The Red Brick Times

  Monday, June 26, 2006

Back from round one of the road wars. Been to Lake George, NY and Tampa, Fl and then Knoxville, Ky in the past three weeks. Guzzle water, wear hat. Leaving next Sunday for Boise, Idaho then to Paonia, Colorado thence to Burlington, Vt on subsequent weekends. The motorcycle accessory season is apon us. Save the children. Hide Timmy in the well. Back in August.

Posted 6:28 AM by Andy (5) comments

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  • Lake George was the Americade motorycle rally. All brands of bikes, and lots of loud pipes. It rained two inches the first night I was there. Some of the vendors' tents were wading pools. Tampa was to help with some housing rehab. Knoxville was the Honda Hoot rally. In Knoxville I worked with an Indiana vendor named Cycle Gadgets (look 'em up on the web). We installed GPS, Satellite radios, radar detectors, cell phone interfaces, lights and other doodads. Some bikes got all of them at once. Now you can simultaneously use the intercom to talk to your passenger, talk to the other bikes in your group using the CB, hear the turn-by-turn directions from the GPS, listen to Jeff Foxworthy and Russ Limbaugh via satellite, look around for the cop with the radar and take phone calls from your lawyer all while dodging semis and SUVs on your motorcycle. The web of wires and modules required defies description. My bike has an AM/FM radio and a radar thingy, and I leave them off sometimes. Ride is a verb, not an abstract concept. Some of the bike owners got so wrapped up in punching buttons and exploring their new technologies that they lost touch with reality, and had to be gently wrapped up and carried to rehab facilities.
    # posted by Blogger Andy : June 26, 2006 7:06 AM
     
  • From Burlington, VT I-89South to I-91South to I-90East to US 146South to I-295South to I-95South to RI SR4 South to US-138East. Time 5hours +/-. Welcome to Jamestown RI.
    # posted by Blogger A. O. : June 26, 2006 10:53 AM
     
  • Tony. Send me phone number and physical address via email (alldrew@peoplepc.com).
    # posted by Blogger Andy : June 28, 2006 12:15 PM
     
  • OK. The bike is packed by the toolbox with care, in hopes that low gas prices soon will be here. Fluids changed and checked. Tire pressures good. New tires within the last 800 miles. New brake pads within the last 100 miles. Installed an intercom thingy that lets me hear soft and soothing music in my earplugs. Also when the radar deflector clears its throat. Put BRIGHT high-mounted LED running/stop lamps on the rear at SUV-driver eye level. Got lots of lights in the front. Got directions to Idaho, Colorado, Vermont and the State of Tony. Hit the road tomorrow before dawn. Did I forget anything? Too late. Bye for now.
    # posted by Blogger Andy : July 01, 2006 1:43 PM
     
  • Hey Andy! I just got laid off again, feel like packing a rider?
    # posted by Blogger whatley : July 01, 2006 2:51 PM
     
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  Saturday, June 17, 2006

The telco/cable monopoly, at present our only resource for broadband internet access, have given their Washington lobbies the task of turning the American internet into their personal branded profit center. If you're not aware of what's been going on with "Net Neutrality" this is a good primer: Well Of Course You Can Pee In My Pool!

(P.S. This is kind of a follow up to my May 16th post about Astroturf sites.)

Posted 7:34 AM by whatley (5) comments

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  • Hey! That's Moose Turd Pie! (good though)
    # posted by Blogger ralph : June 20, 2006 11:29 AM
     
  • Hey! That's Moose Turd Pie! (good though)
    # posted by Blogger ralph : June 20, 2006 11:29 AM
     
  • Hey! That's Moose Turd Pie! (Good though.)
    # posted by Blogger ralph : June 20, 2006 5:38 PM
     
  • Ralph, have you developed a stutter?
    # posted by Blogger whatley : June 20, 2006 9:09 PM
     
  • No, I think there are now four of him: Ralph I (Exxon), Ralph II (BP), Ralph III (Sunoco) and Hplar (the Anti-Ralph).
    # posted by Blogger Andy : June 26, 2006 6:41 AM
     
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  Friday, June 09, 2006

My guess? Orwell was off by 25 years.

Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites:
"New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming 'semantic web' championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals."

