Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Does Netflix Suck?

So Netflix raised their price a couple of months ago for Blu-ray customers under the guise of adding more blu-ray titles and greater quantity of each title. This should have alleviated long wait times.

I'm trying Blockuster's free trial and they have already shipped two title that are a long wait on Netflix. One of them I've been waiting for a month on. Netflix your days are numbered for me. Comcast, your next!

Netflix Queue:


BB Queue:



We'll see who wins my $$$ at the end of two weeks!

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sugar Art

Step back Warhol, your pop art isn't as sweet as mine. I started decorating all the sugar packets in the break room. I want to see if anyone notices. People still haven't noticed that I mismatch the coffee brew with the wrong canister. My next maneuver will be some kind of foolery with the instant creamer. What is that crap anyway?

Monday, July 27, 2009

The Giant of the Front Range

So Saturday I did a Tour stage with Scottytime. Somehow we got the bright idea of riding to the Top of Mt. Evans from lakewood. I'm not even sure how many miles that is, but its a couple horizontally and vertically. Seeing how I like to look good on my bike, we opted to drop a car at the ranger station with all of out winter gear and food. I'd recommend this to all, you know you just look dumb with all your crap crammed in to your pockets. The start was nice, fairly warm, which is good when your going to 14,000 feet. No problems getting up to and over Squaw pass to the ranger station. We kitted up and started the climb. Unfortunately we turned around no to far from Summit lake. Neither one of us are a fan of near zero visibility and rain above tree-line. We turned around and did our best to enhance drivers views on cyclists, by that I mean we rode 20 mph over the speed limit an a passed cars on double-yellow. Back at the car drop I dumped my clothes and Scotty, he was doing a crit the next day so 4 hrs was enough for him. Me, I wanted to really get to know the saddle so I continued on bike. Maybe not the best idea. I was chased by the rain monster all the way back to Evergreen, I only got sprinkled on but the down pour was never more than 10 feet behind me. Towards the end I decided I was going to make it 100 miles. This involved searching out every inch of Bear Creek Lake park to pack on distance. I even ducked in to some single track on the road bike for an extra quarter mile. When it was all said and done 101 miles 6 hrs and 51 minutes.

This is also the most boring post to date. It's hard to get creative and clever when you haven't done crap at work for a week.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

My Plant

This Plant has 92 leaves. I counted them about five minutes ago. What am I going to do with the next six hours of my day?

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

My Driving Rant

So I merge from 6th Ave to I25 everyday and it just amazes me that slow traffic is almost always because nobody can merge. Exhibit 1. You have one mile to merge from I25 to Santa Fe, why must 95% of the people accomplish this in the first 100 feet. The problem is so severe people actually stop as if they are making a left turn. I usually drive 55 for this mile while everyone is stopped and merge effortlessly.


I used to go North on I-25 and no one could fathom that there was two lanes on the fly-over, again magic, 55 mph to effortless merge. I mean civil engineers are generally smart people. The roads have a higher capacity if we use them correctly. Then again my commute is easier if you / they never figure it out.


How I killed the Salad Bar

I just wanted to document how I systematically destroyed the Granby, City Market Salad Bar. SO there I was 3 hours post Nationals XC, just about to drive home, and the bottom fell out of my stomach. In cycling speak it was a complete sidewall tear with a geyser of stans, arcing out 0f the void. Not even a tube was going going to fix that hole. I tore in to the parking lot, and fell out of my car, pretty spry for my post race coma state. When I arrived at the glory hole, a nice lady was packing up it's contents. She said it was closed, I said "how closed". She must have felt sorry for me and offered up the throw-away cart. I laid in to the cottage cheese like a weed-eater on the nats course, i even used the big serving spoon. Next up was the tuna salad, no more fish left in that sea. Then I spyed the holy grail of City Market salad bars, ham cubes. You see the Whole Foods salad bar is too good for ham cubes. The MFK has never met a ham cube he didn't like. I scraped the sides of that bucket like a frosting bowl, enjoying every semi-salty processed ham pleasure. At this point the little old lady was a little worried. I think she saw me eyeing the hot bar with all that fried chicken. I eventually packed up a to-go box and paid for it, only a pound of spinage and cherry tomatoes. I figured I was OK since they didn't weigh me entering the store, so they really had no idea how much I ate pre check out. It was my word against theirs.

Death of the two-6er?

There was a great article in Velonews about the death of the 26" Hardtail Bike. I can relate. About two weeks ago I gave the Hardtail another shot at glory. It was so light and responsive I thought for sure I was back on the HT tip. What a bad idea. It started out sweet on the smooth trails of Winter Park, but when I got to the dried mud ruts of Fraser I started going backwards. IT seemed like every rut caught and held the rear wheel for a second, and then released it in the opposite direction I wanted it to go. From results at the Nationals your were running 29 or full suss to survive. I think my friend Scottytime is right, 29'ers are going to be like shaped skis, eventually everybody's going to be on them. I better get the HT on craigslist before all the 40+ camelback riders figure it out. Here is what I want Carbon HT 29'er with an integrated seat post, and oversized, tapered head tube. Maybe even optimized for a single ring and 10 speed cassette.

Monday, July 20, 2009

You Decide

Pro man Pro Woman? You decide.



We all got screwed

George Hincapie - Screwed out of the yellow jersey

Me screwed out of 10 spots at the National Championships because USA cycling can't count.


Thursday, July 16, 2009

It wont go away.


I'm going to flag this dude for top-posting. Keep riding, not typing!

My idea first MIT

So some dudes at MIT came up with a trash tracking program to increase environmental awareness, and aswer just where does your coffee cup end up? I just wanted to state I had a similar thought after riding past the Lakewood sewage collection facility. I always wondered "is my poo in there?" I always envisioned a similar system to track it's journey.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Generously Oversized


Shouldn't you be keeping this as motivation?