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  • may 11:27 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Novato to Tomales Bay Loop 

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    This past Saturday, peliom came along on my bike ride and we did a loop in Marin from Novato to Tomales Bay. It was a great day! (though there were definitely more cars on these roads than on the Petaluma-Dillion beach route). The ride was 48 miles with about 1800 ft of climbing. This was also my last ride for the month of March which turned out to be a pretty good month. Aside from the week I spent out of town, I managed to get in the recommended 100-125 miles of riding per week. Yay! My training schedule roughly works out to this (on an ideal week)…

    • Mon – 5 miles (commute)
    • Tue – 6 miles (commute) + 45 min. swim (or weights if I don’t feel like getting wet)
    • Wed – 25 miles (butter lap around the city)
    • Thu – 6 miles (commute) + 45 min. swim (or weights)
    • Fri – 5 miles (commute)
    • Sat – 25-50 miles
    • Sun – 50-70 miles (lifecycle training ride)

    Of course I don’t always follow this to a T, but when I miss a day, I try to make up for it on another day. Mondays and Fridays are my “rest days” so sometimes I’ll drive to work on those days. Anyways, two more months til I ride down to LA. For the month of April, I’m supposed to bump up the mileage to 125-150 miles / week. I also signed up to do the Wildflower Century in 3 weeks on April 22nd. my first one ever!

     

    • sonya 11:42 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      The pretty purple flower looks like ice plant — brought over here from South Africa to stabilize soil beside railroad tracks, and still used by Caltrans on road projects…meanwhile the park service spends millions to remove it.

  • peliom 8:06 pm on March 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    TikiGoGo Personal Chef !! 


    I saw an awesome pickup truck this morning … sorry, no picture. But it was an old school pickup, teal colored with “Tiki Go Go” in fabulous Tiki fonts. It turns out to be Chef Kelley Hawks. The food looks super good, but at $350/person for 5 entrees, I think I’m going to stick with almond butter on a whole wheat english muffin. “A thoughtful gift for new parents or newlyweds” … Neither of those are on the horizon but feel free to buy it for me anyway!

     

    • rajbot 12:53 am on March 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      People pay $70/day to have dinner delivered? Really? Even the most expensive restaurant I’ve ever been to doesn’t have $70 entrees..

    • may 1:16 pm on March 26, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Yeah, that just seems weird. although it looks like what she does is come over and cook the meal for you at your home as well as do your dishes…so it’s sort of like a rent-a-mom type of service

  • may 10:09 am on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Petaluma to Dillon Beach Bike Ride 

    Last Saturday, I went on a pretty bike ride starting in Petaluma along Chileno Valley Road to the coast and then back. It was a perfect day! Along the way, I saw cows, horses, an alpaca, bunnies, a turtle, goats, sheep, a snake, black birds with bright red cheeks, blue jays, carniverous looking birds with huge wing spans and some other animals I’m forgetting right now. The ride was 56 miles with about 1,800 feet of climbing, so it’s sort of long but not overly strenuous.

    Here’s a map and route directions for anyone else that wants to go!
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    Driving Directions to Starting Point
    Take the 101 North to Petaluma and exit Petaluma Boulevard South. Drive north 2 miles and make a left (west) on Western Avenue. Drive 2.2 miles and then turn left on Chileno Valley Road. Drive .8 mile to Helen Putnam Regional Park on the left. (the sign for the park is facing the opposite way so it’s easy to miss…if you go more than 1 mile after you get on Chileno Valley Road w/o seeing the park, turn around and you’ll be sure to see it. It costs $5 to park in the small lot but you can also park on the opposite side of the road for free).

    Route Directions
    0.0 Park at Helen Putnam Park and ride west on Chileno Valley Road.
    3.0 Turn RIGHT to stay on Chileno Valley Road.
    12.6 LEFT on Tomales-Petaluma Road.
    13.8 RIGHT on Alexander Road.
    14.8 RIGHT on Fallon-Two Rock Road.
    17.2 LEFT on Petaluma-Valley Ford Road
    26.0 LEFT on Valley Ford Estereo Road (in the town of Valley Ford…this small road can be easy to miss…make sure you don’t continue onto HWY 1)
    31.8 RIGHT on Dillon Beach Road. Ride out and back to Dillon Beach and then turn around to return to the junction with Valley Ford Road.
    34.6 RIGHT on Dillon Beach Road
    37.2 RIGHT on Shoreline Highway (Hwy 1) in the town of Tomales. Make sure you get some foccaccia at the bakery!! it’s really good!
    37.5 LEFT on Tomales-Petaluma Road.
    42.7 RIGHT on Chileon Valle7 Road.
    52.3 LEFT to stay on Chileno Valley Road.
    55.5 Arrive at starting point.

