Friday, August 31, 2007

Meng gets famous!

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Meng's a great guy, and he's from Singapore too. But the most annoying thing about working in the same company as him is getting mis...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Movie Review

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ust saw King of Kong a week ago, and thought it was a great documentary. For those who don't know what the documentary is about, here...
Sunday, August 26, 2007

As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes - New York Times

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We like to read articles like this, about how bad pollution is in China, and think, "At least we're not this bad." But in this...
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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Review: Cyclist's Training Bible

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Over and over again, this is the book that's mentioned most often by serious looking cyclists. You know the type. The ones who weigh wha...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Review: James Tiptree Jr, The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon

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I will confess something: even though his stories were widely acclaimed as I was growing up, and I'm positive I've read many of them...
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Building a Custom Frame (Part 1)

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As I mentioned before in my recent trip report , I am done with the Heron as a touring bike. The next touring bike had to have long reach ...
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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Review: Stardust

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(Apologies for the link being to the book, not the movie. There's only one version of the movie, and 3 or 4 different editions of the bo...
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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Review: The Privilege of the Sword

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In 1987, Ellen Kushner burst upon the fantasy scene with stunning debut novels like Swordspoint and Thomas the Rhymer . With her mastery o...
Friday, August 03, 2007

Review: Old Man's War

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I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army. With these words, John Scalzi began h...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Review: Glasshouse

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I'm a long time Singularity Skeptic , but I have no problems with the singularity as a science fiction concept. It's just that only ...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

Sunrise from Mt. Hamilton

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Bill Bushnell borrowed my camera to film the sunrise, and had the presence of mind to switch it to video mode. Unfortunately, as you ca...
Saturday, July 28, 2007

It's Captain Switzerland... er... SwitzerAmerica... er..

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One consequence of the airline losing all our lugguage was that at the end of the trip (after riding the entire trip wearing donated jerse...

Review: Avocet 700x28 Fasgrip Tires

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Lisa & I frequently run Fasgrip 700x32 tires on our tandem when we tour. The tires are incredibly durable (lasting well over 3000 miles,...
Friday, July 27, 2007

Review: Postively False

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This is the story of Floyd Landis, his amazing win at the Tour de France last year, and what the court case he's fighting is about. I re...

Review: Pimsleur Italian

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I checked this out from the library, and used it to try to learn Italian. It's terrible, compared to the competition, for instance the B...
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Book Review: Lark and Wren

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Roberto downloaded this book to his cell phone, and we had a few rainy days during the tour , so I had time to finish this book. As novels g...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Thoughts about the Tour de France

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I haven't been following the Tour de France, but folks at my recent Kiss of Death ride, as well as folks at work seemed to have paid it ...
Monday, July 23, 2007

Back from the Kiss of Death

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I just got back from Terry Morse's "Kiss of Death" ride with Undiscovered Country Tours . It's a nice ride: Day 1: Ebbett...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Mike's Trip Report

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Mike has put up his trip report, and he uses fancy javascript to convert all units between imperial and metric, which is really cool. It...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Tour of the Alps 2007 Trip Report

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I actually wrote it on the plane, but it took awhile to write the python script, edit pictures, select the ones to embed into the narrative,...