Trainer 2-11-13

This is the first time I used the trainer with the heart-monitor/speed/cadence sensors. The weather had prevented me from getting outside to take the trainer bike for a calibration ride. This was a short 30 min session with some isolated leg exercises and some squat-jumps and push-ups thrown in.

Sprain Ridge & Jungle Habitat




RSP 1-12-13 & OCA 1-19-13

My last two rides.

BJH 2013 Season Picture

High Mountain

Things got muddy today. Actually, I just fell in the mud.

RSP 1-1-13

First ride of the year.

That’s a lot of hockey

I got into Big Red the other day after our 3rd hockey game of the weekend in as many states and noticed the odometer. Big Red has been with us for 10+ years of travel hockey; seven state championships, many dozens of tournaments, many hundreds of games, heart-breaks and triumphs, a few fender benders and countless hours of high quality family time. She has never once let us down. We hope she’ll be with us for a while longer.

Big Red

Ban on loud TV commercials

I worte about this back in 2010 and now it looks like its finally taking effect. I don’t watch much TV but you don’t have to in order to know this is a problem.

From Paul McNamara at Network World:

Representing what may be the most popular act of Congress since the “Do Not Call” list, a law prohibiting broadcasters from cranking up the volume on TV commercials takes effect today.

Recent Mountain Bike Rides

It’s been a while since I made a mountain biking update. Here are the last seven.

Archive Team

I’ve posted here in the past about the Internet Archive. The Archive Team however is an unofficially related effort to get content into the Internet Archive. I’ll not repeat what they say already at their site but I just wanted to comment here on the fact that I think it is an important and worthwhile endeavor. If you have access to a high speed internet connection and do not need to worry about data limits you can participate in their efforts by running their Archive Warrior tool. I have been volunteering my bandwidth and CPU cycles on and off for some time and have been able to contribute over 1TB of data to the archive so far.