I wasn’t going to go for a long ride so I didn’t eat lunch and only put a couple of granola bars in my pockets. Then I called Joel and said let’s go for a ride. He was good with the idea so we headed towards Black Smith Fork Canyon. This is [...]
Entries from April 2008
First Real Ride on the New Trek Madone 6.9
April 29th, 2008 6 Comments
Tags: 2008 trek madone 6.9 · 6.9 · BlackSmith Fork Canyon · Cycling · madone · polar cs600 · review · trek
People for the Ethical Treatment of Yeast (PETY)
April 27th, 2008 3 Comments
The next time you take a bite out of that yummy loaf of bread consider where it came from. Sure, cutting down all that nasty wheat is harmless enough. After all it’s just a stupid plant. It doesn’t have feelings. However, consider the condition of yeast.
Here is how yeast [...]
Winter Was Hard on us Both
April 26th, 2008 No Comments
I have had colds off and on over the past few months which gave me a great excuse to ignore my bike trainer and be lazy. I had no idea just how bad it had gotten. While sitting in my office chair writing code this morning I hear a loud CRACK… and fall [...]
Tags: Funny · office chair
First ride on the new Madone
April 26th, 2008 3 Comments
I brought my bike home from the shop and in spite of the fact that everyone was eating dinner by the time I got home I gave in and went for a ride. You can’t just bring it home and let it sit. Here’s the pictures.
Tags: Cycling · madone · trek · trek madone 6.9
A Few More Thoughts On Morph Exchange
April 26th, 2008 3 Comments
I am working on a quick Facebook application for a company called Flat World Knowledge. Basically I have 4 days to build the application - it has to be done by Tuesday. Because of the simplicity of deployment on Morph Exchange I decided to deploy the application on their platform. I don’t [...]
Tags: deployment · hosting · morphexchange
Visited My New Madone This Morning
April 24th, 2008 1 Comment
I am sure the bike shop is sick of me, but I don’t care. I visit a lot. The new Madone showed up at the shop this morning so I paid it a visit. Here are the pictures:
Tags: 2008 Trek Madone · madone · my bike · trek
Weather in Logan Not Conducive to New Bike
April 24th, 2008 No Comments
My new bike shows up today so what happens?
This is Logan, Utah so it snows of course.
Tags: Cycling · logan · new bike · snow · utah
More on my new Madone 6.9
April 23rd, 2008 No Comments
Sure I am a bit obsessed, but I have been tracking my bike’s movements from the Trek factory to the local shop. At 6:07pm it hit Salt Lake City. It should be here tomorrow. Maybe I should take the day off.
In the mean time I have been satiating my bike lust with [...]
Tags: 2008 · 2008 Trek Madone · 6.9 · Cycling · madone · my new bike · trek
China Doesn’t Like Wordpress.com
April 22nd, 2008 1 Comment
I was just following Windley on Twitter. He is in China and was unable to view Scoble’s blog. Scoble’s response - China blocks all of Wordpress.com. Ouch.
Tags: china · great firewall · Wordpress
PicLens on ThePlanCollection.com
April 19th, 2008 2 Comments
David Wiley pointed me to PicLens a few days ago. It is fun way to view online images. Immediately I saw the potential use for viewing house plans. We already have data feeds in RSS and Atom setup all over the site so I figured it wouldn’t be hard to integrate the [...]
Tags: house plans · photos · piclens · theplancollection.com










