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More MTBR material this time from  mikesee .  Thanks. 

 

  

 

 

Fat bike

Stolen from the MTBR fat bike forums and a guy with great pics named "tscheezy".  Thanks.

 

  

 

 

 

Portrait of Joan the Mad

JUAN DE FLANDES
1496-1500
Oil on wood, 36 x 26 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

What my blog has come to.

My blog has stooped to stealing some obscure guy's tweets and putting them up as a blog post and claiming they are my own.  Unless someone googles the quotes and finds that I didn't write them you can assume these are my thoughts.  I did add pics for effect.

 

Cross-country skiing. I've never been more impressed by something that is so uninteresting. Good for you, doing that hard, boring thing.

"when diet and exercise are not enough" really means "since we know you're not going to diet or exercise.."

This year for Lent, I'm just giving up.

Oh, ice dancers. If you're going to dress like that, the least you could do is magic.

Sad

British designer Alexander McQueen who created the shoes Lady Gaga wears in the video Bad Romance sadly ended his life. 

I like it.

You know how I wanted a do everything steel road bike and the Salsa La Cruz Cyclocross bike was the best fit?  I love my La Cruz but it has off road tires, doesn't have all the touring brazons and it has stiff gearing that needs to be changed out.  Salsa saw a lot of people buying the La Cruz not as a cyclocross bike but rather like me as a do everything roadbike.  As a result they now make the Vaya to answer my La Cruz compromises.  Here are more words from Salsa about it.

The Actor

Old

I would rather live ten more years than look ten years younger. 

Igor Melnikov

Link 

I can see the artist.

From the great art magazine High Fructose.  More pics on the High Fructose site.

A conservative I can agree with.

From the popular conservative blogger Charles Johnson of "Little Green Footballs" comes this piece on what it wrong with the right. 

Why I Parted Ways With The Right

Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:49:45 pm PST

1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)
2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.)
3. Support for throwing women back into the Dark Ages, and general religious fanaticism (see: Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.)
4. Support for anti-science bad craziness (see: creationism, climate change denialism, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, James Inhofe, etc.)
5. Support for homophobic bigotry (see: Sarah Palin, Dobson, the entire religious right, etc.)
6. Support for anti-government lunacy (see: tea parties, militias, Fox News, Glenn Beck, etc.)
7. Support for conspiracy theories and hate speech (see: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Birthers, creationists, climate deniers, etc.)
8. A right-wing blogosphere that is almost universally dominated by raging hate speech (see: Hot Air, Free Republic, Ace of Spades, etc.)
9. Anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for fascism, violence, and genocide (see: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, etc.)
10. Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies, into racism, hate speech, and bizarre conspiracy theories (see: witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source)
And much, much more. The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff.
I won’t be going over the cliff with them.

Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona couch

Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona couch

A link to this version of the couch

11-19-09 dirt road ride

The white lines with red dots (in the lower left corner on the first pic) is the route I took. 

I left work a couple of hours early yesterday to ride some dirt/gravel roads and crushed limestone like trails by my house.  Ever since getting my cyclocross bike I have been looking for quiet country dirt roads and am pleasantly surprised to find this one so close to my house.  Thank you google earth.   I didn't see pavement or a car until the very end of my hour long ride.  I did however see 6 big turkeys fly higher and longer than I have ever seen turkeys fly.  They must have flown at least 50 feet high and a hundred meters long up into some trees.  Lesson of the day is that country roads are steep hilly roads compared to near by paved examples.  I need lower gears or a lower body weight.