Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
It's been swell. I had a good time and I appreciate the comments. And thanks to Smithers for working so hard in France and giving me this opportunity. I hear he's real sore from his exertions.
Some unfinished business:
America's public education system could use some re-jiggering.
Schumpeter didn't mean what this guy ...
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
One of my first local races and I'm still figuring out the local personalities. I can't help but notice this particular loud guy, tall, skinny, talk-yelling about this and that. He rolls out his bike, and it's THE bike, a polished aluminum American in a sea of dull, skinny-tubed steel ...
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Close call. T3 or Plan B?
T3 with Vulva Enterprises. Let me know where you want the tire.
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
A few of us are intimately familiar with the economics of OPUS races. The promoter doesn't need me there; it's a goldmine with the turnout of recent years. And the club deserves the money for hassle of promoting the race, but missing my entry fee isn't making a big dent.
I ...
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Awake for 21 hours but I am now less than 20 minutes from home, pillow and some much needed sleep.
(sent wireless via Treo 650)
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
I worked next to Medicine Lake and the commute was crushing me. I rode the bus or my bike from Mac-Groveland. The bus offered a two hour haul in each direction. I liked great bike ride, but it took forever and my employer had no kind of accommodation for cleaning ...
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Crap
Originally uploaded by smithersmpls.
Any guess which flight I am on?
(sent wireless via Treo 650)
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Beware of the Campanile hotel near Aeroport Charles de Gaulle in Paris. They have the narrowest beds I have ever seen in a rented room.
This kind of thing would not normally be a huge problem for me, despite my proclivity to toss and turn at night. But last night, due ...
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
This is so meta-meta-meta and my time here is limited, I can't resist.
I was checking Smithers' search saturation, click here for a google search for 'minneapolis blog'
Smithers is #2, nice. Look at #6, Blog Herald, a blog about...blogs. Which had an item on a 'blog battle' in Minneapolis that ranks ...
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Local right-wing smuggers at Powerline are off their game since their political agenda was handed back to them under a steaming heap of Abu Ghraib, Katrina, untethered Iraq, mounting deficits et al at the polls in November. Their rhetoric has toned down, which made me nostalgic for the halcyon days ...
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