side note (turned into something a bit more substantial)

went to the shop... meant to post earlier...

computer, had my mind made up to just get the Sigma 1606SL and get the wireless... so Joe at Prov bike pulls it out of the case and I ask, so how much is it? DOH?!!! $85... fraking hell - no way...

so i've put a battery back in the old BC800, set the wheel thing up for an approximate value (yeah - me using MPH... still) and should be good to go for at least knowing how fast i'm going... and so i know sort of how far i've gone (measure effort out over the 43 or 3 miles)...

Watching The Streets Never Went to Church video right now... just peeped the Best War Ever link that Feltslave the walking contradiction (clean, organic, hippie in his blog, raving fucking lunatic when he posts to others - at least meeting him in person i know what's real - sort of - maybe).

Its been a totally random clusterfuck today - missing yesterday has disjuncted EVERYTHING

Okay - tunage - missing music today so i've FINALLY tuned into my old standby, BBC Radio1.. yeah baby yeah... its the 'Essential Selection, with the Scissor Sisters LIVE on radio1' (ya can listen to it all week next week before the next show by clicking here.

Fuck yeah! Wicked track to lead the mix in with!!!!

Well here's to having 10 people show up at the start line for the 30-39 (as it would seem it will be) race...
maybe they'll see the forcast for rain and give up the $60 pre-reg feel, its the end of the 'season' as SB put it, not everyone started racing last weekend (like i did)...

and it looks like the rain is blowing away for the ride home... could i get lucky? lucky enough to ride home without angel tears falling down on me...

Oh and i've got a new favorite phrase:
Incestuous Amplification

don't it sound good?

Word Spy entry:

incestuous amplification n. The reinforcement of set beliefs among like-minded people, leading to miscalculations and errors in judgment.

when ya look at the related words:
egocasting
mindblindness
miswanting
pareidolia
self-handicapping
topsight

its fantastic...

how many instances do you run across that are FUBAR'd due to incestuous amplification?

Most critically its due to having a closed mind. Most typical of neo-cons and ultra-radical hippie liberals... the normal stereo typical classic liberals see through the bullshit of IA and that's why the latest class of NeoCons like G Dubya Shrub are so vehimently anti-"liberal" cause they generally don't buy that dumptruck full of horseshit that the republican party has been feasting on since 2001...

ya wonder why that whole party is starting to draw flies like the carrion it is...

(woops - got all political there)

like i'm sorry about it... ;)

Just clicking through that list... those who SWEAR that the only unbiased reporting comes from FOX news would fall into the catagory... and those who only get their 'news' from NPR might as well but to a lesser degree (depending on how you argue bias and reporting).

egocasting pp. Reading, watching, and listening only to media that reflect one's own tastes or opinions.

Pretty incredible how much that happens. Also how easily people fall into the whole egocasting pit. No wonder we have so much incestuous amplification going on.

Oh and raise your hand if you have an Ego Wall. My degrees and certifications aren't even framed, much less displayed... i dunno if i can even find the bits of fancy paper..

man all those words up there are cool... Word Spy is COOL...

What would be awesome is if more people had topsight. And i generally always will get granular to the general frustration/exacebation of others...

found this;;;

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
—G. C. Lichtenberg, German physicist, writer, and critic, Aphorisms, 1765 - 1799

damn aint that the truth... sadly...

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
—G. C. Lichtenberg, German physicist, writer, and critic, Aphorisms, 1765 - 1799

Sort of like its pointless to argue with the ignorant (or how ever the quote goes)... well i got it close:
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)

and with that - yall be pimpin... i'm gonna go hit the EBBP for a relaxing ride home (here's to hoping i don't see any rabbits down the road)