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by Chris... on Nov 20, 2009 2:09 PM EST
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Life > Blogging. This week anyway. Nuthin for news, and times is too pressed for a big column today. VDS race list action due next week. Also... a video review!
Waiting for the Sesh? Keep hitting refresh!
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cycling are in holidays
so one of my hobbies is watching this classes online:
http://oyc.yale.edu/new-courses.html
focus in “European Civilization, 1648-1945 with Professor John Merriman”
i’m in the middle and liked a lot!!
by semprenaroda on Nov 20, 2009 2:53 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
ha
I have been listening to a Merriman course as well on Itunes U.
“France since 1871”
Moo
by Willj on Nov 20, 2009 3:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i'm thinking
to buy his recomendation book: “A History of Modern Europe Since the Renaissance”
do you already read this? or any book from him?
by semprenaroda on Nov 20, 2009 6:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
it's great
was one of my required reading books in my first year of university- really well written, i’d recommend it for sure.
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
by benrazor on Nov 20, 2009 7:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Without a proper sesh
My week is a mess!
De FIETS en anders NIETS
by Lopex on Nov 20, 2009 3:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
You're a lesh
For the Sesh?
"Harder! Better! Faster! Stronger!" Philippe Gilbert
by Chris... on Nov 20, 2009 3:38 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
a lesh?
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
by benrazor on Nov 20, 2009 4:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
While reading The Sesh
I listen to Tesh
by Jimbo... on Nov 20, 2009 4:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
While listening to Tesh
I wear the mesh
by PopUp Rolen on Nov 20, 2009 4:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
While Wearing the Mesh
make sure you stay Fresh
Tickets are bought, Belgium here I come!
by jsallee00 on Nov 20, 2009 4:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i still don't know
what a lesh means. although i’m guessing it means hanging on..cheers for the music though
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
by benrazor on Nov 20, 2009 7:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Lesh
as in Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead?…. Either that or Chris is using it in place of “letch”
by Jimbo... on Nov 20, 2009 8:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
oh right thanks man
it’s been a long day..
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
by benrazor on Nov 20, 2009 8:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
So, as Chris recommends, I keep hitting "refresh"
but I can’t hit it all the time so I have to make myself take breaks between each hit, sort of like refresh…pause…refresh…pause…refresh, and then I think hey! The pause that refreshes, that’s Coke! so I go get some Coke and then think, oooh, rum and Coke, and the rum makes me think of pirates because yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, especially the Sid Meier game Pirates, which is really, really cool and you get to cruise the Spanish Main and all the islands of the Caribbean, and islands made me think of desert islands, and that made me think of Robinson Crusoe, and Crusoe made me think of his sidekick Friday, and then it occurred to me that it IS Friday, and must therefore be almost time for the Wednesday Session.
So I start hitting “refresh.”
It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro
by majope on Nov 20, 2009 4:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
What happens
If you give a mouse a cookie?
"Harder! Better! Faster! Stronger!" Philippe Gilbert
by Chris... on Nov 20, 2009 4:55 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Precisely my point
"Harder! Better! Faster! Stronger!" Philippe Gilbert
by Chris... on Nov 20, 2009 5:07 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Everyone needs some Cyrillic reading if they are so bored.
It appears that Russian ProCycling exists as Provelo which of course makes me think of Provolone which leads to wine debating…
"As you can imagine, there are better places to have your birthday party than in some village called Mushny Mush Mishme." --The Wisdom of Jens
by Josenka on Nov 20, 2009 5:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
or pastrami. Provolone and hot pastrami on a french roll. Yum.
by ZoeRochelle on Nov 20, 2009 5:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If you give a mouse some Provalone
he’s going to want a glass of Chianti.
It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro
by majope on Nov 20, 2009 5:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What happens with the moose and the pig?
"As you can imagine, there are better places to have your birthday party than in some village called Mushny Mush Mishme." --The Wisdom of Jens
by Josenka on Nov 20, 2009 5:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No No it's
“But what about moose and squirrel” in the most ridiculous Russian accent you can do….
by Fred Marx on Nov 21, 2009 12:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Unbelievable, moose and squirrel are 50!
