Toshi's ride pics thread

[Toshi]

yup. it's broken (power supply) but i think i'll put all of that up on ebay separately once i get back from california, the camera, the battery charger, maybe the usb cable too if it doesn't work with the 20D...

[Toshi]

lovely pix of my hand

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/redressing%20my%20hand%20-%20august%2024,%202004/Images/3.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/redressing%20my%20hand%20-%20august%2024,%202004/Images/4.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/redressing%20my%20hand%20-%20august%2024,%202004/Images/7.jpg

[Toshi]

question of the day:

should i bring my dh bike to med school? or should i leave it at home in the garage and pick it up again come springtime?

reasons to not bring it: my room is of unknown size, roommates are of unknown bike friendliness, i'll be very busy at school and furthermore will have my first 4 saturdays taken up by kaplan training as well. given that ski season will be just a month or two away by the time that's over...

:think:

[Toshi]

california:

berkeley skyline pano (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/Berkeley.qtvr), point reyes pano (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/Point%20Reyes.qtvr) (right/control click and save these, this server has screwy mime types)

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/california%20-%20august%2029,%202004/Images/0.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/california%20-%20august%2029,%202004/Images/9.jpg

the rest of the gallery here (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/california%20-%20august%2029,%202004/)

[Toshi]

also i have 11 gmail invites at the moment. i will give out up to 10 of them to the first 10 people who pm me with their current email address, first and last names <-- note that last part.

[Toshi]

i just posted a thread: would you live in hawaii? (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95579) (ok, that's not the exact title. sue me)

[Toshi]

i always knew i should sport a mullet...

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/mullet%20fashion%20-%20september%201,%202004/Images/2.jpg

[Quadari]

i always knew i should sport a mullet...



For the love of all that is, Toshi...WHY?!?!? WHY?!

:p

[Toshi]

For the love of all that is, Toshi...WHY?!?!? WHY?!

:p
http://www.aimface.com/ikons/IKON4b05085d8090a6b0a6c30db7090a942ee688ae0702.gif

[Toshi]

3 thoughts:

1) i measured myself at 5' 7 3/4" this afternoon, so i've grown 1/4" or so (probably less than how much my spine shrinks in a day!) since high school :D

2) the broken d30 body is now on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3837728631

3) my unlocked nokia 3650 phone is also on ebay in case you're in the market for a gsm phone: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5718683821

[Quadari]

3 thoughts:

1) i measured myself at 5' 7 3/4" this afternoon, so i've grown 1/4" or so (probably less than how much my spine shrinks in a day!) since high school :D


Wow. Good job toshi. Glad that the spine extruder helped. :-)


2) the broken d30 body is now on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3837728631

Someone snatched it up already! Impressive.



3) my unlocked nokia 3650 phone is also on ebay in case you're in the market for a gsm phone: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5718683821

Getting a new phone? What's the reason?

[Toshi]

Wow. Good job toshi. Glad that the spine extruder helped. :-)

Someone snatched it up already! Impressive.

Getting a new phone? What's the reason?
spine extruder, heh. i prefer to call it "the rack" :eek:

yeah, the d30 is gone! $110 is a fair price for the purchaser if they can fix it or use its parts, and is a good deal for me since i keep the ac adapter, charger, battery, cf card, lenses!, etc. to supplement the accessories that will come with the 20d.

i will be getting a new phone, yes. this 3650 was free w/rebates (which were honored) from amazon/t-mobile and there are similar deals now, so it's basically free money: my contract was up in june so i ended service on it in july and am free to sell it. then in a few weeks i will pick up a new phone for free, again amazon/t-mobile... good deal, eh? i may even end up getting another 3650 :D

[Toshi]

check it: i now have the official "minigolf champion" title. er, co-title. 3 way co-title. whatever it should be called, it's now under my name :D

[Skookum]

You are Tiger Woods. :p

[Toshi]

i feel... validated by the miniputt title. :D hehe.

[endtroducing]

Funny you should ask about what I'm reading/doing Toshi...

I've decided to go back to school and just submitted an application to St. John's College of Annapolis.

Are you familiar with it? If not, it's a school expressly devoted to reading, with a 4-year all-required "Great Books" curriculum including Greek, French, math, lab science, music, and seminar, building upon the intellectual perennialism pioneered at Columbia and U. Chicago in the 30s.

There are no text books, no written exams, all classes are discussion based and taught via primary sources in a roughly chronological fashion. Freshman year you start with Homer, senior year you end with Einstein.

For example, the sophmore reading list:

THE BIBLE
ARISTOTLE: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
APOLLONIUS: Conics
VIRGIL: Aeneid
PLUTARCH: "Caesar" and "Cato the Younger"
EPICTETUS: Discourses, Manual
TACITUS: Annals
PTOLEMY: Almagest
PLOTINUS: The Enneads
AUGUSTINE: Confessions
ST. ANSELM: Proslogium
AQUINAS: Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles
DANTE: Divine Comedy
CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales
DES PREZ: Mass
MACHIAVELLI: The Prince, Discourses
COPERNICUS: On the Revolutions of the Spheres
LUTHER: The Freedom of a Christian
RABELAIS: Gargantua and Pantagruel
PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli
MONTAIGNE: Essays
VIETE: "Introduction to the Analytical Art"
BACON: Novum Organum
SHAKESPEARE: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Sonnets
POEMS BY: Marvell, Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
DESCARTES: Geometry, Discourse on Method
PASCAL: Generation of Conic Sections
BACH: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
HAYDN: Quartets
MOZART: Operas
BEETHOVEN: Sonatas
SCHUBERT: Songs
STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms

If I get in, I'll be bald and nearsighted before I even get to grad school... :D

I spoke with an admissions counselor from the college last week and was told that by far the most difficult part of freshman year is learning greek, especially for american students with poor backgrounds in rigorous english grammar. So, my most recent purchases from Amazon have been a few rhetoric and sentence diagramming books.

On the pleasure front, I'm forever trying to scratch off my list of unread classics. I have these on cue:

Chang-rae Lee - Native Speaker (gotta support my alums)
Frank D.K. Ching - Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
John Bunyan - Pilgrim's Progess
Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
Jorge Luis Borges - Selected Non-Fictions

What have you been reading lately?
Had much time before the med school grind begins?

[Toshi]

wow, good luck in getting into st. johns. that would be a truly different experience. i've had many a dinner table argument with my father about the rigor or lack of rigor in modern universities. he would think your curriculum was just about perfect. i wish i had more exposure to the classics -- we have all the great books on a shelf somewhere here but i never got around to reading them -- but i also highly value some of the courses i took that fall outside the western european sphere (japanese, japanese history, russian art, literature of the 1870s-1930s...)

i haven't been up to much at all. in semi-chronological order: wrapped up the work business in july, bummed around at whistler/vancouver for a bit, injured myself, moved out of my apartment, came back home, and have been totally inactive since then. :D i'll be up in seattle by this upcoming friday tho, and will have to be on my toes by saturday as kaplan starts their training before uw does. :dead:

all i've read since april 29 (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1083625&highlight=books+read#post1083625) are:

W. Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge"
Dao Strom, "Grass Roof, Tin Roof"
Tom Wolfe, "A Man In Full"

i also started gene wolfe's "book of the new sun" but didn't like the writing or scenario, d.h. lawrence's "women in love" (ditto), and wilbur smith's "monsoon" (ditto x 2).

as noted elsewhere the current book is "imperial hubris". it's quite sobering but a worthwhile read.

[jace]

What did you think of A Man in Full?
I read it the summer before last on my many train trips to and from Boston.
I keep passing the Imperial Hubris display in B&N, I'll have to put it on my short list.

p.s. you wear the kung fu monkllet well.

[Toshi]

What did you think of A Man in Full?
I read it the summer before last on my many train trips to and from Boston.
changed screennames, eh? why didn't you have a mod do it so that you could retain your post count? fresh start a la acadian? :D

i thought "a man in full" was excellent. my only experience with the south is the 2 days i spent down in new orleans when interviewing at tulane so i can't speak to the accuracy of wolfe's portrayal of race relations, but i thought the characters were all believable, at least. combined with an engaging story that made the book a worthwhile read. i read it mostly on the way up to whistler (trip #1) and then at the condo while laid up with injuries, and i didn't regret the lost riding time after all was said and done. :eek:

what did you think of it?

[Toshi]

p.s. you wear the kung fu monkllet well.
heh, thanks. i was hoping for more of a mullet look but i guess i'll have to work on my skillz with the shaver...

[Toshi]

i feel... validated by the miniputt title. :D hehe.
my title is gone! :mad:

[jace]

changed screennames, eh? why didn't you have a mod do it so that you could retain your post count? fresh start a la acadian?

I suppose I could of, but this was easy enough, plus everyone gets avatars now, so no real loss.

I definitely enjoyed A Man in Full; I'm always a bit intrigued by the sort of research that must go into writing a contemperary novel of the sort. It was an addictive read but I'm not positive how I feel about the ending. I wasn't sure if old Tom was trying to cram a lot of unsubtle philosophy and moralism in with the last few pages. Either way, it's persuaded me to read the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test somewhere down the road.

