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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
bikepirates [ blue_banshee ]	3:55p	spindle hub hi there. some of you longtime readers may remember my desire to make a spindle hub. I'd link to the posts I've made about it, but I'm not interested in wasting hours going through the archives. suffice to say, I want to be able to pedal from the same axis around which my drive wheel rotates. I think this will allow me to design a prone position bicycle with aerodynamic, ergonomic, and structural advantages over modern upright bicycles. I think a spindle hub might be interesting to unicyclists and people who want to make recumbent bikes, too. anyway, after trying to get somebody to help me make this invention, I decided to go to college and make it myself. it's taken me a lot longer than I would have hoped, and I'm not finished yet. but I finished cutting the hub shell for my first prototype. I did it as an independent study, and the semester's over, so I needed to take pictures to document my work. if you want to see more, click on the picture below: (Comment on this)
bikepirates [ rebeccmeister ]	12:31p	Looking for a bike-related 2010 calendar? So, my friends and I over at the Bike Saviours in Tempe, Arizona, have put together a 2010 calendar that features all of the Collective members who staff the shop (we're a volunteer-run co-op). The calendar is a fund-raiser, so if you're looking for an awesometastic, bike-related holiday gifty-poo, look no further! A preview and ordering information can be found here. If you are ever in the Phoenix area, get in touch and stop by the co-op. On a side note, I'm in Seattle at the moment, riding around with my boyfriend on a pair of rusty old ten-speeds. Hi, Seattle Bikepirates! (Comment on this)
bikepirates [ fiddydotcom ]	12:00a	CX Nationals I made it up to Bend for the Nats. It was cold cold cold but I survived. Anyone else make it that way? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
eyeteeth	2:32a	What do I pay you people for? This is one of my favorite scenes in Dracula, when the vampire girlfriends are kind of about to gang-rape Jonathan and he's kind of into it, only then the Count storms in and grabs the lead girlfriend by the neck and throws her across the room because for Pete's sake, do you think it was easy to get an English real estate agent all the way out here in the middle of the Carpathians? I had to go get him from the train station and I have to keep feeding him, because these guys eat food, you know, I can't just grab a villager and stuff him in a sack and bring him home like I do for you three, and do you think I enjoy catering to the fleshly whims of a big dumb mortal? I, a Székely, a descendant of Attila the Hun, do you think I like roasting chickens and brewing coffee like some damn servant? And then you people go and try to eat him before I've even bought the house! YOU CAN EAT HIM WHEN I'M DONE! I love the notion of Dracula, incarnation of fleshly lust, stuck in this position where he has to keep managing the physical needs of others. He has to feed Jonathan; he has to feed his girlfriends; he has to keep the girlfriends from "kissing" Jonathan; he has to have lengthy discussions with Jonathan in order to keep him up until dawn so he sleeps really late and doesn't find it strange that the Count sleeps really late too. And when Jonathan cuts himself shaving Dracula has to keep calm about it, all that wonderful blood, five whole quarts of delicious English blood, no, restrain yourself! All this delayed gratification is such a pain. Vampires aren't good at it. I had a whole thing I was going to tell you about Dracula's girlfriends (a blonde and two brunettes) and their intriguingly ambiguous relationship with him, but that will have to wait, I have too much work to do. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
airlied	3:20p	radeontool 1.6.0 released I've just done a 1.6.0 release of radeontool from my personal repo, it contains both radeontool and avivotool, and is probably full of ugly but whats in distros now is older and worse. radeontool (and avivotool) are lowlevel tools to tweak register and dump state on radeon GPUs, they also can parse parts of the BIOS data tables. Tarballs are at http://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/radeontool/ git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/radeontool.git (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
beatonna	8:50p	Familiar Faces Some holiday comics! The Kiss Elves return. Oh and I am posting journal type comics on twitter sometimes. If you are on twitter I am @beatonna (65 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
