OK, so I know that this is a bit late, but I haven't checked the board in a while...

Al, please don't get a motorcycle. Yes, they are awesome, in a recklessly cool kind of way. Everyone, and I mean everyone, I know that has had a motorcycle has become seriously injured riding it. Lost limbs, multiple broken limbs, deaths.

Maybe that says something about their reflexes...but I wouldn't want you to become part of that group.

And Happy Pi Day!

woo hoo! I don't know if you guys have seen this, but ... awesome (despite obvious scale manipulation to show trends...)


Hockey Fans Flush With Pride via the Edmonton Journal.

Happy Pi Day everyone!

That kinda snuck up on us... and I won't be available to celebrate it.

Pretty sucktastic news to see but:

One of my favorite university professors charged with misconduct by NSERC

Seemed to be a pretty stand up guy but I guess stuff started going downhill.

Well just shows there are a lot things you don't know about people.

So, I like Obama as much as the next guy (on this side of the culture wars), but Obama being forced to look at things is pretty funny.

and because I seem to like posting twice in a row:

I wasn't trying to create hysteria over new houses, it was just the first thing that came to mind when thinking about calculated risks with better odds of not having bad things happen to you. ... if that makes sense.

I also don't hate leather. But there's something to be said for all those leathermen and the leather subculture that seems to have been at least partially appropriated from "biker chic". Besides I've never met a leather fringe that I liked. ;)

The Yikebike looks cool, but also could potentially mess with a person's centre of gravity vis-a-vis potholes and sudden stops. It certainly gives the impression of a hovering person far more successfully than the Segway, but I can't see it being successfully implemented on city streets (particularly here with all the potholes and gravel, lack of car-driver-tolerance, and illegality of riding bikes on sidewalks). I also agree with Jess: add in a bag or two and the whole premise is shot right out the window. There isn't even room for a handlebar basket!

Guess I should also grow a stache while riding that death cycle:

The perfect man is a geek with facial stubble

I just put up the picture because I thought the last picture in the set was the funny part of the punch line. The beginning part of the set is just the parroted sterotype of women liking "bad boys", hence motorcycles.

So reckless is kind of relative I think. I mean doing martial arts could be considered reckless, who in their right mind allows for another human being to throw a kick to their head or a "controlled" strangualtion techniques? Those horrible knuckle and leg calluses aren't doing me any favours. Most motorcycle enthusiast I know have less injuries in general when compared to me.

Because we'd exhausted the reckless thing?

I don't think I could balance my bags and bags of books and laptop on one of those yikebikes. Plus.... cold!

Academy Award winning movie trailer = awesome.