[Toshi]

speaking of books, the winners of the hugo awards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_award) were announced recently:

Best Novel: Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold
Novella: The Cookie Monster, Vernor Vinge
Novellette: Legions in Time, Michael Swanwick
Short Story: A Study in Emerald, Neil Gaiman

[Toshi]

i've posted a thread asking which fork to get for my road bike (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1236694#post1236694), please read and respond. this means you, keith! :nono:

[TWISTED]

i've posted a thread asking which fork to get for my road bike (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1236694#post1236694), please read and respond. this means you, keith! :nono:
If you would be interested in a Kinesis fork I'll do my best to try to get you one.
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/?Manu=Kinesis

[Toshi]

ooh, if you could get me one for less than the $60 + shipping that the nashbar fork costs (or, having read the admonition against generic forks, the $100 + shipping that the easton runs) then i'd be all over it :eek: . thanks in advance for the effort.

[TWISTED]

ooh, if you could get me one for less than the $60 + shipping that the nashbar fork costs (or, having read the admonition against generic forks, the $100 + shipping that the easton runs) then i'd be all over it :eek: . thanks in advance for the effort.
You want carbon, right? Do you have any other requirements of the fork?

[Toshi]

nope, just as long as it's carbon and 1 1/8" threadless... :thumb:

[TWISTED]

nope, just as long as it's carbon and 1 1/8" threadless... :thumb:
I'll see what I can do. I think there are some Wedge's in stock.

[Toshi]

my title is gone! :mad:
and now it is back again. i took a screenshot to preserve it for posterity in case RM mucks around with the vBulletin code and removes it again

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/minigolf2.jpg

[Toshi]

here is a positively hilarious bushism:

http://homepage.mac.com/njenson/movies/lovedocs.html

what in the world was he thinking? :D

and here is a nice subaru impreza sti promo/ad:

http://www.subaru-global.com/lineup/impreza/sedan/download/imgs/tvcf_impreza.mov

[Instigator]

Why do you need to tease me with that damn Subie ad :(

There is a local Subaru dealer that has a couple of STI's in their lot. 300hp and some fool like me behind the wheel.......................dreams are good :D

[Toshi]

Why do you need to tease me with that damn Subie ad :(

There is a local Subaru dealer that has a couple of STI's in their lot. 300hp and some fool like me behind the wheel.......................dreams are good :D
just save up for another decade and buy a real prodrive impreza rallycar... :love:

[TWISTED]

I'll see what I can do. I think there are some Wedge's in stock.
The guy I need to talk to about a fork hasn't gotten back from Eurobike yet, I'll let you know.

[Toshi]

sweet. thanks again, tim.

[TWISTED]

You get a camera yet? I need some new pictures of me taken by an expert photographer, such as yourself. :thumb:

[Toshi]

You get a camera yet? I need some new pictures of me taken by an expert photographer, such as yourself. :thumb:
hehe, flattery won't get you pics :nono:

(since i don't have a camera mainly, try again later :D.) plus i'm headed up to seattle on thursday

[TWISTED]

hehe, flattery won't get you pics :nono:

(since i don't have a camera mainly, try again later :D.) plus i'm headed up to seattle on thursday
I guess I'll be stuck with these two pics for awhile.
I showed a MC sales guy the sequence shot, he said "That's cool you got your friends to follow you". :D

[Toshi]

I guess I'll be stuck with these two pics for awhile.
I showed a MC sales guy the sequence shot, he said "That's cool you got your friends to follow you". :D
heh http://www.cripplefight.com/smileys/signmuahaha.gif

[WTGPhoben]

i've posted a thread asking which fork to get for my road bike (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1236694#post1236694), please read and respond. this means you, keith! :nono:


wow, you miss one email and all of a sudden three pages of this thread go by...

In the fork front, my advice is that you probably won't care one way or the other so spend your money on lenses instead (I also have never had to replace anything other than a tube, tire, or spoke nipple on my road bike so I have n point of reference for an opinion)

In other news... (ithink I just told thad this, as opposed to posting) there's a good chance that some of those pics I posted from VT are going to be in some Green Mountain club literature (and credited)... the subject also wants full sized framed prints. Which brings me to the question: what do I need to do to get pro quality prints out of digital photos... I'm looknig to get them professionally printed, what kind of technology is out there?

[Toshi]

congrats on the vt deal! i don't know. maybe ask at calumet?

[WTGPhoben]

congrats on the vt deal! i don't know. maybe ask at calumet?

cool, will check out... btw, my website work for you? I only can access through internal IP on router.

[Toshi]

yeah, it's working. that javascript to resize and move the window to the upper left is (still) very annoying :D :nono:

[WTGPhoben]

congrats on the vt deal! i don't know. maybe ask at calumet?


this looks way cool: (I wonder if local high-end photo place near me has one)
Pictography printer! (http://www.calumetphoto.com/ctl?PAGE=Controller&ac.ui.pn=cat.CatItemDetail&ac.item.itemNo=FZ3500&ac.cat.CatTree.detail=y&type=PRDINDEX)

let the investigation continue...

[WTGPhoben]

yeah, it's working. that javascript to resize and move the window to the upper left is (still) very annoying :D :nono:

someday it will be all better... (but that will probably be the day that coincides with my rewiritng the whole thing in ASP, and not soon).

[Toshi]

agh. no uw symphony for me. they rehearse right in the middle of histology, anatomy & embryology and systems of human behavior (and i only have 5 classes total)

:(

[Toshi]

a fly eating robot (isn't modern technology great? :drool: )

http://tinyurl.com/6oqaz

Chris Melhuish and his team, who are developing the robot, have to manually feed the flies to EcoBot II because they are still designing some type of pump to suck the insects into it.

"One of the great things about flies is that you can get them to come to you," he said.

Hence the downside of the fully autonomous robot: it will have to use sewage or excrement to attract the flies and is bound to smell appalling.


:thumb:

[Toshi]

i decided to count how many words i write in a more or less typical day on various forums. the total is startling: approximately 3000. :eek:

i present the transcript of this day (up to and including this post, ooh) as modern art of sorts

[WTGPhoben]

i decided to count how many words i write in a more or less typical day on various forums. the total is startling: approximately 3000. :eek:

i present the transcript of this day (up to and including this post, ooh) as modern art of sorts

...thus proving you have far too much time on your hands (or just don't sleep). But, I suppose I did actually read all 3000 words, and I too am probably voting nader (it's nice to live in MA so I can do it without guilt as well.)

[Toshi]

i hope i don't come near 3000 words in the future, because that will mean i'm neglecting my studies :dead: ... and by "studies" i mean "memorizing irrelevant junk so that i can pass the boards" :mumble:

[Toshi]

tim, i'm just going to order that easton off supergo. or was it nashbar? :D in any case, i'm in seattle now so it makes more sense to do that. thanks for the effort tho :thumb:

oh yeah, moving in sucks. especially when you have a (electronic but heavy! 150 lbs or so) piano and a second floor apartment without elevator. i guess i should be glad it wasn't 5th floor, but still...

[TWISTED]

Sorry, I didn't get the chance to talk to the sales guy.
Have fun in Seattle. :thumb:

[Toshi]

interesting: uw's library system doesn't have many popular books. popular as in somewhat-recent sci fi and novels, "paladin of souls" (bujold), "the cookie monster" (no, not _that_ :D; vinge), "legions in time" (swanwick), "a study in emerald" (gaiman), or a few others that i tried.

on the other hand its science libraries have plenty of slightly drier fare. i'm going to grab "Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke: Pioneers in Mathematical Analysis and Catastrophe Theory from Evolvements to Quasicrystals" (arnol'd et al.), "the demon in the freezer" (preston), "Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics" (wheeler, ford) and maybe "thus spake zarathustra" tomorrow. yum, books

[Toshi]

yet again my minigolf title has been taken away :(

on the upside i survived day one of orientation. getting immunizations was not fun: hep a, b, tetanus and a tb booster. ugh.

[Toshi]

i'll be gone until tomorrow afternoon. orientation retreat and all. i'm very close to having a 20D in my paws btw -- i can't disclose exactly where i'm on the list but i should be getting one in the next shipment or two. :thumb:

[Toshi]

here's a page to boggle the mind when not thinking of more serious issues like russia's devolution into totalitarianism under the guise of counterterrorism... er, where was i? :dead: oh yeah, the link: http://masamania.com/archives/2004/08/hotrod_of_ayumi.html

[Toshi]

t-mobile won't sell me a cell phone since i cancelled my previous service with them less than 90 days ago. cingular won't sell me a cell phone because they lack some unspecified bit of "required info". what's going on? :dead:

[Toshi]

i'm taking a wild guess that i'm not riding with this guy in the future: http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97341&page=2

:rolleyes:

plonk:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/plonk.jpg

in related news my ignore list is now up to 38 members. :oink: :oink:

[Toshi]

thought of the night: are YOU covered for robot attacks?

http://www.robotcombat.com/video/old_glory_hi.mov

[Toshi]

i'm thinking of making a privacy act request for the records that the fbi may have on me:

http://foia.fbi.gov/privacy_instruc.pdf
http://foia.fbi.gov/privacy_request.pdf
why: http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1260447#post1260447

[Toshi]

here is an interesting photography-related technology:

