Straight Outta Compton's website

I see that Leonard Zinn gives props to KC's dad Tom in his latest techical column. Tom Compton is a cool cat, one of the best officials around for USA Cycling events, but also a cool dude to talk with concerning the physics of cycling.

Here's the Leonard Zinn link:

http://www.velonews.com/tech/report/articles/9662.0.html

What's up with possible Snow this weekend?

What are we going to do?

What's up with the Rizzo Joey T? His site's been on the friz for a few weeks now....

The Guy's team meeting on Monday was rocking. It was cool to meet the 100+ members and also get all my goodies for the season. It totally felt like Kwanzaa again with all the gifts!

My new Cannondale Caad8 team bike is hot. First time I've ever had DurAce (Durr-Ach-Ey) as I like to call it. It shift's mighty sweet, though I'm having a little skipping going on down there....I'm looking to buy some of the Spinergy Carbon wheels to race on this year...anyone have experience on them? Just Colin the doctor has told me they are sweet.
One thing about the C'dale is it is noticeably more rough than my Scott Carbon, but it does feel like it's more responsive when out of the saddle climbing. I'll be racing the C'dale this year and probably convert the Scott to a TT bike.

I just realized that the weather this weekend is fitting for the White Clay Icycle ride on Saturday. It's ironic, but I think on average the weather is as dumpy as can be every year for this ride. Here's the link to it:
http://www.whiteclaybicycleclub.org/Events-WCBC/icicle.htm

Time to get ready for work....it's been no fun there at all! Everyone else has 5-6 weeks of vacation. Plus they get another 10 days of family care time so everyone uses those when their significant other is "sick". Also add in a liberal Short Term disability policy and people seem to work only about 40 weeks a year. Sure sucks for me and I get paid a few grand less than them. Screw putting in the time when I put in more effort and work. It's funny how corporate america can be quite socialistic...

Hope you all can ride this weekend, I'll do my best...

-bc

Free Rita's Water Ice on Monday...

Yes, it's still going to be ph'ing cold out on Monday, but still, don't forget, free Rita's Water ice on the first day of Spring.

Yey, pickin up my new C'dale in about 7 hours! But first a ride with Rico out to Ridley Park...going to be a killer of a ride as everyone's wicked fit these days.

Teamwork!

Dude, this brought tears to my eyes. Two of the best sprinters (Erik Zabel and Alessandro Pettachi) and top-class cyclists in the world, riding together as teamates. Photo is from the Associated Press.

Is it me, or does Floyd look like he could be a driver in NASCAR?

Taken from one of Graham Watson's fine photo's from Paris-Nice.

UD Scandals

WTF is up at UD these days? Does the football team need to recruit thugs to play football now? I think UD should have a policy that if some student on a full ride commits a crime which results in the student being kicked out of the college, then they have to reimburse the state for their free ride they've had up to that point. Sort of like posting a bond, which if they graduate it's forgiven, but if they don't they have to pay it back. It's just not fair to all of the other hardworking students for having to pay the escalating costs of college when fools get to go to college for free just b/c they are good football players. And what's up with all the arms:

According to search warrants served at Alexander and Jones' home on Madison Drive in Newark, police recovered black ski masks, a Remington 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, several boxes of buckshot, an Apple iPod, a safe and 59 individually wrapped bags of marijuana.

At Robinson's Madison Drive home, police seized a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, assorted ammunition, two cell phones, an Apple iPod, 11 grams of marijuana and $221 in cash.

A search of Heggins' Wharton Drive residence turned up baggies containing 3.92 grams of cocaine and 3.5 grams of marijuana, assorted boxes of shotgun shells, a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun and a portable DVD player.


These dudes were thugs and should be given no justice. It sucks, but most likely they've caused many more crimes around campus with those masks and guns. Why did these guys who had so much going for them do this? Their life is probably now over as they won't get an education and now they have committed some federal offenses.


Time to get out and run, it's nice and sunny these days by 6:30! It rocks.

My grandfather's 90th B-day bash this weekend

My grandfather, PJ, is a total badass, he's led the life of a legend.
Growing up he played lacrosse in upper-state NY with the Iroquoise Indians, not only was he good enough to play with them, he was good enough to flaunt them and after being a little too much of a hotshot one day he pissed off the chief of the tribe (who was also the goalie) and the chief left his goal to bop PJ on his head and knock him out! The big kicker of the story was that his father had told him not to play for $$$ anymore and yet that's what he was doing that one day when he was knocked out cold. His father obviously found out and was not too happy.

The USS Princeton, the boat he served on after college and during WWII.
The story of the Princeton can be found here, http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/cv23sink.html
It takes just 2 minutes to read, and it shows the bravery of people like PJ. He was one of the last guys off the ship as his duty was to secure the ammo if the ship was going down, his position on the boat was right at the back of the ship where the two big guns are located for air defense. Those guns were hardcore. Like 4 barrels each with 50 caliber per barrel. I forget exactly what he told me, but I believe he said it would put a ton of lead in the air w/in a minute's time.

The coolest Bathroom in the world!!! Flowers growing in there and look at the view. From one year ago in Ecuador. 

Props to Manhardt

Dave, thanks for kicking knowledge on how to do the links. I'm a slacker on the links, but now I got em up. Still a work in progress, like the rest of life....

Let's hope this stuff falling from the sky doesn't stick around for Saturday. If it clears up by then, I'll be pimping the roads around Wilmington/Chadds Ford on the road bike with my lady. My Grandfather's turning 90 and we're rocking out down there this weekend.

Took my first loss this year trading/investing this year. That was a bummer. I took the high risk trade of opening a position of SNDA the day before earnings b/c their competitor (NTES) blew out earnings the previous day and gapped up 10%. SNDA's been in a transition and I was hoping to catch a good pop, instead I caught a good drop! Smart money waits until the day after earnings annoucements to open a position, so FYI, if you are going to invest in the short term, always check when news worthy events are coming up for the company, ie. Earnings, Annual Meetings, Conference presentations etc. I knew all of this, but was greedy. Live and learn. Nothing like losing a possible new set of race wheels in an hour, I'll make it back, but man it takes time to do that. The market builds wealth slowly, but takes greed and shoves it to the ground.

Listening to iTunes on Shuffle right now, man that Beastie Boys song, Body Moving is some hype song, haven't heard that since college.