"As you can imagine, there are better places to have your birthday party than in some village called Mushny Mush Mishme." --The Wisdom of Jens
by Josenka on Nov 21, 2009 8:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Today was our office potluck. Very little work is getting done.
Half the women in the office went to see New Moon at midnight last night and are half asleep at their desks. 4 hours sleep + turkey = naptime
I had a giant piece of pumpkin pie with whipped cream. It was heavenly.
by ZoeRochelle on Nov 20, 2009 5:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Er...young crowd at your office?
Okay. I saw New Moon today, but it was only because I was accompanying a friend who doesn’t like to go to the movies alone.
It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro
by majope on Nov 20, 2009 5:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Whatever you say!
"As you can imagine, there are better places to have your birthday party than in some village called Mushny Mush Mishme." --The Wisdom of Jens
by Josenka on Nov 20, 2009 5:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The werewolf boy is underage.
So I certainly wasn’t there for this.
It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro
by majope on Nov 20, 2009 5:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Heh...
You too can support Steven Cozza with The Stache cut-outs.
"As you can imagine, there are better places to have your birthday party than in some village called Mushny Mush Mishme." --The Wisdom of Jens
by Josenka on Nov 20, 2009 5:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Alright - I'm over Summer. Autumn now, please.
40 yesterday. It’s 30 here in my flat now, at 10am, with high 30’s expected. 40 forecast for tomorrow. When I wake up to 30 degrees, I don’t tend to be terribly productive :-(. I’m a bit of a half-molten splodge, slumped over the desk. Excellent weather for washing and drying blankets and such… wish the maid would get on with it, LOL.
Poor Lou. Altogether now… “Poor Lou”
PS- 40 degrees is about 105 in that weird Farenheit voodoo shit, I think
by Lou... on Nov 20, 2009 6:27 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Summer in November...what horror!
personally I can’t wait to hit the slopes, yay snow!
Look, it's a bird...no, it's a plane....oh never mind it's just fucking balloon boy
by Phil H. on Nov 20, 2009 6:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I have no issue with the *timing* of the seasons
I quite like the way that the seasons are organised, up here in the Southern Hemisphere ;-). I especially like that the Tour is on in the middle of Winter. Curled up on the couch in the middle of the night, in front of the heater and wrapped up in a blanket… much nicer for Tour-watching than dripping sweat in front of the fan, continually having to get up for more water…
by Lou... on Nov 20, 2009 7:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You'd be singing a different tune
If you haven’t been riding in 8 degrees and rain for the last several days. Australia must be great…
by dansel on Nov 20, 2009 6:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
8 degrees is hibernation weather
And if you’re talking Farenheit… well, that just does not compute, I’m afraid. I’ve never experienced a temperature lower than 25 Farenheit (and rarely experienced a temperature as low as that…)
by Lou... on Nov 20, 2009 7:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Wow.
25 F is a pleasant winter’s day where I come from. I mean, it’s WELL above zero.
It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro
by majope on Nov 20, 2009 7:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's 4 below zero
…weird Farenheit voodoo shit…
by Lou... on Nov 20, 2009 7:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
When You Say
“above zero”, you make it sounds like there’s an alternative. And that’s just crazy talk.
Tickets are bought, Belgium here I come!
by jsallee00 on Nov 20, 2009 7:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Upstate New York
In the majority of winter seasons, a temperature of -25° or lower can be expected in the northern highlands… The Adirondack region records from 35 to 45 days with below zero temperatures in normal to severe winters
Then there’s the wind chill factor…but words can’t express. Just go ski Whiteface some January.
It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro
by majope on Nov 20, 2009 7:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
So do you lot
have to stick crampons on your boots to walk to the shops? And take an ice-axe with you if it’s uphill?
by Lou... on Nov 20, 2009 7:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Boots usually do it
but there is a skill to walking on ice. Short version: forget that heel-to-toe stuff.
Bet you never have to put chains on your tires in Australia.
