Dreadhead

Happy Birthday to you Sir Ginger!

Happy Birthday!

will probably buy but would rather just get a CD....

A Assistant VP role at a financial services company is low on salary? Color me surprised.

good luck with the interview!

woo hoo! For spinning? or for bike?

Took my beagle Rugby on a 3 hour 8 mile walk which was about the most intense thing I can do with this cold. I then registered for my area's first bike race of the year at which I will get hammered like cheerleader on prom night

Some proof my city has a sense of humor:

UP on demand. Good movie...

Did our taxes and we're getting a mad refund. Sort of retarded how low the final effective tax rate is.

congrats all around

Learned from my city planning department that if I keep my garden shed (actually workout/bike shed) below 80sq ft then I don't need planning approval or a permit and I can put it right up against my property line with no issues. This probably saved me $2000 in architects fees alone. I'm stoked because what I thought was going to cost $10000+ is going to be much less than that. Awesome

sweet!

I'll be driving with my bike on the roof and can bring some of the train bound if they so desire

I'd come (not that that is a plus )

Some new Miyazaki DVDs to fill out my collection a bit

Happy birthday!

You are correct. I miscounted boards

Funnier that way around but I'm pretty sure the sequence is backward if you look at the snow on the deck....

I'm a "niche engineer" I guess whatever that means. I got my PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (which is an engineering program not a architecture one). I'm afraid I can't offer any insight as to Columbia or any of the other schools other than out in the field I certainly can't find any correlation between a "better" or "worse" program and the quality of work out of people (at the active applied research level). I can find a correlation with their dickishness at being told they are wrong, which everyone is at time to time (I know I am). In my experience Caltech and MIT PhDs are the worst for this, they can't accept it or get petty, I think it has to do with spending so much of their young life thinking that they were the brilliant chosen few. I'll only add that going to a school with strong industry ties is a good thing because if you do well then your professors liking you is a big plus in both finding a job and finding research funding later on (if those two aren't tied together).

I dunno. I sort of wish I had not ridden. Been working my ass off on the trainer (nearly 10 hrs this week alone) and went out for the local group ride and got popped like a zit by a bunch of masters riders and my ex-coach who hasn't ridden for months due to injury and had maybe a week back on the bike. I'm starting to realize that as much as I work at it I'll probably never be competitive even at the cat 4/5 level which is just depressing. But at least I now get to enjoy the superbowl and not worry too much about dieting.

I'm too heavy for them or the Reynolds RZR 46T at a mere $6k. I have Zipp 404 clinchers already. I will probably end up with a pair of MadFiber Tubulars in the future but to be honest none of that shit really makes much difference past a point and I'll still be too slow. Excuse me if that sounds nihilistic. I had a rather depressing day on the bike today

Yeah it's only for TT's (and if my wife wants to use it for triathlons). I'm not (too) nuts. My problem is that I'm basically running out of bike shit to buy.

That sucks CJ. Just remember those decisions are sort of arbitrary. I got rejected from MIT but graduated top of my class from U of M whose program is ranked higher or the same... Hope you shine as brightly in the new job Todd

More bike shit. Including a thing to turn my regular wheels into a aero disc wheel which I'm pretty excited about.