To Rant or To Recant

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
- Louis Pasteur

And then one from the cap of a Magic Hat brewing Co.'s 60 winks ale:

Thoughtlessly Rant and you'll have to Recant

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slow ride in, sporting my new Red Green fender, it did a damn fine job. If you don't get the Red Green reference, well... get some culture

Got an article in the email about local food and carbon footprint and all that...

Great read, thanks to our local greeny speedster Yogurt Boy.

Solobreak's on a massive tear against Ceramic bearings, calling them hype and pointless and a massive waste of cash for the haves. Hard to debate the gains, at least it is for me, i have no evidence and have not done any significant research. I generally have to have a chance of acquisition to fuel investigation (no matter how small the chance)... no fuel and it ain't gonna happen. Maybe i'll look around a bit. I know i've seen sources for them way lower than offering at bike places (cost wise) and ya know most all bike industry shit ain't custom bearings, they all bearings. And while the benefit of ceramic bearings is not debatable for this application, namely cycling, i can see how the gains would be very hard to quantify. Say in a turbofan or a turbo molecular vacuum pump they would certainly be a big benefit. And cyclocross? Yeah. Well actually if you raced this past year in New England and skipped UNH and Brockton, you could have benefited probably (maybe not).

Bottom brackets... yeah... they suck. Or well, i dunno. I've only had a couple bad BB experiences myself. And they were generally from trying non-shimano or non-klein (in the Mt Bikes) units.

Ranting and raving, Solo's pushing the ceramic buttons and some chief dude is ripping on Belgium Knee Warmers for use of kilometers and °C. Kidding me? Try listening to Cronoman or Solobreak talk about how far or how fast they were riding. 100% PRO as in those kids seem to use kilo exclusively. Like their cars or something are like that too. I will admit to being somewhat still stuck with miles and °F, but am generally fluent in both. Why? Science. SI units and all. And some lingering hope that someday we (us) will drop this stupid pounds inches feet miles °F crap and join the scientific community.

Maybe our spacecraft won't fucking crash into planets if we do that.

Big Jonny has joined the revolution. Ditching his Dreamweaver 1998 style web page in favor of a slick wordpress setup. I think it is about time. HELL the new stuff is even worksafe (so far it would seem). RSS feed even.

CTurd's got content? But can it be more entertaining than the video put up by Caveman? [ mr roger's voice over ] Alright friends, shall we sit down and watch this lovely bit of VLogging that our friend CTodd made? [ / mr roger's ]

Okay - well... that was riveting entertainment.

Food.

Dinner, simple, cheap. While steaks might cost a lot of cash. Cooking up a prime grass feed hung of beef on some cowboy charcoal and serving it with grilled corn on the cob and some nice peas is flat out affordable. Sure you can eat cheaper. But compared to going out and feeding four people? And to see the little one devour the corn and everything. Very cool. Finally getting the grill going ROCKS. Will be nice to start cooking out there instead of on the gas stove inside. It was CTodd's party that inspired the cut selection. Nice flank steak. brought to room temp, touch of extra virgin olive oil and pepper on the surface, and cooked, just like that. Served, sliced and drizzled with the juices with a bit of salt. Simple. And flava packed. I'm a HUGE fan of grass feed beef. And the NBC news last night showed that ConocoPhillips is using 100% of the renderings to make biodiesel from as many slaughter houses as they can get. And they are using the manure to fuel the ethanol plant and damn nice bit of work eh? Although they are talking about feeding the Cows wet corn, so i won't be getting them cow beef. The corn was done up and wicked tasty. And all the products were purchased at The Market at Cutler Mills. Good stuff. Stop in if you can. Damn finest beef i've found around here. Oh and "where are the carbs?" in the corn and well, not a bike day so for me the extra carbs weren't needed and the snacking and the rest of the day were full of plenty of them. No worries.

Cuisi cages put to good use!

(pimped off of fatmarc's banner)

So i know solo's been wondering where the content has been, well it has been sitting here all morning. Just waiting for me to come back and hit publish. great thing about this is, i can get something down and out of my head while still dropping it at any second. Ala today.

BTW i hate blue screens with phantom causes...

respect
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