I can bake. I make good cookies. My family loves my pizza. My bread is well known. However, cakes have ellduded me. I can bake a decent cake, but when it comes to frosting them, I’ve always had one issue or another. I once tore apart a cake, requiring a trip to Busken for my [...]

New cans were delivered today!

I’ve been following a blog called The Setup for a few months now. It describes itself as “a bunch of nerdy interviews.” Basically, it is a series of interviews with various contemporary geeky people, such as Jonathan Coulton (Internet Rocker), Tim Bray (from Google), Bert Kersey (Apple II designer), or Richard Stallman (the founder of [...]

I always associated Joe Jackson with light pop. In part, it was from my first exposure to him being “Stepping Out,” and”Is She Really Going Out With Him;” in part due to this being tied, in my head, to Donald Fagen’s “The Nightfly,” released about the same time with the same feel. However, a recent [...]

On September 18, I did the 2010 Hope Ride, in Hope, Indiana. This is my third time doing this ride, and my twenty-sixth century (ride of 100 miles or more). The ride was, per the web site, “One Hundred Miles of Bull” (everything is cow-themed). However, I clocked 108.75 miles, making it my second longest [...]

9% more biking at no extra charge. Ties, and maybe beats, my longest ride ever.

The corn isn’t authentic, but oh cher!

This old rig appears to have a drive shaft; not a chain. UPDATE: Talked to the owner. It’s a 1900 Columbia. Fixed gear. Drive shaft. No brakes. Neat!