Spent a wonderful afternoon yesterday on an Erie Canal cruise with the gang from Presbytery. It was nice way to get a break in the PC rebuilding and website-making action.
Working on a redesign for the Presbytery site. That’s going well. Either I’m really, really good or they’re really, really easy to please. [...]
His Imperial Excellency, Emperor George I comes to R-Town tomorrow. He’s doing a “town-hall style” meeting at Greece Athena High School, which I attended from [cough] 1969 through 1971 back when it was Greece Athena Junior/Senior High.
It’s all to show support for his agenda to remove Social Security from the safety of a government [...]
My main PC is still not fully functional. It seems several components were on the verge of failure. The trauma of transplanting disks seems to have tipped two of them over the edge. Not knowing for sure what was going on, after all I was installing two different operating systems in [...]
CBC did not visit this weekend. Just before leaving for R-Town, she helped the upstairs neighbor move something. Threw out her back.
“Dude! You shouldn’t be doing shit like that,” I told her. “You could break a nail or something.”
Laughter followed by much wincing from the other end. “Fuck. Don’t [...]
It would be a lot easier if I could forget the advice and hard lessons learned about keeping code and data separate on one’s PC. And, I suppose, if I had fewer than six hard disks in it. On the other hand, I’m becoming a whiz at reinstalling Windows XP and Fedora Core [...]
CBC is visiting next weekend. That’ll be good because I’m getting callouses on my ears from talking on the phone.
And, I’m still getting dizzy spells since I was sick a couple of weeks ago. Shelving books here at work with all the bending down and standing up seems to exacerbate the problem. [...]
Just a quick entry to say all’s well around here.
The past couple of weeks have been productively busy, as opposed to the past year or so where there’s not been much to show for having been busy.
I’ve dropped all my pro bono clients, dropping off a CD to the last one on Tuesday. I [...]
Despite spending several hours a week in the Children’s Room at the library, I managed to get through the winter without getting sick. No colds, flu (bird or otherwise) or creeping grunge. Thus, I have little recent experience with being ill. Until yesterday.
Since the headache and nausea hit at the about same [...]
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Someday we’ll all look back on this, and plow right into a parked car.
Just as man evolved from four feet to two, some have evolved from four wheels to two.
Tourers and commuters are a lot alike. Both breeds usually choose a sturdy, yet no-nonsense bike, and both usually have to carry more than your usual OCP roadie. We take tips, tricks, and underground secret information from almost every other type of cyclist, chew it up, and spit out a form of cycling science that manifests itself as a fusion of both basic transportation and recreational riding all at once.—ax0n
You shouldn’t anthropomorphize bikes. They don’t like it when you do that—JustBrowsing
Somewhere on gayforums.net there’s a thread that goes “I just shaved my legs and got some tight lycra shorts. Do you think it would make look like a cyclist or not?”—From yet another “Does wearing lycra make me look gay?” thread on bikeforums.net
I don’t hate cars per se, but the lifestyle they encourage is as lethal and self-destructive as any drug.—Cosmoline
I guess for me it boiled down to a realization that a bike was the right tool for the job. Using a 3,000 pound vehicle move me and my briefcase 2.5 miles to work everyday was like using a steamroller to press my shirts—they'd be wrinkle free, but an iron would be a better choice.—chocula
Starve a terrorist—ride a bike to work. It’s not just good for the environment, it’s good for civilization.—NotAsFat
When all the gasoline runs out, the Priuses are going to be dead on the side of the road right beside the Hummers.
Who is more patriotic, the person who commutes to work on a bike, or the guy who slaps a US flag decal on his SUV that gets 12 miles per gallon?—Jim Caple (ESPN)
I’m on the odd side of now but the right side of history.—Woodog
What’s the point of a bike if you can only ride it on weekends and you can’t even carry anything with you?—madfiNch