Quantitative phase microscopy is a relatively new technique that can generate phase images and phase-amplitude images. In practice, to obtain a quantitative phase image one collects an in-focus image and very slightly positively and negatively defocused images, and uses these data to estimate the differential with respect to the defocus of the image. These images (a through-focal series) can be easily obtained in our system with our z-motion nano-positioner. The resulting data can be solved to yield the phase distribution by Fourier-transform methods. Results are obtained by essentially solving an optical transport equation. Significantly, the phase that is obtained does not have to be unwrapped, as is required for interferometry.

http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/radoncology/crr/reports2003/a3.htm

basically the camera takes images focused before, at, and after the desired plane of focus and extracts (dramatically) more information about the plane of focus from the differences it has with the others. cool stuff, although i wish i knew more of the underlying math. what is "an optical transport equation" anyway? this mit paper (http://people.csail.mit.edu/u/c/custo/public_html/paper1.pdf) talks about solving it using the (crude, like throwing darts at a board and counting how many fall in a given region) monte carlo sampling method but doesn't explicitly state what the equation is unless i'm missing something. eh, ok, maybe the answer isn't out there: this page on optical tomography (http://op.ph.ic.ac.uk/tomog/tomog.html) states "Direct solutions from Maxwell's equations have hardly been attempted. Instead several differential or integro-differential equations have been used among them the radiation transport equation and the diffusion approximation which is derived from the transport equation."

why am i posting this, besides giving a rundown of what's in my head at the moment thanks to a slashdot writeup on the first topic (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/24/0115236&tid=152&tid=126&tid=1&tid=14)? two reasons: it's relevant to photography, and it is relevant to a field i might want to go into, brain imaging. there are so many novel technologies being used to model the brain and the abovementioned technique has been applied to MRI and optical tomography so it's significant.

ah, i found the transport equation!

http://www.iatia.com.au/images/eqnTransportOfIntensity.gif
from http://www.iatia.com.au/technology/insideQpi.asp

makes no sense to me tho :( (the mathematical primitives do, but i don't know what they mean)

[Toshi]

another interesting offshoot of the above slashdot discussion on QPM is this work, from a stanford team, on using parallax to resolve obscured images. it's even bike related, check out this video!

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/plane+parallax_calib/bike-sap.mov

the page itself, with some explanation of what they're doing: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/plane+parallax_calib/

before:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/plane+parallax_calib/crowd0-csnap.c124.v01-balsh.jpg
after:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/plane+parallax_calib/crowd0-rank1-088.jpg

[Toshi]

here's a page to boggle the mind when not thinking of more serious issues like russia's devolution into totalitarianism under the guise of counterterrorism... er, where was i? :dead: oh yeah, the link: http://masamania.com/archives/2004/08/hotrod_of_ayumi.html
i know thad enjoyed the link above :thumb: :D

here's another one in a similar vein:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/ztath/starthp/subpage01.html

crazy. i kind of like 'em actually.

http://homepage2.nifty.com/ztath/starthp/img/0aa013.jpg

[Toshi]

i'm thinking of making a privacy act request for the records that the fbi may have on me:

http://foia.fbi.gov/privacy_instruc.pdf
http://foia.fbi.gov/privacy_request.pdf
why: http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1260447#post1260447
ooh, i'm replying to my own posts regularly now. maybe i'm going insane :D

anyway, i submitted the foia request on friday, so in a few months i'll have a report of what dirt the fbi has on me, if any. also, the easton came altho i've been too lazy to put it on the klein as of yet.

finally, i just watched this: http://www.mentalwardfilm.com/Stuck%20Multimedia/Construction.wmv . while i'm certain i'm just as much of a nerd in my own way (music, ridemonkey :D ) i still feel somewhat sorry for the people in it. on the other hand, i guess they have their whole community, everyone who helped build that "falcon", so they're as well off as anyone else.

http://www.mentalwardfilm.com/Millennium%20Falcon%20Construction/MentalWardFalconU.jpg

[WTGPhoben]

Nice to see you're all getting cooler in my absence :rolleyes:

At any rate, some biking news:

I got a first-hand glance at the Specialized Epic today while riding with a new member of our regular riding contingent. Didn't ride it yet, but looks cool and its rider certainly seemed to think it made him ride better.

In other news I need new tires (for my car 2002 passat wgn):
I have the option of summer tires and snows or all-season (I have two wheelsets)

I think I want to go wider than stock (stock is 195/65/15), with the word on the street that the biggest I can go is 215/60.

Some AS tires that look good:
BFGoodrich Traction T/A (HR)
Michelin Hydroedge (TR)
Goodyear Tripletread (TR)
Continental Extreme Contact (VR) only comes in 205/55 or 205/65

Insightful and longwinded suggestions are appreciated

EDIT: good snow traction is key, as I'm going to be skiing every wknd, but doing lots of hwy driving to get there (a possible reason why I woudn't want dedicated snows)

[Toshi]

i have no comment on tires, besides to not get bfg mud terrains for your passat :D . helpful, eh?

[WTGPhoben]

i have no comment on tires, besides to not get bfg mud terrains for your passat :D . helpful, eh?

sometimes I wonder why I bother asking advice from you people.

me toshi
:nuts:

[Toshi]

sometimes I wonder why I bother asking advice from you people.
i don't know. :think: are you a slow learner? :D

[WTGPhoben]

i don't know. :think: are you a slow learner? :D

clearly.

Hopefully thad will be bored enough to be constructive.

[Barbaton]

clearly.

Hopefully thad will be bored enough to be constructive.

what, hey? sorry....i was napping...

[Toshi]

not riding for a while makes your body soft and weak. i'd draw a parallel between my weakness and the governator's command, "don't be economic girlie-men" (http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:p5wbDhelnXwJ:www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/31/gop.schwarzenegger.transcript/+economic+girlie+men+transcript&hl=en&start=1), but the proper wording escapes me at the moment. anyway both of my wrists are sore from last night's street ride (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97539). ow. poor me.

[Barbaton]

what, hey? sorry....i was napping...


seriously, though. I don't know much about those particular tires, but I'd go with something all-season over the summer. You're milage is already suffering from the racks and the big-ass tires you want, so I'd go with the ones that are better for the snowy winter, having had some summer tires on my dad's car that got me into some trouble at Jay Peak a couple years ago...

[Barbaton]

does this look like a good deal for the blur? Overkill for the sort of XC I do?

http://www.supergo.com/profile.cfm?LPROD_ID=20888&lsubcat_id=7589&lcat_id=7604&referpage=

[Toshi]

that's an excellent deal for the pair. i'm on my second or third set of hayes and they work well enough. :thumb: with 6" rotors they'd be well suited to your blur

[WTGPhoben]

that's an excellent deal for the pair. i'm on my second or third set of hayes and they work well enough. :thumb: with 6" rotors they'd be well suited to your blur

that is def a good deal, but if you get discs we're going to have to start doing scarier stuff.

In car news, not that anyone cares, I got BFGoodrich Traction T/A-H 215/60/15 All-seasons, and some low-end snow tires to put on my extra rims. all mounted and balanced, with a free mount and balance for putting my extra michelin mxv4s on my dad's car in the spring for $669 incl tax.

After my dad buys the michelins (his tires are all done), I'll have two sets of tires mounted for $300

Should be all done by tomorrow night, and I'll have pretty pictures and reviews to follow.

[Barbaton]

that is def a good deal, but if you get discs we're going to have to start doing scarier stuff.


Better brakes mean barbaton go slower... :devil:

[Toshi]

Better brakes mean barbaton go slower... :devil:
heh, that would be the conventional wisdom but it actually works out the other way. once i got my brakes dialed in (levers close to the bars and as far inboard as possible) i was braking later and later. this manifested itself in me getting quite a bit faster over this season's course -- of course jumping up from the evil + z1 to canfield + monster helped there too ;) -- and going over the bars more often.

[Barbaton]

heh, that would be the conventional wisdom but it actually works out the other way. once i got my brakes dialed in (levers close to the bars and as far inboard as possible) i was braking later and later. this manifested itself in me getting quite a bit faster over this season's course -- of course jumping up from the evil + z1 to canfield + monster helped there too ;) -- and going over the bars more often.

yeah, i was just alluding to the fact that keith thinks i'm a slow-ass. then again, he's probably right. on the other hand i don't have inhumanly long legs for leverage. :nopity:

[Toshi]

i'm not so sold that long legs are advantage. sure, keith is fast, but maybe he'd be fast if he was short, too. hmm. keith, want to undergo elective leg-reduction surgery to test the theory out? :D

two things to back this up: 1) except for indurain most pro cyclists are not huge, either in height or (especially) girth. 2) given that the forces are directed into a circle of radius 170-185mm one would think that length of the limb generating the force would be irrelevant.

[Toshi]

i ordered the wrong fork for my klein. dumb dumb dumb. note to self: threadless !=> 1 1/8". (it's 1" threadless...)

good news: i have this afternoon off so i can take care of the fork, er, "issue" along with buying a new chainring and front skewer at the local supergo store. it's ridiculously close by...