bikepirates [ sick_of_talk ]	9:08p	Whiny Tale. Let me tell you a sad sad story of me not being responsible and pissed as hell. I live in Oakland, part of the SF bay area. One day, a few months ago, I went to do my laundry at pops house, and walked over to my truck. To my surprise, it was on the curb and the back end was smashed in! wtf? Some lady walks by and tells me, "ac transit hit yo shit". Fuck!. I was supposed to go see Noam Chomsky in Palo Alto that night, and after doing the police report bs, find it still runs. Sweet. So I drive over to pops house in Fremont, with my bicycle to bike over the dumbarton bridge to this spot in Palo Alto. I had no turn signals, and no lights, so I didn't want to get a fix-it ticket, or be a cop magnet. This is a considerable bike ride from Fremont. Nothing insane, and I had gotten back from a tour of the coast, but it was an hour and a half of trekking. On the way back, in east palo alto(a lower income separate city), I am stopped at a light and notice a cop behind me. Whatever, I am biking and almost to the bridge! Then after a considerable time at the light, a light pops on from the cop and out the window they tell me to pull over. They pull me over because I had no front light (it got jacked). I am a little iritated because I have been pulled over, bicycling a couple times, all in lower income areas, so I know they just assume I am buying dope. Frustrated, pumped from Noam Chomskys speech, I tell them my feelings, instead of remaining silent like I have previously. "Man you just pulled me over because you think I went to this area to buy drugs!" I've found on a bike, it is really hard to defend yourself against police. Long story short, I got a fix it ticket, at 10:30 at night, in east palo alto on a bike. I'm sure they couldn't be doing anything better. So in the spirit of civil disobedience, or maybe school, work, and living rather far away with no car, I ignored the ticket. Smash the state. No previous experience with this nonsense, I just got a 170 dollar bail ticket in the mail. Geez! Has anyone ever dealt with getting pulled over on their bike? Whats your best defense? (22 Comments |Comment on this)
rstevens	10:31p	bag dwelling trolline entity bag dwelling trolline entity Originally uploaded by rstevens (1 Comment |Comment on this)
erikamoen	3:14p	The End of DAR! I know, I know, this isn't new news, but here is my official announcement: After six years, December 28th will be the final DAR! strip! Yay! I'm so, so grateful for all the wonderfully positive things that have come into my life as a direct result of this comic and I am even more excited to focus my energy on my completely new projects. It's all in the above link, but I just wanted to say 'thank you' again. Thank you to everyone who has been reading my dumb little journal comic for the last six years. Thank you for buying my books. Thank you for writing me kind letters. Thank you for supporting me. I'm so happy to have had an audience to share my life with and I hope people will be just as excited as I am when my new projects launch. So thank you again and yay! Man, I am fucking stoked :D
erikamoen	12:19p	DAR! Fetish http://www.DARcomic.com ( permalink ) I just wanted to draw octopuses. Comment on Comic
zubkavich	8:02a	Legends of Zork - 8 Months Later I've got to say, I'm impressed with the evolution of Legends of Zork. When the game first launched a bunch of people seemed miffed at the lack of, well, Zork-ness in the whole thing. I received a lot of compliments on the art but quite a few people I talked to mentioned they were disappointed that the gameplay didn't feel like the Zork they knew and loved. It didn't have whimsical descriptions or puzzles, just a grind-centric battle interface with loot, moving from place to place and bashing things. 8 months later and it's now quite robust with actual story quests and puzzles, silly descriptions, a vastly improved interface and a much better sense of progression and things to do. Looking at the rankings, there are now over 117,000 characters created and a variety of groups and guilds playing together in 9 different languages. It's still a casual focused browser game but there's now a much greater sense of strategy and storytelling involved. The crew and I have done 4 art updates (with the latest artwork just finished last week, so hopefully that will work its way into the active game very soon) and Jolt/Activision seem really happy with its growth and progress. As soon as that new art is live I'll start posting pieces up. If you haven't seen the previous Zork designs I contributed to the project, you can check them out right HERE. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 14th, 2009
hepkitten	10:41p	surprise attack surprise attack, originally uploaded by hep. this kitten is too funny. if you would like an xmas card this year, plz leave your addr on this post. all comments screened. if you are sending xmas cards, the addr is: hep co po box 402 brisbane, ca 94005 (Comment on this)
