cycling.finial.com

A good article giving a quick thumbnail sketch of how and why UCI and WADA came to be.
The Explainer – Who are those guys? – VeloNews.

It was the first summery day of the year, so I took a ride down the Minuteman. Millions of people were out but they were all well behaved for the most part. But really, you shouldn’t teach tiny little kids to ride their bikes ont he trail. It’s way to busy. Find a lot or [...]

Best weekend of baseball since I can’t remember.

Stealing home?!?!?! Whoa.

That may be the most exciting game I have seen in years!
Too bad it was Fox with Joe Buckloser and the senile Tim McCarver. Oh to hear Jerry and Don comment this game!
But what a game!

Last time. Promise.
The other ones had a couple errors and the convertor I’d found didn’t take into account AM and PM, so I wrote a little ColdFusion thing that takes the supplied Outlook-style CSV files and (mostly) turns them into iCalendar .ics files.
In this zip is both Pawtucket and Portland schedules (both home and away). [...]

Got out on the bike yesterday for the first time in a long, long time.  There’s only six weeks until the Tour de Cure, so I need to do more of this. Even though I’m way heavier than I have any right to be, I’m not in as bad shape as I’d feared. Only 18 [...]

An update PawSox iCal (.ics) schedule that fixes some errors and puts in the away games.
2009 Paw Sox schedule
Saw Jed Lowrie (who is rehabbing) at Prudential today.
Yankees 22 to 4 loss to the Indians. How’s that new stadium working out for you?

Tyler Hamilton admits to taking banned substance; retires from pro cycling.
What is an “over-the-counter” anti-depressent that contains a steroid? I mean, St. John’s Wort it’s not.

Mark Fidrych
A nice summary
He was fun to watch.

A friend had an extra ticket to the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, so I went. It was very, very good.  There didn’t seem to be any theme to the night, and the pieces were all very different, but they were all great, especially the final piece which I may have to go find a [...]

As tomorrow is opening day, here is the pointer to the ics (iCal) format Red Sox and PawSox schedules.
The Red Sox schedule you can get directly from their site at
http://mlb.mlb.com/soa/ical/schedule.ics?team_id=111&season=2009
The PawSox schedule is only available in csv with extensive instructions on how to import it to Outlook. Not very useful. But I found a few [...]

Took the MTB out to the Arboretum.  Nice day, sunny and breezy. Lots of people, babies, and dogs out. Down the Soutwest Corridor and back via Jamaica Pond and Muddy River.
Lots of people hanging out at Fenway, waiting for someone to show up. They were having practice, I think. Victory Gardens were very muddy after [...]

A couple months ago, I was watching Emily Rooney’s show and her sidekick, Jared Bowen, was interviewing some restaurant people about the economy. During the conversation, he mentioned that Icarus might be closing. It’s a über posh restaurant that’s been in the neighborhood since forever. I’d never been, Carl had never been, so we decided [...]