[Toshi]

new thread: what would it take you to emigrate? (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98305)

[Toshi]

good lawd, my new cell phone (SE T637) takes horrible looking pictures. my old phone (nokia 3650) took much nicer shots. this is FULL RES too, just for the record :dead:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/ugly%20phonepix%20-%20september%2028,%202004/Images/0.jpghttp://s91590527.onlinehome.us/ugly%20phonepix%20-%20september%2028,%202004/Images/1.jpg
http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/ugly%20phonepix%20-%20september%2028,%202004/Images/2.jpghttp://s91590527.onlinehome.us/ugly%20phonepix%20-%20september%2028,%202004/Images/3.jpg

[WTGPhoben]

good lawd, my new cell phone (SE T637) takes horrible looking pictures. my old phone (nokia 3650) took much nicer shots. this is FULL RES too, just for the record :dead:




the only correct thing to do is to put it out of its misery. I suggest a little black paint, or for the more through at heart, a red hot nail through the lens

Then you could glue it to the bottom of your d30 and have a real camera phone.

[Toshi]

dude, i sold my d30 a month ago...

[WTGPhoben]

dude, i sold my d30 a month ago...

ok, so you'll have to wait for the 20d

[Barbaton]

Speaking of, were you guys aware that the 1Ds mark 2 can do WiFi? I wasn't. Details here. (http://www.dpreview.com/news/0409/04092104canoneos1dsmkii.asp)

Sounds cool. You can shoot photos and have them stored on your powerbook somewhere else, maybe running a script to upload them realtime to a webserver or something. Convergence :thumb:

[Toshi]

it's not only the 1Ds MkII, that module also works on the 1D MkII and the 20D! :D :thumb:

[Barbaton]

it's not only the 1Ds MkII, that module also works on the 1D MkII and the 20D! :D :thumb:

Cool. you should get one for yours if you can cough up the 7k or whatever i saw it for...

EDIT: on second thought i think that was the price for the whole camera. I was quite shocked when i first saw that and thought it was the attachment price.

[Toshi]

Cool. you should get one for yours if you can cough up the 7k or whatever i saw it for...
no no, the 1Ds MkII will be $7k. the wireless deal is separate: http://tinyurl.com/6yb5l . it has no price set yet.

[Barbaton]

no no, the 1Ds MkII will be $7k. the wireless deal is separate: http://tinyurl.com/6yb5l . it has no price set yet.

hmmm. looks like i was editing my post while you were typing yours...

:nuts:

[Toshi]

hmmm. looks like i was editing my post while you were typing yours...

:nuts:
busted http://www.cripplefight.com/smileys/signmuahaha.gif

[Barbaton]

Most of the arcane laws in Saudi Arabia I tend to think are extreme and repressive. In this case (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6133475/), though, it doesn't bother me. I don't agree with the root reasons, but I'm glad someone is starting to force the issue. Hopefully we'll have some camera free choices in the future as a result. Stopping now before the ranting starts.

[Toshi]

eh, what kind of phone do you have, thad? my current T637 and previous 3650 both have excellent RF reception, and the smartphone features that accompany cameras are also what lets iSync sync up with them. given that i have 118 contacts in my address book at the moment, most of them with multiple phone numbers, i wouldn't want to give up that functionality. as for size, my 3650 was huge, yes, but the T637 is as small as any phone i've seen yet...

basically, besides the principle of it and the $5 for a commodity CCD, why shouldn't phones have cameras?

[Toshi]

tell me what beers/wine to try (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1267991#post1267991)

[Barbaton]

eh, what kind of phone do you have, thad? my current T637 and previous 3650 both have excellent RF reception, and the smartphone features that accompany cameras are also what lets iSync sync up with them. given that i have 118 contacts in my address book at the moment, most of them with multiple phone numbers, i wouldn't want to give up that functionality. as for size, my 3650 was huge, yes, but the T637 is as small as any phone i've seen yet...

basically, besides the principle of it and the $5 for a commodity CCD, why shouldn't phones have cameras?

I have a Siemens S56, the only phone sold in Jan 2004 that was small, a smartphone, had bluetooth, and NO camera, which are the features for which I picked it. Works with iSync like a charm and dings annoyingly at my office 15mins before my meetings. There's a camera attachment you can buy but it's not built in cuz they were keeping it small. It's also a more secure phone and isn't vulnerable to bluesnarfing the way the nokia and Sony Ericsson phones are. The only drawback I've found so far is that it doesn't work with Salling Clicker.

To me the problem with phone cameras is that they're more hassle than they're worth for me. They take crappy pictures so I'll never use it, and I don't want to have to deal with a company or something that won't let me bring the phone because it has a camera.

I don't object to phones having a camera but it frustrates me that you can't find many anymore that don't. I just want the business climate or something to require more options for business phones that don't have them.

Personally I love the little Siemens phone, though I'm peeved that they don't make it anymore after replacing it with a camera model. :angry:

[WTGPhoben]

tell me what beers/wine to try (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1267991#post1267991)

looks like your west coast crew has that all wrapped up. Besides, anything that's good over here, you cant find out there.

[Toshi]

Besides, anything that's good over here, you cant find out there.
actually qfc and this supposed next-to-qfc beer store have excellent selections... toss out some eh eh

thad, you're just a phone-camera nazi. you've got to relax and go with the modern flow... http://www.cripplefight.com/smileys/afro.gif your s56 is 102mm x 43mm x 18mm, my t637 is 102 x 43 x 17 mm. sure, technology progresses but the sizes are definitely comparable. and that one series 60 virus was a fluke :D . how's the screen on the s56? i actually considered it myself, but the large, bright color screens of the modern camera phones seduced me

[Barbaton]

new parts on the way

new wtb seat

new sram chain

still debating on the disc brakes...

[Toshi]

heh, props on the new parts, but isn't ski season about to start? :D

[Barbaton]

heh, props on the new parts, but isn't ski season about to start? :D

Yup. Gotta start spec'ing AT gear too. :)

[Barbaton]

no longer debating on the brakes. thought it was a good deal and the Hope Mono Minis are getting terrible reviews. i'm glad I waited a few months to see what people thought.

The hayes installation instructions have lots of instructions involving torque wrenches. Is the exact amount of force on the bolt that important or can I just make it tight? :confused:

[Toshi]

i have a torque wrench. i only use it for crank and suspension pivot bolts. draw your own conclusions :eek:

(my minigolf title is back!)

[Toshi]

dude. and now my minigolf title is gone again. what's up with that?

anyway, here is an interesting read, on how the anti-counterfeiting measures in copiers, scanners and image processing programs (photoshop) is implemented: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf

[Toshi]

i just upgraded my 1st generation ipod with a battery that will give it ~20 hours of runtime (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98119). not bad for $45.

order it yourself here if you have a 1G or 2G ipod whose battery life is not what it used to be: http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=7157&Item=NWTIPOD210012

[Toshi]

free-walking. crazy:

http://mediax.muchosucko.com/movies/512-davidbelle.mov

also i'm off to whistler tomorrow :thumb: but my 20D STILL ISN'T HERE so no pics will be forthcoming :(

[ALEXIS_DH]

hey toshi, what camera are you using for the pics on your site????


i been thinking about getting into photography, as i lack any talent in the painting field.
any tips on how to get started?? or a good camera for a newbie???

[Quadari]

hey toshi, what camera are you using for the pics on your site????


i been thinking about getting into photography, as i lack any talent in the painting field.
any tips on how to get started?? or a good camera for a newbie???

So I'll respond to this as well since Toshi got me into photography. I actually have a Canon PowerShot S30 which is the camera that Toshi used to have. I personally think it's a great newbie camera because it's very easy to use, takes really good pictures (I think - especially for a non-SLR) but also lets you do some slightly more complicated stuff. But it gets major points for overall ease of use and quality of pictures. Canon currently has out some higher numbered powershots (like the s45 and s60 i think) but they're all basically the same just different megapixels. Overall i'm a big Canon fan. Other digitals that I've used are much harder to use.

If you want to see what shots from the camera can look like I have a bunch posted on my site.

[Toshi]

ari is correct, the early pictures on the website were taken with a canon powershot S30. the later (march 2003 and on) pics were taken with a canon D30 dSLR and assorted canon/sigma glass. the 20D is what i'm currently moving to.

[Toshi]

whistler was all that and a bag of chips (maui sweet onion) btw. no serious injuries to speak of in our group, no major mechanicals. the only downer is that my fingers really hurt, worse this time than on the previous trips this summer... there may be something wrong with my joints, related to my being "double jointed"/overly flexible...

[Barbaton]

whistler was all that and a bag of chips (maui sweet onion) btw. no serious injuries to speak of in our group, no major mechanicals. the only downer is that my fingers really hurt, worse this time than on the previous trips this summer... there may be something wrong with my joints, related to my being "double jointed"/overly flexible...


as keith often says to me. "Stop using your brakes!" :evil:

[Toshi]

i brake with one finger tho, and the pain is not in that finger (index finger). it's in the middle and ring fingers in the first joint away from the knuckles. ow.

[WTGPhoben]

I finally got around to trying a bic pen as the key to my evo2000, and it does indeed work just about as well as the real key. popped it open in about 2min

toshi, did you diagnose your fingers yet? (given that you are a med student)

[Toshi]

heh, it takes you 2 minutes to open your lock with the real key? :D

nope, no diagnosis on the fingers. i don't know any medicine so can't make heads or tails of my problem and the school clinic isn't open on the weekend (and this isn't critical enough to go into the hospital since it doesn't interfere with non-dh life at all).

