Sunday, February 26, 2006

Review: Local Heroes, Kurt Busiek

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Kurt Busiek's Astro City is a post-modernist take on super-heroes, the quintessential American mythos. He relies very much on your late...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Review: What's the Matter with Kansas

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This book was all over the political press last year, and frequently cited as a good explanation of why the Democrats keep losing election d...
Monday, February 20, 2006

Figure skating: Sport or Art?

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Dan Engber complains that figure skating has become a video game: Here's how the new scoring system works: A technical specialist identi...

Review: Shock Rockets

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Kurt Busiek first came to my attention through his conception of Astro City , a neo-superhero world that takes a respectful view of the supe...

Review: Akira

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I saw Akira the movie several years ago, and it felt like a movie made from a book --- the movie didn't quite make sense, despite the t...

President's Day Ride

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I wanted to see if there was any snow left on Skyline, two days after a once a decade snowfall in the Bay Area. I climbed Pierce Road and Hi...

Snow on Skyline Blvd

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2 days after it snowed, there's still some residual snow in trees on Skyline Blvd near Castle Rock State Park. It was cold, with crack...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Those fluffy things are called clouds...

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We don't usually see them in Northen California when it's not just pouring on us, so it was indeed a rare day. 

Yet another Black Mountain Summit picture

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Snow on Black Mountain

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It snowed the last couple of days, so I had to climb Black Mountain to see if I could see some snow. 
Monday, February 13, 2006

Einstein's Dreams

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This is a cute little short book about time. It's a novella full of little montages about alternate realities where time is somehow diff...
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Sunday, February 12, 2006

Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith

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This book is not science fiction. First of all, a virus that kills all the men and only 20% of the women is scientifically implausible. That...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

Dick & Donna Matthews

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Eric & Cynthia up Canada Road

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Riding along the farmlands of Morgan Hill/Gilroy

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Lisa shot pictures of Bill Bushnell and other cyclists who were hanging around near our tandem. 

"That's all folks!"

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Marc gets to the end of the route sheet! 

Route-Sheet Bingo

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Route sheets were in short supply at the Morgan Hill LDT today, so Mark Marc handed out pen and paper and the Western Wheelers played ...
Thursday, February 09, 2006

The Merchant Princes Trilogy (parts 1 & 2)

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I seem to be reading a lot of Charles Stross lately, and complaining that I didn't like his character development. I also have to stop r...
Monday, February 06, 2006

West Old La Honda Road on Saturday

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Winter riding in the Bay Area: lush green hills, beautiful weather, and lovely lovely roads. Photo Credit: Roberto Peon 
Sunday, February 05, 2006

The South Bay, Moffett Field, and Mountain View on a Clear Day

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