Ride Around Washington 2005: part two of three
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Search Engine Optimization gone amok
Since September 3rd, a bot at Yahoo (68.142.195.81) has been repeatedly, as in 45,266 times and still counting, polling my web site. I’ve finally added the magic line in .htaccess, but it’s annoying that there’s no way to contact a human being at yahoo to kick this thing in the pants. Their bot is requesting
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Ride Around Washington 2005: part one of three
Best T-shirt slogan seen all day: Does “anal retentive” have a hyphen? This year’s Ride Around Washington was a loop around the peninsula: Day Start Miles Time Calories Ascent* Comments 0 To Bellingham – – – 1 Bellingham to Port Townsend 80.1 6:50 5,126 3,860 Three flats just past Chuckanut. Whidbey Island has some hills
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RAW 2005: Wow…
Just got back from the Ride Around Washington. It’s going to take a while to digest, but I can summarize the week: wow. The quick numbers: 431 miles biked, 10 miles walked, 3 miles kayaked 19,454 calories burned Over 16,000′ of climbing* 12 Bumblebars consumed 7 nights tent camping, a different location each night 4
Putting it to the Travel Man
When I was in my late 20s, travel seemed glamourous. I took every trip I could get. By using the pedestrian “Saturday Night Stay” tactic, I could easily finagle planning trips from point A to point B with time to actually see point B. Adventures in Point B were, of course, fully-funded by saving the
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I got nothin’
This weekend was uncomfortably warm around the house. Saturday, I finished the major stuff on my car, and am glad I did it myself versus shelling out the $560. Knock on wood. The only tricky part was accessing the spark plugs because I had to remove some funky plastic ducting and the windshield cleaning fluid
Auto repair – 30k tune-up
Since I last wrote about my car in late 2003, I’ve put another 14,000 miles on it. This means a couple of things. First, I’m (over)due for my 30,000 mile tune-up.
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Satellite/road map hybrids
The coolness of the satellite mapping continues. These folks built hooks into Google’s satellite maps, which now superimposes roads on top of the images, enabling one to create a basic route map. Mapping out my bike route to work took about five minutes. Here’s the result. Pretty cool stuff.
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