[Toshi]

cool optical illusions by a japanese professor:

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/rotsnake.gif

(nb: it's a STATIC gif, there's no actual motion going on)

[Toshi]

check out this, too:

http://questforconsciousness.com/conscious.html

stare in the triangle defined by the yellow dots, wait a few seconds and then the yellow dots will blit in and out of your consciousness. trippy

[Quadari]

cool optical illusions by a japanese professor:

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html

(nb: it's a STATIC gif, there's no actual motion going on)

Okay...wow....that's totally crazy. :blah:

[Toshi]

this is really cool: http://www.air-and-space.com/SpaceShipOne.htm

i want to be rich and buy a plane :(

[Toshi]

a haiku:

oh my, snooty cheese
you looked so nice on the shelf
now my wallet aches

[Barbaton]

Brakes just came. They are shiny. Kieth, I'm looking to you for help putting 'em on, since I'll screw it up myself. :help:


work focus just went byebye

[WTGPhoben]

Brakes just came. They are shiny. Kieth, I'm looking to you for help putting 'em on, since I'll screw it up myself. :help:


work focus just went byebye

sweet it'll almost be like I bought them myself

[Barbaton]

It's Christmas in Officeland today. New chain just arrived too. Best part is, it's packaged in a CD jewel case. Kudos to SRAM for using alternative packaging that won't necessarily go straight to the landfill. :thumb:

[Toshi]

my 20D is shipping tomorrow! will be here on tuesday :thumb:

[Toshi]

two thoughts:

1) i just used the bottle opener on my canfield f1's seat mast to open a samuel smith oatmeal stout. (also note that i haven't started studying yet tonight, so this might be an amusing experience :D )

2) here is a list of lovely cheeses to try that i sent out to the chat-list (so ari has already seen it)

Stilton - a blue cheese, good with fruit
Aged Gouda - i just tried some 4 year aged gouda, very hard and
flavorful, not all creamy like normal gouda
Gorgonzola - another blue cheese
Roquefort - yet another. see a pattern here? ;-)
Comté - a hard cheese sitting in my refrigerator, altho i haven't tried
it yet it has many fans
Camembert - like brie on steroids, in a good way
Epoisses - comes in a little wooden container. a creamy cheese,
supposedly napoleon's favorite :-o , very smelly tho (air it out!)
Leydin - a hard-ish cheese, often has spices in it. not offensive like
some of the blues can be

yum.

[Barbaton]

two thoughts:

1) i just used the bottle opener on my canfield f1's seat mast to open a samuel smith oatmeal stout. (also note that i haven't started studying yet tonight, so this might be an amusing experience :D )

2) here is a list of lovely cheeses to try that i sent out to the chat-list (so ari has already seen it)

Stilton - a blue cheese, good with fruit
Aged Gouda - i just tried some 4 year aged gouda, very hard and
flavorful, not all creamy like normal gouda
Gorgonzola - another blue cheese
Roquefort - yet another. see a pattern here? ;-)
Comté - a hard cheese sitting in my refrigerator, altho i haven't tried
it yet it has many fans
Camembert - like brie on steroids, in a good way
Epoisses - comes in a little wooden container. a creamy cheese,
supposedly napoleon's favorite :-o , very smelly tho (air it out!)
Leydin - a hard-ish cheese, often has spices in it. not offensive like
some of the blues can be

yum.

Good choices, though I don't care much for Epoisses. I've got a box from when we lived there in '86 that's been cleaned I don't know how many times and still has a faint touch of it, ugh. I think it's storing some of my coin collection in SF, now.

In other news, morning rides continue and it isn't totally frigid yet. Keith brought a friend from work and I brought one of my music friends, who is, by the way, an excellent Irish guitar player and singer here in the Boston area and who I saw in concert last night.

-T

[Toshi]

i agree, epoisses seems to be a bit much for me. maybe with a very sweet fruit it would be palatable...

[narlus]

get some good manchego cheese. maybe w/ some jamon serrano.

there was a kick-ass cheese shop in dublin; the stuff around me now in the states can't compare, unless i travel into the city. i suppose that would have been true in ireland too... :think:

[Toshi]

sweet, manchego has been added to the list. cheese and ham, eh...

[Toshi]

i hereby declare the evil's rear rim to be unsalvageable. http://www.cripplefight.com/smileys/pirate.gif it has seen its last botched 180 attempt... (no, i didn't do this recently. two weekends ago in fact. just didn't get around to trying to true it until now. after breaking two nipples due to the radically uneven tension i'm calling it a loss.)

i'll also have to rebuild both wheels on the canfield some point this winter. i guess i should buy a truing stand and do it myself, eh?

[Toshi]

or maybe it would be cheaper to just let supergo up the street build the wheels... time == money, right? :think:

in other news, i have dropped out of kaplan teacher training. i feel both somewhat bad and somewhat good about doing so.

[Barbaton]

wow. happened across the Santa Cruz site this morning and noticed a few more icons in their product page. Looks like they've come out with a few new models, including a beefy blur:

http://www.santacruzbicycles.com/bicycles/4x.php

[Barbaton]

anyone interested in real estate?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4320977266&category=15825

[Toshi]

anyone interested in real estate?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4320977266&category=15825
ooh

keith, after your options vest you know what to do

[Toshi]

any of you guys care about alternative voting methods (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99406)?

[Quadari]

anyone interested in real estate?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4320977266&category=15825

I love ebay.

I just always find it amusing that someone would bit $4M on something. Can they pay that with PayPal?

[Toshi]

arrogant bastard ale (http://www.arrogantbastard.com/index2.html) is too much for me to handle :( . i think i may relegate the bottle's contents to the drain

[Toshi]

http://origin.www.segway.com/centaur/ <-- a four wheeled segway. looks fun eh

[Toshi]

1) my 20D is here! nothing to shoot now tho, it's all dark outside. i think they call this "night"

2) who can tell me what's going on in this picture? it came up on page 19 of searching on images.google.com for "Toshi" (inspired by a NSMB bb thread about doing just that, searching on your username)

http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~jr3dao/toshi.jpg

[Toshi]

first photos out of the 20D:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/low%20light%20test%20photos%20-%20october%2012,%202004/Images/0.jpg
http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/low%20light%20test%20photos%20-%20october%2012,%202004/Images/1.jpg

initial reactions: startup is really quick! the shutter is loud. 5 fps feels fast. control layout has changed quite a bit between the D30 and the 20D. being able to zoom in increments on the image review is nice, as is selecting focus points via the joystick-type thing. it feels solid, a lot like your 10D keith. the rubber on the handgrip is nice. more thoughts later once i get some frames shot at more reasonable isos and apertures (the above were at f/2 and f/1.4, iso 800, shutter speeds 1/40-1/60 iirc). i'll post up 100% crops once i shoot at iso 100 with decent shutter speeds.

[Barbaton]

2) who can tell me what's going on in this picture? it came up on page 19 of searching on images.google.com for "Toshi" (inspired by a NSMB bb thread about doing just that, searching on your username)

http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~jr3dao/toshi.jpg

That looks suspiciously like bicycle polo to me, though sillilier than I would have imagined. :think:

[Barbaton]

That looks suspiciously like bicycle polo to me, though sillilier than I would have imagined. :think:

No I take it back. bike polo has a stick. I don't know what the hell they're doing.

http://www.bikepolo.com/

[Quadari]

That looks suspiciously like bicycle polo to me, though sillilier than I would have imagined. :think:

Also...what's going on with those handlebars?

Maybe it's bike polo sans the stick...so you have to kick the ball?

Is one of the guys named Toshi?

[WTGPhoben]

first photos out of the 20D:

initial reactions: startup is really quick! the shutter is loud. 5 fps feels fast. control layout has changed quite a bit between the D30 and the 20D. being able to zoom in increments on the image review is nice, as is selecting focus points via the joystick-type thing. it feels solid, a lot like your 10D keith. the rubber on the handgrip is nice. more thoughts later once i get some frames shot at more reasonable isos and apertures (the above were at f/2 and f/1.4, iso 800, shutter speeds 1/40-1/60 iirc). i'll post up 100% crops once i shoot at iso 100 with decent shutter speeds.

cool. Too bad you're a med student...

I wouldn't mind seeing 100% crops of the low light shots as well, 'cuz that's where I find the 10D really lacking. Any decent digiSLR can take nice crisp pictures outside in daylight, but when the light gets sketchy the processing and sensor quality really make or break the image.

speaking of low light... I'll have some great cloud/ice shots from our backpacking trip this wknd as soon as I get a chance to process...

