Yep…haven’t posted in 2 months. Finally got The Email from Dudeman saying, “You suck, post or die!” And since I was bored with the old layout, I decided to change it up again. The next few posts are going to be tests of the Standard Operating Procedure of this new layout.
There you have it.
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It’s all about the ‘cross right now. This is a fun event that was started and run by my friend Steve Westover when we both worked at K2 Bike years ago. I don’t know if he still promotes or represents it, but it has turned into a national-level race and is a complete blast to attend. The beer garden, the banked corner in the velodrome, the huge crowds and a chance to get to see many friends in the cycling industry that I don’t see on a regular basis. Oh yeah, and it’s fun to photograph as well, which I’ll be doing this Saturday. Anyway, here’s some outside press and the poster for you.
And here’s an article from VeloNews
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Here I am, surfing the iPhone app store. I recently switched to AT&T so that I could start getting used to the iPhone, cuz Dave wants to write apps for it. So every day I try to think of what might make for a good app and then I search the app store at iTunes.
Recently I was looking for bicycle-related apps since I’m a bike dude, so I was searching terms like “cycling”, “bicycling”, “bikes”, “bicycles”, and when I typed in “cycle”, I found a bunch of apps concerning the ‘menstrual cycle’. WHOA!!! I mean, I guess that just makes sense, cuz that’s kind of a big deal for a number of reasons, all pertaining to one BIG thing that most young people want to avoid, so okay…there’s a bunch of apps for it. But you know…I got curious. So I downloaded one of them.
I feel like I just read my girlfriend’s diary or something! I opened some sort of Pandora’s box and it can never be closed again! This app is CRAZY!!! Okay, sure, you can type in the start and finish dates of your last period, as well as how long in between cycles it usually is, and then as time passes, it will become more predictive for you as to when your friend will next show up. That would seem to be standard fare. But delve a little further and it starts to make one (if male, like myself) feel a little crunchy, like I furnished a false password and am now in some place that I shouldn’t be. AND I’m about to be found out at any moment!
When you open the app, it asks you to furnish when you had your last period, and when you choose any specific date, there’s an option to choose whether you had intercourse or if your period started on that date. I chose intercourse. It then asked me if it was protected or unprotected! WHAT!!! Who are the dirty whores downloading this app?
Well, me, for one. But I digress.
When I went back into the setup portion (always start with a new program by setting up your preferences, it helps one understand just what the program in question is capable of) to adjust parameters, it asked me to input my Luteal Phase. Off to Google I went and found out what that shit meant. Then I was asked if I wanted my Fertile Days to be displayed. Uh, no.
So that was interesting to say the least. However, I was still doing research for the brilliant app that I have in mind and so I went back to the app store. I typed in more search terms and saw many apps that made differing levels of sense in my mind, from the idiotic-but-I-suppose-that-matters-to-some kind of apps to the (like the above-mentioned app) holy-crap-I-had-no-idea-because-I-don’t-live-there kind of apps. At one point though, and I suppose it just makes sense, I did stumble upon a couple of apps that were based on the sex-offender registry idea. Holy shit! If I know ONE thing, it’s Never Look Up Sex Offenders Online. Why? Because you’ll find out where they are! And they are in your neighborhood! Now…I don’t have children, so I don’t worry as much about this as some, but I don’t wanna know that shit! I’d like to think that the nice person walking their Akita at night in our neighborhood simply has that dog because it’s a beautiful animal, and not because they are fiercely loyal to ONE person and will fight to the death for them…and that maybe this person is a sex offender and they need that kind of protection. No thanks, I’d like to think otherwise as the dog (who is as big as a fucking horse) looks me right in the eye and silently challenges me every time I walk by. I’m stupid enough too, to fall for that shit…and I stare right back and the owner has to physically pull him along, cuz this dog ALWAYS wants a piece of me. Funny thing is…I KNOW that dog would rip me a new one too, but I can’t stop letting him know that I’m still higher on the food chain, or totem pole or pecking order. Whatever…try to light a lighter, pal. Try to hitch-hike. Not so easy with paws is it? Fuck you, I’m going to the bar!
Anyway, I learned something new today at the ol’ app store. There is always something out there for you, no matter what your taste.
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Here’s another test. Getting images into posts from iPhone.
This post is a hybrid. I posted the photo successfully from the phone, but now I’m editing it from the computer. I like to have the images be centered, so if you see a photo image that is aligned to the left, then assume it’s from the phone as well.
I went out to make coffee and this little kitty was staring at me from outside the window. Meowing real loud. Hi, kitty. I’m in here and you’re out there, but you know that. Bye bye…
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I just set up my site so that I can post from the iPhone. This hopefully will help me post stuff from out in the field so that I don’t forget all those awesome things that happen to me every single day! If you read any posts here with mass typos, assume it came from the iPhone.
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Today I’ve been doing laundry and setting up my audio recording station. The audio recording setup dictates that it’s better to have an external HD to write/save files to so that you’re only using one hard drive for actually running the program and using another for the write/save function. That makes it easier and faster for the whole process and is less taxing on system resources.
Got that? Awesome.
To that end, I noticed that the hard drive I want to use for file saving is being goofy and won’t let me write to it. No problem, I’ll just copy the files to another location and re-format the drive. So I did. Except that I was on autopilot and I accidentally erased the other partition in the same drive. What did I erase?
