Thu, 11 Aug 2005
I love eBay,
because that's where I found this cool Timex GPS Speed and Distance watch.
I was thinking about
getting a GPS to run and bike with, but I didn't want the big clunky wrist
mount GPS like everyone else. So when I saw this on eBay I put my bid into
Auction Sniper and I won it. It
was here when I got home, so I pulled it out of the box and went down to the
CityFit ~4 mile run to try it out. Works great. It let me know that I was
running at 6 mph. There's a
watch,
plus a GPS unit that straps
to your arm or clips to your waist. It looks like there is also a heart
rate monitor unit that will transmit to the watch.
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Wed, 10 Aug 2005
I run this site with vi.
In case you're not familiar with vi, it's the unix equivalent of Windows
Notepad. I just write each page by hand and edit the HTML with a text
editor. Sometimes I create the page on a Windows machine with Notepad,
and upload it. So when I saw a "this site vi powered" graphic, I grabbed it,
and put it in the footer of each page.
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Mon, 08 Aug 2005
Alex had a great birthday party this weekend.
Kids, dogs, cake, beer, mosquitos, fireworks, swamp buggy rides and small arms
fire. All captured in 640x480 VGA quality
here
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I tried out the Fireworks mode on the camera
when Jim was setting off fireworks by the lake. I shot a lot of photos, and
some of them turned
out pretty good.
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Sun, 07 Aug 2005
I got to weld today
on Alex's mower. Cutting, grinding, and welding. All in one day.
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Fri, 05 Aug 2005
I'm running this afternoon
at Run and Roll. Will I see you
there? I think this will make four Fridays in a row. There's free beer
afterward. Plus Jerry's got a cool, simplistic
website.
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So last night I was at the meeting
and we were trying to think of ways to spend the last of the money in the
budget before the city took it back. One of the other board members has a
pretty heavy Spanish (Mexican?) accent, and he said "We could get two
muppets to watch the neighborhood". There was a long pause while everyone
else tried to figure out what he meant. Finally someone said "What do you
mean?", and he said "Choo know, muppets, to watch the neighborhood". There
was another pause, while we all tried to think of an English word that sounds
like "muppet" when you say it with a Spanish accent, but nobody could come
up with it. Finally someone else said "What kind of a muppet?", and he said
"A muppet! Like an escooter!", and we all said "Ohhhh".
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Thu, 04 Aug 2005
Eggbeaters
I got my new Crank Brothers
Eggbeater Mallet C pedals in the mail a couple days ago. I put them on
my beater bike the day I got them, and I've already ridden them twice. Before
I always had to put on my special bike shoes to ride the bike. Well, actually
I have two bikes and I only had one set of pedals, so I was forever moving
the pedals from one bike to the other. The mallets are a platform pedal,
with clip-ins in the middle, so you can ride them with the special geeky bike
shoes, or with regular shoes. The first time I rode them I put on my special
geeky shoes, and had no problem clipping in and out, just like the
Eggbeater Candy SL
pedals I have on the mountain bike. Last night I rode the bike down
to the hash in my running shoes, and the pedals worked fine with them.
Recommended.
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Who would have thought that you could get
bitten by a tarpon?
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Some diving photos. I also used
these photos to put some images on the
best dive page.
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We went to
Parrot Jungle, to see
some parrots and also to check on how the steel buildings were
holding up.
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Breaking news: the scooter is
running! Here's a
streaming video documentary
as proof.
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It's a little late, but I have pictures up from this
year's Seven Mile Bridge Run.
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What the heck is this
weird-looking vehicle? I took
these photos a couple months ago at the storage yard.
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Two more scooter updates. Here,
and here.
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And another scooter update.
Kind of reminds you of the jet ski, doesn't it?
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Outstanding mountain bike
trip to north Georgia. Much fun.
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There's already an update to the
scooter page. And
another one.
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I got a new project. It's scooter time!
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Just a little science experiment. Let's see if a broken
magnesium bicycle fork will burn if you light it with a
welding torch. Yes, it will.
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