[WTGPhoben]

you need to give us some shots of this feature in action:

"The EOS 20D also features a built-in monochrome mode, a first in Canon Digital SLRs, which uses digital processing to re-create the effects of a number of different black and white filters and toning effects. These features help to take the guesswork out of black-and-white photography, reducing the need for post processing by delivering the desired detail and contrast of a black and white image from the start"

[Toshi]

i'm guessing that the japanese guy on the right is named toshi. also note that their funny bikes have incredibly short gearing and no seats. :eek:

i'll post up 100% crops when i'm sure that shutter speed/camera motion isn't the source of fuzziness :D but will make sure to include some b&w, iso 800, 1600, 3200 (!) for ya. one weird thing is that i am still running photoshop 7 with adobe camera raw 1 so i can't open raw files in photoshop any more. instead i use canon's new "digital photo professional" application. it's much nicer than the old "file viewer utility" but is still kinda weird. i think i need to read the manual :think:

[Barbaton]

On further exploration, it appears that they're playing cycle soccer:

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Athlete/9553/

Funny that so far all the sites about it i've seen are in japanese. Looks like the non-toshi dude is wearing german colors, though.

here's another site:

http://www.city.kaseda.kagoshima.jp/world_cycling2000_english/

can you tell i have an orgo midterm i should be studying for. :p

[Barbaton]

and here are the rules:

http://hem.passagen.se/pbeijer/bikeball/

as well as info on the goofy bikes:

http://www.cycle-info.bpaj.or.jp/english/ride/fs.html

and a nifty vid of the action:

http://www.hk-icycling.net/movie/hkg-jpn.mpeg

[Toshi]

ooh, orgo. fun. :thumb: hehe. or :dead: . haven't quite made up my mind on that. thanks for hunting down the mystery sport

[Toshi]

at long last i finally got the klein running. (a week or two ago i straightened out the fork mess and put on a new chainring, but the bike still was lacking enough spacers on the head tube.) road riding feels good :) and my stadium light never ceases to amaze me or blind passers-by

[Quadari]

On further exploration, it appears that they're playing cycle soccer:

Aha...so there is a seat on the silly bikes. It's just a weird laid back seat.

So as far as I understand it, they have to "kick" the ball around with their bike...right? Also, we should all try artistic cycling. :-)

[Toshi]

from a thread in Downhill: http://tom.kat.free.fr/mini.wmv

i think that guy has his brake bias dialed to the front a bit... :think: :D

[zane]

He probably has "cutting brakes", that apply brake on only one tire.

hey toshi- how are ya? Riding has been kinda low-key around here, I've been busy as hell with school and the weather hasn't cooperated at all. Are you going to be down this way anytime in the near future?

[Toshi]

sadly i'm not heading south anytime soon. well, further south than mt. rainier... school is keeping me quite busy, if not (always) with studying at least with the long hours in the classroom, 8:30-4:30 today for example :dead: . street riding is out since the evil's rear wheel is toast, which is a shame since i live about 500 feet from a really cool concrete bank-to-curb/post thing. i've seen bmxers do lots of nifty tricks there, and i like to ride up the bank, turn around and ride back down again ;)

i did go to whistler two weekends ago with trailhacker, Snacks and oly tho. that was most excellent.

[Toshi]

shot 1: 1/50, f/4, iso 200, -1 ec, -0.66 more when converting.
shot 2: 1/800, f/2.5, iso 200, -1 ec, +0.33 when converting.
shot 3: 1/100, f/4, iso 1600 (!), 0 ec, -0.66 when converting. built in flash.

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/vertical%20-%20october%2014,%202004/Images/0.jpg
100% crop ( http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A0E121050-crop.jpg)

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/vertical%20-%20october%2014,%202004/Images/1.jpg
100% crop ( http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A0E121B15-crop.jpg)

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/vertical%20-%20october%2014,%202004/Images/2.jpg
100% crop ( http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A0E122024-crop.jpg)

[Toshi]

following up on the above, i think the noise for iso 1600 is more than acceptable, even viewed at 100%. :thumb: good job canon

[Barbaton]

following up on the above, i think the noise for iso 1600 is more than acceptable, even viewed at 100%. :thumb: good job canon

Wow. dems pretty. me wants one. :(

[WTGPhoben]

following up on the above, i think the noise for iso 1600 is more than acceptable, even viewed at 100%. :thumb: good job canon

That's WAY better than the 10D, but in the DIGIC I's defense, you did use a flash. You got any shots where you actually need to be shooting 1600 (ie, low light, no flash)?

also, what lenses you using?

[Toshi]

look in the background, that wasn't illuminated by the flash. shadow noise is nice and low, mmm. all images so far have been with the 50mm f/1.4 usm.

[WTGPhoben]

look in the background, that wasn't illuminated by the flash. shadow noise is nice and low, mmm. all images so far have been with the 50mm f/1.4 usm.

not a lot of bkrd in that crop, but If that little bit is representative then they've worked some magic.

[Toshi]

[see post title]

From the Late Show with David Letterman (10/13/04):

10. "It's connected to an earpiece so Cheney can feed me answers--crap, I wasn't supposed to say that."

9. "It's a device that shocks me every time I mispronounce a word."

8. "Just a bunch of intelligence memos I haven't gotten around to reading yet."

7. "Mmm, delicious Muenster cheese."

6. "John Kerry initially voted for the bulge in my jacket, then voted against it."

5. "I'll tell you exactly what it is--it's a clear sign this econonmy is moving again."

4. "Halliburton is drilling my back for oil."

3. "Oh like you've never cheated in a presidential debate.

2. "Accidentally took some of Governer Schwarzenegger's 'roids."

1. "If Kerry's gonna look like a horse, then I'm gonna look like a camel."

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/archive/ls_topten_archive2004/ls_topten_archive_20041013.shtml

[WTGPhoben]

Pics from my backpacking trip this wknd...

http://www.phoben.com/photos/people_and_places/2004/04-10-10/images/CRW_6870.jpg

http://www.phoben.com/photos/people_and_places/2004/04-10-10/images/CRW_6864.jpg

The rest here (http://www.phoben.com/cgi/pgal/galbuild.cgi?range=1741&style=gal1)

[Toshi]

i like the fog. not so much a fan of b&w, maybe if you play around with the conversion in channel mixer? :D just in case you feel the need to satisfy my sensibilities

[WTGPhoben]

i like the fog. not so much a fan of b&w, maybe if you play around with the conversion in channel mixer? :D just in case you feel the need to satisfy my sensibilities

would you prefer cyan and white?

[Toshi]

would you prefer cyan and white?
no, i mean that if you convert to b&w using different channels (such as 80% red, 10% blue, 15% green <-- yes, it doesn't add up to 100) then you might be able to get a (black and white) image that has more "pop"

[WTGPhoben]

no, i mean that if you convert to b&w using different channels (such as 80% red, 10% blue, 15% green <-- yes, it doesn't add up to 100) then you might be able to get a (black and white) image that has more "pop"

that works great for images that were originally very saturated (see below), but with pics taken in heavy fog (visibility about 100ft), everything's already pretty gray, so you don't get a lot of effect from channel mixing (channels are all the same)

http://www.phoben.com/photos/people_and_places/2004/04-07-05/images/CRW_6428_RT8.jpg

[Toshi]

ah, ok then :thumb:

[Toshi]

i'm thinking of making a privacy act request for the records that the fbi may have on me:

http://foia.fbi.gov/privacy_instruc.pdf
http://foia.fbi.gov/privacy_request.pdf
why: http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1260447#post1260447
i got the DoJ response today, and they say "A search of the automated indices to the central records system files at FBI Headquarters located no records responsive to your FOIPA request." that's good i guess, even tho i am slightly disappointed. i am pretty sure that my memories of the cooperstown incident are sound since my parents have talked about it too... :think: go figure.

[Toshi]

since the evil needs a new rim (and thus spokes and nipples) and i foresee it remaining a single speed i am very tempted to go with this hub in place of the XT disc model on there now:

http://www.nashbar.com/nashbar_photos/medium/NF-SSHR.gif

compared to

http://www.nashbar.com/nashbar_photos/medium/SH-FHM760.gif

it's cheap, being a nashbar generic product, has disc mounts (which i need on the disc-only evil) and has the all-important wide flange spacing for more lateral strength. which, judging from my rim's present shape, would be a Good Thing... :think:

[Toshi]

actually, scratch that thought:

xt disc:
weight----------- 432g (36H with skewer) by tech
dimension-------- flange diameter=45mm, center to flange left=30mm
center to flange right=45.8mm
nashbar ss disc:
WT: 649g
Flange to center
34mm Right
38mm Left
i don't see how these measurements are possible, but if true then the ss hub actually has a narrower flange width...

[Toshi]

some "real" low light shots for you, keith

image 1 and 2: iso 3200 (!), 1/50, f/2.8
image 3: iso 1600, 1/60, f/2.0

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/dirt%20-%20october%2016,%202004/Images/0.jpg
100% crop, no noise reduction (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A100E2604-crop-no-n.jpg), with noise reduction (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A100E2604-crop-nr.jpg)

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/dirt%20-%20october%2016,%202004/Images/1.jpg
100% crop, no noise reduction (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A100E2E06-crop-no-n.jpg), with noise reduction (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A100E2E06-crop-nr.jpg)

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/dirt%20-%20october%2016,%202004/Images/2.jpg
100% crop, no noise reduction (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A100E3505-crop-no-n.jpg), with noise reduction (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/DPP07D40A100E3505-crop-nr.jpg). definitely see some camera shake in here, my bad. blame 1/60 @ 50mm x 1.6x as before.

my thoughts: the iso 3200 shots look as good as my D30's iso 800 shots. considering that the 20D has 2.5 times the number of pixels as the D30 i am very pleased, as that makes the difference is far greater than "just" 2 stops.

