• Pine Ridge

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    Pine Ridge, November 19, 2006

    Eric and I took a short ride at Pine Ridge. For some reason there were a bunch of guys wearing orange carrying guns. Must be some sort of gang. Anyway, we stopped for a while under there power lines to warm up in the allegedly cancer-causing electromagnetic radiation.

    Pine Ridge, November 19, 2006

    Eric’s Litespeed and my M2 hiding in the weeds, trying to avoid the guys with guns.

    My ’00 SID XC has ceased to function as a shock. It is now a ridged fork that is either suspension corrected or standard. Unfortunately, it switches modes violently and whenever any force is applied.

    Both of these photos are from the RAZR. Some observations: Although the resolution is low, and the compression is high enough to cause very noticeable image distortions, I am pretty happy with it. Where the camera really fails is in mixed or low lighting. Both of these photos were taken within one minute of each other, one metering off of the sky, the other on the bikes/ground.

  • Phone Photos

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    Ok, so I have a camera phone, so you get phone photos:

    Gate at Washington National

    An airport gate at Washington National at 6:30 AM. Not such a good place to be so early in the morning.

    Sunset in Gaithersburg

    A sunset from a hotel window.

    Elevator Ceiling

    The elevator ceiling in the same hotel.

    MU Columns

    The columns at MU.

  • 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