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NotesBest London Fog video ever? Discuss. (via indierawk)
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"Someone once told Jens Voigt to “dig deep”. That is how geologists know the earth’s core contains an iron-nickel alloy."
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"And that, I imagine, is the hardest part of being a lifelong Skeptic: Whenever somebody comes forward with an unlikely-sounding claim, you can’t dismiss it outright just because you’ve heard similar bogus claims in the past. Because if you do, if you judge before you investigate, then you’re not much better than the guy who believes everything he hears."
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Notes Perfect momentLast night I was watching Tim Lincecum get reamed by the Dodgers, eventually turning the TV off in disgust when the score was 5-1.
This morning I was sitting at the computer and thinking “I need some coffee, but I’m out of the good coffee.” At that very moment, my doorbell rang. I went to the door and was greeted by a package containing one pound of Blue Bottle coffee. Delighted, I started the French press and sat back down at the keyboard to wait.
I decided I’d check the Giants score from last night to see how badly we’d lost. The score loaded just as the timer informed me that my coffee was ready.
And it was pretty much a perfect moment.
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"The trick is to keep losing weight until your friends and family ask you if you’ve been sick. then you know you’re within 10 pounds. if they start whispering to each other, wondering if you’ve got cancer or aids, you’re within 5. when they actually do an intervention, you’re at race weight."
Dan Empfield on Slowtwitch Forums (via summersumz)
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Notes"Wait a second, I hear you think, didn’t you tweet that Contador should have waited? Actually no, I didn’t, I tweeted that he gained a great chance to win, but lost a chance to win greatly. And I think that brings us to the purpose of the unwritten rules. We have already established you don’t have to follow them, you won’t be DQ’d for ignoring them. But you can give your victories some extra shine by winning them in grand style, and by appearing magnanimous towards your opponents. So if you can win while waiting for your opponents a few times, so much the better. Of course there is some technique on how to best exploit this, but maybe that’s food for a later thought."Gerard Vroomen (via Cervélo News)
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"I of course have my own opinion after seeing the replay like 25 times. I see Andy stop, I see Vinokourov who is next to him coming to a stop and then Alberto just comes flying around him, not Sanchez, not Menchov, not Santa Claus, but Alberto."
Jens Voigt (via Bicycling Magazine)
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Notes Solitude and LeadershipFrom William Deresiewicz’s fabulous address to the plebes at West Point:
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself. You simply cannot do that in bursts of 20 seconds at a time, constantly interrupted by Facebook messages or Twitter tweets, or fiddling with your iPod, or watching something on YouTube.
I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise. And often even that idea doesn’t turn out to be very good. I need time to think about it, too, to make mistakes and recognize them, to make false starts and correct them, to outlast my impulses, to defeat my desire to declare the job done and move on to the next thing.
Yet another reason to ride a bike.
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Notes"To give you an example of how bad it was, at one point I was in about 50th position and I’m knowing that I really need to be up front but I just can’t get there. And at this moment I start thinking it would be a good time to break my collarbone. A broken collarbone hurts really bad for like an hour, but then you are just relaxing to recover. But here in this Tour, the pain just continues."Jens Voigt (via Heart of Darkness | Bicycling Magazine)
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So here we are, in my college town of Arcata. Arcata is one of those places that does.not.change. There’s a new batch of college kids and dirtheads...
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Lookie what the fedex man brought for me!!!
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Wearing the yellow jersey of the overall leader, Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck is reflected in the sunglasses of Spain’s Alberto Contador as they ride...
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Bert snacks.
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So Gawker.tv posted about my Star Wars Subway Car video today, but instead of embedding my video from YouTube like the rest of the Internet does,...
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Skywalker Family Tree
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Stage 9 | The breakaway
Jens was a machine today.
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Mara Abbott became the first American to win the overall Giro Donne. via
So I think this is a fucking big deal. The media is too up in their...