    Route directions are from this excellent book which I highly recommend Northern California Biking: 150 of the Best Road and Trail Rides

     

    • Q 5:23 pm on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Aren’t you supposed to be training for the AIDS ride? How can you get a decent workout with all of these photo stops?

      Just kidding. That looks like an amazing ride. You’ve made me realize that I need to a) seek out more interesting rides and b) take my camera along.

    • may 11:06 pm on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      well i did go on another ride the following day from San Francisco to Nicasio. That was 69 miles with 6,500 ft of elevation gain…also pretty but no photo stops because I do Sunday rides with about 100 other people! (i don’t write about those cause i don’t want to bore you guys, but maybe i’ll start a separate AIDS-ride-training-journal where I can write about my training schedule and all the new things I’m learning…like the fact I’m not supposed to wear underwear with padded shorts – who knew! i have a skin-less bottom now b/c i didn’t know that!

      Anyways, on Saturdays I like to go on a ride by myself or with a couple people and just enjoy the scenery :-) oh and the animals…it’s all about the animals!!

    • rajbot 11:44 pm on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      I no longer ride everyday, and now ride vicariously through your bike posts… please keep posting them here!

  • peliom 3:06 pm on March 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Clyde Wilson’s Totally Kickass Nutrition Philosophy 


    I went to a nutrition workshop last night expecting an extremely boring and yet slightly motivating remix of the food pyramid for athletes.

    Instead I was blown away by a rapid fire how-to-fuel-your-body talk by Dr. Clyde Wilson, and left with that feeling of “living in the bay area totally rocks.”

    Clyde is one of those of those OCD professors that is crazy smart, loves teaching and optimizes every minute of his life to making the world a better place while at the same time having as much fun as possible. In philosophical terms, if there is such a thing as “The California School”, Clyde is headmaster. After high school he spent 6 years in the navy as the “supervisor for reactor chemistry and radiation control” aboard USS Carl Vinson in Alameda. His Standford PhD thesis was “Biochemistry in Single Cells Using Microfluidic Systems.” He is now teaching courses on clinical and popular nutrition at Standord and UCSF, and he is Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the Sports Medicine Institute in Palo Alto.

    Reading Clyde’s website, which I highly recommend, is a deluge of facts and figures about why and how we should eat and how to make it simple. It is ironic that by following his obsessive regime you actually become less obsessive about reading labels, the right thing just happens automatically. And Clyde jokes that he loves pineapple juice and root beer floats, being healthy doesn’t mean not having fun.

    Pinapple Juice!!!!

    This guy is one of us …. so check out his

    Link to Dr Clyde Wilson’s Website

     

    • rajbot 3:40 pm on March 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for posting all the info!

      Can you clarify what dark vegitables mean exactly? Banana and cauliflower aren’t dark (in color at least) fruits and veggies, but they are on the shopping list.

    • peliom 9:49 pm on March 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Another aspect of Clyde’s research is about longevity … minimizing toxins in our bodies and maximizing nutrients, check out his Core Motivation

      So I don’t know exactly about the dark vegetables, he didn’t address it directly in the seminar. I’m sure he talks about it somewhere in the website. But he did talk about bananas as being this kind of health superfood (esp when combined with nut butter and bread) so I think the list is just his list of things to eat that are a good idea. Dark vegetables are much richer in nutrients (per pound) than say, iceberg lettuce.

      And cauliflower? Who eats cauliflower? ;-)

    • rajbot 10:56 pm on March 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      OMG you probably have never had Jess’ amazing cauliflower subji! She made it for my parents when they came to visit, and it is fabulous. We really need to have more TikiRobot dinners!

