My New-to-me/Used Bike

I snagged a Trek 400, 53cm road bike off craigslist for under $200 (a large chunk of which I got playing music the other night, thanks Josh, True North & NCCC). Considering that you can hardly get on a decent new road bike for less than $800, I'm pretty stoked. Road about 8 1/2 miles this afternoon & I did it faster (I think) than I did the same loop a couple weeks ago (when I saw the Delorian) & I know I did it more efficiently than on the mountain bike.

I put my Specialized gel seat from my mountain bike on it, assuming I will be riding this cat more (the Rockhopper will be the family bike ride rickshaw towing machine) & I got a couple toe things for the pedals. The frame might be a bit too small but hey...who cares for this price.

And the guy I bought it from is named Favian. So that's cool.

"I'm a footballer"

Cooking Guinea Pigs?

PETA is up in arms over a recent church cookbook called Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread. The controversy? One of the recipes involves boiling and skinning a guinea pig...

The lesson for your church? It's probably not a good idea to encourage parishioners to eat things that are cute, cuddly and generally considered pets.

CLICK HERE for the whole/original post.

Ahhh Oregon Trail...

Cartoon from seemikedraw

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Mt. Washington Creamy Whip

The Mt. Washington Creamy Whip in the old Mt. Washington Bakery location, around the corner from the pony keg where we used to ride our bikes to to get candy, soda and baseball cards, is one of our favorite little spots. Inexpensive and delicious (especially the peanut crunch topping Cheryl introduced me to), we like to ride our bikes up with the kids in the rickshaw.

Absolutely check it out.

There was a bit about it over at Around Anderson: CLICK HERE.

Shoot...you want to go...I'll treat!

Christ the Lord?

"This figurehead Christ that we propose to set up is not the Jesus whom God made Lord. If we were able to set him up as Lord, that would not make him Lord. If he is Lord, then he is Lord even if not a single man, woman, or child on earth believes in him or confesses him. If he is not Lord by God's own it is so, then he would not be Lord even though every soul on earth "accepted" him as Lord. If his being Lord depends on anybody's confession, then he is not Lord at all, but only a puppet lordling created by decision and subject to human opinion.

If there is anything certain about us, it is that we would never of ourselves choose a Lord who is Lord without our consent and in opposition to our will. We would not mind so much to have a lord we ourselves could make or unmake, who owed his lordship to our election, for that would leave us our feeling of power and control. But to have a Lord I did not help to make, who is not responsible to me but to whom I am responsible - that offends my pride, cancels my right to judge and decide, and denies my ability, my competence to know and choose my way and control my destiny. It cuts me down to my proper size, and I do not like it at first. Yet I am so diminished if he is thus exalted. No lesser Christ can be the Lord of Christian faith. Only on these terms can I deal with a Christ whom God has made Lord."

~design for preaching by H. Grady Davis (1958)

Psalm 13

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
Look on me and answer, O Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;
my enemy will say, "I have overcome him,"
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
BUT I trust in Your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord,
for He has been good to me.

Ignatius

Ignatius from travis hawkins on Vimeo.

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Three things you didn't know about Brian Ferry

Did you know that Brian Ferry...

1. Translates to the number 8 in numerology
2. Has the Woolly Mammoth as their Power Animal
3. Shares their name with a guesstimated 102 Americans?

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Top facts about the name Brian Ferry

Did you know that Brian Ferry is...

1. Modestly envoweled
2. Nairb Yrref backwards
3. Ianbray Erryfay in Pig Latin
4. 01000010 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000110 01100101 01110010 01110010 01111001 in binary code?

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happy keester

...yes, i am that lame. but if you know any lonely, overweight, middle-aged women who teach kindergarten and listen to a lot of paul anka, pass it along because it might just be right up their alley.

Taxation Without Representation

So I'm moving at the end of June. On to the nation's capital.

I have no problem being a Capitals fan. I'll even be a Wizards fan. But do I have to like the Nationals?

and...

yep. university of texas school of architecture it is. helluva nice place to spend 3 and 1/2 years. plan a visit.

chug-a-lug.

seattle

if we don't move there for school, we might very well move there afterward. mountains, the water, big city - small feel, countless seattle/cialis jokes. who's in?

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Meka's Self Made "Dancing Floor"

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag Right There w/ Footy Pajamas

More Palm Pre Demo (Particularly Pandora)

Check out the Pandora functionality in the video starting around 3:00 min. WICKED cool. If you haven't checked out Pandora, you gots to. That's how I found out about M. Ward and others. Now...when's the Pre being released?