I'll admit it had been a long time since I biked any substantial distance and since then I'd become kind of bike ignorant. BUT NOW, I have a new reason to LOVE MADISON.

Casey's Bicycle Excursion Adventure #2:

~17 miles, about an hour & 45 mins.

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When I'm feeling kind of crappy, or when I feel lazy like I have no energy, I wish it were immediately obvious what the thing is that I need to do to kick myself into shape. Because there's always something that works. I need some kind of crazy biofeedback monitor that straps to my wrist and flashes little messages when my brain is unengaged or my ( Read more... )

Okay, so I just biked to work and back and it only took me an hour round trip (about 7.5 miles). I probably haven't biked more than two miles in like a decade, so it feels pretty good ( Read more... )

While I'm soliciting people for social contact ( Read more... )

If I get Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People for Wii, would any people (such as for example attractive people) like to come over and go through it with me, like make a party out of it?

Let me know ASAP!

p.s. Also, does anyone have any silver spray paint? I have some but I think I need more.

amazing pictures of the large hadron collider @ CERNThe descriptions read like a bad sci-fi novel. I like, for example, the picture of them "Transporting the ATLAS Magnet Toroid End-Cap A between building 180 to ATLAS point 1" because it looks like the gear of a giant robot. But don't forget to insert the Liquid Argon Cryostat within the ATLAS ( Read more... )

Aaaand now the blower motor on my furnace is dead. Outside A/C unit still seems to be working fine (so far), but no blower = no A/C ( Read more... )

To think that I was so completely clueless about the sheer variety of sizes, shapes, sounds, and colors of chickens!

here's what happened ( Read more... )

The animal that had been in my chimney chase was apparently still there after they fixed the opening in the siding, after all. And has now apparently died, if the smell is any indication. I'm not 100% sure that's what it is and it's not a real strong smell (yet), but odds are good. I have no good way of getting in there to check, really ( Read more... )