cycling.finial.com

15 Greatest Mountain Biking Crashes
I’m a bit suspect at the use of “Greatest” in this context.

A friend and I went to Blue Ribbon BBQ in Newton last weekend. It’s a very small place with about 15 seats (stools along a counter). We asked if they were gearing up for the Superbowl. She said they were nearly sold out. Sold out?
They’re taking three reservations per five minute period when you can [...]

Parade for Pats is issue in vote
Menino said he does not want to jinx the Patriots by talking about a celebration before it is warranted, but he said a victory parade would probably start on Dartmouth Street near Columbus Avenue in the South End. The now customary caravan of Duck boats would carry the New [...]

[amazon] [MBLN] [http://www.cheatingdestiny.com/]
I found this book because I saw James Hirsh interviewed on Jeanne Blake’s show. He was pretty interesting so I thought I’d read the book. It’s quite good. He was diagnosed with Type 1 at age 15, and the book came about as a result of his son being diagnosed at age 3. [...]

It’s now been two weeks and while I can’t claim that things are back to “normal” (I doubt they ever will be) I’m a little more stable, although that breaks down from time to time. Like yesterday.
Blue Cross calls people with chronic diseases from time to time for some unknown reason. Personally, I think it’s [...]

I am loving this Netflix on demand stuff. For no increase in the monthly cost, you can watch thousands of things whenever you want. Today Comcast announced an increase of something like another 10% in their cost, and they’re making it difficult to not go digital (at an additional cost, plus equipment rental). Feh on [...]

[netflix] [IMDb] [http://www.blacksheep-themovie.com]
Ovine genetic engineering experiments on a remote sheep ranch in rural New Zealand go horribly wrong when two earthy crunchy animal rights activists, Grant (Oliver Driver) and Experience (Danielle Mason), liberate the dregs of one of the experiments. At the same time, Henry (Nathan Meister) suppresses his “ovinophobia” (the result of a particularly [...]

Lance Armstrong to run in Boston Marathon
Hope it’s good weather. IIRC, last year was pretty wet, cold, and windy. It should be a zoo if he’s here. Maybe I’ll be back out on the bike by then.

Specialized’s “Innovate or Die” contest is over and there’s a winner. It’s one of the ones I liked, too.

Dual Purpose Bicycle
MIT Cycling Team
Pedal Power Snow Plow (I loved this one)
Multi-use Bike Machine (I liked this one too)
Velocyraptor Show

It’s been one week now since Billy died. It’s a week I never want to repeat.
I still have these overwhelming and irrepressible waves of grief and sadness wash over me and waking dreams of his dying in my arms. I’m at a real loss as to what to do with my day. There’s no real [...]

My dear, dear old friend

Billy the Dog
1994-2008
I’m alone now.

I think it’s going to be a tough night. And yesterday went so well. He’s had about 4 episodes so far today. He normally doesn’t have them in the daytime, but it seems to be getting worse,
I gave him his prednisone at 8, after one of the episodes, but he had another one at 10. [...]

I bought a tomato today.

I’m not sure how I feel about advertising on my food.

Achieving Critical Mass - The Boston Globe
It’s now only a matter of time before Menino spots another opportunity to become outraged again and again tries to make us a “world class city” by becoming as insane as New York.

Yesterday was my dog’s first radiation treatment to address the tumor in his neck.
A friend graciously offered to lend me his car as it was about 10 degrees out (we had to check in at Angell between 7 and 8), but at least it wasn’t windy like the day before. I went over to [...]

The appointment with the veterinary oncologist went about as expected. The condition of his lungs has deteriorated noticeably. I saw the x-rays and even I could tell that.
The number one concern right now is the tumor in his throat. She said it’s noticeably changed in the last two months and seems to be constricting the [...]

[netflix] [IMDb]
Part 2 of the New Years Eve movie night.
Sgt. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is a good cop. Too good. Much too good.  So good that he’s showing everyone else up and they decide to reassign him to the “safest town in Britain” where he is immediately bored to tears. Like Shaun of the Dead, [...]

[netflix] [IMDb]
This was part of a New Years Eve film thing with a friend (along with copious gin).
In the near future, humans have lost the ability to breed. The youngest person on earth is 18 and extinction is all but assured. That is until, by some miracle, a woman, Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey), becomes pregnant. An [...]