It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro
by majope on Nov 20, 2009 7:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
Yes, that’s on just a handful of roads in our… ahem… ‘alpine’ area. But still…
by Lou... on Nov 20, 2009 7:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
OK, you win that won. But Australia loses points for
Don’t break hard
I mean, it’s good advice and all, I just don’t think it’s what they meant.
It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro
by majope on Nov 20, 2009 8:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
snort
"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09
by benrazor on Nov 20, 2009 8:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I recognize the characters
but I can’t understand what they mean. Maybe I’ll go to the beach and contemplate this.
Tickets are bought, Belgium here I come!
by jsallee00 on Nov 20, 2009 9:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was being good and using celsius like the rest of the world.
And 8deg is totally rideable. Don’t even need tights for that!
by dansel on Nov 20, 2009 10:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Poor Lou?! Bah, and again I say bah!
We have yet another wet and windy weekend coming up, which will mean turbo trainer in the morning followed by drenching in the afternoon when I have to go out. My hair will go wild and my lovely new cat umbrella will probably be destroyed in the gale. The only silver lining in all this is that the 2009 Paris Roubaix DVD arrived this morning. There’s nothing like Tommeke’s back view disappearing over the cobbles to make me ‘chase’ harder on the trainer!
"If I were World Road Race Champion, I would wear black shorts. That probably has more to do with me being on the wiser side of 30 and understanding better that the decisions I make now never really go away. White shorts would not be something I'd be proud of...." - David Millar, in Rouleur.
by Albertina on Nov 20, 2009 7:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Diddums :-)
Did I say that my weekend isn’t also wet and windy?
Had a storm yesterday. Showers due this arvo. Showers and ‘windy’ tomorrow (yup, and 40 degrees). Rain all the way through to mid-week, in fact. Hands up who likes humidity…
by Lou... on Nov 20, 2009 7:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was raised in the southern US
I know humidity like the back of my hand. Our summer mantra was 95deg (f), 95% humidity.
by dansel on Nov 20, 2009 11:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
OK, even I think that's vile...
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
by Seahorse on Nov 20, 2009 8:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No kidding :-(
I suspect that I may spend tomorrow glued to the BOM website, watching for the southerly to start moving up the coast, LOL. On the positive side, I’ve just been rummaging through obscure cupboards – and found another fan! It works, even! With three fans placed strategically around the flat, I might just be able to get off my sweaty arse and do something constructive…
by Lou... on Nov 20, 2009 11:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You do understand that I think the beach is the answer to your woes?
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
by Seahorse on Nov 21, 2009 1:18 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
We don't all live close to a beach ;-)
The northern beaches are too much effort to get to. Bondi is closest, really – but I’m not going to go there. Hmm.. Brighton might be closer, but I ain’t swimming inside Botany Bay. That leaves Cronulla – and I love the place, but you won’t ever convince me that the roughly one hour trip is worth it on a stinking hot day…
(Then there’s the sun thing. I don’t do sun in Summer. Not on bare skin, anyway, as far as I can help it. My ‘tan’ is limited to my left arm ;-). Soooo… the beach on a stinking hot day… not really the place for me.)
by Lou... on Nov 21, 2009 1:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Well then I have no answer... :(
I spent years teaching in little western towns where the mercury hit 37 + on a regular basis. Air conditioning and beer had to suffice. Home/s always have water in my world. No beach in summer – sensible but sacreligious…
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
by Seahorse on Nov 21, 2009 2:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
So some entertainment huh
how about checking out world of warcraft freakout kid? This is amazing stuff…
Look, it's a bird...no, it's a plane....oh never mind it's just fucking balloon boy
by Phil H. on Nov 20, 2009 6:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
You are so living in the month september
What do you fear most?
1. coup d’etat
2. putsch
by Frinking on Nov 20, 2009 8:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Pfft, I've known about that video since July
but what better time to watch it again then the off season?
