Exposed Bits

4M mile per hour solar flares are hitting us, don’t worry the earth’s magnetic field keeps the radiation out …. or so we hope. Increased activity over the next 18 months.

Judge orders laptop decrypted

mirror mirror

from Enter the Void:

via connectthedotsusa:

wedding photog who takes cute pics of shelter pups increasing their likelihood of being adopted:

sh*t cyclists say

Année 2011 en images – Petitesreines

think this one is my favorite (via juanmoartime)

"gravity”

Time is Nothing

3 Days in Dubai

2011 NIght Rush Around the World 2

Prolonged Lifestyle

2012-01-20T22:08:00.001-06:00

close encounters of the dub kind:

via imgur:

snow in seattle

driving in Chechnya

Mystic Amber

2012-01-19T18:09:00.001-06:00

The power of hope and butter compels me …. 16° and windy cuts through every nook and cranny.

Students have returned so I guess we get commuter pics:

don’t lock your bike to trees:

ladies of WWII aircraft (NSFW)

2012-01-18T19:26:00.001-06:00

Evident Pace

2012-01-17T19:30:00.001-06:00

‘Exhaultist’ is a bronze sculpture I created in the late 80’s as a Sedona Youth Arts Council award recipient, for a bronze apprenticeship with Tom Bollinger, in his foundry studio and later gifted to my mother. 20 years later it returns to stand guard over ‘rosa west (via GP):

sunset rock glow:

6’ 5” shadow:

Looking forward to getting back on the fast bike…

did we listen ?

log stove

Contemporary Tune

2012-01-16T21:22:00.001-06:00

Big prairie sky:

reefkeeper2’s amazing setup, Blue Assesor at 1:20

700g:

look no hands!

Inflexible Opponent

2012-01-15T19:03:00.001-06:00

kitty, kitty, kitty:

Optional Exhibit

2012-01-14T19:12:00.001-06:00

Learning the new-to-me rig and changing some dino blood and filters:

Kitchen Music – Stephen Anderson

excellent colorizations

Pacific garbage patch

Stak

Angry sounding ZR1

Glimpses into Autism

Foolish Label

2012-01-11T21:10:00.001-06:00

which dial does what now?

and inverted

composite of 25 minutes of lightning by Dan Ransom (via imgur):

Jingle Punks - 4 Strings & an 808

Sarah Blackwood – Someone Like You (cover)

Delta Rae – Bottom of the River

Einstein’s desk the day he died:

notice the mouse?

Polar bear spy cams

TimeScapes – Tom Lowe

Cultural Noise

2012-01-10T19:11:00.001-06:00

adaptor ring arrived and the 5d is runnin’:

tutorial for creating photo composite templates

Martin Liebscher

looks like I’d need to read this e-book first

Learned Cruise

2012-01-09T18:26:00.001-06:00

This Old Hall bike parking:

Tricks of the Real-estate photog. – David Paler

ended much better than expected

Bike-powered carriage

big bike art

1000 Maxima Clams at Pacific East Aquaculture

Coral Aquaculture in Israel (sola tubes)

Dr. FS aquaculture

Coral Maternity by Machado de Sousa – Portugal

Acting Raise

2012-01-08T17:34:00.001-06:00

Elected to sleep in and do some family time with the jr. Japan house, quad. and Spurlock:

Life as a Bus

King of the Frogs Treehouse:

this ends better than expected

this too

is she now indefinitely detained as a terrorist? Scary.

Shaka:

Krysten Sinema

sweet shot

“warriors stand for something”

droid bar code scanner app exposes SOPA supporting manufacturers

3:07

36.9 @ 17.3 max 25.7

2012-01-07T15:16:00.001-06:00

Feeling puny and tired I skipped the AM group ride and wound up riding with 15,389 Jay in the afternoon. Fresh off his 120 miler yesterday he promised to take it easy on me for 30ish of his 60 for today. Temps in the low 40’s and just enough wind from the W to make it hurt.

12:12 @12

NW side of Champaign outskirts were flushed with cyclists as I waited to rendezvous.