  • may 9:34 pm on March 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Mt. Hamilton 

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    So, since this is my very favorite time of year to be out on my bike, your resident TikiRobot cyclist will once again resume periodic trip reports of places to take your bike. And since I’m supposed to be riding 100-125 miles / week this month for aids ride training, I will be covering lots of ground. (although i’ll be gone in texas at sxsw the following 2 weekends, so no trip reports then. not quite sure how i will make up for it yet. eek.)

    Anyways, this morning was clear and beautiful so I rode up to the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton which is just east of San Jose. At 4,209 ft, Mt. Hamilton is apparently the highest point in the Bay Area. However, lest you think I’m crazy, I did not ride from the bottom all the way to the top. (maybe one day I’ll be that crazy person, but today was not that day.) My bike ride began at Joseph D. Grant County Park which is about 11 miles from the top and even though you have to ride mostly uphill, the grade was pretty gradual (5%-7%) so it wasn’t so bad. Altogether, I climbed about 2700 feet and the views were spectacular. I was hoping to see lots of wildflowers but we’ve had so little rain this year, I didn’t see any at all. I did, however, see some melting snow and some really big telescopes.

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    • peliom 5:28 pm on March 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      I know it’s a backwater but I think they have bikes in Texas….

    • may 9:54 pm on March 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      what i meant was that it may be hard to block out time for it when i’m there b/c there are fun things to go to all day and all night so even if i wake up super early, i will be totally pooped! but i’m gonna try. arena is bringing her folding bike so i may rent one while i’m there

  • may 9:05 pm on January 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    AIDS Ride / LifeCycle Kickoff 

    aidsRide.jpg In case anyone is interested in doing the AIDS ride from SF to LA this summer, there’s a kickoff gathering and info session this Sunday at Hotel Nikko from 11am-4pm. My friends kathryn and arena are going to be training ride leaders this year so it should be fun. If you sign up there, the registration fee is only $55 (instead of $75). I’m going to sign up!

     

  • rajbot 10:28 am on December 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Weather warning: MATH DOWNPOUR! 

    math.pngAccording to SFGate, the weather forcast for tomorrow is MATH. Flurries of multiplication followed by torrential calculus!

    math2.pngBut wait, it gets worse! On Monday the clouds will start thinking for themselves!! This is bad… you can’t hide from clouds! You have to go outside eventually.. Be very careful.. DO NOT ANGER THE SENTIENT CLOUDS!

     

  • rajbot 11:13 pm on December 2, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Dec 6: Film Fragments of 20th-Century San Francisco 

    Rick Prelinger is showing rare early video footage of San Francisco on Wednesday!

    Film is much more than entertainment—it’s rich and often vivid evidence that backs up imperfect memories and infuses institutional histories with traces of everyday life. Drawing from the Bert Gould collection of silent and early sound films, the Vista collection of exuberant early-1960s city views, diverse home movies and industrial films, this program will include rarely-seen views of San Francisco, contextualizing them in time and space. We hope for audience participation, especially to help identify mystery scenes!

    The exhibit is showing at CounterPULSE on Wednesday at 8pm. Let’s go!

    Update: here is the upcoming listing.

     

    • may 8:48 am on December 4, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      cool! unfortunately wednesday night is butter night (bike loop around the city…yep even in the dark). but if you guys end up going, I’ll try to meet up with you afterwards :-)

  • peliom 12:31 am on November 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Re: Are You the Peliom Who Walked Around SF Bay? 

    I received a curious email today. This morning his website said “I am the 5th …” but now it says “I am the 6th known person to walk around San Francisco Bay.”



    Link to some pretty cool info about the Yay Area

     

    • rajbot 12:41 am on November 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      “I may hold a record for doing it in 11 non-consecutive days”..

      uh.. what?

  • peliom 1:32 pm on November 13, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Soon: Take the T-Third to My Place!! 


    Isn’t it funny how sometimes people have strangely work-appropriate names? This is from a newsletter by Laura Locker of the UCSF gym. I think it’s a fake name but it’s still funny.

    Here’s the latest scoop from MUNI regarding the Third Street Light Rail which will serve the Mission Bay campus. Phase I (introductory service) begins January 12, 2007 with daytime weekend service only (probably 9 am-6 pm) and will run from the Sunnydale Station to the Castro Station. No fares will be collected, and there will be no changes to the surface bus (15-Third).

