Archive for July, 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Chain?
Stumbled upon maybe 20 minutes of Chain by Jem Cohen. It was pretty intense/awesome. I went to try and get my tivo to grab it the next time it comes back on, but it doesn’t look like there will be another showing for the next two weeks. bummer.
I later found on the filmmaker’s Blog that I caught the end of the last screening of the film on Sundance. Bigger bummer.
Friday, July 27th, 2007
2 things I saw yesterday that were awesome.
- Flickr set of a knitted baby costume of Karl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force .via boingboing
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15 unforunately placed ads via the clog.
I’m especially fond of the Jesus/cat placement.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Bomb! Repeat! Bomb!
Monday, July 16th, 2007
American Cancer Society Century
#1)It was difficult. but no Nockamixon. That was an unpleasant century.
#2)Lots of crashes. Dumb crashes. Secondary crashes caused by people slowing down and rubber necking.
The first long ride like this one I did was the MS 150 in 2005. I remember being so psyched to be surrounded by so many cyclists. The more experienced guys I was riding with looked stressed out for the first 20 miles, until things got stretched out. Now I’m that guy, the guy who is mortified by people riding 4 wide, zipping back and forth, unpredictably. Sigh.
#2)Crossing the Ben Franklin bridge on the road was kind of cool. Just into Camden on the Admiral Wilson Blvd, I saw a guy who had written in sharpie across his leg ‘Dad’.
That actually choked me up. Alot.
#3)Past Mayor Street. He seemed to be entourage less/ rode solo.
When I first rolled up on him, I was like ‘Hi Mayor Street…’
He seemed pleased to be recognized.
moving by him, I asked ‘Did you get your iPhone?‘
‘Yes’ he replied with enthusiasm, ‘And its a great phone…’
A pleasant exchange. Its hard to believe the guy used to be such a firebrand.
#4)At 70 miles, there was a finish, and then a 30 mile loop added on for the rest of us. I went in and grabbed a reload for all my bottles. And dumped a considerable amount of bottle water on my head. This was a good idea as the last 30 miles was on unshaded, deserted farm roads.
I also grabbed a rock star energy drink, which I nursed from mile 72-80. Halfway thru I really wished it was a beer. Drinking a beer in the last quarter of a century should be required.
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
The Tour!
Things I do while watching the Tour De France:
- Have Coffee.
- Pause Tivo. Turn laundry.
- Unpause Tivo. Feed Wooglet
- Put Woglet down
- Have more coffee
- Fold 4 metric tons of laundry.
- FF thru commercials
- Pause Tivo. Cut Lawn
And so on and so forth.
Last night, I was feeding the boy and watching the Bradley Wiggins‘ absurdly long stage 6 solo breakaway on tivo. Wooglet fell asleep with the bottle in his mouth. Then I fell asleep. Then I woke up an hour later. And there was Bradley Wiggins, still off the front 20 miles further down the road.
Just two weeks ago, I was so excited for the tour to start. Now that its here, Its kind of difficult to imagine a time of year when cycling isn’t on the television everyday for hours, and there isn’t exciting racing going on the whole time. Its like weather: When you are in a heat wave, its difficult to imagine snow or a blizzard and vice versa.