Beers, homemade chili, bike talk, and testing my homebrew free motion rollers. The things I get to do when the wife and little one leave me home alone for a week.
Jim styling no hands...
Patrick on the fixed gear Hufnagel, with Edelux lighting his way!
A Rivendell, on rollers.
Some video of the rollers in action, with Jim riding no hands and dropping the hammer to sprint.
Photos and video courtesy of Patrick.
My brother found this image of me while rummaging at the homestead. While I do have a crush on specific BMW all road motorcycles, I’m glad my two wheeled fun revolves around the pedal variety.
… and that is good enough for me.
It's the only one we've got...
Hello from a WordPress powered blog, and welcome to my new domain! The transition seems to have worked well enough – I used the WP import function and was pleasantly surprised that most posts came through just fine… I have noticed many many broken or missing images on older posts. I’ll have to find an automated way to piece things back together – I doubt I’ll have the patience to run through post by post and sort things out.
Interesting post over on ZDNet about the 25th Anniversary of the Macintosh. What we all know as a Mac* could very well have been a ‘bike’.
How the Mac Was Almost a Bicycle
The name Macintosh was originally selected because it was Jef Raskin’s favorite type of apple, but the Mac almost wasn’t an Apple at all. When Raskin took a leave of absence in February 1981, Steve Jobs and Rod Holt made the decision to change Apple to something else. They felt that the name Macintosh was just a code name and that a name change was in order to reflect the change in regime.Holt decided on Bicycle as the new name that would replace Raskin’s Macintosh for the duration of the project and presented it to his design team. When they balked, Holt insisted that all references to Macintosh be changed to Bicycle, telling them that it shouldn’t really matter “since it was only a code name.” The Bicycle name originated from an ad that Apple had placed in Scientific American magazine. The ad featured quotes from Steve Jobs about computers, including one about how personal computers were “bicycles for the mind.”** The logic was that humans could run as fast as other species, but a human—on a bicycle—could beat them all. Rod’s edict was never obeyed. Somehow, Macintosh just seemed right.
The above quote comes from Apple Inc. (Corporations that Changed the World), cited in the ZDNet article.
Perhaps the bicycle will still change the world – but it will be the pedal kind, not the desktop variety.
*anxiously waiting until early next month when I most likely upgrade to a MacBook Pro. I’ll still be running XP on the BootCamp side for some stodgy CAD apps…
**Alan @ EcoVelo has posted vid of the ‘bicycles of the mind’ clip.
Some snaps from the last few weeks – its been busy. The lake, a trip to the Boston Aquarium, Jen’s first triathlon (she placed 8th of 46th in her group! Not bad for a new mom!), a stop at my favorite cafe, Crocs and Baks, and fall has arrived.
via Carectomy
So true. Ignore the part about needing gear, and yes, this is an advertisement – but it captures many of my feelings about the potential of the human body.
Grandpa Woodstock, in Boulder, CO. He is quite the character, and according to the mighty Google he travels about the country on foot, bicycle, and moped living in the woods and off the kindness of strangers. We chatted for a bit and he tooted his horn at everyone that passed, proclaiming his message of peace and love.
This has made the round of the webs before – it is one of my favorite commercials that will never make it to the tele. (not that I could watch it anyway…)
If only patriotism looked like this. Errol Morris has done quite a bit of nice work.