erikamoen	12:14p	<:D Bigger Readable Size Oh my fucking god, my heart is completely bursting. This is a comic I received from Sam and Joe this morning (regarding this week's comic) and I think it's safe to say it's made my whole year. They don't have a website I can direct you guys towards, but obviously they are exploding with talent and I can't wait to see what else they come up with! <3 <3 <3
bikepirates [ macho_ ]	12:59p	DIY truing stand and freewheel remover in Kenya. The freewheel remover, showcased right at the end, is pretty neat. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
eyeteeth	1:37a	Return of the Outsider Jew This woman who finds my Judaism lacking isn't anyone in particular. I just think of her as one of the many Orthodox women in my neighborhood. Her name is probably Esther or something like that. Man, aren't you glad I figured out how to bump up the contrast on these things? The old ones look like ass to me now. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
hepkitten	7:14p	feeling the hepmas spirit feeling the hepmas spirit, originally uploaded by hep. hope you are all well! we decorated our tree tonite, and made the seasons first batch of gingerbread. pix later (3 Comments |Comment on this)
beatonna	10:50p	that's a good one old buddy I saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol today. I love Dickens, I will always love A Christmas Carol. Even if they don't do smoking tricks in it. (36 Comments |Comment on this)
bikepirates [ concretengrace ]	6:21a	Hit and run in Atlanta I took this from her Facebook group, but basically a friend of mine was hit by a white Jeep Cherokee last Friday night (Dec 4) in Atlanta. There was an eyewitness and several security cameras around but they're not investigating because the witness didn't catch the license plate. If any of you in the Atlanta area have seen a white Jeep Cherokee with a broken up right side mirror, please contact DeKalb County Police Department South Precinct 1816 Candler Road Decatur, Georgia 30032 404-286-7911 ( Read the whole thing under here ) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 11th, 2009
erikamoen	4:48p	Underground Issue 2 Underground Issue 2 Originally uploaded by Erika Moen. One of the super fun parts about being a member of Periscope Studio is that you get to pose for reference photos. This is a reference picture I modeled in for Steve as he was laying out Underground issue two's cover. You guys? Underground is really, really good. I'm not just saying that because I've posed for it a bunch! It's so well written by Jeff Parker and the art is, of course, spectacular from Steve. It's just a goddamn good package. It's the best spelunking thriller you will ever read, I assure you. It's also a pretty complete cast of Periscope hidden behind the characters' poses ;) Anyway, just wanted to show you guys this side-by-side! (If you want to buy this particular issue, you can head on over to Things From Another World ;) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
jeffr_tech	12:37p	What's in a journal anyway? In this post I'll detail the contents of the journal and the recovery operation. Since we know that softupdates only leaves two inconsistencies, leaked inodes and leaked blocks, we only have to journal conditions which can create these circumstances. In truth we have to track all link count changes to an inode since they can have multiple named references via hardlinks. Blocks are somewhat simpler although ffs fragments complicate them considerably. At recovery time we verify whether links or pointers to blocks exist and use this information to free them if necessary. There are only 4 journal records (add ref, rem ref, new block, free block) and each is only 32bytes. This is effectively an intent log, there is no copy of the metadata in each record. Sounds simple no? ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
bikepirates [ bob909 ]	4:32p	I just had a really funny experience on my way home. I was riding along Clarendon, north of Montrose and noticed a vehicle was pacing me. I looked over, it was a huge, orange 1150cc BMW motorcycle. The rider was wearing full leathers and a red helmet with a full face shield. As I looked over, he flipped up the visor, turned his head towards me and held up 2 fingers. He said "2 wheels, and the cold ain't stoppin' us!" Then gunned his engine and went on his way. I think that's my best interaction with someone else on 2 wheels in the winter. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
