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Old 05-12-2008, 01:00 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Astroturf + Subaru = Chia-Justy?

Maybe that's just exteme tuft-testing!?

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Old 05-12-2008, 07:38 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 05-23-2008, 05:45 PM   #13 (permalink)
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This is interesting. This guy his older brother and dad all have unicycles. Top speed 10 mph. He needs a commuter bag instead of carrying his stuff



In other news. I pass by this guy twice a day. It was 95 and extremely humid today. I had to stop and get one to chow down on the spot.

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Old 05-24-2008, 09:51 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I just got that.

Laz - great snaps. Really.

Are those real birds or "scare birds" on the produce?
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Old 05-24-2008, 09:53 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I just got that.

Laz - great snaps. Really.

Are those real birds or "scare birds" on the produce?
No those are real birds. That area is grackle alley. It's almost a a remake of the birds if you hit it just right.
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Old 06-03-2008, 06:37 PM   #16 (permalink)
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A petro tanker spilled fuel down the road. it's hard to tell but they had about 4 city blocks shut down while the hazmat crew cleaned up the road. Fortunately for me they let me go through the road block. Probably saved about 2 miles on the commute.



There were about 15 guys lining the street but only about 5 of them were working
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Old 06-03-2008, 07:22 PM   #17 (permalink)
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O man, if only I had a way to upload some pictures off my phone to the computer...I'm going to try to email myself a few of my weird commute pictures now.
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O man, if only I had a way to upload some pictures off my phone to the computer...I'm going to try to email myself a few of my weird commute pictures now.
That's what I do. Just email then save. W00T
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Here's my first attempt at some video of my bike commute. I'll see about the you-tube videos later.

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Nice vid there Laz. Two comments.

1. WTF!!! 6 lane road, you're nuts!!!

2. Yea, you almost got hit there with that one car, what an idiot!

I should try mounting my cam on my bike one day for my commute. At first I thought you were on a motocycle, then I saw you riding along the side of the traffic (which made me laugh pretty hard) and realized it was a bicycle.

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Yea, it would help if I had proper signal to send pictures and get internet consistently though. For some reason I can only ever send pictures if I'm at my friends house which is about 40 minutes north of where I live.

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