Wednesday, June 20
Tuesday, May 29
Raleigh NRC
as soon as i got this from Duncan I told him he needed to be slightly more descriptive..
he got 6th by making the break that lapped the field... its our best result of the year... for our team its a huge deal to make to top ten in an nrc... and we did it in a breakaway too... duncan was a cat 3 last year...
so here is what he had to say about the best result of his life:
Friday night was the first race of this week-long race trip. We were all excited about the race because we just got a couple new teammates. The Raleigh Downtown Criterium is especially exciting for me because I live in Raleigh most of the year and it’s always nice to see people you know at the race and hear your name.
The team worked together well for the first time in an NRC race. We’ve really started to translate the fundamentals that we learned in early in the season in local races to these bigger ones. We were represented in most of the breaks of the night and everyone was riding aggressively. I ended up in the six-man break that would lap the field, which gave me my best result so far.
The level of communication and teamwork was impressive, at least for me. We didn’t use radios, but everyone still seemed relatively organized in the 85ish man field. When the break made it to the back of the field, Jered was waiting to bring me back up to the front and during the closing laps he, Chris, and one of our new riders Eric Bennett helped me out and kept themselves in good position for the finish.
The racing was pretty fast, but it still took us nearly two hours to complete the 80 laps. We finished the race pretty well. Jered helped keep the pace high and Tiago, Chris, and Eric finished in the top 20. Not a bad way to start our road trip. Hopefully we can keep working together and more good results.
he got 6th by making the break that lapped the field... its our best result of the year... for our team its a huge deal to make to top ten in an nrc... and we did it in a breakaway too... duncan was a cat 3 last year...
so here is what he had to say about the best result of his life:
Friday night was the first race of this week-long race trip. We were all excited about the race because we just got a couple new teammates. The Raleigh Downtown Criterium is especially exciting for me because I live in Raleigh most of the year and it’s always nice to see people you know at the race and hear your name.
The team worked together well for the first time in an NRC race. We’ve really started to translate the fundamentals that we learned in early in the season in local races to these bigger ones. We were represented in most of the breaks of the night and everyone was riding aggressively. I ended up in the six-man break that would lap the field, which gave me my best result so far.
The level of communication and teamwork was impressive, at least for me. We didn’t use radios, but everyone still seemed relatively organized in the 85ish man field. When the break made it to the back of the field, Jered was waiting to bring me back up to the front and during the closing laps he, Chris, and one of our new riders Eric Bennett helped me out and kept themselves in good position for the finish.
The racing was pretty fast, but it still took us nearly two hours to complete the 80 laps. We finished the race pretty well. Jered helped keep the pace high and Tiago, Chris, and Eric finished in the top 20. Not a bad way to start our road trip. Hopefully we can keep working together and more good results.
Tuesday, May 15
GPS
i ordered a treo 680.. i had a htc windows 5 phone but i got sick of how bad it sucked and how windows mail sucks... i had a 650 before and i rode it till the wheels fell off and then got the windows htc phone... a cingular 8125...
so now i am back with a treo and i am going to use chatter mail... i would have stuck with windows if chatter would have made a push-pull e mail client for windows but they have apparently vowed never to do this... some push emails are ok... but i use fastmail.fm that has a buch of cool features in imap that arent workable with 7 or good or xpress mail... plus i have a million e mail acounts as well....
anyway.. i got thinking about gps since i was shopping for a new car and i wanted it to have nav... but its a 2500 dollar option in most cars so i thought twice about it since i wont use it all the time and the only ones that have input methods that dont piss me off are bmw and audi (both of which i decided not to buy)... but even those ones were sort of stupid in their way... once you are used to using mapquest for directions all these car nav things are no real good...i got a volvo s40 t5...
i remebered gps nav for treos from a while back and i looked into it more... now they have a tomtom hook up for pda that costs about 200-300 bucks with a rechargable bluetooth gps chipset and then you see the directions on your phone while you drive... this is kind of the same as what you could get in a dedicated unit like tomtom one or garmin nuvi 200 something... so i think maybe it a lot of hassle to have a pda gps thingy...
i got a garmin nuvi 300 and i set it up in the parlking lot of best buy and then i let it guide me home... right off i was pissed because the touch screen soft keys arent a qwerty keyboard, they are a-z... so couldnt even hardly spell my own street... it actually found me a quicker way home, but the voice was annoying and it just said "turn left in .25 miles" or "turn right in 1 mile" without naming the streets... so i turned around half way home and returned it...
to get the street names you will have to pay 500 bucks or so and then it does a bunch of crap i dont need it to do and it sits there looking stupid on my dash all day...
the volvo nav comes up out of the dash and then goes away if you dont need it... maybe i should have gotten it.. but the input method is dumb...
so i am thinking that maybe the pda gig is a good way to go... because its the same as everything else for the money and i can just type in what i want to put in there on a qwerty keyboard and not have to do softkeys (which i hate, another reason to ditch the 8125)or the lame predective text/select a city from the list... i wonder though how it will work with the bluetooth in the car for the phone... will it interfere?... will it play directions to my stereo?... do i have to get also an fm modulator?...
