Cycling Vacations

Most of the time when I travel, it’s for work – with little time for personal activities.  Vacation travel happens also, I love leaving work behind and taking trips with my family.  But every once in awhile I get the opportunity to go on a …

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Seared on the brain

Do you remember the first truly scary movie you ever saw?  I sure do… For me, it was “The Shining” starring Jack Nicholson. 1980.  I was 12 years old when it came out.  I had never been allowed to go to a horror movie before …

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Riding Haleakala

Lately I’ve been trying to get in a bit more riding on my vacations, or at least, to the extent I can do it without making things less enjoyable for others on the trip (like my family).  One of our frequent escapes from the Seattle …

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Brian’s life flashing before your eyes

Brian’s life flashing before your eyes Pretty cool; let pummelvision.com access your FB assets (privacy be damned!) and in return they’ll give you a ready made slideshow video, complete with faux hipster synchronized soundtrack. Why be creative when laziness and apathy will suffice, I always say! …

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car vs. bike hit and run

District attorney seeks to bar Vail victim’s testimony in plea hearing – VeloNews Crazy story.  I can’t believe the lawyering and lack of personal responsibility on display here.  Driver hits cyclist, leaves scene, gets caught later.  And then proceeds to pursue a reprehensible strategy of denial rather …

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The ebook platform battle is heating up…

Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday – Computerworld. It, as they say, is most assuredly on.  On Monday Google launched their Google ebooks effort, a direct shot across the bow of Amazon who already has a commanding lead (and so far, a superior …

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