    Phase II (full service) begins April 7, 2007. Service will be 7 days a week, 20 hours a day. Regular fares will be collected and changes to various bus lines will take place at that time, including the discontinuance of the 15-Third bus line, and changes to the 9X San Bruno line to fill in for the 15-Third at the north and south ends of the line.

    I also found this in the Third Street Light Rail FAQ on the MUNI website.

    What service will be provided on the Third Street Corridor?
    The K-Ingleside Line will be extended out the Embarcadero and south along Third Street and Bayshore Boulevard to Sunnydale Avenue. Along Third Street and Bayshore Boulevard it will be called the T-Third. The N-Judah will continue to serve the 4th Street CalTrain Station, as is the case today. In the future, development in the Mission Bay area will require the extension of the N-Judah down Third Street to a loop at 18th Street, to provide additional service in that area. Additional light rail vehicles are being acquired by Muni to serve the new corridor.

    Sweetness! This means at some unspecified but nevertheless exciting date, I will be able to walk outside, hop on the train, and get off right in front of Burger Meister at Carl and Cole.

    Update! A Declaration …. the official TikiRobot! name for this rail line is “the Thunderbird” ;-)

     

  • rajbot 12:27 am on November 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    A beacon of sanity in a sea of shit 

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    Map from CNN, via a deleted mefi thread.

     

  • rajbot 3:02 pm on November 7, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Bank of America will fuck you over. 

    Peliom just posted about Wells Fargo being such a craptacular bank. Today I read how far Bank of America will go to fuck it’s customers over. Here is what happened to a dude who stopped by a SF Bank of America branch to see if a check he got for a craigslist sale was a fake:

    Matthew Shinnick dropped by a Bank of America branch in San Francisco to make sure a check he was about to deposit wasn’t fraudulent. The teller found that the check was fraudulent and told the manager, who then had Shinnick thrown in jail.

    Are you getting this right? The customer who wanted to make sure he wasn’t about to draw on a fraudulent check, got thrown in jail by Bank of America.
    [...]
    All told Shinnick spent $14,000 to clear his record. Bank of America refused to reimburse him.

     

    • may 2:28 pm on November 8, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      oh that really sucks! Hopefully that was just an isolated incident and they got rid of that manager. I’ve been using B of A since 1988 and haven’t had any problems yet.

  • rajbot 4:27 pm on October 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Dope Street, San Francisco 

    Shag noticed that someone had used a bit of tape to alter the street sign for Dore Street (parallel to 9th and 10th, and between Folsom and Howard) to read Dope Street. He then noticed that Google, Yahoo, and Mapquest all mark the street as DOPE in their online maps! In fact, if you lived on Dore, you could tell people you lived on Dope St and they could use Google Maps to get to your house :)

    Dear lazyweb: Can someone with a functional camera go take a picture of the Dope Street sign? Thankee!

     

  • may 9:44 pm on October 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    khraigslist! 

    is a place where you can find stuff like

    khraigslist is a production of kasperhauser. They’ve got a book coming out at the end of the month called SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Planeand there’s gonna be a party to celebrate (at Cobbs on 11/14). I’m gonna go. you should go too. and buy their book cause my friend John really really needs a new haircut. (actually that’s his twin brother James but they look so much alike…)

     

    • rajbot 5:02 pm on October 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Your friends are entirely too funny.. are you going to the party at Cobbs?

    • may 9:21 am on October 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      yep! colette and i are gonna go for sure (i think you met colette at the lobster show :-) You guys should come too! Tickets are over here.

  • peliom 3:37 pm on October 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Welcome to Web 2.165 


    Google swallows YouTube for $1.65bn

    We better get an open-bar party out of this.

