I saw somebody riding one of the bikes I'd given away today, but it wasn't the person who I'd given it to, nor was it anywhere remotely close to campus. Pretty interesting way to find out something has been stolen.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. Technically, the bike was stolen. But the guy had ridden past all of the scrap metal yards he ( Read more... )

( Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you'll see...into your imagination... )

I still feel that varable gears are only for people over forty-five.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer?
We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!

--Henri Desgrange, L'Équipe article of 1902


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"The true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself...the more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is ( Read more... )

"This man among you, mortals, is wisest who, like Socrates, understands that his wisdom is worthless."
-Apology, 23b

Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:21 AM ET ( Read more... )

I came home a couple days ago, on a big airline plane high in the sky with only one stop between me and my beloved "home." I came back for appointments, for friends, for hopes that it would remind me of old times when life seemed so important. I came home and saw my car still in the driveway; that stout black mercedes sitting, like always except ( Read more... )

When I walk down the hall and hear Jungle Boogie passing one room, My Humps passing another, some White Stripes passing another, I know that I am in college. Just another night, whether or not it's a weekend it doesn't matter, and shit's going crazy like it always is. School's not in my mind, home isn't either, but when I go to bed I know this is ( Read more... )

I miss you guys.

At least I'm in good company ( Read more... )