Archive for June, 2005
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Best bike face ever
This is a pro-quality race face. That’s from this year’s Belgian National Championships. Baguet (left) ends up winning a very close photo-finish. Speaking of which, I haven’t blogged my glorious experience at the Norm Lowe Memorial Road Race this weekend, a serious piece of riding with a mean-spirited set of rolling hills in the course. […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
The Good Thing
So, The Lovely One and I were discussing the used New Beetle we will soon be acquiring, and we agreed on the perfect name for the new car: The Good Thing. This is, of course, a very silly joke, and the usual prize (box of Timbits, to be delivered at my convenience within Greater Vancouver) […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
Beetlemania
Wednesday evening I saw a lady about a car, and some hours later, have tentatively contracted to buy it on The Lovely One’s behalf. So, the next time you see me, it should be rolling in The Lovely One’s pretty black 1998 Volkswagen New Beetle. That’s what VW calls them, leading to oxymoronic statements like […]
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
Catching up
Gloriously, a completely non-political posting! It’s partly personal, partly cycling-related, all the good things. There’s even some car ads, just for a change. Item the First: I’m selling Old Faithful, the eternal Tercel. It’s a 1992, it’s an automatic 4dr sedan, it’s blue, it’s Aircared until 2007, and it’s cheap: $3000, and trust me, you […]
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Monday, June 13th, 2005
Weekend Racing
On the weekend, I did two races, because I like extra pain. The Brockton Criterium in Stanley Park was my Saturday ride: I expected it to hurt, and it hurt. A Cat 3/4 crit on a technical course, in the rain. Me no like. I managed to hang in for about 30 minutes of a […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
Let the Lance-watch begin
Yes, I know. No matter how much I tell you that the Spring Classics are beautiful, no matter how much I tell you that the Giro D’Italia and Vuelta Espana are very important races, no matter how much I suggest that the ProTour really has changed pro cycling, you still really just want to hear […]
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Erick says "MacIntel"
Personally, I pray for a better nickname. pMacs? IMacs? Er, that’s taken…IntelliMacs? Looks like it’s going to be MacIntel. For those of you don’t understand my inside jokes, an explanation: yesterday Apple dropped the (widely-predicted) bombshell that starting sometime in 2006, new Macs will ship with Intel CPUs inside instead of PowerPC chips. On one […]
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Sunday, June 5th, 2005
It’s so evil, it just might work!
Robert Cringely, in his latest column, proposes an idea for countering phishing, the type of fraud that sends those fake PayPal, eBay, credit card, and bank requests to “update” your account data so the bad guys can steal it. His proposal? Poison the incoming data. If everyone responds, but responds with fake data, the few […]
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Friday, June 3rd, 2005
A picture of The Whip
thewhip.JPG Originally uploaded by rcousine. At long last, a shot of The Whip. In its latest iteration, it has a bottle cage and I have flipped the stem.
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
Be at Fatburger
I’ll actually be there a little early tonight, probably around 6. All the cool kids are going, you should too. Heather, Karl?