During the ride today I noticed the headset was a little loose, so when I got back I took it into the LBS or an adjustment. I’d have done it myself, but I don’t have the tools and I’ve never done a threadless headset. It’s a good thing, too. The threads on the thing were [...]
[IMDb] [netflix]
A medieval knight, Antonius Block, (a very young Max von Sydow) returns home from the Crusades to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. Death (Bengt Ekerot) comes calling but the knight distracts him with a game of chess while the game of life (and death) goes on. Religious zealots travel the land, ostensibly [...]
[IMDb] [netflix]
The first Wallace & Gromit in ten years finds the pair running a humane pest control business (called “Anti-Pesto”). Lady Campanula Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter) has a rabbit problem that’s out of control and calls Anti-pesto for help but Lady Tottington’s (or “Totty”) suitor, Victor Quartermaine (Ralph Fiennes), just wants to shoot them all. [...]
[amazon]
Six year old Ender was bred, born and raised to save the world from the buggers, an alien race apparently bent on the destruction of earth. He’s taken from his family at six and put in a training regimen where he turns out to be the best ever at the training games, just as he [...]
[amazon]
Another John Carter of Mars story except that John Carter isn’t really in it. He bows out pretty early. And rather than Dejah Thoris, the incomparable Princess of Mars needing rescue, she’s had an accident and is near death. So this rescue comes in the form of seaching for the only doctor in all of [...]
So today was supposed to be Cycle for Sight. I was supposed to get up early, I was supposed to ride to the start, I was supposed to ride the ride, and I was supposed to ride home. I did the first thing. I got up early, got into my kit, ate break breakfast and [...]
Kazakh consortium underwrites Saiz’s team
Reprieve. Good news for Vino. But it all sounds a little … vague.
Magnificent 7: Multi-seat bikes are hot wheels
But city officials are concerned about them - as well as pedicabs that have been operating for a few years now - maneuvering through traffic.
Hey Donna, say it with me: They’re not “maneuvering through traffic,” they ARE traffic.
Clearly Donna has never seen a pedicab in action. They’re [...]
Wheels trued: $26.00
These are the “new” reconditioned Neuvations. The ones that haven’t been crashed.
[amazon] [MBLN]
This is first and foremost a detective story but with SciFi elements. Crime has all but dissapeared in 2301 what with telepaths everywhere. But corporate mogul Ben Reich decides to commit murder against his arch rival, something that hasn’t been done in 70 years. The murder is successful (no mystery here), but will he [...]
