• Salt Water + Phone

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    Gulf of Mexico

    So I went to Florida for a family wedding (which was a lot of fun), and came back with a dead phone. I walked into the Gulf with my trusty Sony-Ericsson T226. Oops. It was probably one of my favorite and most durable phones, lasting several years.

    Dead T226

    Anyway, I bought a new phone. I wanted the Motorola SLVR L7, but I thought the keypad looked less than durable. I settled on the same phone everyone else chose, the RAZR V3. Fortunately, due to the popularity and relative old age of the RAZR, there are many patches, hacks, and miscellaneous utilities available. The best hack I’ve found so far is the OS X skin (available here: Mac OSX Tiger Skin v1.2 for RAZR V3). There are a bunch of other utilities for modifying various phone settings and transferring data to and from the phone. Just search for RAZR, P2K and hack.

    RAZR with OS X skin

    Don’t like the little Cingular guy? You can display any 96×80 gif you want:

    RAZR with OS X skin

    Oh yeah, I did manage to do a little cycling in October:

    October Summary
    Total distance (October): 100.52 miles
    Total distance (Cumulative): 1486.74 miles
    Total time (Cumulative): 112 hours, 20 minutes

  • Nothing to see here…

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    Not too much going on here. I’ve been busy with less than important things like work and school. It has been a little cold and a little rainy, so not too much riding. I don’t even have any good photos, of anything, at all. So, you get this old postcard:

    Vanagon Syncro Post Card

    Vanagon GL Syncro — Volkswagen’s automatically engaging all-wheel drive van features a patented, new, viscus coupling to adapt the driving mode to existing driving conditions. Also available in two Vanagon Camper models.

    What else? Here is a “good” link I stumbled across: so, you like odd brakes, eh?

    I suppose this site “good” if you have an interest in weird old cantilever bicycle brakes…

  • Crunch

    So last Thursday I managed to take a considerable chunk out of a wooden post with my commuter bike, and get a fist-sized bruise from the same post on my left leg about 4″ above the knee. This Thursday (today) Eric and I went for a night ride at Grindstone; I rode the M2 and Eric was on the Litespeed. About four miles into the ride I hit a tree that had fallen near the trail, went over the bars, hit my right thigh on the end of the handle bar, and smacked my head on the trail. Ouch. This photo was taken mere seconds after the incident. Eric claims he asked if I was okay prior to taking the photo, I’m not sure…

    Night Crash

    The helmet worked, sending the visor off to the side of the trail (but still intact). The sound of a helmet crunching on the dirt/rocks is not a good one. Remember: Wear a helmet and keep it adjusted properly. Anyway, I sit here with ice on my leg and nice perfectly round bruise. The bike fared pretty well with a slightly tweaked front wheel and a noticeably louder shock.

    We kept riding after that, I think the temperature hovering in the low 30s helped a lot. The rest of the ride was relatively uneventful. We rode through campus and down some more single track before getting home with about an hour of ride time and 11 miles.

    Here is a shot of that post I mentioned. Not bad eh?

    The Post Won