May 2013
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Yahoo = Tumblr...
Things get wonky and this bird will fly…
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World Esperanto Exam →
Think you know Esperanto? Prove it!
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Motivation...
Couldn’t get it together today… Nicest day this week too and it slid by…
Rode less than the half mile to my folks to help with some CAD work and when I got ready to return my commuter had a flat front tire…
Carried it back to my place and performed the surgery…
Maybe tomorrow…
On the up shot lesson one of a free correspondence course in Esperanto came...
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Computers
So for those of you who are into operating systems other than the “PC” and Apple ones I’ve upgraded to Debian 7.
This being said after a few frustrating days I’ve scrapped it for Linux Mint (14).
They changed the GUI on Debian from 6-7 in such a way as to make it awkward and impractical to the point it drove me off.
What a letdown.
On the upshot I’m finding...
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Knowing Your Job
I know that New York does a really great thing by keeping a set of interstate bike routes all marked up. If you write the DOT on the topic you can even be sent free maps of the routes with elevations and everything!
But I think it’s time for more. I’d like to see NYS do more to encourage it’s employees and especially at the county and local level to get into recreational...
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April 2013
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Hummingbirds!!!
I can’t believe it. We saw a hummingbird this evening. Seems to early, perhaps a young male scouting.
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Adirondacks in the Spring
I’m always happy to come home to the mountains. The Maple Fest is still such a highlight of spring though. The flatlanders haven’t come back yet so it’s still just for us and this year the weather was warm with a gentle breeze pushing though the pines.
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Lenin on two Wheels →
Yes that Lenin, turns out he was a cyclist…
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Novial, a constructed language →
I ended up falling into a linguistic garden this morning as talk of Esperanto over the breakfast table led to a fact finding mission.
The idea of constructed auxiliary universal languages has always had some appeal.
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Cycling and the Long Rides
Sometimes I take “long” rides. I think they are all just rides but I will concede that some are longer and harder than others.
Motorists often pass and a few do so with some consideration, however, I’m willing to admit that we must all look pretty much the same to them and they really have no idea if we’re in mile one or mile fifty.
As I was rolling north a few days ago and my lower back was...
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Calling all Bicyclists to the Ride Rail & Bicycle...
The 9th annual Maple in April Festival will feature the Saratoga & North Creek Railway and bicycles on Sunday, April 28th in Hadley, NY. There are two options for this event:
The Long Ride for the experienced cyclists (37 miles) and the In-Between Ride for those looking for a moderate ride to start off their bicycle season (17 miles) with the hub of the event at the Hadley/Luzerne Train...
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“It’s been said that if you play a windows CD backwards, you’ll hear...”
– Why I Code
Bikey Projects Revisited
Some time ago I was thinking while out on a ride that I like that fact that we have such nice county highway systems. They seem so very overshadowed by the interstate highway system and all the overly hurried routes designed for the steel missiles of commerce.
Of course all you have to do in New York is to cross it one way on the Thruway (Highway 90) and then come back on the road it made...
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