new ride

Blue Fuji, used, with new U-lock ready to rock and roll.

bike lock

Vying for a better deal, I perused amazon for a high-quality bicycle lock for my upcoming investment in pedal power. I tried sorting the results in decending price order to see what people were paying top dollar for, and I got some interesting results.
The first 14 results, to be exact, were decidedly not bike locks.

I can see how a trunk-mounted bicycle rack could be useful if I owned an automobile, but I can't understand the correlation between a $50 u-lock and $1700 go-kart.
The folding bicycle looks handy, but the Inspector Gadget look is slightly out of my price range.

united greatness

holy crap data and tommy together in one show????
i need to check out leverage.

possibly hilarious

this could be a great comedy.

Shoutouts

The inaugural Nintuesday was a runaway success.
Wii Sports, pbr pounders, anmlhse mixtape and a whole lot of love.
Check out my boy Ben Keyser's new blog, fresh off the presses.
unrelated images below.

inside jobs

talking about bicycle purchases today, a colleague mentioned two of his bikes being stolen during his stint living in philadelphia. one of these bicycles was stolen from within his apartment.
ridiculous. you can't trust anyone.
the theft story reminds me of lifeguarding in brooklyn the summer before college.
my pocket was picked and I wasn't even wearing my pants.
my ipod was in the front pocket of my jeans, and my jeans were in the staff changing room near the pool. the lifeguards were all friends and there was a high level of trust and respect among us, especially considering our lunch break activities, our after work activities, and most of the non-work activities in which we were jointly involved.
so i thought.
at 5pm my wallet, cash, cell phone and keys were untouched but my ipod was long gone; someone swiped it out of my disembodied trousers. someone who knew where I kept my little white rectangle of auditory sanity pills had robbed me of portable music. it was back to the cd player for the rest of the summer.
people are jerks.
side note: somehow my minidisc player still functions, if i want to listen to four-hour mixes from high school. hmm...

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Immaturity feeds targeted advertising

Facebook now includes advertisements tailored to each user, and the software seems to know me well. Even though I didn't click on the ad, I guffawed and ended up reading the entire brief description.
Combine off-beat sexual humor and guns, and you catch my eye.
Well played.

Facebook: 1
Adam: 0

Another Facebook sidebar I wish i had a screenshot of: After commenting on my less than Herculean physique, an advertisement along side my photo read "Get that 6-pack you've been dreaming of" and I thought "Facebook, you jerk."

Unchanged Respect

A new study pegs Tyrannosaurus Rex as similar hunters to modern day mammalian carnivores. Somehow this doesn't surprise me. I'm glad the Jurassic Park film got this part right. The film show it feeding on small, weak prey ("Where's the goat?") such as humans and it only chases the Jeep for a minute or two before giving up and stalking off for a different meal. The top speed might not be accurate but that's not what this study is about. These are all similar hunting characteristics of large cat species, and it makes perfect sense. Yet another scientific study that answers a question to which most intelligent, informed people should respond "yea no sh*t."
I prefer to not be crass and arrogant but anyone with an intermediate level of dinosaur knowledge should have possessed more than a hunch about this from the age of 7. I still think the T Rex was pretty cool, but it will never match the badassery of Utahraptors. Combine the lethality of a velociraptor, the pack mentality of wolves, the intelligence of dolphins, and the strength of Komodo dragons and you can start to imagine the terror of being ambushed by a gang of hungry 2-meter-tall reptilian carnivores. Keep in mind that in order for a 2-meter-tall therapod (read: biped) to balance properly, it needs to be more than twice that length from head to tail.
Ah, living triangles of death.

self-incrimination

not sure why i was looking at night vision goggles, but this person below had a clear reason for spending almost $1000 to see in the dark.

i really hope this person was arrested. some people just can't handle privileges.
i am almost certain this person - who basically told the entire internet that they are a pervert - is male, but these days you can never be sure.

Philly Bikes

Trying to find a bicycle on craigslist is tough, and it's made even more difficult with posts like this:

i wish i had the audacity to photoshop something like this, but there's no need when people are actually ridiculous.