Ride report 1, this morning’s ride: Portola Loop, backwards from usual (Santa Cruz > Alpine > Portola > Sand Hill). DST: 17.5mi AVS: 13.9mph MXS: 39mph according to the computer, but I think really about 32-33mph Time: 1:15 riding time (about 1:25 total) I had a really wonderful ride this morning. I decided to go […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Navigating the world of new phones
My Verizon “new every two” thing keeps showing up in my mail in recent months — I think it started last year sometime, but I’ve been resisting. However, the BlueAnt V1 is coming out soon! And I have been helping to test the tech in them at work* (and may eventually get one), so it […]
Recipe for happiness
1/4 lb TJs whole wheat pasta (cooked) + First fresh pesto of the season (so fresh it was still bright green when I put it on) + small grind each of parmesan and black pepper + Alexis = Happiness Basil, how I love thee.
Reality of language
I almost have a hard time believing this, except that there are so many Google results for the word: Is hited a word?? People ask Yahoo Answers a lot of strange questions, including many that would be best answered by a dictionary and another whole batch that would be best answered by a philosopher, plus […]
Rearrangement
I reorganized some blog categories this morning. I’ve been a bit lazy about adding all the categories I want, because it requires more effort than just tagging a post (but also forces you to actually reuse the same categories again and again, so you don’t end up with tagging issues like having “geekyness” and “geekiness” […]
DUCKLINGS
There are ducklings again this spring! Five of them. Teeny little fluffballs right now. Adorable. I need to take my camera and see if I can get any pics of them.
Certified LAB cooking
As of today, I’m literally and officially certified Road I proficient by the League of American Bicyclists! I have a piece of paper that says so. I passed with flying colors. I’m glad I took the class, because since then my road positioning has gotten more appropriately assertive, and I’m feeling more comfortable on the […]
Slow Life International
This week is the Towards Carfree Cities conference in Portland, and Kent & Christine and Beth both have lovely things to say about life without a car. So many lovely things to say that they’ve said everything I could imagine saying! My favorite line: As Peter once told Kent, “I don’t ride my bike because […]
Thinking into the box
Re-reading some old posts from my LiveJournal, I came across one about “cyclist’s left”, and remembered that among the things I learned in my LAB Road I class was yet another name for this type of turn (in addition to cyclist’s left and hook turn): box turn. However, the results I get on Google for […]
The miracle of rotated handlebars
So I went through this entire odyssey after I discovered that Meg’s handlebar/stem combination wasn’t working well for me and wasn’t going to be easy to replace. I looked for stems that would work and found almost nothing, and I couldn’t figure out whether any non-31.8 handlebars would work. I think the odyssey is finally […]