For various odd reasons, this article on the “loaf” had me laughing constantly. I guess it’s the concept of using some nasty food as punishment that cracks me up.
In Vermont, the punishment is one loaf, served at normal meal times, for up to a week.
“Oh, you tried to shank the guard? Well then your punishment [...]
137 miles in a day. 10,000 feet of climbing.
In the end, the anticipation was killer; the ride was not.
I spent the leading week riding a few mellow rides, just getting miles into my legs, and eating a lot of yams, but other than that, nothing special.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind rip I really only [...]
Google Earth can be excruciatingly slow on a misconfigured system. For me, it was extra confusing because lookie here:
[achiang@ethanol ~]$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
That’s goodness, and so one would think that I’m all set, right? Not so. I was seeing these errors:
do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don’t seem to be working correctly.
Try running [...]
Bicycle helmets can get pretty full of stank. In my case, the ripeness seems to come from the little liner pads that are velcroed in there and soak up sweat and grease. Removing them for cleaning is pretty easy, but I haven’t had such great success with hand washing in the sink. Plus, that requires [...]
A Brief History of Time divx
Brooks B66 saddle for my newest project — a 1972 Raleigh Sports. The paint job on this guy is a little rusty, but I’m gonna keep the original, and perhaps just refinish the fenders. Also on the TODO list: adding wire baskets, finding some nice lights, oh, and [...]
Bill Plympton meets Ralph Steadman?
One day, I’ll create my own content again, but for now, I simply connect you to another part of the tubes.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Here’s an outrageous video for the day:
track bike superstars! from julip on Vimeo.
Today, the Guardian posted a poignant editorial titled Remembering Tiananmen.
To me, this event brings back jumbled memories of 3rd grade in Mrs. Hennessey’s class. None of us were really old enough to understand what was going on, except that the Chinese government was killing students, and that was scary. Mrs. Hennessey asked me, the only [...]