One of many nice trees on the route:

Podium Legs

women 0-100

Yoga by Briohny Smyth (possibly NSFW)

Brian Jungen sculpture with plastic outdoor chairs (via imgur):

6k hours in his farmhouse outside Eugene

tiny houses for the homeless

Yestermorrow Design/Build School’s iteration

Protohaus:

The Sandpit – tilt-shift time lapse of New York City

Snoopy - heliocopter acrobat

lucky, lucky, lucky, smart

Somebody That I Used to Know - Walk off the Earth (Gotye - Cover)

Yeah, gonna’ go ahead with a vote of no confidence here

via imgur:

Rational Margin

2012-01-04T22:16:00.001-06:00

R.I.P original Luna location:

Bike-powered knife sharpener in Libson, Portgual

via the Whoa!:

"Goldfish Salvation" Riusuke Fukahori

Shane Koyczan, "This is my Voice," Words Aloud 2007

$20 drawing a day to fund a journey

local farms in the links

Advantageous Knowing

2012-01-03T18:27:00.001-06:00

R.I.P Peter Lewis

Hygenic Raw Living in Costa Rica

12 Things Happy People Do

110k on Bike Rv

less then $100 rapid deployment emergency shelter

Paul’s WIndmill Service

Fiji coral gardening

Inland Aqutics coral gardening

24 Hours of Nürburgring

warrants not needed for GPS tracking of citizenry

tethering app for ‘droid

Details on the boulder house

punk rock flyer archive

Connected

2012-01-01T19:17:00.001-06:00

Chased some light on a windy Sunday:

almost a nice one if not for stitch errors and an out of focus frame:

le baus tea

NDAA signed with statement\

Sketching Electronics

Geriatric Turtle Freeze on a Bottle

cameratrace

Turn, Turn, Turn …

2011-12-31T19:32:00.001-06:00

Another year in the bag …..

Fruli and Bianco no onions add sausage:

Awesome tree at the top of Half Dome blast from the past via weeeli:

1.6” Gingerbread on your wrist

Caffeine extraction from green coffee with supercritical CO2

ready, set, meh …

Bubbles!

Debatable Observation

2011-12-29T19:16:00.002-06:00

Installed and its all Star Wars games and Bieber vids:

Medical care is 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S.

Children Full of Life (1 of 5)

tiny house within a tiny house

Park Jimin (Adele - Rollin in the Deep)

Map of the Square and Stationary Earth (via imgur):

Eugenics Board of North Carolina and NPR’s story

Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind but if we forget aren’t we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? Paradox.

via imgur:

perused TFL and followed a visitor link to Turtle House Todd’s under-house green house and these A-Z Homestead Units:

Architectural digital photog: Mike Kelley

my allergy test photo:

Excited Centering

2011-12-26T20:16:00.001-06:00

Illnesses postpone gift exchanging this year. Porgy’s dinner, Key Lime pie, tea and chocolates filled warm bodies and hearts. Much to be thankful for.

Jr gets his first computer:

but was much more entertained with the Kinect:

First words out of his mouth after seeing the computer was something about a facebook page. Not yet, kid.

Happy Holidays from Zach and Donald

China’s Ghost Cities

Festive 57.5 @ 19.2 max. 31.5

2011-12-24T16:51:00.001-06:00

Late start, temps in the 30’s and SW winds @ 10ish for a visit to Bement.

Team Peach rings:

Big Jay met the early group and joined us later to finish out his miles at 120ish for the day, ticking over 100 @ 30 mph. here:

Organic Symphony

2011-12-23T21:39:00.001-06:00

night bikes

Best of the Web 2011

wide-area acoustic surveillance coming to a militarized police state near you, great for reducing gun crimes but at what cost to privacy, and tax payers ($60k per mile subscription). What else is it being used for …. finding those pesky protestors and turning them into indefinitely detained ‘terrorists’?

