Protension: the online journal of Tom Elgin

I’m leaving this at the top of my blog until Mount Hood opens. Then I get out my brand new (previously owned, unused) Burton Canyon 158 with Flow bindings and the new Vans Fargo Boa boots (no laces!).

Sometimes it’s hard to believe I’m living in a real city with real adults.

Check out this page in the Portland Mercury (a local newspaper). Scroll down to “Urban Golf.”…

Yahoo just bought Konfabulator. It looks like it’s going to be awesome; according to the developers Yahoo will provide easily-programmed access to just about information they have access to (which is almost everything ever). And planning versions for “Cell Phones, Linux, and even TiVo.” Now’s the time to brush up the XML and JavaScript skills. [...]

The VPs were so much more interesting than the presidents! Dude, they were, like, debating. They responded to each other’s remarks, they made personal attacks, and they quoted facts! And they totally made fun of / ignored the host. That was hilarious, neither of them have any clue about AIDS among black women in America [...]

Today I watched the best pro-Kerry propaganda I’ve seen yet (and yes I did watch his slightly interesting DNC speech). This one (Real or Windows Media players) was produced by the Republican National Committee. It shows a ton of clips of Kerry talking about Saddam and the war on terror and now Iraq. And it’s [...]