Today's activity:

[randomness]

Yak Shaving

The passenger side front tire on my car blew out on I-91 yesterday afternoon. I must say that modern suspension systems make this a remarkably uneventful occurrence, even though I had to weave over to the shoulder from the number two lane through Memorial Day traffic moving at full speed. (I left a visible trail of rubber.)

Unfortunately, my donut spare doesn't hold air anymore, as it appears to be leaking from the bead. (The tire is, I believe, as old as the car, which means it's seventeen years old.)

Time to go find another tire or two. So I can replace it, and have four tires on the car. So I can take the car in to have the air conditioning fixed. So I can actually drive it in reasonable comfort this summer...

Comments

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

esrblog was amused by the "yak shaving" post. He was tempted to put it in the Jargon File, but the poster's remark that it hasn't even caught on yet at the AI lab at MIT stopped him. (The Jargon File is meant to memorialize actual usage, after all.)

However, it's a great term that serves a real purpose. We just need to popularize it.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I've heard yak shaving being used on many an occasion. And even know (and have done business with) Yakshaving Inc.

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

I shudder to think what the business model of Yakshaving, Inc. might be.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

As far as my interaction with them is concerned, they do DNS service reselling (OpenSRS), and do it very well.

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

While DNS service reselling doesn't sound much like yak shaving, at least it shows they appreciate the significance of the term. :-)