Amusing.
| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed | ||||
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Of course the Today show is entirely credible. Who would ever suggest they’re not?
(Found via Laura @ LR Kane).
Highland Fling, Here I Come!
I wasn’t going to enter the 2009 Highland Fling. But this morning I was made aware that there has been a change in the rules. In previous years registration had to be done the day before the race. This year however, they’re allowing rego from 6am til 7am on the day of the race as well.
Nice work to the organisers for realising that a pre race day registration inconveniences a hell of a lot of people. Several BMU people were saying they’ll drive for 1.5 hours to register, drive home, sleep, then head back on race day. Times that by a Jarod-estimated 50 - 100 people that don’t want to camp/get accommodation and the ‘carbon neutral’ status of their event is very much in doubt.
Anyway… ranting aside… I’ll be registering as soon as they get their server issues sorted. And I guess training starts tomorrow.
Jarod’s Biking Tip of the Day
Don’t ride through dog shit on your bike.
An hour later you’ll have only just gotten the worst of it off.
The Salsa Casseroll is now fixed!
And my golly it’s a handful. It’s a scary feeling when you forget you’re riding a fixed gear and the bike gently reminds you by trying to throw you off it. It’s also a scary feeling blasting down a hill at 40kph+ and knowing all too well you’re on a fixed gear.
Still though, it’s very fun and a very different way to ride.
Happy First Birthday JarodandLiz.com!
Friday, 26th June is JarodandLiz.com’s birthday. Yay! We didn’t actually remember, but while I worked on my first ever* redesign of the site today, I checked the archives and worked it out. Hurrah!
I’ve had a really, really awesome week, so finally being able to something ‘proper’ on the computer was good fun.
Changes of note:
- Jarod and Liz posts are now together in the one column, for added confusion!
- There are no gradients in the design at all… I think this is a first for the site.
- It’s really, really, simple… because I’m still learning CSS, so wanted to start with something easy.
To celebrate we’re making soup for dinner. Mmm, soup.
*every other redesign has been done by Jarod, with me providing input as to what I wanted on my side. This time it was done by me, with no input. Surprise, Jarod!
Salsa Casseroll Stem Change
About a month ago now I got the stem on the Salsa swapped over by the nice fellas at MCC. Sadly, Dirtworks were a bit retarded and stuffed up by sending out a stem with an oversize clamp diameter, so I got relegated to a 25.4mm Token stem that MCC had in stock.
Oh yes, and it’s black. And has token written all over it. And it’s way uglier than the original Salsa one.
I was, and still am a sad panda. I manage by almost constantly trawling ebay for a cheap’ish, nice, silver, 25.4mm clamp, 70-90mm long stem. One will turn up eventually… surely.
Most of all, the sadness is angriness at myself. At the end of the day, I traded a very sexy stem that had a tiny chance of being defective, for an ugly token stem which is going to get changed out anyway. In retrospect, I wish I’d shut my mouth about the recall to MCC & Dirtworks, nailed the original original Salsa stem to the wall as a show piece and bought a new one out of my own pocket.
Live and learn. Live and learn.
Did I mention I sold the Gary Fisher Cobia?
Cause I totally did. Got an okay price for it and it went to a good home, so you’ve gotta be happy with that. I was a little sad to see it go, as it was massive fun to ride, especially as a single speed. The following photos are it’s legacy in my head and on this blog.
I might venture back into the world of 29’ers eventually, and if I do it’ll be researched a whole heap more.
Victoria’s Stupid New Laws
It appears that Victoria is going to be passing some, uhmm, how to put it…. stupid laws.
The details are here. There’s some discussion going on here.
Join the fun of riding bikes! (but don’t ride dangerously, else you might get slapped with a $13,610 fine, or prison for twelve months, or both!!)
Damn, Savvycat’s Popular
Happy 3 month birthday for last Wednesday savvycat.
You’ve only been around a short while, but you’re already way more popular than what jarodandliz is. Even if you take the last spike of traffic regarding Train’s Cat Run out of the equation, savvycat is still doubling if not trebling the stats of this crappy blog.
Perhaps Liz really will be a crazy cat lady one day.
Sickness
Yep. Still alive. Just really didn’t feel like posting in the last few weeks.
Some of it was the normal cyclical ebb and flow of blogging, but most of it was the double shot of a throat and middle ear infection. Fun stuff!!
I shall be getting back into the swing of posting now. Sorry for any inconvenience