunshine. Tyler, Gordon, Cam, Jeff, Aaron, Kelly. (Video: 2k4)

2005: Golden. Tyler, Gord, Jeff, Johnny, Tina, Debi (Golden)

2006: Louise & Sunshine. Tyler, Gordon, Jeff, Johnny, Sky, Kelly (Skibotage)

2007: Panorama. Tyler, Gordon, Andrew, Lynne, Nicole, Mary, Sean, Suzi (Psycoholic)

2008: Panorama. Tyler, Gordon, Andrea, Andrew, Josh, Lynne, Carley, Jeff (Odysski)

2009: Vermont. Tyler, Gordon, Andrea, Andrew, Josh (Backwards)

2010: Golden: Tyler, Gordon, Andrea, Andrew, Josh, Sean (The Moustache Ride)

2011: Back Country Skiing: Andrea, Tyler, Gordon (Back Country)

2012: Golden: Everyone. (Stag & Doe Sign Up Here)
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Public - Overdue Stat Injection - 3:52 PM 30/11/2011
Several months late, and mostly because I haven't posted anything in a while, here are the end of season stats for my Scooter.
I have a ski trip post soon, but I'm waiting on specific details.

So here's some numbers!

AVG Fuel Economy: 26.24 km/L
BEST Fuel Economy: 27.68 km/L
Estimated Cost Per Month: $13

AVG Distance per tank: 119.88 km
AVG Fill cost: $5.19
AVG Cost per km: $0.05

AVG Fuel Cost: $1.14/L
Max Fuel Cost: $1.26/L
Min Fuel Cost: $1.08/L

AVG Fill: 4.54 L
Max Fill: 4.86 L
Min Fill: 4.14 L

Total Fuel: 63.54 L
Total Cost: $72.67
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Public: Done? Never, but Awesome enough to share. - 1:02 PM 10/11/2011
My driving simulator is pretty awesome.

I had some guests over for a poker night last Saturday, and they gave it a good ol' fashioned stress test on the mocked up version. Some of the nails popped loose, but for the most part the unit held up. I've replaced the popped nails with 2" screws, reinforced all the joints that were even slightly questionable, and put the rest of the finishing touches on the unit that make it much more presentable than it had been in the past. After getting it as solid as I wanted, I painted it.




I still have a lot of work I'd like to do on it. I want to figure out an efficient way to store the PC inside the unit, instead of having it sit next to it (I'm considering a shelf below the monitor). I only want one wire to exit the unit (power) while the rest of it should be self contained. I'd like a key-board and mouse tray for navigating windows and menus. But all that is stuff that can be done post-prod.

I should probably take a whole lot more photos before I write a post about it, but fuck. I'm excited and I wanted to share. See more insight in the photo descriptions here.
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