[Toshi]

on second thought the 20D's iso 3200 appears more akin to my D30's iso 1600 rather than iso 800. it's still good, and cleans up well. the huge file size makes the feat all the more impressive.

a note about firmware updating under mac os x: i was unable to update the firmware from the .fir file extracted from the .sit file (hosted on canon.co.jp, see dpreview or robgalbraith for a link). however, i was able to update the firmware from the .fir file extracted from the .exe file -- stuffit expander also expands .exe self extracting archives.

[Toshi]

here's a well done crankworx video: http://video2.nsmb.com/snowburn/snowburn_crankworx_2004.mov

also, if you go to http://www.observedtrials.net/ you can download a full length trials flick from 2002

[WTGPhoben]

some "real" low light shots for you, keith

image 1 and 2: iso 3200 (!), 1/50, f/2.8
image 3: iso 1600, 1/60, f/2.0

definitely see some camera shake in here, my bad. blame 1/60 @ 50mm x 1.6x as before.

my thoughts: the iso 3200 shots look as good as my D30's iso 800 shots. considering that the 20D has 2.5 times the number of pixels as the D30 i am very pleased, as that makes the difference is far greater than "just" 2 stops.

Yeah, those look real good.

[Toshi]

an interesting bit of reading (from Wedding, "Behavior & Medicine")

"Sublimation may be understood as a relatively mature defense in which various instincts are displaced or converted into socially acceptable outlets. Normal sexual curiosity, for example, can become voyeurism under adverse circumstances. Under more favorable circumstances, the same impulse may be sublimated into an interest in photography. Similarly, a sadistic impulse to inflict pain can be sublimated into the socially acceptable and necessary practice of surgery. The surgeon can cut and hurt the patient in the service of a higher goal. Note that in both of these examples of sublimation, the infantile and sexual origins of these behaviors are nearly completely disguised."

i sense that the author is neither a photographer nor a surgeon. :think:

[Toshi]

let's see, i will be out of this place and earning a meager wage as a resident in 2008 or 2009 (if no research/research), this GTI is released in "Late fall 2005 in U.S." according to autoweek, yup, that's about right to pick it up used... :thumb:

anyway, to the duplicated post from the lounge about the upcoming vw gti that explains what i'm talking about:

:heart:

http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=100993
http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/article_984.shtml

http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/uploads/021__scaled_600_002.jpg

0-60 in 6.9 with the "direct-shift" transmission, under 3000 lbs., and actually practical being a hatchback...

[Barbaton]

my illustrious home state strikes again:

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100238

hehe

[Toshi]

good job sox

[Toshi]

i'm going to see alan vizzuti play! in 50 minutes

[Barbaton]

Woohoo. Now I'm not the only one on this thread to be a champion.

In the words of the immortal pedro I am the daddy of the pingu. :dancing:

[Toshi]

i'm going to see alan vizzuti play! in 50 minutes
oops, it's vizzutti, two ts. he is the man. i am going to go practice in shame now.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=alan+vizzutti&spell=1

[Toshi]

Woohoo. Now I'm not the only one on this thread to be a champion.

In the words of the immortal pedro I am the daddy of the pingu. :dancing:
nice! i tried futilely to master the pingu slap, but always would screw up around the 8th penguin :(

[Barbaton]

This is pretty slick:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/noises.php

[Toshi]

hehe, that is cool.

[Toshi]

recent phonepix:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/life%20via%20phonepix%20-%20october%2024,%202004/Images/0.jpghttp://s91590527.onlinehome.us/life%20via%20phonepix%20-%20october%2024,%202004/Images/1.jpg
http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/life%20via%20phonepix%20-%20october%2024,%202004/Images/2.jpghttp://s91590527.onlinehome.us/life%20via%20phonepix%20-%20october%2024,%202004/Images/3.jpghttp://s91590527.onlinehome.us/life%20via%20phonepix%20-%20october%2024,%202004/Images/4.jpg

captions: a double rainbow, one of my profs dressed up as a uterus (his arms would be the broad ligaments), the signboard in front of my friend kristel's place, moving a table that barely fit into the pathfinder...

in other news i am now 1-0 in the intramural racquetball tournament. i may be entered into the wrong category, as i walked over the other guy, 15-3, 15-4... :think:

[Toshi]

musical gems:

http://www.greenamp.com/images/simpsongoofup.mpg
http://www.greenamp.com/images/Ashlee.avi [divx]

and this is supposedly what enrique iglesias sounds like under the sync, recorded at a concert in poland off the stage mic: http://www.madsb.com/enrique/enrique.mp3

[narlus]

toshi, thanks for that link. my wife almost peed herself listening to it.

[Toshi]

this is kind of old, as it was discussed around the time of the RNC, but here's a video of the bike rigged up to paint messages on the sidewalk. it uses chalk? so it's not permanent.

http://korswg.free.fr/ilovenewyork.mov

[Toshi]

new pics tonight:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/texture%20-%20october%2026,%202004/Images/3.jpg

see the rest in the gallery here (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/texture%20-%20october%2026,%202004/)

[Toshi]

"Simpson, who has since cited swollen vocal cords due to acid reflux disease as the reason she used a guide vocal"

hehe, riiiiiiight

[narlus]

someone posted a link to a NZ paper which had a headline like "acid ruins singer's performance".

:D

[Toshi]

i went to the nwd5 premiere in renton tonight. thoughts: music was loud. cymbals are particularly painful to listen to. riding in vid was good, a slight step up from that of other videos. camera work was ok, varying between scenes.

i also brought my camera and snapped these two pics (the second is oly from here on ridemonkey):

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/nwd%205%20premiere%20-%20october%2029,%202004/Images/0.jpg
http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/nwd%205%20premiere%20-%20october%2029,%202004/Images/1.jpg

[Toshi]

i think it's worth plugging my friend steve's blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/india/ . he's in india for a few months, and is an amusing writer.

[Toshi]

new pics today, went to snoqualmie falls:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/snoqualmie%20falls%20-%20october%2030,%202004/

a few samples:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/snoqualmie%20falls%20-%20october%2030,%202004/Images/5.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/snoqualmie%20falls%20-%20october%2030,%202004/Images/18.jpg

[Toshi]

and a few more for kicks:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/snoqualmie%20falls%20-%20october%2030,%202004/Images/12.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/snoqualmie%20falls%20-%20october%2030,%202004/Images/14.jpg + 100% crop (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/crops/Untitled-1.jpg)

[Toshi]

and news of the weird: http://www.liquidgeneration.com/rumormill/ipod_killing.html

Brad Pulaski had died of blunt trauma to the head after being repeatedly bludgeoned with an iPod, a popular MP3 player produced by Apple.

[Toshi]

remember back in elementary school, where it was said that you can't fold a piece of paper more than N times? (where N = ~8). well, it isn't true: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/puzzlezone/muse/muse0704.asp

spending the money for gold foil and an $85 roll of toilet paper is a lot of effort just for some extra credit... altho she did show something novel, if not groundbreaking.

folded 12 times:

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/puzzlezone/images/Britney.jpg

[Toshi]

i'm tired about writing about the external and internal anatomy of the heart and its vasculature :( so here is another timewaster, my current list of books to read as of halloween 2004

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/books%20to%20read%20halloween.pdf

i'm currently reading the john wheeler biography, "geons" etc. and it is interesting. something good to read during rests at rehearsals at least.

[Toshi]

this is kind of interesting, from http://www.electoral-vote.com/ :

http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/edu.html

harvard kids surf the electoral-vote.com site more than any others... followed by UMN of all places. UW is doing ok in #4 too, which makes sense since it's so huuuuuge (40k+, http://tinyurl.com/6sv9x)

[Toshi]

http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov

"just a one-fingered victory salute"

hmm. :think:

[Toshi]

go Vote

[Toshi]

meh. looks like it will be four more years of "staying the course." :mad:

[Toshi]

meh. looks like it will be four more years of "staying the course." :mad:
on the upside we had the highest voter turnout since 1960... http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=voter+turnout&btnG=Search+News

in other news, here's a sign that seattle is cool (less than a mile away from my place):

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/election%20night%20at%20the%20ram%20-%20november%202,%202004/Images/0.jpg

[Barbaton]

hmmm. funny what happens when you're looking or bike racks on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1523&item=5531720315&rd=1

:think:

[Toshi]

hmmm. funny what happens when you're looking or bike racks on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1523&item=5531720315&rd=1

:think:
ahha, did you order one? :eek: :D

"Life Technology Research International®"
"energetically modified"
"personal energy tool"
"When it is in contact with the body, The*Thule takyonator™ forms a resonance loop tuned to the Earth's beneficial pulsation"

the funny thing is that they are right about the effects of stress on disease progression. too bad they surround it with a bunch of pseudoscience of the worst variety...

[Barbaton]

ahha, did you order one? :eek: :D

"Life Technology Research International®"
"energetically modified"
"personal energy tool"
"When it is in contact with the body, The*Thule takyonator™ forms a resonance loop tuned to the Earth's beneficial pulsation"

the funny thing is that they are right about the effects of stress on disease progression. too bad they surround it with a bunch of pseudoscience of the worst variety...