i think i will order one and find out... tomtom has one and palm has one and they seem to be the same damned thing... but the palm casing for the gps chip is better looking...
more later...
so now i am back with a treo and i am going to use chatter mail... i would have stuck with windows if chatter would have made a push-pull e mail client for windows but they have apparently vowed never to do this... some push emails are ok... but i use fastmail.fm that has a buch of cool features in imap that arent workable with 7 or good or xpress mail... plus i have a million e mail acounts as well....
anyway.. i got thinking about gps since i was shopping for a new car and i wanted it to have nav... but its a 2500 dollar option in most cars so i thought twice about it since i wont use it all the time and the only ones that have input methods that dont piss me off are bmw and audi (both of which i decided not to buy)... but even those ones were sort of stupid in their way... once you are used to using mapquest for directions all these car nav things are no real good...i got a volvo s40 t5...
i remebered gps nav for treos from a while back and i looked into it more... now they have a tomtom hook up for pda that costs about 200-300 bucks with a rechargable bluetooth gps chipset and then you see the directions on your phone while you drive... this is kind of the same as what you could get in a dedicated unit like tomtom one or garmin nuvi 200 something... so i think maybe it a lot of hassle to have a pda gps thingy...
i got a garmin nuvi 300 and i set it up in the parlking lot of best buy and then i let it guide me home... right off i was pissed because the touch screen soft keys arent a qwerty keyboard, they are a-z... so couldnt even hardly spell my own street... it actually found me a quicker way home, but the voice was annoying and it just said "turn left in .25 miles" or "turn right in 1 mile" without naming the streets... so i turned around half way home and returned it...
to get the street names you will have to pay 500 bucks or so and then it does a bunch of crap i dont need it to do and it sits there looking stupid on my dash all day...
the volvo nav comes up out of the dash and then goes away if you dont need it... maybe i should have gotten it.. but the input method is dumb...
so i am thinking that maybe the pda gig is a good way to go... because its the same as everything else for the money and i can just type in what i want to put in there on a qwerty keyboard and not have to do softkeys (which i hate, another reason to ditch the 8125)or the lame predective text/select a city from the list... i wonder though how it will work with the bluetooth in the car for the phone... will it interfere?... will it play directions to my stereo?... do i have to get also an fm modulator?...
i think i will order one and find out... tomtom has one and palm has one and they seem to be the same damned thing... but the palm casing for the gps chip is better looking...
more later...
Monday, May 14
BACK IN ACTION!
i have decided to get back into action on my website...
i will now have some more time to do the site becuase i re-structured my work with cyclesafe.org and the team...
cyclesafe.org was taking up a lot of time... now, i will be only working on the team and making it bigger and better...
so that means i will have a few extra minutes in the day to do my blog...
i need to tell jmurder and slover...
and nadboy...
maybe now that chrysler is sold they will make a cool car...
i will now have some more time to do the site becuase i re-structured my work with cyclesafe.org and the team...
cyclesafe.org was taking up a lot of time... now, i will be only working on the team and making it bigger and better...
so that means i will have a few extra minutes in the day to do my blog...
i need to tell jmurder and slover...
and nadboy...
maybe now that chrysler is sold they will make a cool car...
Wednesday, January 31
New news
We are a week out on the official team launch... Waiting for the photos from the photographers...
I passed my realestate exam so I am set to get into that... We have a small brokerage that I will be with... I am thinking that as a way to raise money for cyclesafe.org and the team to donate half the proceeds of my commissions to the organization if people are interested and they have properties to sell or need buyer representation or leases negotiated...
That will be posted to the cyclesafe.org site when we get set to handle that...
Wednesday, January 10
dont despair
the team website will launch on the 22nd...
and i will have a cyclingnews diary... all of my limited time will be put into these things sonce i think that they are of much more value than this site where nothing really happens anymore...
the cyclingnews thing is going to be good because it will be all about the team and the riders... so you will get an insode view of all aspects of running a team and managing riders... i want it to be like a reality tv show where you get to really see what its like to do a team and try to do it well... if for no other reason than to discourage people from doing a team themselves... because it anint as easy as it looks...
and i will have a cyclingnews diary... all of my limited time will be put into these things sonce i think that they are of much more value than this site where nothing really happens anymore...
the cyclingnews thing is going to be good because it will be all about the team and the riders... so you will get an insode view of all aspects of running a team and managing riders... i want it to be like a reality tv show where you get to really see what its like to do a team and try to do it well... if for no other reason than to discourage people from doing a team themselves... because it anint as easy as it looks...
Friday, January 5
Thursday, December 28
the end of an era...
i have no time to do this websoite thing anymore...
so in march when my subscription for the hosting is up the website will be over...
so until then i will go totally fucking crazy then go out in a blaze of glory...
so in march when my subscription for the hosting is up the website will be over...
so until then i will go totally fucking crazy then go out in a blaze of glory...
Thursday, December 21
Tuesday, December 12
my first inclination is always to give a big F-U...
and with respect to discovery team it stands that way still... i hope they are ostracised big time... it would make me laugh all year long... but i dont believe that the other teams will have enough balls to keep speaking strongly about it... it looks bad for the sport to have the best team sign up a guy who is in the middle of a thing.. for the moment he is ok... but its possible that he could get wrapped right back up in all this as soon as the spaniards are finished with their business... when the puerto case is over all the eveidence becomes a matter of public record things will get messy for some riders... its a big risk but i dont think that disocery team would take it if they werent 99 percent sure that nothing would come of it ever for basso... even if they were thinking that 80 percent something happens but their lawyers are good enough to spin it out and make it go away then thats bad for the sport though... will organizers exclude this team based on this ethical ideal that they have where "tainted" riders are concerened?.. i dont know... i bet everybody folds and life goes on... does the public care enough to think less of an event because basso is not in it?... no.. i dont think so... for sure people are sick to death of ulrich.. but basso not so much after the first part of 07.. which is good... it will cool down for him and landis... but for 07 i dont see people giving a shit to see them race... but they can be ok in 08... people just need some time to forget... but i can say that if basso wins a bunch of races people will not be so excited by it... but then if he keeps winning then it will flip over for him and then people will just like him again because he is a winner after all... even though the public in general will find sports more and more dishonest across the board...
Saturday, December 9
i two times dropped my new range hood while i was installing it and dented the shit out of it...
now its a reminder of how stupid i am... and how unimportant home appliances are... photo soon...
i am dissapointed with the quality of dry cleaners in this town...
every shirt i get back is all jacked up in the sleeves... they never take care to do the pleats right and there is a crease always clear up the sleeve... they dont know how the hell to press a shirt...
once you have a dry cleaner that doesnt fuck up your sleeves when they press your shirt you will be so happy... until you have to get a shirt back that you have to iron after you already paid to have it pressed...
once you have a dry cleaner that doesnt fuck up your sleeves when they press your shirt you will be so happy... until you have to get a shirt back that you have to iron after you already paid to have it pressed...
Thursday, December 7
i rejected my first myspace friend request that wasnt porn related or gay swinging related
a certain sunscreen company wanted to be my friend but i had to put the stop on it because their myspace was for marketing purposes only... bitch you cant be my friend for free!.. romance with no finance aint nothin but a new-sance... you got to pay to play... shit.. tryin to be mny friend for free?... fuck you... pay me... you wanna sell sunscreen on my back?.. fuck you.. pay me...
i am friends with bike companies though on myspace... but their myspaces are more personal and not blatantly for marketing with logos and product photos everywhere... like ground up for instance...
i am friends with bike companies though on myspace... but their myspaces are more personal and not blatantly for marketing with logos and product photos everywhere... like ground up for instance...
Tuesday, December 5
i am about tired of all the boo hoo reporting on people with no flood insurance...
if i have to hear one more time about how evil insurance companies are i will puke... they arent any more evil than cnn...
if you live below sea level surrounded by water... or in a coastal area known for harsh winds and swells just do yourself a favor and get flood insurance.. its cheap... go to the city or county records where you live and look at the flood map... if your house is in a flood area just go ahead and spend the money and get insurance... and make sure that your policy for damages of any kind is up to date and adequate to rebuild taking into account current costs...
i had flood insrance in the desert and it seemed silly but i can tell you that it was neccessary...
in the three years i lived there this happened once that it was this severe near my house... the road is 50 feet wide and was filled with 3 feet of water running this fast... the water came up to the foundation of the house eventually but never got the last half inch up above the slab... it lasted an hour like this...
Thursday, November 30
Friday, November 24
how rich was jesus?
i stumbled accross this in my never ending quest to understand jesus...
this goes to the question that jmurder posed... i know that jesus was broke... but this other guy agrees with me...
so read it...
this is really depressing to me because i believe in this way of giving as a virtue... but i dont really do it...
this goes to the question that jmurder posed... i know that jesus was broke... but this other guy agrees with me...
so read it...
this is really depressing to me because i believe in this way of giving as a virtue... but i dont really do it...
Monday, November 20
kramer from sienfeld went crazy at the laugh factory and called everybody nigger
he apparently went nuts when some dudes heckled him... i just saw it on cnn
OLD CHARLIE RANGel...
rep charles rangel from NY is all over the place talking about a draft...
that guy is nutty... seems a bit like he is proposing this as a back door around into the whole issue of our deplyment in iraq and hypocrisy from politicians who support it and who are "pro-military", but i like him... and i agree that there should be a draft...
maybe the pentagon isnt so into a draft.. i hear that a lot... but i bet they would find something to do with those guys...
there should be some kind of mandatory national service... not neccesarily in the military (although that should be an option)... you could do police, or public works, or volunteer for a year or two full time with some group like habitat for humanity or something...
we would be better off...
that guy is nutty... seems a bit like he is proposing this as a back door around into the whole issue of our deplyment in iraq and hypocrisy from politicians who support it and who are "pro-military", but i like him... and i agree that there should be a draft...
maybe the pentagon isnt so into a draft.. i hear that a lot... but i bet they would find something to do with those guys...
there should be some kind of mandatory national service... not neccesarily in the military (although that should be an option)... you could do police, or public works, or volunteer for a year or two full time with some group like habitat for humanity or something...
we would be better off...
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