60GB of MP3s. CECIL CHRIST!!!!
Well, that sucks, but it’s done and I guess that makes things easier because now I don’t have to do quite as much work with the other project that I’d been thinking of. That project is making sense of the various MP3 files that reside on the external HD, the desktop computer and the laptop. Now instead of reconciling/consolidating 3 file locations, I only have to do that with 2.
Oh boy.
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I don’t know what the deal is, but the past 9-12 months have not been happy ones for Chewy’s ribcage. Let me elaborate…
To be honest, I’m not sure if I’m going to be starting with Incident #1 or #2, but sometime in November of ’08, I did something to crack a rib. It’s been a while now, and I don’t remember the specific incident, but I don’t think it happened due to a bike crash. In fact I think I tripped on something in the dark here in my room, and hit the deck, my chest-cavity bouncing off of something on the way down. The point here being that when I went up to AK for the month of December, I clearly remember having some decent rib pains for the first week or so. I’ve cracked ribs before, so I know what it’s like and I also know that they don’t really do anything about it…you just have to hope you don’t cough, sneeze or hiccup until it heals. So that was my Winter ’09 Juneau trip. Kinda…
The last night that I was up there, Zeno and Aaron and I tore it up pretty good. When we got here to my place, I realized that I’d done something awesome to some ribs in a different spot. Imagine how excited I was to know that it would a couple more weeks of hoping I wouldn’t cough, sneeze or hiccup while a different rib, or ribs, healed up in its/their own sweet time.
Fast forward to the past! Specifically, in fact, one week ago, roughly. Thursday evening. Not last Thursday, but a week prior. WHATEVER!!! RECENTLY…I had reason to be riding my bike home from a buddy’s house. I’d decided to take a different route to get there and so I was returning along the same route, as it took me through more residential neighborhoods, and less along motor vehicle arterials. In other words, I deemed it to be a safer route. Along the way I came into a cul-de-sac that had recently been re-surfaced with chip-seal. As I turned into the cul-de-sac from the sidewalk, I was leaned into the corner, and having been freshly-applied, the surface was not unlike a basketball court covered with marbles. Marbles that turned into jacks once I went horizontal and hit the deck full-force on my side. Normally when you hit the deck on pavement, you slide. That sliding action actually deflects some of the impact of hitting the deck. I didn’t slide very far. And it hurt when I went down. Okay, so there’s that. Now I have a bruise on my side and scabs on my leg, and my forearm looks like I tried to pick a fight with Wolverine. My upper arm, however, looks kinda cool. All the little pebbles scratched me up in multiple deep, short slashes that look like I got a tattoo of a meteor shower. YIPPEE!!!
But the point of this long-winded post is that guess what? Yep, the ribs on the right side have been on a slow burn ever since then. And guess what else? Yep, I sneezed today. But this wasn’t just a normal sneeze, this one was one of those ones where the entire system was sealed up airtight, so my lungs, and therefore my chest (i.e., my ribs) took the full force of the blast.
DAMMIT, that hurt!
I’ll just end by saying that injuring your ribs sucks.
Toodles!
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Sometimes you gotta just say “what the fuck”. Here’s a couple for ya…
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8140/leftvsconservatards.png
http://www.amazon.com/review/RRKV0ADMBILR5/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
That’s all. Nothing important, just saw these online today and thought “what the fuck…” and went back to my coffee.
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Hey folks, I’m in Bozeman. Came out here for Sweet Pea Festival and niece’s birthday. The internets out here is a little more difficult to come by as my sister in under the impression that she doesn’t believe in anything computer-related. So I’m finally at a wifi coffee joint, doing all things cyber-related for the other family members….sending emails, changing seating assignments on homeward flights, etc…
I got a call from my friend Kate yesterday. She didn’t know I was out of town and her greeting was something like, “So are you safe?” I thought, what the hell? As it turns out, she drove by the house I live in and the whole block was choked with firetrucks, ambulances, cops, and there was a huge cloud of smoke billowing up into the air. ??? Holy crap, yeah, I’m just fine here in Bozeman! So to make a long story short, the house/business that is 3 houses down from us, a flower shop, burned down, but my place is fine. Good thing too, cuz I wasn’t there to be able to save my bike and my guitar.
Close one!!!
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It just keeps getting better. Check this out.
http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71283_divorce_palins.htm
Maybe that explains some things, but it would seem like she’s a big ol’ trainwreck, and as we all know…a trainwreck is pretty difficult NOT to stop and gawk at.
When I was in Juneau last month, every single day, it seemed, there would be multiple stories on the front page of the paper about new ethics complaints being brought against her. Of course, she’ll point out that they all get dropped, but it seems to me that if none of them were true, then she wouldn’t have ANY complaints being brought against her in the first place, but what do I know?
It’s also kind of funny that she acts like she’s a proud Alaskan and how beautiful her home state is and all that, but when it comes time to settle down, she moves to Montana. WTF?
Whatever…this show surely isn’t over yet, so I guess we all should stay tuned and see what the next chapter is for her. I highly doubt that she’s had enough of fame just yet. There should be a little left yet of her 15 minutes.
Well, dang. Looks like it has been proven to be false out there on the internets, but then again you never know. We’ll have to wait a few days/weeks to see how it all plays out in the end, I guess. I hope it’s true…you can’t make this silly shit up.
- Chewy
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