I promise people: The next posting I make will be poetic and positive. But for now, I’m opening the door of my hurt locker to allow you to look within. It is a desperate grasp for commonality that I can’t find in the people I see today. My hope in humanity [...]

I have been riding my bike to work a lot lately. This gives me a couple hours per day to ponder life. In fact just about every post I have written here has been the result of that 1 hour each way on pancake flat streets. I do a few things to mix it up [...]

People don’t, nor are required, to fix their oil leaks. Not in a state where they don’t do vehicle inspections. This is what WA state looks like, people. IT IS A COFFEE ADDICTED, ALIENATING, BICYCLIST (other than summer recreational riders on designated trails) UNFRIENDLY place.
I see signs up about protecting the watershed, [...]

My belly is full on the despair of children in far away lands and holiday merriment. Samuel however, is doing more to see it first hand before the machine incinerates it all. You see, Sam is a compatriot that has, for all intents and purposes, defected from this place paved with gold to travel across [...]

That’s the question I get from family and friends more often than any other.
Well, I’d say it’s pretty awesome and x-mas-y and butt-assed-cold. -11 this morning, and supposed to get down to -22 tonight. (thats 12 and -4 respectively to you non-metric heads.)

It’s getting icier by the day, but with Mex-mas™ creeping up, there [...]

Sit back, smoke that cigarette, and relax.
NEW YORK (AP) – Nearly seven miles below the Gulf of Mexico, oil company BP has tapped into a vast pool of crude after digging the deepest oil well in the world. The Tiber Prospect is expected to rank among the largest petroleum discoveries in the United States, potentially [...]

Less than 24 hours away from hum day. That means it’s time for a little linkdump. 
A Brian Vernor documentary on touring Africa… “Where Are You Go”:
 

Which brings me to the question I often ponder: Is there any place in Africa that doesn’t resemble hell? 

from: Mr. Sparkle
Hey up, big man. Que pasa, as we say in England. I [...]

Story here…
Some great comments here as well…

I had conversations long ago, in the NAU cycling days with Sam. He’s a good kid and likes to ride just like the rest of us. A cyclist shall we say?
One day, he discovered a way to stay on the bike for months, and make it an effort towards a better world with trees and [...]

I was hopefull that, in the waning days of Bushco, his attempt to improve mtb access to national parks would leave a bit of a positive legacy (albeit small & insignificant but good for cycling) on what is going to arguably be one of the most blatantly inept corrupt & fraudulent presidencies in American history. [...]

Speedy Beavers. Sent in by Paul. A nice little gathering of girlies on bikes.
BikeRumor.com. When you need to know.
Another Ghost Bike honors a fallen rider.
Pole Riders. No shit. And I thought I’d seen it all.
A drunk bastard and a bicycle.
Another drunk bastard and a bicycle.
Chris D. chimes in with a challenge:
OK my brothers.  This makes [...]

Civil Air Traffic Worldwide 24h from Thomas Hofer on Vimeo.

A more scientifically valid 1984 type gig. If you’re not asleep by the end of number one, then move on to number two. I was so stoked, I watched the second one twice.

All the more reason to “ride and be social”. Go on, drive yourself crazy with number two:

I’d hit it.

Story below (source with photos: techon.nikkeibp.co.jp)
New Fuel Cell System ‘Generates Electricity with Only Water, Air’
Jun 13, 2008
Kouji Kariatsumari, Nikkei Electronics
Genepax Co Ltd explained the technologies used in its new fuel cell system “Water Energy System (WES),” which uses water as a fuel and does not emit CO2.
The system can generate power just [...]

From CNN online.
Arizona regulators are requiring utilities to get 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025, with annual increases of roughly 1 percent.
The Solana plant will bring APS to around 5 percent in 2011, said Don Robinson, the utility’s senior vice president of planning and administration.
Unlike most solar energy, Solana will [...]