Archive for May, 2007

Students Accidentally Catch Cyclist Assault On Tape

Watch the road rage on video.

A group of students on a field trip in Toronto investigating the pros and cons of public surveillance cameras ended up catching a slice of big city street hostility on their own cameras Tuesday.
The Grade 12 students caught a road rage incident between a driver and a cyclist on tape, [...]

Holy Mackerel!

You wouldn’t believe what Verča brings home to eat. Hey I’m game to try anything, but this shriveled smoked mackerel was a bit fishy for my tastes. I seems I am a bit picky about what seafood I eat. Whatever. She scraped away at it and came away with some good meat. It made [...]

pre-Král Šumavy

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So Verča did this race like four years ago, called Král Šumavy, or King of the Schumovy Forest. It’s a cyclomarathon race 70k or 100k, so today being a communist holiday (May 1st) she had the day off and my bosses were still fast asleep, so we went to pre-ride the course for the race [...]

105th Annual Nittany Endurance LeFonte

In an effort to get more publicity and more people to the various rides I was trying to come up with some marketing schemes. Here is a quick excerpt from an email to Johnson:

4. Make it The 105 annual Nittany Endurance LeFonte (frenchish)
4a. Make T-Shirts from previous years and give them to people to wear
for [...]

our chata

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So I married into a summer house or a chata as they call them here.
It’s a nice little stuccoed brick cabin with a tile roof about 90 minutes west of Prague in a town called Řeřichy.
check it out at mapy.cz at 50°04′55.20″N 13°35′4.56″E
Verča, her mother, her dog, and I spent Sunday (April 29, 2007) there [...]

Praha and south (and east)

I know I have been holding off here to get the pictures up, but here we go now.
(also check out the completely new and revamped Praha - Beroun post
(I need to get Casey to send me a pencam, and maybe I can get Starmer to send one of those TeddyBear cams. We can’t get technology [...]

bellefonte loop

nuther good ride with the boalsburg bikers, this time with bob, bob and john. again, good converstations, and a decent clip. i finished my internal generator wiring about 3 minutes before the ride, so i’ll be posting my photo documentary on that soon. it um, is not recommended to try. about [...]

saved by granola

School is out for a few days, so I celebrated by putting 13 year old Tioga Psycos on my 13 year old MB1 and heading out to Scotia Range, which for ye non-locals is the easy mtn biking round here. Its pretty vast, maybe 10 square miles, and none of the trails are marked, [...]

roadie beat down.

 went for a nuther 30ish today, heading out in the same direction as yesterday, but with a better camera, for starmer’s eye’s sake.  I didnt go as far, cause my butt hurt from the 50 miles the day before, and my legs weren’t too hot either.  it was just as nice as the day before, [...]

90km with an economist.

I semi-joined/was accepted into the Boalsburg Bikers, which consists of about 9 guys who live in Boalsburg, the next little town down the pike from my house.  Anyway, they seem to rarely all get out at once, but Rob Weaver and I decided to do a ride this morning.  I offered up a cue sheet, [...]