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How many trees will you bring?

One. I'm part of the team  
11%
  [ 4 ]  11%
 
Two. I'm awesome  
8%
  [ 3 ]  8%
 
Three. I have something to prove  
14%
  [ 5 ]  14%
 
Zero. Carrying things on bikes is HAARD  
64%
  [ 22 ]  64%
 

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Alex
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:56 am Reply with quote
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tehschkott
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:06 am Reply with quote
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lantius wrote:
WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE.

there, got that out of the way. fuck i love drinking and fire on the beach. boxcar was good too, even if pj dewald skunked peter and i out of stepping back from that ledge my friend.

dear fuckin' ginger scott: i have your bag. wtf did you end up doing? it's at my office at uw now, and you'd best come by campus tomorrow (or shultzys for lunch) and retrieve it.

monica i hope you enjoyed the trailer ride. derrick i hope you die in a fire.

See, that was me being clever - tossing my bag into your wagon and on top of Monica while riding. Good job Scott. If I was sober I never would have tried that.

In my inebriation I failed to realise the destination was the boxcar - spent probably 20 minutes waiting at the Fremont bridge - of course my phone took that opportunity to take a shit on me and dump my address book, so couldn't call anyone. I had no idea where you kids had taken off to, and problem solving wasn't at that moment my long suit.

I'm sequestered today doing another forensic collection (hung over) - will have to swing by on Monday or whenever you're available to grab my bag. Thanks for watching out for it.

Ah the life of a lousy drunk and bike jerk. I know, that's redundant.

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vaticdart
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:07 am Reply with quote
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I had a ziploc bag full of crumbs this morning.

I still can't see straight from so much fire and whiskey (whisky too).

My right SPD is jammed up with sand.

I call that some win.

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GingerMac
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:16 am Reply with quote
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I failed to actually ride with the group last night, but did manage to trailer 3 trees to the burning.

Also, I arrived at work this morning at 7:30 exactly and was on-time for my meeting. Overall, there is general success.
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laura
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:29 am Reply with quote
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laura wrote:
Best smelling ride ever.

Andre: your presence was missed.

Pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lgrst4/sets/72157612360573190/

As for the love stick (nice word filter) on my camera, I didn't think it was *that* cold outside?


One last piece (how did I forget this?): http://www.flickr.com/photos/lgrst4/3184467402/
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Mordac
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:42 pm Reply with quote
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Hey Everyone,

Great to join you again, it was my second ride and a damn good time. Here's some more pics of fire and... well, fire.



http://mordac.org/seattle/point_83_xmas/
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joeball
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:07 pm Reply with quote
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Alas, Christmas disasters, Green Lake finals, and Christmas Tree Pyres I have missed but WAFFLES I SHALL HAZ!!!1
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joby
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:12 pm Reply with quote
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joeball wrote:
Alas, Christmas disasters, Green Lake finals, and Christmas Tree Pyres I have missed but WAFFLES I SHALL HAZ!!!1


Indeeed. Not to overplan things, but keep Feb 5 free.
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tehschkott
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:16 pm Reply with quote
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Mordac wrote:
Hey Everyone,

Great to join you again, it was my second ride and a damn good time. Here's some more pics of fire and... well, fire.



http://mordac.org/seattle/point_83_xmas/


Great pics everyone. Snagged for my blog entry. All of you. Sue me.

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Matthew
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:55 pm Reply with quote
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joby wrote:
joeball wrote:
Alas, Christmas disasters, Green Lake finals, and Christmas Tree Pyres I have missed but WAFFLES I SHALL HAZ!!!1


Indeeed. Not to overplan things, but keep Feb 5 free.


February 5th would happen to be my birthday. Unfortunately, I'll be in DC. So I'm taking my recipe for fried waffles (a la Flemish) with me. Sorry.

You're going to have to come to my late birthday party/cyclocross throwdown to get your fried waffles and biergaarten.
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lantius
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:38 am Reply with quote
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joby wrote:
joeball wrote:
Alas, Christmas disasters, Green Lake finals, and Christmas Tree Pyres I have missed but WAFFLES I SHALL HAZ!!!1

Indeeed. Not to overplan things, but keep Feb 5 free.

MERCER ISLAND!

... maybe scotty can send us some waffles from amsterdam?
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ethan
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:18 am Reply with quote
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waaaah... i'm gonna be out of town as well... no can haz waffles.


i do haz more bonfire pics tho, will post soon/eventually.
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corpusjuris
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:03 pm Reply with quote
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Mordac wrote:
Hey Everyone,

Great to join you again, it was my second ride and a damn good time. Here's some more pics of fire and... well, fire.



http://mordac.org/seattle/point_83_xmas/


I am in love with that photo and it makes me miss you all terribly, you jerks. When I find a PC I can offload my shots to I'll have my own bike debaucery stories as well - .83 Taipei is up and running!