Look, it's a bird...no, it's a plane....oh never mind it's just fucking balloon boy
by Phil H. on Nov 20, 2009 9:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
For all of you moaners about rain and snow-
in Northern California we are in a serious drought and have only had one day of rain since last Spring. Nov 20th and only sprinkles so far.
We need the rain, only not all at once. There are many old levees around.
by ZoeRochelle on Nov 20, 2009 11:48 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I would gladly send you some from Northern Indiana
I know times are tough out there in CA. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that you get some precipitation soon.
by dansel on Nov 20, 2009 11:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm here for you...
you get rain and we get snow about 24 hours later… I’m thinking positive.
by Fred Marx on Nov 21, 2009 12:20 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's been very dry in the mid-west so far hasn't it?
every single day it’s sunny and 50 here…except for the weekends when it snows! Go figure
Look, it's a bird...no, it's a plane....oh never mind it's just fucking balloon boy
by Phil H. on Nov 21, 2009 12:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My state already gives your state a ton of water
so I’m doing my part!…well I’m not doing anything but you know what I mean…maybe?
Look, it's a bird...no, it's a plane....oh never mind it's just fucking balloon boy
by Phil H. on Nov 21, 2009 12:41 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
We in North Cali send water to Southern Cali too. Its a sore subject around here.
Here’s to positive thoughts.
by ZoeRochelle on Nov 21, 2009 12:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm all with you on hoping Cali gets out of the drought
means less water has to be supplied from here as well. But from what I remember from living in NoCal is there was almost always a drought. But hey, we will all die in 2012 anyway!(that is sarcastic, I hate that theory)
Look, it's a bird...no, it's a plane....oh never mind it's just fucking balloon boy
by Phil H. on Nov 21, 2009 12:46 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Weather getting you down....
Try this – the All Star Animated Band, done for a telethon in the UK yesterday. Stunning. Got children under ten or if you thought the best bit of Shrek was the song at the end then this is a must.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8itR416KCw
Although as it took two years to make and was for charity is only fair to put the link to where you can download it and thus donate
by andrewp on Nov 21, 2009 2:34 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
An entire Friday Open thread on the weather?
Can we have a bikerace soon? Please?
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For the love of God, please
by Jens on Nov 21, 2009 2:40 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Saturday.
We’ve been waiting for you to do the pasta and chickpeas GT stage re-enactments…
by Lou... on Nov 21, 2009 2:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The chickpeas are on off-season vacation
Hiking in the dolomites. We’re so screwed.
by Jens on Nov 21, 2009 3:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
GVA Trofee this afternoon
Round 3 in Hasselt starts at 15:00 local (in 1h40) and there is an official webcast but normally it won’t be available abroad: http://www.sport.be/gvatrofee/2009/nl/ or direct link http://wm.streampower.be/vrt_vrtnieuws.net.world_hi
Tomorrow Superprestige round 4 in Hamme-Zogge, livestream via http://www.vt4.be/superprestige
by tedvdw on Nov 21, 2009 7:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks Ted, I'm considering you my cross link
I’ve had no trouble getting Superpresitge coverage for free from Sporza (I was crushed when Nys flatted last week), but have struck out getting anything for World Cups. Not surprised, just disappointed.
I’m hoping NBC Universal comes through for Worlds like they did last year. Excellent video quality and lots of it.
I mean uh... hasn't that ever occurred to you, man? Sir?
by Drew... on Nov 21, 2009 8:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Well that’s the thing: Superprestige hasn’t been on Sporza for a few years now. “Sporza” is the market name for one of the VRT (Flemish public broadcaster) channels and has a much larger audience than commercial station VT4 which now owns the rights to the Superprestige Series. For instance, and relevant to me, Sporza is on all cable selections in the Netherlands, VT4 nowhere :( So I, too, have to rely on the VT4 webcast. Which in itself is pretty great!
by tedvdw on Nov 21, 2009 11:04 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks a ton
Not speaking belgian is a hinderance when trying to find live coverage of cross races.
Luckily “sport” and “livestream” with are pretty easy to decipher, especially when the ubiquitous Nys is in the picture.
by dansel on Nov 21, 2009 10:06 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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