compilerbitch	2:16p	That questions meme thingo... So, if you want questions, reply with one, two, many, lots, loads, buckets, Standard Poodles or whatever units you prefer and I shall oblige in return. You should offer to do likewise, blah blah whatever meme stuff etc. From fluffthebunny: 1. Imagine there's nothing but digital media anymore for photographic imaging. Would you miss film, or say good riddance? I'd personally not notice. I've exclusively used digital for some years now, and I don't feel that film offers anything useful that digital does not. Sure, I'm looking at this from the high end, dealing with digital medium- and large-format, but also I don't feel any lack in using a DSLR like one of my Nikons in comparison with 35mm film. 6x6cm medium format film or 4x5" large format film is probably still superior to most DSLRs, but digital medium format beats 4x5 film, and digital 4x5 is frankly staggering. This is just physics. Also, the artistic control afforded by Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom and the like far exceeds anything possible with silver gelatin processing, even going all the way with very advanced processing techniques like Ansel Adams's Zone System. I know, I've done that stuff, and digital is sharper, more flexible, easier to use and usually way cheaper if you factor in ongoing production costs. So no, film can die in a fire. :-) 2. At this stage of your life, do you think you'd enjoy teaching in higher ed? Teaching, yes, no question. I love teaching. Research, not sure, I am not really turned on by how vicious things get when a people fight bitterly over a small amount of funding. I'm kind of burned out on that -- NASA is basically the same internally in terms of the way that funding works. 3. What were you most proud of, before you came to the USA? Wow, difficult one that. Finally getting my PhD, probably. But there are lots of other candidates. 4. What color is your hair today? Blonde. I look almost respectable. :-) 5. Where's the best korean food in your area... and can we share some when I'm visiting next month? There is a decent place on Castro Street, very close to the Mexican place I think I've taken you to before. I've liked it there the couple of times I've been. We should do that. :-) From tenacious_snail: 1. If you could magically relocate something from the UK to California, what would you pick? Kebab vans. All of them. The US lacks kebab vans. And chocolate that doesn't taste like plasticised vomit with brown food colouring. 2. Has anything about dating a man surprised you? What? Being bugged about going Steampunk more than before? ;-) 3. If money were no object, which would you choose as a career: musician, fine art photographer, sound engineer? Of the three, photographer, I think, or maybe the 4th that's not on there, which is for me an extension of photography, which might be film maker. 4. Do you want to be able to have a dog again, or is Hooch Just That Special? I would like a dog again, but only if I could take him or her to work with me. I don't like leaving dogs at home alone for long periods. It possibly also predicates a more settled home life than I currently have. 5. If you could no longer wear black clothes, what would your wardrobe look like? Very, very, very, very dark blue? (23 Comments |Comment on this)
bikepirates [ haikunick ]	2:14p	Making Bike Boulevards I would love for Houston, TX to put something like this together through the Heights, Montrose, and 3rd ward. Portland-0, you're so cool. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
beatonna	3:34p	The Old Fox Death of military personnel: my comics specialty. Anyway, I like Montcalm. He wasn't, I don't think, as talented as his young rival James Wolfe, but he was among the best they had and a well experienced, hard working man who did his job as best he could. Montcalm had a hot temper and didn't like Quebec, but he tried to save it, even though he was almost always at heads with Vaudreuil the Canadian born Governor- to whom he was supposed to defer. Vaudreuil was experienced in North America and cared passionately for Quebec, but had never really encountered modern European warfare, and didn't understand it. Montcalm hated the corruption in New France, thought the war was useless, and tried to leave but wasn't allowed. In his final letter to his wife he writes, "I think I should have given up all my honors to be back with you, but the king must be obeyed; the moment when I shall see you again will be the finest of my life. Good-bye my heart, I believe I love you more than ever." I like Montcalm. Wolfe, of course got the most famous painting in this country's history done up for him some years after the Plains of Abraham. Montcalm got one eventually. It's ok. (86 Comments |Comment on this)
bikepirates [ dj_flx ]	1:30p	From the pages of The Boys The Boys #37, to be precise. COMICS ENSUE ( Read more... ) Current Mood: amused (7 Comments |Comment on this)

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