Casual Threshold

2011-12-22T20:35:00.001-06:00

via imgurs:

SOPA and NDAA

corporations that occupy congress

nice to see Urbana recycling some bikes

Lazy Departure

2011-12-21T18:15:00.001-06:00

credit crunch visualized

seriously? Intellistreets ? and now factory farming methods and conditions protestors are terrorists ? Feels like I’m watching our country commit suicide.

via imgur:

Numeral Specialist

2011-12-19T18:01:00.001-06:00

This Is The Last Dam Run Of Likker I'm Ever Gonna Make (1 of 11)

65.7 @ 19.8 max 35.3

2011-12-18T13:40:00.001-06:00

Unusually low winds in the single digits and tempts in the high 20’s to start and low 40’s to finish. With many riders off in the woods the Sunday crew was fairly strong with 6 to start and 4 for the full route to Arcola via Pesotum.

Winter sprints:

From this:

these:

etc.

Bubbles and Alex – Closer to the Heart

Surrounded Fame

2011-12-17T19:55:00.001-06:00

Pooled the funds and managed to snag a used 5D from this guy.

Winter social for the ‘cards at the pig:

etc:

Flexible Communication

2011-12-16T23:20:00.001-06:00

Odd mussel on a frozen pond sighted last week:

David Attenborough – Wonderful World

BatWorldSanctuary - Lil' Drac

Cookie the ticklish penguin

gut-brain link to autism?

Around The Corner (1937) How Differential Steering Works

The Natural World gallery 50 best of 2011 via The Big Picture

Graphic Assessment

2011-12-15T19:02:00.001-06:00

two-headed cyclops piglet via imgur:

Time’s quote of the day (nsfl)

via imgur:

meanwhile, in Utila

and Norway via lonelywolf2:

via pxleyes:

Off The Grid - Life On The Mesa 2007 (nsfw)

Filter Bubble

Skating King of Pakistan

ambidextrous portraiture

Freebord

via englishrussia:

Slothville

Set the horn for the TDF support cars as a notification on the phone today. It’s here if you want it. Decline the iLividSetupV1.exe prompt if you get it.

JAMBOX

48.7 @ 18.2 max 28.1

2011-12-11T12:17:00.001-06:00

Mid 20’s with S winds in the low teens to start, finishing in the upper 30’s. Familiar winter Sunday ride constellation. Annual ride totals for Big Jay: 15,500 and Martin 9,150 but after converting running and swimming miles he’s right at 15k too. Animals.

I like to think I do, but do I?

Speedflying

Moscow yesterday via englishrussia.com:

what sorting algorithms sound like

to-go container printing

Interior Creature

2011-12-09T21:56:00.001-06:00

Involved Episode

2011-12-08T19:02:00.001-06:00

Soon:

Murphy’s:

Sugar Plum Fairy – Glass Harp

makes sense

Significant Relationship

2011-12-07T19:56:00.001-06:00

volume rendered:

Specialized Distinction

2011-12-06T20:28:00.001-06:00

Dark evening commutes makes spots like this, eastbound on E. White just before S.4th, fairly treacherous for cyclists. Use your lights, know your routes and ride like your life depends on it.

See the gorilla?

it puts the lotion in the basket

more than meets the eye

old buildings + aquaponics == food (tour link)

Yonathan Zohar

traditional bible marriage

Your Life Depends on It

2011-12-05T18:48:00.001-06:00

This invokes sadness, anger, confusion, etc… ride like your life depends on it. It does. Maybe mobile HD camera manufactures can make something that wont get us thrown in jail for 75 years if we happen to survive being hit by a truck and the cops that arrive on the scene get recorded if it doesn’t get turned off beforehand (video with no audio option). Since apparently people can’t be held accountable unless there’s pictures/videos/brave witnesses with a positive ID of the driver. Rest in peace Michael J. Costa III, my heart goes out to your family and loved-ones.

flyboard

senate passes indefinite detention (NDAA) bill

Of the 1%, for the 1%, by the 1%

why occupy

vietnam timelapse

cat sink shower drinking fountain

49.2 @ 18.6 max 35.2

2011-12-03T13:23:00.001-06:00

Mid 40’s to start finishing in the upper 40’s and sprinkles, S winds 13ish. Healthy looking group of 11. Fresh off a cold and still with knee/back pains, I enjoyed my time in the saddle and turned back with the short group.

