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The heart of Saturday night
Saturday I decided to go for a quick 16 mile ride before it got dark. Somehow it turned into a 35 mile trek from Avondale to Stone Mountain to the Freedom Parkway area and back in the dark. Riding at night, in the relative cool, is soothing and pleasant. Much like the other times I’ve ridden that late, people became abstractions and it was like having the city to myself. This ride was for much longer though. I kept the darker parts mostly in neighborhoods and the path so there was a large degree of safety.I mapped it out, it’s available here. I haven’t figured out how to get the maps to display in the blog posts themselves yet. On an unrelated note, the camera on my phone is working again. The photo above is from a pedestrian bridge over Freedom Parkway.
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Sunday night round up
- Vile behavior from the bench
- Interesting thoughts on Hezbollah
- One off furniture
- Ipod photoshop style
- Bashing Al Gore
- Scary police impersonators
- Product photography
- Cool bike photos
- The right wing look at the NY Times. This is the only worthwhile thing to appear on the Huffington Post so far.
- An apt cartoon
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If you haven’t seen this already
The Samuel Jackson Snakes on a plane phone message.
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These all night work sessions get harder and harder to do.
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Why is Lou Dobbs taken seriously?
His latest CNN.com column is the best example. His latest bloviations about our “shrinking manufacturing base” are dispensed with quite handily in every Econ 101 class. There’s some apt criticism of American fiscal policy there but overall it’s quite silly.
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A fawning portrayal
I read this article about Fidel Castro in the Toronto Star. I honestly don’t know how it could be more sycophantic.
He lives to learn and to put his knowledge in the service of the revolution. For Fidel, revolution is really a work of reason. In his view, revolution, when rigorously adopted, cannot fail to lead humanity towards ever greater justice, towards an ever more perfect social order.
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His intellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found. He is an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets. On everything.Combined with a Herculean physique and extraordinary personal courage, this monumental intellect makes Fidel the giant that he is.
Those who bite the hand that feeds them will lick the boot that kicks them. 47 years of tyranny can be washed away instantly. HT: Tom Palmer.
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Monday rapid fire
- The best use of graphic thumbnails I’ve seen
- Calculate your Body Mass Index. This seems a tad unrealistic, and if this is what people are using to measure America’s obesity “Epidemic” I’m much less impressed. It seems over broad and crappy. For instance, my ideal weight range is between 137 and 183, a difference of 46 pounds.
- Stirling Engines!
- Kurdistan, the other Iraq, it’s where all of the American troops will be should a full fledged civil war break out. Described my Michael Totten as “a Muslim Utah”. Shoul Iraq break up, this will be the country we subsidize most, besides Israel.
- $10 Panoramic Tripod Head – I need one of these.
- Apex Predators
- How much is inside….
- Cheap Handlebar mounts – something else I need.
- Milton Friedman TV!
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Annoyances from the New York Times
This time it’s about “Men who never marry“. It was more patronizing than usual.
Choice Quotes
She speaks from experience. She married her high school boyfriend right after graduation, a 2-week-old baby in arms. But her husband, who never graduated, was unemployed for most of their marriage, and the couple broke up after six years.
Determined to find a man who had better prospects, Ms. Rudolph entered a relationship with a basketball player and had three children with him. It ended when she learned he was married to someone else, a revelation that left her badly shaken.
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Joe Callender, 47, a retired New York City corrections officer and a father of four, has had long-term relationships with two women but has never married. One obstacle, he admits, has been his own infidelity.
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Mr. Cunningham, 41, a sanitation worker, seems to defy any theory about why he is single. He has, he said, simply not met the right woman.
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He is a tall, athletic man with cropped, George Clooney-style hair who projects a kind and upbeat persona; surely a catch to some women in Fort Collins.
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When he walks in the front door after a weekend trip or a run or a bike ride, he often puts a commemorative baseball cap on his coat rack, and now, about three dozen hats cover the rack, with no apparent space for a purse or a diaper bag.It’s an interesting read. They start from the position that marriage is some inevitability that one must exert great effort to avoid (it’s not). They also don’t take into consideration the happy loner theory, nor active misanthropy. They all but call women genetically programmed golddiggers.
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The Stone Mountain Punisher
My second attempt at GeoTracking turned out much better. I mapped my usual bike route, with a bit more attention to detail. The addition of waypoints helps a lot.
It’s called the Punisher due to the extreme hills on the route.
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My first try at trackpoints
I’m having problems putting it directly in the blog, but here is the map on a stand alone page. Pretty cool. The missing parts are where I had turned off the gps unit momentarily or put it in a pocket and it lost signal.