     

  • peliom 2:25 pm on October 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    It’s Not Every Day You See an Aircraft Carrier in Your Front Yard 

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    I can’t make out the name of the ship …. I expect our guest is visiting for Fleet Week

     

    • may 6:27 pm on October 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I always have mixed feelings about the Blue Angels and big aircraft carriers. On the one hand, they are weapons of mass destruction. On the other hand, they go zoom zoooom Zzzzzzoooooooooommmmmmmmm!! (okay, maybe not the aircraft carrier)

    • peliom 7:05 pm on October 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      I think there are two things missing from the Blue Angels demonstration:

      • First of all, break the sound barrier! I mean once a year, a sonic boom. OK twice a year, saturday and sunday. But that would be so cool!
      • I want to see some of these “smart” bombs I keep hearing about. I mean, have you ever *seen* a smart bomb? I want to see the flight commander drop a laser-sighted 500lb device onto an old barge or something.

      By the way, for anyone unfortunate enough to be reading this, the Blue Angels website has lots of interesting information, especially the FAQ.

      http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/index.htm

  • peliom 1:30 pm on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    More Parking 

    May beat me to the post! Here are some photos of the PARK(ing) spots that I rolled by this morning on my bike



    Link to “parking” on Flickr
    Link to Rebar

     

    • may 1:25 pm on September 22, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      thanks for posting these! I wish I’d gotten home early enough so I could have seen them myself.

  • may 7:42 am on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    PARK(ing) Day 

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    Today is Park(ing) Day here in SF – a day to temporarily transform a metered parking spot into a PARK.…at least until the meter runs out! Here’s an email Arena sent about it

    Today I will be volunteering to help deploy the “Temporally Displaced Open Space” in the downtown area of San Francisco — part of PARK(ing) Day. Or, to put it more succinctly, I’ll be hauling dirt with my bicycle trailer.

    If you get time today (Thursday), check out some of the installations all around downtown (one near Axis Cafe in front of CCA(c) and one in front of Ritual Roasters on Valencia). This is a one day art installation to visualize the potential of parking spaces as green spaces.

    Consult the map:

    http://communitywalk.com/map/19478

    or the website:

    http://rebargroup.org/projects/parkingday/index.html

    and please pass those links on to anybody that you think would be interested …or make a PARK(ing) space of your own, it’s an open-source project.

     

    • Travis 6:28 pm on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      This is so awesome! I’m so doing it one day! Where are the animals in the park? I would bring some dogs and a few ducks…

  • peliom 12:10 pm on September 20, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Buy Rite is the Future! 

    Three years ago, when I had ants in my pants to start my own business , I had an idea. The idea was inspired by Delicious Library. DM had very cleverly made use of the the Mac’s iSight Camera to read in the barcodes of your DVDs, CDs and so on. All the better for cataloging your loot. “But” …. I was thinking … “there are cameras on cell phones too. What if you were in a store, scanned the barcode of something you want to buy with your phone and then your phone instantly showed you whether the product was made by a Sucky Company or not. Based on your own definitions of suckiness, of course.”

    I was very happy today to see the iBuyRight project, which attempts to do exactly that! (Thanks to Adam for the link).

    Unfortunately it appears there is some drama between one of the founders of iBuyRight and the UC. Down with parasitic institutions! Support Lilia Manguy!!

    Link to Lilia Manguy’s experience.

     

    • rajbot 10:29 am on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      There is no reason why the same the thing couldn’t be implemented by typing in the UPC and sending it via SMS or IM. The camera thing is useful, but really, it’s just a gimmick. SMS is enabled on many more cellphones than MMS.

      It’s bewildering that in 2006 you still can’t text a UPC to Amazon and get back Amazon’s price and average star rating.

    • peliom 12:08 pm on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Yeah, the real work is in the back-end infrastructure. Maybe Amazon just hasn’t thought of this feature yet …..

    • may 3:43 pm on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Well you can send an SMS to 41411 with AMAZON in the message followed by an ISBN # and get the list price as well as Amazon’s price for any book. Hee, you can even send an SMS with TIKIROBOT in the body :-)

    • may 4:13 pm on September 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      oh, I just discovered you can also text FORECAST followed by a zipcode for the weather in any city. there are lots of other keywords here!

  • may 9:47 pm on August 28, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    WiFi on Bay Area Buses 

    Bay Area AC Transit buses will start testing free wifi on a fleet of 79 buses and are hoping to fully rollout the service in mid-fall according to this Engadget post. Although I’m pretty psyched about wifi on Caltrain, I’m a little skeptical about this one since most buses aren’t set up for someone to comfortably do work on a laptop. but who knows…maybe it’ll work.