Larry flats and shows us the dark art of tubular changing:

PCC looked and sounded festive with jingle bells jangling and lots of smiles:

Urban farmer on Prospect:

Chocolate Tab

2011-12-02T19:41:00.001-06:00

Photo reload – 4.21.06 - Radio Maria Bar Construction:

Gottfried Helnwein via imgurs:

whiteboard Guernica via:

75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police in Illinois charges are dropped and the state appeals. The war on cameras wages on.

MH & JR – Brick by Boring Brick cover

gotta’ get down on Fridayy:

Judy Is A Punk

Norway timelapse by Morten Berg

encouraged to turn your friends and neighbors in for IP violations while Wall Streeters run free and protestors get branded

http://stiknord.tumblr.com/

digital coloring tutorial

rollerman

Indefinite Indexing

2011-11-30T20:38:00.001-06:00

bus disintegration

chinese girl + bike + sheep dog

it’s a wonderful time … lol internets

shooped:

prepare the lungs (‘27 TDF?) !:

yikes

time-lapse flyover

map of US road casualties

family reports Michael Costa used reflective gear and rode to work daily, RIP

Wooden Faith

2011-11-28T20:05:00.001-06:00

krisc’s Venge:

Noxs gotta’ get to the LAN party:

via imgurs:

no additional cost food production teleconferences

Scotch-Irish Welcoming

2011-11-24T23:40:00.001-06:00

Thankful!

cyclocross crazyness in HD via helicopter

wait for it .. The Bicycle Animation

infrared war photos

UIUC robot paints its feelings

Verbose Hardening

2011-11-22T19:43:00.001-06:00

Baum (via imgur):

Porcelain Rocket’d Salsa Fargo via sfuller:

“Cocaine Bars” Energy Bar Recipe

Digital painting via BHCS:

concept art dot org

Was Charles Darwin the Father of Economics as Well? via PBS

Centered Maker

2011-11-21T21:11:00.001-06:00

via ?:

“The top 1 percent of Americans possess a greater net worth than the entire bottom 90 percent”

meat painting

forced perspective photos (via Noah Gauge):

Substantial FIber

2011-11-20T17:58:00.001-06:00

the roots!

Rob Koehl 6/10:

out of many,one:

OUCDavis:

Mercedes-Benz Hunter

Baffling Alternative

2011-11-19T16:50:00.001-06:00

Tailored Name

2011-11-18T18:17:00.001-06:00

One of these things does not look like the other but if you’re happy and you know it, and your face will surely show it, ride your bike!

Captain Ray Lewis:

vintage race car crashes

usb android computer

Nevada official requires farmers to destroy homegrown food

sloeber sighted stateside? (via imgur)

via englishrussia:

flexible love

.gif me plz

Dynamic Mess

2011-11-17T17:16:00.001-06:00

Bufalino Camper

Symphony of Science – The Quantum World

Wandering Variant

2011-11-16T20:16:00.001-06:00

Gary Clark Jr:

retired police captain joins OWS (via imgur):

84 year old pepper sprayed protestor(via imgur):

beat boxer vs girl(bird)

hummingbird barrel roll and .gif’d:

the bike as a USB charger

The Travelling Kitty

Flooded Thailand

Customary Stick

2011-11-15T18:42:00.001-06:00

NeverWet Spray

them-thangs: the sacred and profane (NSFW)

endomondo alternative free gps tracker: instamapper

very little news coverage? imagine that

via englishrussia:

Gary Clark Jr. – Bright Lights and Don’t Owe You a Thing

useful business card

Honk Kong time lapse

Auroras over Norway time lapse

Nicky Gaston – Skateboard Art

hipster robot

mossy rocks via imgur:

van gogh via imgur:

Voluntary Framework

2011-11-13T20:36:00.001-06:00

Opted to sit out a windy Cranksgiving in lieu of resting the body, putting the g-kid to work clearing debris and teaching/learning about earning money and counting the booty.

my back deformed?

Hudson – Against the Grain via Drop bear

How to Dance to Dubstep (Cosby Style)

Rammstein – Du Hast covered by Subito (Ukranian)

via imgurs:

Paris at night:

via cbs:

Rebuilt Twist

2011-11-12T16:00:00.001-06:00

this:

I guess slingin’ wreches for me is how slingin’ bottles and glasses feels for my bartender buddies. The muscles complain but just seem to know what to do.

