November 29, 2003
$250 large for a free ride.
The investment company ING Direct, which runs miserable ads on taxicabs and public benches, are sponsoring a free commute this Thursday morning on BART.
As part of the Free Morning Commute, BART and ING DIRECT are sponsoring a contest with great prizes: $1,000 cash in an ING DIRECT Orange Savings Account, $500 in a 1 year ING DIRECT Orange CD, ING DIRECT Marin Hybrid Mountain Bikes, and $100 worth of BART tickets.
November 28, 2003
The path to righteousness.
Riding east on the Panhandle bike path, riders can now gracefully turn north onto Baker, so as to start the Wiggle in style.
November 27, 2003
America's fastest-growing sport (Pun intended)
Perspective on competitive eating:
The IFOCE hosts official eating contests and tracks the world's top eaters, like record-holder Oleg Zhornitskiy, who downed four 32-ounce bowls of mayonnaise in 8 minutes.
This year's Thanksgiving Invitational eating contest attracted talent from all 'round the competitive eating circuit, but petite (106-lb) Sonya Thomas took home the turkey statuette after downing almost 8 pounds of turkey and trimmings in 12 minutes. Bookie money was on either the Chili Champ or the Donut Dominator.
And from Sonya's profile:
There is an century-old prophesy (sic)(no pun intended) within the competitive eating community, dismissed by most, that foretells the rise of the “One Eater" ...
She can down a gross of chicken wings in ten minutes. Yowza. I mean, yowza.
UPDATE: The Travel Channel ran a one-hour special on eating contests, told from the perspective that these were "epicurean" contests in places that would be fun to visit. Terrible.
November 26, 2003
The answer, my friend ...
I'm glad I'm
not the only one this happens to.
November 25, 2003
A bootiful thing, is a properly-fixed tyre.
More biking to work, alleluia. Just as I was about to pedal home for the evening, Lupe mildly pointed out that a ugly bubble of inner-tube was poking through the sidewall of the rear tyre. I only had finifs and sawbucks in the ol' wallet, so I booted the tyre with a fiver; belatedly I realised that I kept a single in my patch kit for this very reason. More incentive to take off this bad piece of rubber (two big holes in the past week, and this one on the sidewall is just Bad News).
I am going to replace the tyres on the commute bike -- either the Kogswell or the Dutchess -- with the reflective-sidewall tyres that this guy on Caltrain was telling me about.
