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MY FIRST MEMORY (OF LIBRARIANS)

This is my first memory: A big room with heavy wooden tables that sat on a creaky       wood floor A line of green shades—bankers’ lights—down the center Heavy oak chairs that were too low or maybe I was simply       too short             For me to sit in and read So my [...]

No more CX Boom

Belgians may love to heckle the Dutch, but they love cyclocross even more, even going to the extent of petitioning young Dutch ‘cross star Lars Boom to ask him to continue racing the winter sport. I think they know that the sport needs strong competition from nations other than Belgium, and the Netherlands is as [...]

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Custom Bicycles: A Passionate Pursuit    by Christine Elliott & David Jablonka

Cycling has never lost its appeal. Alongside mass-produced models, the craftsmanship of handmade bespoke bicycle makers has emerged to satisfy the passion of people who ride bikes as a means [...]

Bike thieves suck

… but this sucks even more than the usual bike theft. Stolen from KSL:

Company offers reward for return of items stolen from cyclist’s home

The company who made the Marvel statues stolen from cyclist Dave Zabriskie’s home last week is now offering a reward for their return.

Sideshow Collectibles is offering a $10,000 reward [...]

A plan?

A-Train asked me today how I see the plan helping people (while avoiding answering my own question to him on how he would try to fix the problems facing our nation today).

I see the plan creating jobs by putting people to work building and updating necessary infrastructure and investing in our energy future, instead [...]

Allegories of life …

From The Legend of Bagger Vance:

Bagger Vance: Fix your eyes on Bobby Jones. Look at his practice swing. Almost like he’s searching for something. Then he finds it. Watch how he settle this up, right into the middle. Feel that focus. He’s got a lot of shots to choose from. Duffs and tops and [...]

2009 Ride #5

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Not feeling so hot today; whereas yesterday I spent most of the day above 160bpm, today, I could barely push it over 160, and felt like I was working a lot harder than I did yesterday, even though the ride was shorter and flatter.

Still, it’s the second day in a row [...]

2009 Ride #4

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Second longest ride of the season, and first ride with more than 1000′ of climbing; hit 1400′ in about 22.5 miles. Heart rate was high from the get go; topped out a 179 (higher than my theoretical maxHR, and according to MotionBased, that is zone 7.1), and except for the first couple [...]

Debunking the Efficient Market Hypothesis

From The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles, and the Efficient Market Fallacy, by George Cooper:

The idea that markets are efficient requires the following to hold:

Asset price bubbles do not exist; the prices of all assets are always correct. Markets, when left alone, will converge to a steady equilibrium state. That [...]

Poetry Friday

PHOTOGRAPHING ASPIRATIONS

Fume-glossed, unbearably shrill, this car is dilated with a glaze that will vanish before standstill—

and here’s the youth swimming in space above his whiplash motorcycle: quadriplegia shows him its propped face—

after, he begged video scenes not display his soaking jeans, urine that leathers would have hidden

and the drag cars have [...]