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Cruises
Windstar Cruises. My brother was asking about cruises. I told him we’d not been on many, but had research it quite a bit (before the age of blogs). We really recommend the Windstar cruises. The Tahiti trip is amazing. The ship is just 400 feet long, all the cabins are the same and it is…
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Supergo coming to Seattle
Mountain Bikes,Bicycle Parts, & Accessories from Supergo Bike Shops. Supergo is a discount bicycle store down in California. They are going to open up a store here in Seattle. Don’t know where yet, but nice to know folks like coming up here!
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Who Was Deep Throat?
Deep Throat: Uncovered | Department of Journalism | University of Illinois. In the days of covers being blown and senior white house officials saying this or that about CIA officers, its kind of interesting to ask, who was the Deep Throat of Watergate fame. Here’s a website all about it. I believe it!
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USB and Empower Airplane Chargers
_Learned this from the Boingo mailing_ You can buy USB chargers now. Some laptops actually let you push from a USB connector and charge the battery if you can believe that, so you don’t need your brick. See Advanced Accessories for Mobile Electronics (Cell Phones and PDAs) for some connectors for cell phones and PDAs.…
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Cool Cell Phones
Been spending a bunch of time in Europe lately, so it has been fun to compare the different cell phones in the US and here. Here’s quick scoop on cool ones: * a little ludwig goes a long way: My new phone — Siemens SL56. This has been in Europe for a while. An amazingly…
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Ultra-lightweight Cyclocross
InterBike: Five of my favorite bikes _Another amazing find at InterBike, a 16 pound cyclocross bike!_ Moots PsychloX-SL Even though it is a cyclo-cross bike, at under 16 pounds the PsychloX-SL may be the lightest bike in the Moots booth! The clean and elegant frame is welded out of Reynolds 6Al/4V butted titanium tubing. The…
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Bike Lust: Titanium Ritchey Break-Away
Five components that caught Andrew’s attention _Here’s #5 that caught Velonew’s attention at Interbike 2003. Man what I wouldn’t give to have a Titanium Ritchey Break-Away with Dura-Ace 10 components and have it weigh 17 pounds_ 5. Ritchey BreakAway Ritchey’s new foldable BreakAway bikes are full size, standard geometry steel road bicycles with 700c wheels,…
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Incredible Traffic
Site Meter – Counter and Statistics Tracker. I can’t quite believe it. I think the statistics must be wrong. In any case, I use Sitemeter to record page views and visits and have some history there. In July, I changed Sitemeter to record all hits across all pages of my blog. Here are the statistics:…
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A weekend in LA
Spent a great weekend in LA escorting Connie to her class reunion. Here were some sites and things to do: * Universal Studios Hollywood movie theme park Los Angeles L.A. CA. Hadn’t been to Universal Studios in a long time. Say 20 years. Man, how has it changed. I highly recommend the VIP tour. It…
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Intense Spider XVP Desire
Johnny Vanderlinden 20Lb. Spider. Well, Brad and I both agree the Intense Spider XVP is the bicycle to lust after. HEre is a one that is just twenty pounds. The frames are super hard to get. List for $1950 and Brad says they are backordered 3,000 frames. All handmade in California. The Santa Cruz Blur…