Hell is...

Insomnia + Thomas the Tank Engine theme song stuck in your head on infinite loop since 4am. (At the tone, the time will be 5:07am...beep.)

Pulse check

*tap tap tap*. Is this thing still on?

Yeah, yeah, I know. This blog has been offline for months. Blame the summer doldrums, blame blogger laziness, blame the new baby, blame other recent time-wasting discoveries like Facebook and Twitter (of which interest in the latter is waning), blame lack of interesting content. Whatever.

Lucky for you, dear reader, there are some things that are just stupid enough to spur me to action (and rip me from my semi-retirement).

Courtesy of "The Fresh Market", a store proving that the road to hell is paved with good intentions^[1][2][3]. I present an attempt at raising funds to fight diabetes by selling you foods most likely to give you diabetes. Well planned.

(Click the image for a slightly larger, more readable version.)

[2] Did I ever mention how much I liked superscript? Well, I do.
[3] A lot.

High-wheel cycling...ur doing it rong.

One of my hardware vendors constantly sends me classic photo post cards. This one arrived today. I thought it was worth sharing.



The back of the post card reads "Perilous ride down Capitol Building steps, Washington DC c. 1910. Photographer unidentified". So I assume it's in the public domain.

(I originally posted this on Bikecentric, but I liked the image so much, I wanted to post it here as well.)

Don't judge

While sitting around BSing with my buddy Steve after a mountain bike ride last evening, a guy on a mountain unicycle exits the trail at the end of his ride. We get to chit-chatting with the guy when Steve mentions that we tend to ride singlespeed mountain bikes (i.e. no gears). The guy with the mountain unicycle looks at us kinda quizzically and asks something to the effect of "Why would you ride *that*?"

o_0

B!tch! At least we got two wheelz!

No Hours of Lodi Farm

Sadly, due to a death in the wife's family, I'm not going to be able to shoot one of my favorite races of the year - 12 Hours of Lodi Farm - which happens noon to midnight, Saturday.

You racers have a good time. And try not to do anything interesting or particularly photo-worthy till next year, k? Thx.

Leesburg Baker's Dozen race photos posted

I've posted my shots from the Leesburg Baker's Dozen mountain bike race. The gallery can be found here.

The posted shots are free for the taking/use non-commercially (Facebook/blogs/whatever). A photo credit and a link back to the gallery is all I ask in return.

Full-res digital files are $15. 8x10ish" prints are $25 (assuming my source image is good enough to sell/print). Email me if you're interested. The posted shots are straight out of the camera (no post-processing). Any full-res file or print will be hand tweaked and should look better than the web version.