OG Puglsy (via ?):

Awesome pilotry

Kari Rajkumar, self-taught portrait artist

you know those little red straws that come with spray oils and are immediately lost? Buy more here.

tomorrow:

Eleven Eleven Eleven

2011-11-11T18:31:00.001-06:00

really?

Parasails with hawks

TIL NSFW

Crowded Ray

2011-11-10T19:53:00.001-06:00

cranksgiving:

via imgurs:

NSFW urinals

anonymous form?? to report a bike lane violation

Serco: The Biggest Company You’ve Never Heard of

Inquiry Community

2011-11-09T18:59:00.001-06:00

Used one! (very handy for barrel nut adjusting to clean up a sloppy shift):

via imgurs:

Break ton Neck

Moving Pitchers 4:33 wow

Licoln Harrison

Strict Subroutine

2011-11-08T19:23:00.001-06:00

grrr:

via imgur:

here:

warped:

Ordered Pumping

2011-11-07T18:03:00.001-06:00

via Jari Peltomäki :

Photoshop portrait painter

geared mountain unicycle

bobblehead yourself

sand dancer

via imgur:

via landlords:

1915 Smith Motor Wheel

200 on 100 - The Fall of Ryan T Kelly

58.8 @ 19.4 max 32.6

2011-11-05T13:42:00.001-05:00

Temps in the low 40’s to start finishing in the mid 50’s, SSE @ 15. Winds were a factor today as the group had decided on a route that had tailwinds to start and headwinds for the return trip.

Was nice to be back in the pack chit-chatting and dodging wheels like old times. Thankfully no idiotic acting motorist were around to make me question my sanity.

Those going long straight ahead, short routers go left (I went left):

Tour d’ Caseys - Farmer CIty, where backing your truck into traffic from parking lots appears to be the norm:

Ride felt sort of odd since it seemed to take a long time to get to the turnaround (with a tailwind) and seemed like a short time home (with a headwind). Body felt OK, left knee is still out of sorts.

New BMC for Ben!

watering can aqueduct (via imgur):

via nipic.com/jialingpinqie :

Mobile Truth

2011-11-04T19:52:00.001-05:00

We were instructed there are very few roads in the CU area that are 14’ or wider:

Better to be alive than be right/correct so ride defensively, predictable, aware, further to the left in your lane than you’d probably think was safe (It’s counter-intuitive, or so I’m told) and don’t be afraid to use the slowing hand signal for encroaching-from-behind in unsafe conditions motorists. After 40 seconds of being followed, things can get different.

rest of the set here

Beer Bender

militia protects OWS’rs

corps who pay no taxes

(via imgurs):

challenge accepted!

since 1911

orly

CHAMPAIGN-URBANA smart. innovative. micro-urban.

Optimal Land

2011-11-02T22:55:00.001-05:00

Attended part 1 of the Cycling Savvy course; good stuff. Will post the photos of the slides later(with instructor permission).

Don’t miss the giraffe:

messy yum powered:

corporatocracy

via imgur:

Petman

Get Low cover NSFW

e-volo

Eleven One Twenty Eleven

2011-11-01T18:37:00.001-05:00

Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’

mmm raspberries:

Photoshopped the cat:

Local groundhog messing up the MUP with his heaving burrows:

use postage paid mail spam to jettison your unwanted items

retro Russian photos

Double Farvel

Ten Native American Commandments(via imgur):

Manufactured Entering

2011-10-31T18:50:00.001-05:00

Check your pads, cables, chains, etc … winters comin’:

Tacx Bushido

Supersonic divorce machine

Fresh Creation

2011-10-28T18:36:00.001-05:00

Did this:

Made in Iceland via Klara Harden

The Bonus Army

Provided Uniting

2011-10-27T18:31:00.001-05:00

Another one!

tarck:

not-tarck:

omni-touch

“ stunned and angry “

quantam-powered hoverboard

via imgur:

enough Geothermal energy assest to get us off coal?!?!

