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Layers of Maya

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Maya is either very tough or numb. No, rather she is very tough to some stimuli and very sensitive to others. Still not right. She is very macho when it comes to eating onion raw.

Fat bike

Here is a flikr link for more info.  Basically it is a eccentric rear wheel bounce bike from burning man.  Not motor or pedals.

Grrrrrr

My new toy

I am only about two hours in to playing with my HTC Incredible phone that came in the mail yesterday but am already pleasantly suprised that it is surpasing my very high expectations.  My LG dare I had previously seems like it was just a phone and camera with an unimpressive touch screen.   This phone is the first phone I have had that feels like it could really be my do everything mobile device.  The telephone part of it seems to go from its primary function to just one of many ways I can interact and experience the world.  Of course I know that after only two hours of using it to imply it is some kind of wonder device is a little silly.  I can however say that I no longer covet my wifes Iphone. 

Bike Snobs book

I am about three days and three chapters in and am really enjoying the read.   Eben has such a nice way of cutting through the BS pretenses of the world and saying things in a fearlessly clear and funny way.  

Pugsley ride

I went for a long ride with Pugsley yesterday and found some  new trails.  The pics below are not what I saw but what it felt like. 

Eben Weiss

Link to Wall Street Journal article. 
The Bike Snob's name is Eben Weiss. He's 36 years old, grew up riding BMX and is not a stranger to the media world. After a brief stint as a New York City bike messenger, he spent more than a decade in the publishing industry, working as an agent with the Ralph M. Vicinanza, Ltd. literary agency. His wife, Sara Goodman, is an editor at St. Martin's Press, and the couple are expecting their first child in May. Mr. Weiss races locally on an amateur bike team sponsored by Gotham Bikes, a New York City shop. But by his own account, he's a mediocre racer.

Below is a quote from a commenter on the conservative? site Pajamas Media.  He is responding to a dumb post suggesting cyclists put out more CO2 by breathing than do cars driving.  His comment has little to do with the cycling breathing post but rather is a response to the mention of  the transportation secretary Lahood? and his encouragement for people to ride bikes more.   The reasons for the original post don't really matter.  What fascinates me is how you could substitute the name Lahood and put in any democratic leaders name and it is the same critique the right gives over and over and over.  It is about as shallow of a critique as calling the new shy pretty girl at school a stuck up bitch. 

"Lahood is a perfect example of this administration. He is a radical ideologue with almost zero real-world experience, an overweening arrogance about his own self-perceived brilliance, a need for adulation from the cloistered academic “enlightened elite’”- and a boundless contempt, bordering on actual hatred, for the American people, or even the human race generally."

Link to the article.  The pic is what I am guessing the commenter looks like. 

A nice recovery

Link to the pic/video thing

Young me old me pics

Every time I see this idea I say "That's a great idea.  I'm going to do that too."  Link to the site.

More Tune Yards

Tune Yards are really just Merrill Garbus who recently signed with 4AD records.  After watching a few of her videos on the Internets I am struck by how good she sounds when singing live in poor recording situations.  I also think she assembles a song well.  Here is an example of both.  Link

sanibel island florida trip picks

Some pic's forwarded to me by my mother in law Vicky from our recent trip to Sanibel island. 

Maya hunting for shells.

Ella piloting the boat in Tarpon Bay.  Didn't hit a single manatee. 

Maya and some of her favorite things: Pom Pom (grandpa), Sammy the dog and rock star glasses. 

Picking shells on the beach is tiring. 

Minneapolis bike posters

Some posters from Cage design.  I am waiting for the Chanhassen edition to come out.  Click this link to see all of the posters. 

Tune Yards

Link to an artist and her video I stumbled upon and likely liked more than you will..  I can't get you the next three minutes back so click with personal responsibility. 

Freak out

Here is a link to a short video of a young chinese woman freaking people out by just standing still in a doorway.  Do they think she is a ghost?  I think it is interesting that no one seems to laugh after they get scared.  Watch the last guy all the way to the end of the video.  

“Frost Hammer”

Here is a link to a video.
Snakes for the Divine comes out February 23 on E1.

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