Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Buy my Carbon or I Kill This Kitten
Somebody at work asked me about a joke I made: that I was going to turn a profit on my cycling to work by selling the carbon offsets. That led to a long digression about the nature of emissions trading and carbon offsetting (Al Gore was discussed), and I promised to write a little post […]
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
How to respace bicycle frames
Today’s vital new skill for you to learn is frame respacing. You do this to bike frames because, for one reason or another, frames come with a lot of different widths between the rear dropouts, and rear wheels come a lot of different widths too. Go read Sheldon’s article on this; indeed, much of what […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
You probably cannot do this on your bike
For several reasons: Remember kids, these are trained lunatics: real humans should not ride in traffic without a front brake, et cetera. But oh wow.
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
In which I destroy my credibility as a movie critic
Music and Lyrics is the worst dumb romantic comedy I have ever really really liked. It distinguishes itself by not introducing the Intractable Relationship Problem until late in the second act, long after a rather entertaining series of sequences between the romantic leads. Also, the creators of this movie got the tropes of 80s music […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
"Dear Mr. Dork…"
Best. Autographed baseball. Ever.
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
It made me laugh.
Random Reviewer reviews automatic light switches in Public Restrooms. As bad as you think. Maybe worse. A wonderful misuse of technology.
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
The black bike
More pictures on flickr, of course. Take one Nashbar “X” frame, add their fork, and then go to town on black parts. Thus the black bike, my purest cyclocross bicycle yet. I was able to recycle a fair number of parts besides the frame and fork, and Dave helped me with the rest, mostly issues […]