No. Didn't. Did just miss a chance to get the short roof adaptor for the car, though. In other news, someone beat my pingu score, so I racked it up another 90 pts. :evil:

[Toshi]

beers i have tried:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/beer,%20costco,%20operations%20-%20november%204,%202004/Images/0.jpg

spied in the med student lounge:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/beer,%20costco,%20operations%20-%20november%204,%202004/Images/4.jpg

[Toshi]

props to giro: i just called them up to order a replacement rocloc piece for my battered Giro Gila '02 ("what's the model?" "gila '02" "giro what? what's the model?" "GILA!" "oh, gila."), and they are sending out a replacement rocloc for free

:thumb:

also, i ordered these snazzy fenders for the klein from rei:

http://gallery.rei.com:80//big/chips/697808_321.JPG

they work with frames without eyelets. seattle is wet, ya know...

[Toshi]

this is kind of old, but check out the toyota hilux video on this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/downloads/

[Barbaton]

So I think it's time I got me an avatar. At a bit of a loss for ideas, though. You :monkey:s got any suggestions?

[Toshi]

So I think it's time I got me an avatar. At a bit of a loss for ideas, though. You :monkey:s got any suggestions?
http://tjclark.ath.cx/images/subjects/Thad%20Sze.html ?

[Toshi]

i wrote about 7800 words (30 pages) worth of anatomy text today. ugh. brain is now dead. i hope to get about 3000 more in tomorrow...

ooh, you have an avatar, thad. props.

[Toshi]

rare earth exports, inc. (http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101908)

:thumb: watch it! it's lengthy but funny :D

other random thought of the night: http://www.scrotalsafetycommission.com/ hehe. my test tomorrow is probably going to have lots of questions about that region, altho i don't think the concept of "crotch-buddies" are going to help my score

[WTGPhoben]

this is kind of old, but check out the toyota hilux video on this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/downloads/


so where can I get one of those?

[Toshi]

so where can I get one of those?
we never got the diesel version in the us :( . but they might be in canada? and we have the gasoline version, which are highly thought-of in 4x4 circles i hear, at least for the ones sufficiently old ('84-older?) to have a solid axle up front.

[Toshi]

this is cool:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/cartlinearlarge.png

(adjusted for %s and for population)

[Toshi]

i went riding today! actually a night ride, with Jr_Bullit and evilbob. good people, good times, altho my stadium light went dead mysteriously after about 15 minutes. i think it may need a new battery since it has been a couple of years since i bought it. but no pics from the ride.

however, i do have pics from the showing of warren miller's "impact" today tho:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/warren%20miller%20-%20november%2011,%202004/Images/2.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/warren%20miller%20-%20november%2011,%202004/Images/3.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/warren%20miller%20-%20november%2011,%202004/Images/10.jpg

see the rest here, including a few of my classmates (the ones who get their own subject pages):
http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/warren%20miller%20-%20november%2011,%202004/

[Barbaton]

Got this goofy error message installing a server this afternoon. To me it looks like the Microsoft Windows 2003 server family isn't Microsoft certified. Installing Windows may, now, or at some future point break your machine. Hey, at least they're honest...

http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~tsze/images/DSC00029.JPG

[Toshi]

heh, what driver was that from?

i think i will finally install the sportworks bob ratchet mount on my thule rack tomorrow, along with the fresh new road bike fenders that i picked up this week. yum. nothing like laziness eh. i'm tired of having my path blocked by boxes tho, so i will unpack and install...

[Toshi]

i went riding today! actually a night ride, with Jr_Bullit and evilbob. good people, good times, altho my stadium light went dead mysteriously after about 15 minutes. i think it may need a new battery since it has been a couple of years since i bought it.
i just ordered a new battery for my cateye stadium 3. $175 :dead: . wow.

[Toshi]

i just drove by a bar, the pacific inn, that had a specialized big hit locked up outside it, obviously ridden by one of the patrons :thumb:

[chicodude]

A bighit as a commuter?


Can't say I've seen that before.....

[Toshi]

hmm, it may be several months before i receive a replacement for my bic-able kryptonite:

We are happy to report that Kryptonite did begin this program in October
and thousands of replacement locks have been sent out to customers in the
last few weeks. *Kryptonite continues to manufacture and ship new products
to consumers on a weekly basis. *The whole process of the Lock Exchange
Program is a complex one with manufacturing and transportation all coming
into play. *We are building and air shipping the new locks to get them out
to our customers as fast as possible.

For those of you who are still waiting to get your UPS postage paid label,
here is an update:

U-locks (bicycle and powersports), Padlocks, Cables and Evolution Disc
Locks (New York Chain and New York Noose) - replacement locks are being
manufactured at this time and will be shipped to consumers as they become
available.
Automobile locks - these locks are being manufactured now and will be
shipped in December.
DFS and KryptoDisco - these locks are being re-engineered now and will be
available to consumers in January.

As further information becomes available we will post it to our website at
http://www.kryptonite.com and be sending email updates, as needed.

We appreciate your loyalty and patience during this challenging time.
Please know that we are working around the clock to get a new lock to
everyone who has signed up for the Lock Exchange Program.

And lastly, when packing your lock to return to us, please be kind to our
planet and use as little packing material as possible.

Regards,
Team Kryptonite

[Barbaton]

wow. mountain unicycling in the snow:

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102530

keith, any pictures of the early ski conditions in ME?

[Barbaton]

heh, what driver was that from?

i think the adaptec SATA hw RAID card that's running the disks. It's new and I had to install its own driver into the installer.

[Barbaton]

hey, i have 200 posts. well, not anymore i guess. 3 years and 200 posts. i guess that's not too much time wasted on RM :). eh toshi? ahem.

[Toshi]

hey, i have 200 posts. well, not anymore i guess. 3 years and 200 posts. i guess that's not too much time wasted on RM :). eh toshi? ahem.
i just have lots of verbal (written) energy. i already wrote about this :D but last saturday i cranked out 29 pages worth of material (anatomy, not ridemonkey heh), 7800 words...

[WTGPhoben]

see the rest here, including a few of my classmates (the ones who get their own subject pages):
http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/warren%20miller%20-%20november%2011,%202004/

Hey, I know Whitney! Tell her I said hi.

In other news, I bought a Niterider digital evolution light. It's pretty bright, and about $200 cheaper than the HID (although doesn't get nearly as much burn time).

Also went skiing this wknd. Sunday river had 2 top-to-bottom trails open and nothing was groomed, making for a lot more of a workout than I bargained for in the first two days out.

[Toshi]

i will tell whitney hi for you, keith.

i think i will finally install the sportworks bob ratchet mount on my thule rack tomorrow, along with the fresh new road bike fenders that i picked up this week.
sportworks install up next, but i just put on the race blades. they are quite cool in how they mount:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/sks%20race%20blades%20-%20november%2015,%202004/Images/0.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/sks%20race%20blades%20-%20november%2015,%202004/Images/1.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/sks%20race%20blades%20-%20november%2015,%202004/Images/2.jpg

[Toshi]

lynx -dump -head http://www.bungie.net | grep "Blam"

:thumb: 10 bonus points to anyone who gets the reference (which you get by running the above line on a unix box)

[Toshi]

whitney says hi, and was surprised that i knew you, even tho she's well aware of my biking habits. also, i have posted a new thread on grip diameter, and its relation to arm pump and finger pain. please post in it and contribute to the discussion:

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1334381#post1334381

[Barbaton]

whitney says hi, and was surprised that i knew you, even tho she's well aware of my biking habits. also, i have posted a new thread on grip diameter, and its relation to arm pump and finger pain. please post in it and contribute to the discussion:

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1334381#post1334381

do you stretch your hands before you ride?

[Toshi]

do you stretch your hands before you ride?
no. the pain is in the joints, however, and i have no problem with flexibility already... reply in that thread, not here!

[Toshi]

how was your orgo midterm, thad?

also i just posted a ~135 MB zip file (of mp3s, only compressed them very slightly, more to get them in a single file) of the subset of recordings that i'm on that doesn't totally make me ashamed to listen to. i still cringe and go "ohhh :(" a lot. anyway, download the beast here and listen away (http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/toshimusic.zip).

also x 2: here is a followup clip from the daily show, where jon stewart talks about appearing on crossfire (of which footage (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2652831) you've already all seen long ago, no?): http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2653047 . funny stuff :thumb:

[Barbaton]

how was your orgo midterm, thad?


meh. significantly harder than last year's or the practice midterm they gave us. we'll see. I'm hoping for a 70.

[Toshi]

i took some pics of my classmates playing basketball this afternoon (we play every friday, and sometimes on tuesdays too):

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/basketball%20-%20november%2019,%202004/

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/basketball%20-%20november%2019,%202004/Images/0.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/basketball%20-%20november%2019,%202004/Images/4.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/basketball%20-%20november%2019,%202004/Images/8.jpg

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/basketball%20-%20november%2019,%202004/Images/10.jpg

[Toshi]

my former roommate gave me one of these for my birthday :D

http://foofpod.com/

http://foofpod.com/toplineup.jpg

and here is a 100% crop from one of the images from basketball yesterday. blur because it was at 1/250 with a long lens and moving subject, but the resolution is fine. check out the "calvin klein" text...

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/IMG_9271_crop.jpg

[Toshi]

was going to see the seattle symphony today, but the cheap tickets were sold out. so instead we saw the incredibles. :thumb: excellent flick. anyway, the 20D is working just fine for me, and detail is not a problem even with the small sensor sites, provided adequa