I must have missed one of my CF cards when checking for photos after the SS Nats and Madison. There’s some new SS Nats pics here.
Monthly Archives: February 2005
A new weapon in the war against sleep… Modafinil
Modafinil – the time-shifting drug
“enables you to stay awake for 40+ hours with close to full mental capacity with few side effects”
Yeah.. I’ll believe it when I see it. Nice thought though – sleep is such a waste of time!! 🙂
the flybar – a pogo stick on steroids
“Fit co-ordinated humans can jump higher than five feet and people have been known to get nearly 8 feet of air using the aircraft-grade aluminium Flybar.”
Late mail? How's FOUR years late sound?!
I thought my neighbor had dropped off some mail at my doorstep. Picking it up I notice an envelope from my uni.
“That’s strange!” I thought, considering that I had graduated a few years ago.
“Must be some alumni crap..”
Just before opening the letter I happened a glance at the postmark date.. 23rd of Feb.. nothing unusual about that.. 23rd of Feb, 2001.
“2001!!!! What the fsck?!”
I quickly sifted through the other four envelopes: phone bill, insurance bill, flatmate’s payslip, strip club flyer – sure enough, all of them were postmarked either Mar or Feb 2001. Two thousand and ONE! No fscking wonder my insurance expired without me realising!!
I checked them all again – all of them were correctly addressed. I reasoned that were from a lost mail bag, or had fallen behind a sorting desk.
I called Australia Post and asked about the matter. The girl that answered said she hadn’t be there all that long and she was shocked! She spoke to her supervisor about it and her supervisor was shocked!
“I’ve never heard of something like this happening before..”
Personally, it wasn’t an issue for me (it would’ve been had the house burned down and I was unpaid!) and I just wondered what had caused the ‘slight’ delay. We had a laugh about it but they couldn’t offer an explanation so I left my details and if anything is discovered, they’ll let me know.
I’ve heard of mail circulating for 30 years and stuff.. but it’s usually wrongly addressed, or for a deceased person, or a person who’s moved.. these were all correctly addressed and I’m living at the same place to this day!! Life goes on.. 🙂
World's Oldest Track Cycling Race
The Austral Wheelrace, the World?s oldest track cycling event, will be staged for the 107th time on Saturday February 26 at Vodafone Arena. With previous editions of the Austral ending in crashes, cries of race fixing, and triumph, the 2005 edition will no doubt add to the folklore that surrounds the Austral.
A crack field has been secured to contest this event with World Cup champion and Athens Olympians Ben Kersten and two time Austral winner Darren Young secured to ride. Both Kersten and Young are programmed to ride off the mark of honour ? the Scratch mark.
Recently crowned Australian Champions Joel Leonard and Sean Finning will also be competing as part of the 120 strong field and with former winners of the calibre of Sid Patterson, Danny Clarke and Garry Neiwand, all competitors will be desperate to add their name to the honour roll.
The Austral Wheelrace will be run over 2000 metres or 8 laps of the 250m Vodafone Arena board velodrome. There will be six heats, with the top four riders in each heat qualifying for the final. The Jefferson Ford Austral Wheelrace is also one of the highest ranked National Track Series events, and as such, a large points swag will be on offer to the triumphant rider in this historic event.
(Press Release from: www.cyclistsinternational.com.au)
Big and Bad
“S.U.V.s tend to be bought by people who are insecure, vain, self-centered, and self-absorbed, who are frequently nervous about their marriages, and who lack confidence in their driving skills”
Read the rest of the ‘Big and Bad’ article: here
Bicycle World Tours
For no particular reason (cough), here’s some dudes doing world tours by bike. Very interesting reading. They almost all seem to be teachers!!!
www.gordontaylor.co.uk:
www.roundtheworldbybike.com
50,000 miles, 5 continents, 50 countries. Alone and on a bicycle.
www.cyclinghomefromsiberia.com:
Pedalling 15,000 miles home to England from a remote town in North East Siberia
www.downtheroad.org:
How we traded our ordinary lives for a global bicycle touring adventure
Corax:
It's the guy from that Idol show!
Keepin’ it reall ‘n’ shit, ya dig?! 😛
BYU IsoTruss technology makes for ultra-light bike
(click image for more details)
I wonder how strong IsoTruss really is?
I don’t see how it can be more aerodynamic – the “tubes” look larger than most xc bikes and surely the mesh disturbs the airflow more than a solid tube?
They don’t specify a weight, just that it’s “as light as some of the best traditional carbon-fibre mountain bikes on the market”.
What happens when the “tubes” fill up with mud?! Bet it’s not so light then! 🙂
Cleaning those “tubes” will not be fun!
Obscene, Dirty, Filthy, Immoral … aww yeah!
Currently Listening To (CLT): ‘Gene Hoffmann’s NYE 2004 Mix’ (you’re even more famous now Gene! ;)) and I wanted to find the name of the track with the “Obscene, Dirty, Filthy, Immoral.. aww yeah!” sample in it.
Google found me this.
The sample turns out to be from a track “Dirty” by Dirty, at least, in its Prog House form. The tech mix I have could be by anyone!