Archive for January, 2008

Tom Courtney Returns

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Back on rollers in the basement for winter boredom. Last night at least. Today, I am finally coming down with the sick that the boy and mrs. h had for the past, I don't know, 6 weeks. So Anyway, revisiting 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' with ...

Project For the Unlucky

Monday, January 14th, 2008

  Unlucky Hawk II, originally uploaded by chris_mckenna. So...as I have previously mentioned, I see lots of death on the road. Its a fact of bicycle riding that you are going to get much closer to the sight and smell of animal carcases then you maybe want to. And ...

No. No. A Thousand Times No!

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

If you show up to a ride with one of these things, you may not get punched, but don't come looking to me when you are out of water and the next rest stop is 18 miles away. sayin.

A Second Car

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

I know that the idea of being a two car family should be anathema for people like us. BUT I WANT ME A TINY CHEAP SUBCOMPACT WITH AWESOME GAS MILEAGE. Badly. The tata(pictured above) could be that car $2500. You can't beat that. Although, I'd pay more for ...

Looks like you got some schmoots on your monitor

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Here, clean it off with this.

teh awesom. in no particular order.

Monday, January 7th, 2008

The Decapitator via 1026 I want to get my wife one of these (a c2 taser), in spite of the high probability that I would be the one it was used on. Most things I've been reading about at CES, especially displays that are less then 2 inches thick. The Verlaines. But ...

FLYING NUN DOC. WOO.

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

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Mr. Hulu.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

In the course of my travels today, I came across Dvice.com's free invite to HULU beta. Direct link for your invite here. As of right now, there are 680 invites left. Its invitation only right now What is Hulu? Its basically Youtube but properly licensed, whole television ...

Books: Cyclings’s Greatest Misadventures/Into the Wild

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Mrs H brought this awesome book about bicycling misadventures home from the library for me. I enjoyed most of the stories, including the mountain bike stuff. Surprising, because I have that roadie snob thing happening. Hands down though, I loved the stories about bicycle touring. 70-100 miles a day 6 days ...