March 2004
Turning My Head
March 31, 2004
For millions of years, we lived on this earth with simply the knowledge of our own experiences. All the people we knew about were those within a few miles of our home; all our knowledge about the world was that...Continue reading...
Stoplight Intervals
March 30, 2004
1 hour or less, intervals, city Inspired by a Velonews article on getting the best workout in a limited time, remembering my old TV movie ride (spin during the movie, go hard during the commercials), and facing a rapidly setting...Continue reading...
Paradox of Web Choice
March 29, 2004
A new book called The Paradox of Choice (excerpt here) has made it onto my Amazon wishlist. It chronicles the recent abundance of choices available in nearly every product category. One argument is that, with so many choices, the chance...Continue reading...
I love sleep
March 28, 2004
I got Epstein-Barr (“mono”) my sophomore year in college and ever since then I’ve been addicted to sleep. Before then, I was a typical Stanford obsessive, working myself into pits of sleep debt that had me falling asleep in class,...Continue reading...
Amazon Wishlist on my site
March 27, 2004
I managed to use Adam Kalsey's amazing MTAmazon plugin to put my entire Amazon wishlist (warning: big file) on my site--no easy task, considering it's currently sitting at a hefty 163 items. Good thing Amazon doesn't show you the total...Continue reading...
Sky on Fire
Sadly, these pictures are barely a glimmer of what had been there minutes before. As I got off the train at 6:21 pm in downtown Mountain View, the sky was ablaze in reds, purples, and yellows, all swirling together...Continue reading...
Experiences and Web Page Elements
March 25, 2004
One of the recent discussions in my geekroll of blogs and news sites has been Mark Hurst's resurrection of "The Page Paradigm". In his own words, this is the idea that: On any given Web page, users will either 1)...Continue reading...
Screw it, I'm posting
So for a while now I've been resisting the urge to post things that haven't been fully polished. I have my linkblog, suitable for things I like but don't need to publish thoughts on, and I have this site, where...Continue reading...
Big Basin Forest Ride
March 24, 2004
4 1/2 hours, 75 miles, steep climbs, shady I was a little worried that this ride would take up to 6 hours, but it turned out to be just over 4. On a day when the rest of the cycling...Continue reading...
Assault on Mount Umunhum
March 14, 2004
Originally a discussion about my failed attempt to legally bicycle up Mount Umunhum, this page is now a much more useful discussion about all things Mt. Um-related. View the original entry, including maps and road names. img {max-width:600px;}...Continue reading...
Highway 9 Copout
3 hours, steady climbs So I've realized that riding Highway 9 on a weekend is just asking for trouble. I tried it today, and my planned route to Santa Cruz became just a ride around Big Basin, and then finally...Continue reading...
Up Tunitas Creek (without a paddle)
March 07, 2004
5 hours, long climbs, ocean views Tunitas is the epic climb of the midpeninsula--long, steep, winding, it is actually quite similar to most other climbs around. There's just more of it... One of the worst bonks of my career happened...Continue reading...
The B.O.B. Ride
3 1/2 - 4 hours, severe climbing, some offroad This ride can be done clockwise or counterclockwise, depending on your desired level of pain. The route below is counterclockwise, which is much more sane. Of course, both directions cover the...Continue reading...
CSS Font Art
March 02, 2004
The unexpected result of a prototype CSS design (with filler text) and Mozilla Firefox's infinite text-resizing....Continue reading...