Posted 9:35 AM by whatley (1) comments

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  Tuesday, June 06, 2006

July 19th through the 22nd. I don't just want to go, I need to go. Here.

Any takers?

Posted 5:32 PM by whatley (3) comments

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  • Woodstock reborn?
    # posted by Blogger jeichenlaub : June 07, 2006 11:09 AM
     
  • Only if it rains mookie, only if it rains. Though now that you mention it that cut from the Woodstock album, the one where The Airplane is the first band of the morning and Grace sez "It's a new dawn!", then they break into:

    "Look what's happenin' on the street
    Got a revolution
    Got a revolution"

    has been running through my head for a couple of days now. Still gives me chills.
    # posted by Blogger whatley : June 07, 2006 12:49 PM
     
  • One generation got old
    One generation got soul. . .
    We are volunteers of America

    P.S. I have it on good authority that Minnesota mosquitos are much larger than New York mosquitos.
    # posted by Blogger Terri S : June 09, 2006 5:54 PM
     
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  Friday, June 02, 2006

Once in a great while (ie. when I'm bored beyond belief, like now) I'll browse through RBT pages from yesteryear. Sometimes re-reading an old forgotten post of my own will bring back memories. Where I was, what I was thinking at the time, things like that. A lot of the links still work too, which for some reason I find kind of amazing.

So anyway, there I was, in July of 2002. The link still worked so I played a game of Battleships (told ya I was bored). Further down I saw a post of mine (July 2nd) about a Google game where you search on the string "yourname is" and see what weird things pop up. I'd even included a link using my own last name in the search string (how very considerate of me, if I do say so myself). Might as well click it. Helloo Google. What's this? "Whatley is not particularly family friendly..."? Gotta see where that goes. Well whatdayaknow, Whatley Manor. How cool.

Posted 8:55 PM by whatley (4) comments

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  • Do you mean the string is "yourname is XXXXX" or just the "XXXXX" part?
    # posted by Blogger jeichenlaub : June 03, 2006 8:14 PM
     
  • never mind, went to the July 02 post a saw the explanation there...duh..
    # posted by Blogger jeichenlaub : June 03, 2006 8:19 PM
     
  • John, you forgot to share your findings. So, having an inquiring mind, and therefore wanting to know, I took it upon myself...

    Eichenlaub is Embodiment of Olympic Spirit
    EICHENLAUB is in your extended network
    Eichenlaub is not correct
    Eichenlaub is a mysterious German project
    Eichenlaub is today's honorary Power Liner
    Eichenlaub is all of this and more

    You do get around.
    # posted by Blogger whatley : June 03, 2006 9:46 PM
     
  • Gutierrez is bashful
    Gutierrez is expected to speak
    Gutierrez is a brilliant speaker
    Gutierrez is clever
    Gutierrez is not a congressman
    Gutiérrez is a contradiction in motion
    Gutiérrez is an imposter
    Gutiérrez is alone in a cell
    Gutierrez is not a madman
    Gutierrez is an enigma
    Gutierrez is not a milquetoast
    Gutierrez is almost self-consciously the Cuban descendent of Bukowski
    Gutierrez is a big guy
    Gutiérrez is regarded as a "dinosaur"
    Gutierrez is nothing
    Gutierrez is a man with a remarkable story
    Gutierrez is essentially a nobody
    Gutierrez is still hopeful
    Gutierrez is the smartest person you will ever meet
    Gutierrez is not dogmatic
    Gutierrez is now #1
    # posted by Blogger A. O. : June 04, 2006 2:59 PM
     
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  Thursday, June 01, 2006

What the hell is going on out in Ohio? I've followed John Conyers investigation into the last election sort of peripherally but if RFK,jr is correct things are alot worse than I thought.

Posted 7:49 PM by A. O. (1) comments

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  • I followed a link to this article earlier today but didn't have time to read the whole thing, just enough to think it would be an interesting post.

    The recent primaries were a total fuck up in Cleveland proper. Machines either not working or only one delivered to a site that was expecting a dozen, polling places opening hours late or never opening at all because no workers showed up. You name it. A scandal and a half. They still don't have it sorted out.
    # posted by Blogger whatley : June 01, 2006 9:29 PM
     
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