Got this email from Lynne this morning. It’s a Wednesday so it will be tricky to get there, but I’ll try.
CHAMPIONS TO DEDICATE MAJOR TAYLOR MONUMENT
Three-time Tour de France winner GREG LeMOND and three-time Olympic medalist EDWIN MOSES will be featured speakers at the public unveiling of the Major Taylor memorial from noon to 1 [...]
Can you believe it? Nine inches of snow on Friday, so it wasn’t outside. Maybe it was watching Amgen Tour of California. Maybe it was just some excruciating boredom. I don’t know. But I swapped otu the wheel for the one with the trainer tire, hooked the steed up and did 10 miles. Yeah, only [...]
Have plenty of time before you visit this.
[amazon] [MBLN]
This turned out to be a collection of short stories and, as such, is not a favorite of mine as I’m not a big fan of the genre. A bunch of people get together and each tells a “mystery” story to which only the teller knows the answer. The teller and, of course, Miss [...]
[netflix] [IMDb] [simpsonsmovie.com]
Homer pollutes the local lake and causes Springfield to be quarantined under a huge glass dome while the family escapes to Alaska. Ostensible hilarity ensues.
I wanted to like this movie. I really did. Really.
But I didn’t. At least not very much. It felt really contrived and forced. Homer is normally endearing in a [...]
[netflix]
A pretty standard grade biopic/documentary about Chuck Jones, one of the great minds behind the greatest Warner Bros. cartoons. It documents his stamp on Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Yosemite Sam as well as his creation of Pepe LePew, the Roadrunner and Wyle E. Coyote. It also goes into a fair amount of detail about [...]
If you haven’t seen the live race tracker for Amgen Tour of California, check it out. It’s very very cool.
Whew. Spending quite a while trying to figure out why the ajax stuff in ColdFusion was working on localhost, but not on any of the VirtualHosts. There’s a mapping in the CF administrator that (I thought) was supposed to take care of it, but apparently it does not.
And now, come to think of it, there’s [...]
Easy riders
Boston to add bike lanes to Comm. Ave. between Kenmore and BU Bridge. This is good in theory, that’s a particularly bad stretch of road. The intersection between Comm Ave & BU Bridge is really nasty, and has been under construction since the dawn of time. We’ll see whether it works in [...]
A video about Angell Memorial, where Billy was treated.
[netflix] [IMDb]
A biopic of Graeme Obree (Jonny Lee Miller), Scottish cycling champion, twice holder of the one hour and pursuit world records. Battling some vicious demons, he creates a revolutionary bike design that propels him to the one hour record of 51.596 km, beating the 8-year-old record set by Francesco Moser. But in doing so, [...]
Billy’s ashes came today.
[netflix] [IMDb] [http://www.helveticafilm.com/]
This is the first movie-length thing I’ve watched using Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” feature. It’s flawless. Highly recommended. I can only hope they get more and more inventory available. At some point, maybe they could get rid of disks altogether.
Anyway, the movie. This is a documentary about what has become one of the most [...]
Sheldon Brown has died.
From Harris Cyclery:
Sheldon Brown: 1944 – 2008
Dear Harris Cyclery friends and customers,
It is with heavy hearts that we convey to you the news that Sheldon Brown has passed away. Our thoughts go out to his family at this time. The cycling community has lost one of it’s most passionate members.
I often encountered [...]
I got my Blue Cross renewal form today.
The increase is 47%. Forty seven percent. In one year.
2007 rate: $428.87 / mo
2008 rate: $630.99 / mo
Jumpin jebus on a pogo stick.
I guess they need to pay for van Fassen’s “retirement” somehow.
NEC