     

  • may 7:48 am on August 15, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    It’s spring in the sierras! 

    Just got back from a short but very sweet camping trip in the mokelumne wilderness (just south of tahoe)! we camped by lake winnemucca, a pristine alpine lake that’s only a 3 mile hike from the parking area by woods lake. It’s supposedly crowded on weekends but we arrived on Sun so it was quiet and peaceful. There were still patches of snow on the ground and wildflowers were in bloom everywhere. And even though we camped by the water’s edge, the air was crisp and dry (and bug free!) so we got to sleep outside my tent at night and stare up at the sky before falling asleep. I loooooove not having to sleep in a tent. It was beautiful.

     

    • peliom 1:34 pm on August 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Wow, awesome photos! It looks like some beautiful days ….

      Years ago I did a some backpacking trips along the Mokelumne River, totallly fabulous. Hence I have been pondering a TikiRobot Mokolumne Adventure for a few weeks now. But that would be work. And how can I leave work for five days? I mean, I would miss everything!!!

    • may 5:06 pm on August 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      We can still do a TikiRobot camping trip…maybe just a weekend to make it easy :-) What’s everyone’s schedule in Sept like??

    • rajbot 6:53 pm on August 18, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Well, Chillits is the second weekend of September I think.. otherwise, I should be free….

    • peliom 12:55 am on August 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      chillits? hmmm…. apparently rajbot is getting us all tickets for chillits (9/15). other than that I’ve no plans for zee weekends.

    • rajbot 4:22 pm on August 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Well, so far I have one ticket.. Let’s work on getting more.

    • may 4:29 pm on August 21, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      yay, lets go camping 9/23-9/24! (9/9-9/10 would work too but I’m goin to a show on the 8th so might be sleepy the next morning and someone else would haveta drive :-)

      what’s chillits?

  • may 12:01 am on August 8, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    CalTrain goes WiFi! 

    not yet, but very likely in two months according to this article!! They tried it out last week and apparently it went well. “The train reached 79 mph while testers…watched streaming video, composed e-mail and completed a large file download at broadband speeds.” Caltrain says it won’t charge extra for the service. Now if only they’d add extra bike cars so we’d all fit on the express train in the morning, it would be perfect!!

     

    • rajbot 12:35 am on August 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Coool.. The SF-to-southbay commute has gotten much better over the years, particularly due to the bullet trains and especially DrinkTrain. But it’s very hard for me to justify the three-hour-a-day bike/train/shuttle commute, even with a dump truck full of money..

      maybe they need bigger trucks

    • rajbot 1:01 am on August 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Caltrain hates bikes. I would ride the last morning bullet*, and they would always refuse to let cyclists at 22nd St get on, because their bike car was too full. They only let 16 bikes on the entire train, and the last morning bullet was only 10% full! There was *so* much room on that train, but they would be so hard-headed about the ‘too-many-bikes’ problem. wtf?

    • may 7:13 am on August 9, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Yeah that’s the one I take and I ride my bike all the way to the 4th and Townsend station just to make sure I can get on. Even still, they’ve turned me away at least 5 times!

      Lately, I haven’t been minding the longer train ride though because it gives me a chance to get some reading done. Usually, I’m too distracted at home by the internet to read.

      uh-oh…I’m probably never going to read another book again once they get the wifi working.

    • rajbot 12:25 am on August 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      There is so much room at 22nd St.. I wish they would put in some bike lockers.

      I was going to make and install some myself, but then I stopped caring..

    • may 8:07 am on August 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      bike lockers would be really cool! I think someone told me there are bike lockers at the 4th & King station but I’ve never seen them. i should check.

      i think they just need to get more bike cars in general because there will be even more people on the train once they get the wifi working! plus it always seems like there’s sooooo much room in the regular cars.

      oh and thanks for the pointer to DrinkTrain!! i’d no idea! i once got on an earlier train than the one i usually take on friday night and everyone in the bike car had a drink except for me. i was confused.

    • rajbot 9:18 am on August 10, 2006 Permalink | Reply

      Well, if it was in the bike car, it wasn’t drinktrain, it was PartyCar!. Deep helps organize PartyCar i think..

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