Your Podium Cafe

by Chris Fontecchio on Dec 4, 2008 5:02 PM EST in Cafe Happy Hour!

Now, at Facebook. Honestly, I don't know how much more social-networking-y our community could possibly get. But you can't argue with the price. As usual, people can do whatever they want, but I'd prefer you use this site first, and the Facebook group more for stuff you don't want to broadcast to the entire Cycling universe, or whoever actually reads this blog.

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You didn't tweet this

FAIL.

by Sui Juris on Dec 4, 2008 5:28 PM EST reply actions

OK OK

I’ll take the post down, grab my cell phone, and walk out to the parking lot….

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Dec 4, 2008 5:38 PM EST up reply actions

er Chris you can tweet from your puter

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 5:42 PM EST up reply actions

I need a drink

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Dec 4, 2008 5:44 PM EST up reply actions

Twitterfox

rules!

by johnw on Dec 4, 2008 5:48 PM EST up reply actions

Our true Cafe will always be here.

It’s where our hearts, heads, and laughs truly are and FB couldn’t possibly compete. But it is cool to have a connection there. Thanks for setting us up boss. :-)

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Dec 4, 2008 5:31 PM EST reply actions

heh

So you’re saying I have to join Facebook now?

Because I don’t waste enough time on the internet as it is…

by Jen See on Dec 4, 2008 5:44 PM EST reply actions

Work efficiency

is inversely related to the number of social networks I am a member of.

And possibly follows and inverse-square relationshp

by johnw on Dec 4, 2008 5:49 PM EST up reply actions

well of course you do

how else are you going to ~~spy on~~ know what’s going with your hundreds of BFF

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 5:50 PM EST up reply actions

I work out who is coming to what races with facebook,

My cyclist friends love putting comments up all the time, and it’s fun seeing their photo’s..

We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

by CycleGirl on Dec 4, 2008 5:58 PM EST reply actions

I'm in

But I’m very confused. What’s with all of these first and last names? It’s like I have to learn who everyone is again.

by PopUp Rolen on Dec 4, 2008 6:00 PM EST reply actions

really I don't a Popup Rolen there

you mean that’s not your name!

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 6:04 PM EST up reply actions

Ha!

PopUp Rolen actually is a lame name I came up with when I first signed up for the SBN Cardinals Blog Viva El Birdos during the epic 2006 World Series run. A combination of too many cocktails and too many Scott Rolen fly balls led to my weak attempt at humor.

by PopUp Rolen on Dec 4, 2008 6:08 PM EST up reply actions

Seriously?!?

I get almost all the way through my Thursday, and then this. Just when I thought I wouldn’t have to make any decisions of consequence.

Well, I guess you will all know who I really am when I show up at the ToC party anyways.

sigh

by Hons on Dec 4, 2008 6:24 PM EST reply actions

pssst you don't have to use your real name on facebook

just saying

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 6:26 PM EST up reply actions

lol

i was just trying to decide what i wanted to do about that, actually ;-)

by Jen See on Dec 4, 2008 6:28 PM EST up reply actions

Ms Gavia di Passo

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 6:29 PM EST up reply actions

i believe we may have a winner :-)

lol.

by Jen See on Dec 4, 2008 6:34 PM EST up reply actions

yeah you don't really think that it's my real name

I mean, my parents do surf the net

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 6:34 PM EST up reply actions

Wait

next you’re going to tell my that profile picture is not really of you too?!?

by Hons on Dec 4, 2008 6:40 PM EST up reply actions

why dont you think I'm cute?

;)

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 6:41 PM EST up reply actions

Even cuter

than Hons.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Dec 4, 2008 6:42 PM EST up reply actions

there speaks a lawyer

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 6:42 PM EST up reply actions

darn it lyne...

…now I really will have to join facebook now…HA!!

by steph- on Dec 4, 2008 6:46 PM EST reply actions

told ya

I’ll wait til you get there to use my Beckham profile pic

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 6:47 PM EST up reply actions

ooohhhhh....

by steph- on Dec 4, 2008 6:54 PM EST up reply actions

I'm so confused. People with real names.

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Dec 4, 2008 7:07 PM EST reply actions

Ha!

I just went over to Facebook, and find that my nephew’s login got saved to this computer when he visited, like, three years ago. He’s going to be so confused when everybody finds out how much “he” admires certain pro cyclists…

by majope on Dec 4, 2008 7:13 PM EST reply actions

That's hilarious.

But sadly my brother has done that to me so I am only giggling a little bit. He had no mercy on the things he said to some of my “friends”. It was pretty damn funny looking back but I freaked out with a response not realizing why I had gotten it.

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Dec 4, 2008 7:16 PM EST up reply actions

I'm gonna be pissed if y'all starting keeping in touch over there instead of here...

… so sayeth the 21st Century Curmudgeon who refuses to embrace the new fangled social networking thingery. I don’t need to get in touch with people I went to high school with or dated in the 80s.

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.

by crashdan on Dec 4, 2008 7:19 PM EST reply actions

lol

you could always log on as mr dan crash. then, your not-so-hot dates from the ‘80s couldn’t find you.

by Jen See on Dec 4, 2008 7:39 PM EST up reply actions

In the 80s I can guarantee it wasn't my dates that were not-so-hot...

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by crashdan on Dec 4, 2008 7:43 PM EST up reply actions

chuckle

by Jen See on Dec 4, 2008 7:44 PM EST up reply actions

Viewing of my prom photo is used in psychiatric circles...

… as a suitable replacement for shock therapy.

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by crashdan on Dec 4, 2008 7:45 PM EST up reply actions

heh

That’s probably true for just about anyone who went to the prom in the ’80s.

The whole decade probably needs a warning label when it comes to the fashion…

by Jen See on Dec 4, 2008 7:47 PM EST up reply actions

Did somebody say

prom in the ’80’s?

by swells on Dec 4, 2008 7:54 PM EST up reply actions

Oh no...

… this was my prom. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. Fortunately, I was deeply into thrash metal at the time and had seizures anytime this song was played.

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by crashdan on Dec 4, 2008 7:57 PM EST up reply actions

Hah! That wasn't thrash...

that was GLAM!

by swells on Dec 4, 2008 8:00 PM EST up reply actions

I wasn't suggesting that White Snake was thrash... god help me...

I was more of a DRI, Anthrax, Danzig kind of guy.

Wow… I’d forgotten how hard Twist of Cain rocks.

Twist of Cain… Drives my brain…

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by crashdan on Dec 4, 2008 8:10 PM EST up reply actions

okay....another reason why you are my hero!!

I love Anthrax! One of the best shows in the 80’s…Anthrax opening for Kiss….HA!….good times!!

by steph- on Dec 5, 2008 6:19 PM EST up reply actions

Opening for Kiss??! Really??

I never would have pictured that. I saw them a couple of times… once at the Henry J. Kaiser convention center with Public Enemy and Primus while Flavor-Flav’s house was burning down during the Oakland Hills Fire. I think that was like August of ’91?

Bring tha Noize!

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by crashdan on Dec 5, 2008 6:39 PM EST up reply actions

Primus.....oh yea!

My roomie’s boyfriend was a thrash guitarist……the Primus and Faith No Mpre boys were always around. Primus often played impromptu gigs in the Haight, SF metal scene was fab in the late 80’s.

by steph- on Dec 6, 2008 8:08 AM EST up reply actions

We called them "hair bands"

I’ve still got some of them on vinyl…

by dheadrick on Dec 4, 2008 10:22 PM EST up reply actions

ha ha... I still have some on "tapes"!

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Dec 4, 2008 10:54 PM EST up reply actions

This was

ours. Funny, I don’t remember any girls there…

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Dec 4, 2008 8:12 PM EST up reply actions

Wow... 2112...

Somehow that seems cooler now than it probably did back then…

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by crashdan on Dec 4, 2008 8:17 PM EST up reply actions

+1

by swells on Dec 4, 2008 8:18 PM EST up reply actions

+1

"...The mind has to rule the body and tell the body, shut up and do what I tell you to do..." Jens!

by Clydesdale on Dec 8, 2008 9:29 AM EST up reply actions

Sorry if this has been changed for awhile

…but I love the avatar! Bring on ToM 2009!

"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."

by nikki on Dec 8, 2008 11:14 AM EST up reply actions

Actually I think the prom I went to was in '91??!?

If it was in the fall it was 1990… if it was in the spring it was in ’91.

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by crashdan on Dec 4, 2008 7:56 PM EST up reply actions

okay now you HAVE to join facebook and post that photo

come on, if you can’t make fun of your (virtual) friends …

by lyne on Dec 4, 2008 7:47 PM EST up reply actions

Oh no... no I don't....

Y’all have seen more than enough of me already… seeing me in an ill-fitting tuxedo with a silver spray-painted cast on a broken wrist… well, you’ll have to let your imagination take you to those places.

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by crashdan on Dec 4, 2008 7:55 PM EST up reply actions