Protect-IP

Dedicated Passage

2011-10-26T18:21:00.001-05:00

soon:

so good cause they cook on wood …. Porgys:

OWC via Infocus

throwable panoramic camera

Instrumental Feet

2011-10-25T20:40:00.001-05:00

Occupy the quad:

OWS explained

commuters:

2-party 5 min. epoxy to the rescue:

cute overload:

repost worthy:

just savin’ a calf

Madeon - Pop Culture (live mashup)- Music Video , Our World

Endless Roads 1 - Yellow Horizons

Japan 6 months after the earthquake and tsunami

UIUC researchers figure out how to add moving images to still photos

(via http://www.rat-patrol.org)

Cycling community rally around a truck-stricken cycle tourist from Germany

soon

faith vs. science

rooftop farming

Descriptive Counterexample

2011-10-22T14:57:00.001-05:00

Diggin’ through the pile, stitched and pixels pushed:

just gonna’ leave this here:

exploded view:

Merged Depth

2011-10-21T17:46:00.001-05:00

soon:

Teamwork:

shuckin’ like a boss

Björk Biophilia instruments

(via imgur):

Precise Cunning

2011-10-20T21:24:00.001-05:00

(via imgur):

OLd U.S. money awesomeness (via boingboing.net):

via imgurs:

capitalist network study

what an f1 racer see/does

Oregon to Az. @ 4 mph and 15 mpg

no cost Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling training Nov. 2

Patient Drumming

2011-10-19T20:32:00.001-05:00

OWS explained (via imgur)

George Carlin ~ The American Dream (2005) (NSFW/L)

Bike evolution

Meanwhile in Boulder, CO. (via imgur)

Dense Comic

2011-10-17T22:33:00.001-05:00

L'EROICA via Frsico

Eduoard Sepulchre’s photos from the movie

yum:

via here

our house in the middle of the lake (via imgur):

via billyisgray(NSFW):

Plural Ride

2011-10-16T20:31:00.001-05:00

Mom took the pics, I stitched, filled in the gaps and helped the colors a tad:

Maybe one day I’ll be lucky enough to call it home.

Sustainable Sound

painful acts purify?:

Built Sweat

2011-10-15T20:18:00.001-05:00

slept through another ride, deep, into the double digits ….

Watched Hidden America: Children of the Plains last night, my heart goes out to their tribe as well as every native american. Loss of hope is devastating. Maybe you’d like some tanka bars ?

Sifted Thistle

2011-10-14T19:45:00.001-05:00

Urbana Land Arts:

CV Dinar coral and clam aquaculture facility in Indonesia

makes me miss mine own corals, grown from fragments from fellow aquarist:

Same acropora under camera flash lighting:

Interested Precision

2011-10-12T22:55:00.001-05:00

wait, wat, how (via imgur):

Gabriel See

Digital Concert

2011-10-11T19:41:00.001-05:00

Anyone need a flyer made?

this guy

Instrumental He

2011-10-10T20:24:00.001-05:00

smile!

owl:

Cycling Savvy Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling
offered Nov.2 6:30 – 9:30

Cranksgiving Nov. 13th – mark your calendars

Red Hartebees vs. #BUCKNORRIS

Oldest living tree found in Sweden, roots are 9550 years old (via NatGeo):

Responsible Disco

2011-10-09T16:16:00.001-05:00

Need to figure out a way to stop staying up too late and sleeping through Saturday morning rides. Maybe DST and rides going to 9 will help.

Busy ‘round the gardens:

Carrot, beet and ginger soup and tomato basil saute over pasta topped with grilled chicken:

Good chefs are priceless. I’m thankful for mine.

Wound up doubling the batch of soup, pulling many beets, carrots and onions. Chives and oregano too.

Treats still to be found:

Turn, turn, trim:

spared:

Pushed pixels:

Landscapes: Volume Two

Espresso Field Guide via coffeenate.com:

via imgurs:

AYHSMB (shooped via imgur):

chicken police

Complex Gig

2011-10-05T18:45:00.001-05:00

Polo Bike in the making? visibility device ?

