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I have had a religious conversion.

I am now borne up by the saucy tentacles of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Paged Comment Editing by Brian “ColdForged” Dupuis is a very useful gem for sifting through comment spam.

:-(

Also on the bike was a silver feather belonging to Ma’at, the Egyptian goddess and embodiment of truth, tied to the front; but I figured the police didn’t really need to know that.

The lock was a Masterlock Quantum 12. from Cycleworks, 55 Rt. 206 Stanhope NJ 07874, (973) 347-3733. The thief might have defeated it by:

• pulling the whole set over the top of the parking meter and walking off with it.
• watching me scramble the combination
• cutting the cable

Your online report has been approved and the permanent case number is 051014989.

update 9-19-05: here’s what I figure. I had purchased an inexpensive lock for an inexpensive bike. My main purpose was to protect it from joy riders on the playa and thieves in Hackettstown New Jersey. When I locked my bike up in the Mission District, San Francisco I should have been thinking about protecting my bike from an entirely different kind of criminal. I messed up. Oop.

I called Masterlock… there was no theft warrantee on my lock. The lock only cost $30… it protected me from the kinds of bad guys I was trying to protect it from.

If you are going over your cell phone minutes for the month, call your provider and tell them you want to switch to a plan with more minutes for the current month. With T-Mobile, you have to call them on the telephone, you can’t just use their web site to change your plan.

Likewise, if you are using less minutes, switch to a less expensive plan for the current month. I’ve done this several times now with T-Mobile. Before moving, I had a 300 minute plan. When I was driving cross-country, I upped to the 1,000 minute plan. Now I’m back down to 600 minutes.

Getting hit with overages of $0.40/minute is st00pid.

In a few months, after I settle down with a lease on November 15th, I might join in with my sister’s plan, getting 1,000 minutes for $30/month. I’ll wait to see how good T-Mobile service is in my new house.

My sister just got a Kromski Prelude from her hubby. She’s really into this spinning thang!

It was good.

I’ll be online for real (and conscious) to answer my 100+ emails tomorrow.