January 2010
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A bicycle changed my life this year
But I know everyone is sick of reading end of the year/decade posts, so I’ll save the explanation for spring when I upgrade my whip.
I just got reflective while spinning on the trainer this afternoon and I wanted to formally acknowledge it.
December 2009
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Violent attack shattered lives →
In the photo, Jennifer Hall sits beside her boyfriend, Joe Hoffman. Her hair cascaded down both sides of her face and her lips were parted in a half-smile. It was Aug. 25, 2008, her 36th birthday. “My hair was down to my waist for 20 years,” she said. “I woke up bald — no teeth, 85 staples in my head — out of a drug-induced coma.” Two hours after the photo...
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15,000 mi for 2009
rhodeskc:
15001.28 mi.
975 hours. That’s 5 weeks, 5.6 days.
Over half of it on a fixie. Well, technically two fixies. 42x16 on the first (4300 mi), 47x19 on the second (6800 mi)
Longest ride: 204 mi (group) in 10 hours 26 min. Second longest ride: 190 mi (solo, loaded touring bike) in 13 hours 26 minutes.
Pizzas that died so I could ride this far: hundreds and hundreds of them :P
Miles...
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Penguins goalie Fleury keeps 'em smiling →
This is a pretty great profile on Marc-Andre Fleury and more evidence that hockey players are different than other sports stars.
“There were all these rumors where he might get drafted,” said Alexandre Gendron, a childhood friend. “We were in the car and a Porsche Cayenne went past us. I said to him, ‘Marc, can you imagine that you will be able to buy a car like that with...
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Tribune employee is main source for feature →
Hunter just pointed out that in the Chicago Tribune’s holiday tearjerker about the tension between the gheys and family at Christmas, the main source for the story, Justin Herren, is an ad designer at the paper. No disclosure or anything in the online edition — yet. Here’s Herren’s web site.
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More evidence hockey players > you
Penguins forward Jordan Staal left a stream of blood on the ice after taking a puck to his face during the second period against New Jersey on Monday night, but returned to play early in the third period.
Staal was trying to get his stick on Devils defenseman Colin White’s clearing pass from the Penguins’ zone when the puck appeared to strike Staal on the bridge of his nose with about seven...
Kings storm back from 35 down to beat Bulls 102-98 →
(via peterandwendy)
AKA why I only watch the Blackhawks
Well, that's one way to mask the smell
The McHenry County sheriff’s officers executed the largest drug bust in the county’s history Sunday, seizing about 1,500 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1.5 million.
Sheriff Keith Nygren said a semitrailer truck hauling what was believed to be onions was located at a rural property on the 14000 block of Harmony Road near Huntley.
Five people were arrested and...
After editing press releases about music products...
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Minnesota Wild adjust to new equipment after fire →
Minnesota Wild defenseman Nick Schultz put on shoulder pads he bought for $200 at a local store. Goaltender Niklas Backstrom wore a catching glove with burn marks across it and backup Josh Harding had an old facemask with the wrong number.
After a van fire reduced much of the team’s equipment to ruins Friday in an Ottawa parking lot, assistant equipment managers Brent Proulx and Matt Benz...
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More things I'm wondering about
How many people will be executed in Uganda today because of their sexual orientation?
How many more people will freeze to death tonight in Poland because they don’t have a warm place to sleep?
How many people will starve to death worldwide today because they didn’t have money for food?
How many innocent people will die in Ciudad Juarez today at the hands of drug cartel...
I wonder how many innocent people who weren't in a...
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GRAND RAPIDS* SUCKS
*per tsexrex’s post about Detroit’s injury problems, would it make more sense to hear this chant raining down at the United Center tonight?
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Can Joel Osteen help you pay your bills? →
I don’t know, but I can help Joel Osteen punch himself in the face.
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Cops: Feud between drivers led to killing of... →
A bicyclist was killed on the Northwest Side when he got caught in an altercation between two drivers who were ramming each other on West Diversey, authorities say.
Jepson Livingston was biking through Logan Square Tuesday, on his way to fill out job applications, when one of the vehicles — a van — suddenly veered into him in the 3800 block of West Diversey, according to police.
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David Banner - Play
I think one of the more...
Best Brand Use of Twitter: @NHLBlackhawks →
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Almost Cut My...
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“When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out...”
– Yao Ming for Esquire’s “What I’ve Learned”
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WatchBlackhawks TV is doing everything RIGHT!
Oh, and so is Marian Hossa.
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Things I am sick of hearing
Every time I turn on the TV or radio the past couple of days I keep hearing headlines like “New trouble trouble for Tiger Woods today” before it goes into some spiel about another sponsor limiting the marketing they use with him or dropping him altogether.
Here’s a news flash for the media: He is not in any trouble. Tiger Woods is a billionaire.
Let me be more specific. Tiger...
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