Liquid lunch:

Naked as ya’ wanna be ride, Oct. 7th:

Dante Bucci - Fanfare

Wider Truth

2011-10-04T21:08:00.001-05:00

1st of 6 bright blue bike workstations installed on the north end of the Main Street parking garage in Urbana. Way to go C-U, I’m on the lookout for the rest.

Crane Alley beer bubbles:

The re-birth of a coral reef aquarium:

Heron with butterfly:

39.2 @ 21.7 max 33.9

2011-10-02T12:22:00.001-05:00

Big ole DNF for the 100 miler Race to the Woods.

Upper 30’s to start and finishing in the upper 40’s with 8 from the NNW.

Wasn’t feeling good and pulled the plug at the conclusion of the first lap. In addition to being cooked, I wasn’t quite understanding the road markings designating which way the Allerton loop was routed. Wandering around the prairie after being dropped off the freight train wasn’t my idea of fun.

Honey Badger doesn’t give a crap about leg pains, Honey Badger bites leg pain in the neck.

Not sure why but Larry motored on when the lead group pit stopped, I gladly waved bye as they departed for the last 60:

Sean was the pace driver, attacking and keeping the tempo high, whittling down a persistent 8 to 5 by the end of the first lap.

Thank you to my lovely photog, Brent, and all the volunteers involved, you’re appreciated. Brent reminded me the race purse is half the racers entry fees tiered 1, 2, 3. 75 in the field might mean up to $300/$250/$200 purses plus some nice coin for the TIMES center. Hopefully this one keeps growing.

rest o’ the photo set

Results were: Sean dropped everyone for the rideaway win, Jay and Martin who looked sick as a dog and still rode hard. Kudos gents.

this is way more my speed:

Active Use

2011-09-29T21:04:00.001-05:00

criPSy duck’s composite mandalas:

Tony Robbin:

Parlee hotness via frsico:

2011 Shiny Side Up

satellites and aircraft currently over your head

via imgur:

fortress house

dumpster house

le rad:

living with an English Mastiff and living with kittens

31.5 @ 18.6 max 30.6

2011-09-28T19:37:00.001-05:00

Group of 22 ish, NW winds @ 8, temps in the high 60’s quickly dipping to mid 60’s as the setting sun ducked behind clouds. Even a quick and light shower that didn’t have us scattering for cover, must have been the promise of after-ride pizza and brew . Another year of Wednesdays in the books.

Big Jay in vintage mode:

spheres:

God bless Bavaria (possibly NSFW)

Kabul (via englishrussia.com):

“Color Vibration is Wonderful”

2011-09-27T19:09:00.001-05:00

upper 50’s to low 60’s and misting rain … luv it.

one of my happy places:

Many good words in Painting the Impressionist Landscape, these probably refer to ‘life’ as well:

Masi CX in commuter mode with apparent pannier-to-spoke contact issues:

Race to the Woods this Sunday, 100 miles, run what cha’ brung, all proceeds beneifit the TIMES Center Bike Fund and the White Heath Community Club:

Last year 68 @ 21 was about all I could bite off and chew, I’m certainly not in the form I was then so we’ll see.

Wheelie expert

Buffalo Jones

allergy test looks just like mine

Developing Supernatural

2011-09-26T23:01:00.001-05:00

Painting the Night – Jason Idzerda

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diy camera stabilizer

Calvin and Hobbes wallpapers

via imgur:

not shopped via imgurl:

via frsico:

Daft Paraphrase

2011-09-25T20:26:00.001-05:00

Not exactly the mileage with the cards that I’ve been hoping for but quality none the less. Someone has to teach the kid how to shift and use hand brakes.

does he sing too? via Cziko’s flickr

Pimp’n Da Bike

I don't always watch Youtubes. But when I do, I prefer Ronald Jenkees. Stay Crunchy my friends

2011 XTERRA USA Championships

Turn, Turn, Turn

2011-09-22T20:05:00.001-05:00

PaPa luvs ya’:

a visit to the Science and Industry Museum with your mom and gramma:

Winter is coming:

Elizabeth Warren (via imgur):

Purring cougar

Who’s building the Daddy Long Legs?

