quote

"I'm just me, I just do what I do. There's a great deal of hype around these days. I just do what I do and I'll keep on doing what I do."

-Dave Yates

bicycles

the solo bbq-ist

Yesterday I was riding to the pizza parlor when I stumbled upon this dude.  He was the only one around and just hanging out with his tiny little bbq.  It had just stopped raining about an hour before and it was approaching evening.  I thought it was so interesting that he wanted his bbq chicken wings so bad that he spent the time to set up a little briquet bbq on the sidewalk and marinate the wings, all by himself.  Good things never come easy.

He had some great smelling chicken wings going.

4/15/12

3/100

After Finals Week

Finals Week

gear

Life has been unreasonably busy lately.  While sitting at the lab computer today, for some reason, I imagined this collage.

Here was my original thought:

Here was the outcome:

2-14-2012

happy valentines day ya'll

one of my old bikes

I think I got this bike back in the summer of 2008.  Before this bike, all of my interest was in mountain bikes.  Essentially, this was my transition into the strange, mysterious world of road bikes.  I was at home back in northern california for that summer and hopped on craigslist to see what I could find.  Somehow I lucked out and found this:

which quickly turned to this:

and then this:

The guy I got it from was a tiny little dude who clearly couldn't fit on it.  He told me he just wanted to get rid of it and get a few bucks for some sodas.  It was painted when I got it and all I did was slap on an old skate sticker as a head tube badge. I enjoyed this bike very much.  It was a fun transition/introduction to a whole new part of the sport. I even poked a rattle snake with the front wheel on a ride in southern oregon.  I never figured out the make of the frame.  All the bike shops I took it to couldn't figure it out either.  It had a very unique brake arch in the back.  One guy thought it was a Klein.  I am leaning towards an old Nishiki due to its component set.  The chainstay sticker said "Boston Bicycle Company" hence my query in the search box in the screenshot. I always dug those gold rims.  Ultimately I sold this bike in 2010 for $140.  It needed new tires and a bottom bracket badly.

old disposable

So over summer or winter break (I don't remember), I found an old disposable camera in my closet at my real home.   There were already a handful of pictures taken on it.  It took me this long to finally fill it up with stuff I found "worthy".  I had absolutely NO idea what those first few photos were of.  The answer: A) I brought the camera snowboarding a looonng time ago or B) I found it a long time ago while snowboarding and kept it.  Either way, the first few shots may or may not be of people I actually know. 

mt bachelor circa 2004 or 2005

 oregon coast 1

 oregon coast 2 (the day I found the dead llama on the beach)

 work

 engineering lab....... classsssic.....

Disassembly of the fork that came on my new bike, just for fun. It was heavily bent at the steer tube.

2/8/12

It appears that I'll be spending the summer and fall in the Portland area as an engineering intern.  My hopes and spirits are high and I'm looking forward to the opportunity in many ways.  

Here's some more random stuff:

A magazine at work, the best part is the little picknick of snacks sitting on the rock in the spring.

out with the old (unwillingly) and in with the new

Welp, as some of you know, the bike that I painted and put together last summer was stolen.  Living in Corvallis and being who I am, I need a bike.  I managed to score this beast for a killer deal on criagslist.  Its not my typical campus cruiser but I'd always wanted to be a poseur and ride a dirt jumper...  It is now the ugliest disgrace of a dirt jumper on the block but I dont give a $#!%.  It makes going to and from class pretty fun.  RIP PON-TON.

blur days

disposable cameras

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B: