Archive for July, 2006

Much Obliged, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Monday, July 31st, 2006

[amazon] [MBLN]
What can you say about Wooster & Jeeves? They’re all great, and this is one of the better ones. This time, Aunt Dahlia (the good one) is trying to help Harold “Ginger” Winship elected as the Conservative candidate in the Market Snodsbery bye election. To this end, she enlists the aide of Bertie and [...]

The Sands of Mars by Arthur C Clarke

Monday, July 31st, 2006

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The introduction says that this is Clarke’s first novel, and it shows. Not necessarily in a bad way, but it was written in the 1940s and it spends an inordinate amount of time describing what space flight is like and how everyone else has got it wrong.
A small colony has been established on Mars, [...]

Murder My Sweet

Monday, July 31st, 2006

[netflix] [IMDb]
Philip Marlow (Dick Powell) investigates the murder of a client he was hired to protect during a money for jewels exchange. He’s also searching for a thug’s missing heartthrob which brings him into contact with the arch villain (Otto Kruger) and the Grayle family.
A good film noir, but I don’t really agree with a [...]

New bibs

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

New PI bibs from City Sports.
50.00

NEC Photos

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Got some NEC photos posted. Will continue to add daily logs as time permits.

Chiro report

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Saw the chiropractor this morning after the ride. He wasn’t happy about my doing the ride at all to begin with and now he wants me to stay off the bike for a few weeks.
WEEKS!?!?

Major Taylor

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Remembering a black pioneer who changed the gears of bicycling - The Boston Globe

New stuff

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

New cyclometer to replace the lost one (Sigma 1606L)
More ChamoisButt’r :>
From REI
$0.00: Used dividend.

FRIGGIN INTENSE

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

as T Rex would say.
I got back home yesterday around 4:00 or so. It seemed like a long trip, because, well, I guess it was.
I’ve got all my notes and tonnes of pictures, so I’ll be posting those over the next couple of days, I think. Then to get a thank-you letter out to all [...]

NEC 2006 Day 5

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

[backdated to the date]

NEC 2006 Day 4

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

[backdated to the date]

NEC 2006 Day 3

Monday, July 17th, 2006

[backdated to the date]

NEC 2006 Day 2

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

[backdated to the date]

NEC 2006 Day 1

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

[Backdated to the day]

Here I go

Friday, July 14th, 2006

I had the chiro appointment this morning and while things are amazingly better that just two days ago, it’s still very painful. But he said that even though it would be painful, I wouldn’t do any further damage, so I’m going to give it a try.
I went out to lube up the chain and hopped [...]

Chiro report

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

I saw the chiropractor yesterday. I don’t feel any better. I can tell I’ll probably feel better eventually, but eventually is not Saturday. What he did say is I have an extraordinarily high threshhold of pain. I guess I’m really a cyclist after all.
I’ve got something called “fibrosis” as a result of the accident and [...]

Comics

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Moved the comics to the gallery. It’s too much maintenance to do it myself.
Let’s hear if for lazyness!

Psmith in the City by PG Wodehouse

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

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Both Psmith and Mike Jackson are forced to find work to support themselves and end up working in “The City” (London’s name for their financial district) at the New Asian Bank. Mike would rather be playing cricket, Psmith would rather be doing, well, no one is quite sure.
This was a little hard to get [...]

Attention RSS supplying intarwab sites

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Please to be stopping including Sheryl Crow news in the cycling feeds.
Thanks.

Shiqi sui de dan che (Beijing Bicycle)

Monday, July 10th, 2006

[netflix] [IMDb]
I tried to like this. I really did. Perhaps I can best describe the story this way:
10 Guei: You stole my bike
20 Jian: No I didn’t. You stole my bike.
30 Guei: No I didn’t. You stole my bike
40 Jian: (pouts)
50 Guei: (pouts)
60 (dust up)
70 GoTo 10
Farm boy Guei (Lin Cui) moves to Beijing and [...]