Made one and missed the lens bunnies until after I uploaded -

van Gogh (via meserisme):

on a t-shirt please (via Jeff Johnson):

26.7 @ 19 max. 33.4

2011-09-21T19:43:00.001-05:00

Good to get back out with the cards, rejoining a pack of 14 for a quick jaunt to the west before sunset for the second to last Wednesday night on the last day of summer.

We woke Luke from a nap to ride:

shunkaliscious:

Didn’t take long for me to go boom and start looking for my spot on the chase train:

Oh boy, corn and bean dust, semis and tractors on the rural roads.

Blooms and seeds !

via imgurs:

Where’s Bee?

Invisible bug!

meanwhile, in Portland a vid of a vid of a guy on a unicycle playing bagpipes

Cumbersome Address

2011-09-20T18:30:00.001-05:00

Welp, maiden plein air voyage out of the way. I can safely say I stink at it. Hopefully the challenge will capture my longterm attention and eventually I might get good.

I had more fun with the clean up and resulting digital images than I did with the panel. It was pretty bad.

From a section of discarded paint:

Being out there and fighting things like the water holder and a way to hold brushes in water it made me appreciate places like Wind RIver Arts who provide accessories to artist as a result of their own searches and experiences with quality. I’m still figuring out my solution to carrying wet panels. Thinking I’ll need a cart of some type too.

Eric White via HiFructose:

via seeingandlistening.tumbl:

Contributing Ghost

2011-09-19T20:28:00.001-05:00

cant be true, can it (via imgur)?

via the Whoa!

Opulent Color

2011-09-17T17:45:00.001-05:00

Happily turned off the alarm when it was time to wake for miles with the ‘cards and slept into the double digits instead.

17 years ago today things changed for my family in a big way, I’m so thankful to still have my mom around and even moreso to share in her life with a loving husband. Words don’t even begin to explain.

Here’s another photo from her adventures that I stitched and helped the colors a tad:

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streetartutopia.com

dragan effect

plein air painter paints a bank on fire, gets questioned by the cops, sells painting on ebay for $25k

Bike-o-warsher

Stark Connotation

2011-09-14T19:24:00.001-05:00

Traded a soggy Wednesday ride with the cards for a nap; good trade.

(via imgur):

graphical resume (via imgur):

hold the gutter oil plz

Basic Fresh

2011-09-13T19:21:00.001-05:00

masi:

wire hangers, organizers, a belt ?

mmmmmmm:

another one:

Pete Fecteau’s Rubiks portaits:

badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, ….. (via imgur):

IOM TT (:34 srsly ?)

webcanvas.com (potentially NSFW)

17 renewals in my faith in humanity

Blessed Fashioning

2011-09-12T21:10:00.001-05:00

Mom is quite the shutter bug amassing over 4500 images and videos in a very short amount of time. I’ve been granted permission to cull some of the gems and share them with you all here and her flickr collection.

omg a double rainbowwww

and a few from mine own coffers:

Tacx Lumos looks fairly interesting as be-seen lights with turning indicators.

wait for it

have ya’ heard?

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slow loris brushing

Patriot CX 2011

2011-09-11T22:37:00.001-05:00

170 images and 765mb of cyberspace later we have pics of the 1st annual Patriot CX race in Rantoul, Il organized by Karl and the Wild Cards. Decent turnout to a well laid out course featuring plenty of off-camber sections, wooded traversing, long flats circumnavigating a pond and a decent hill that turned into a run-up for plenty of the competitors.

Photo services arrived for the end of the W-1-2-3/Masters 50+/SS/FG group and saw lots of hard efforts, smooth lines and good recoveries from mishaps in the technical sections.

The 1-2-3 race was an all out sprint start for the big motors with Rizzle Dizzle taking the win.

This spent racer’s run-over effort got big cheers and chuckles from the crowd.

I ran out of memory and gas halfway through the 4’s (HD version). Everyone looked really good, racers were leaving everything out on the course and making it look deceptively easy.

Thanks to the volunteers and organizers for finding/creating a perfect venue for a great event, hope to see it keep growing.