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balaenoptera
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:45 am Reply with quote
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...I see, the enlightened carbon sequestration crowd hard at work...

its sort of a bit of al gore meeting his mansion and petro dollars reality all over again

not a trick question:
if I own more than one hybrid and three bio diesel trucks, will it save more than one planet or can I sell the credits to martians?

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the dreaded ben
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:37 am Reply with quote
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the only thing worse than watching polar bears drown is listening to your self righteous liberal bullshit.
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lantius
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:38 am Reply with quote
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we probably should have stuck to only burning the wood trees this year, those last four or five were fake plastic ones.
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Rogelio
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:39 am Reply with quote
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balaenoptera wrote:
...I see, the enlightened carbon sequestration crowd hard at work...

its sort of a bit of al gore meeting his mansion and petro dollars reality all over again

not a trick question:
if I own more than one hybrid and three bio diesel trucks, will it save more than one planet or can I sell the credits to martians?

Do the martians have clean coal plants?

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Matthew
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:45 am Reply with quote
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balaenoptera wrote:
...I see, the enlightened carbon sequestration crowd hard at work...

its sort of a bit of al gore meeting his mansion and petro dollars reality all over again

not a trick question:
if I own more than one hybrid and three bio diesel trucks, will it save more than one planet or can I sell the credits to martians?


That's not all, folks! Turns out by riding our bikes more, which makes us burn more calories, We're totally screwing over the planet!!!!

No, that was not an April Fool's joke article. Although it is The Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch and the News Corporation that bring you Fox News... so maybe it is a joke. I don't know.

Also, in true zen master form, I answer your rhetorical question with a rhetorical question of my own: If it takes one woman nine months to have a baby, then if I have three women, can they have one baby in three months? Some things do not have conversion factors, grasshopper.
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lantius
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:03 am Reply with quote
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Matthew wrote:
Also, in true zen master form, I answer your rhetorical question with a rhetorical question of my own: If it takes one woman nine months to have a baby, then if I have three women, can they have one baby in three months? Some things do not have conversion factors, grasshopper.

ask any manager of a software application, the answer is yes.
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joby
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:08 am Reply with quote
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lantius wrote:
Matthew wrote:
Also, in true zen master form, I answer your rhetorical question with a rhetorical question of my own: If it takes one woman nine months to have a baby, then if I have three women, can they have one baby in three months? Some things do not have conversion factors, grasshopper.

ask any manager of a software application, the answer is yes.


Actually, a software manager would assign three women to the project, pit them against each other, and hope that one of them would get done in only 10-12 months.
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Alex
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:57 pm Reply with quote
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lantius wrote:
Matthew wrote:
Also, in true zen master form, I answer your rhetorical question with a rhetorical question of my own: If it takes one woman nine months to have a baby, then if I have three women, can they have one baby in three months? Some things do not have conversion factors, grasshopper.

ask any manager of a software application, the answer is yes.


the answer is no lee. no!

alex (i manage software devs)

p.s. Laura -- I wrote devs there for you. Otherwise I'd write developers. I'm also sad that the heat wave this week is going to wipe out all of the pow.
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key lime
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:22 pm Reply with quote
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Matthew wrote:

That's not all, folks! Turns out by riding our bikes more, which makes us burn more calories, We're totally screwing over the planet!!!!


Holy crap that article was so stupid it made my head hurt.
I hope no people believe that shite.
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mcrawfor
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:57 pm Reply with quote
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lantius wrote:
Matthew wrote:
Also, in true zen master form, I answer your rhetorical question with a rhetorical question of my own: If it takes one woman nine months to have a baby, then if I have three women, can they have one baby in three months? Some things do not have conversion factors, grasshopper.

ask any manager of a software application, the answer is yes.


Not exactly. But with multi-core becoming so ubiquitous you should just mutli-thread it. By putting the process in parallel you could get 1 baby per 3 months overall. Same latency, better "throughput" if you don't mind my saying so.

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Matthew
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I'm terribly sorry for having initiated a software engineering conversation on these forums.

To all of you non-computer professionals out there, I'm deeply, truly apologetic.
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lantius
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:10 pm Reply with quote
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hey scott, i still have your bag all stankin' up my office. did you have a plan on getting it or what?
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laura
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:43 pm Reply with quote
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Alex wrote:
... devs ... pow.




Gar!!!!!!!!!
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ethan
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:35 am Reply with quote
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more pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/-ethan-/sets/72157612554157627/
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terrydean
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:47 pm Reply with quote
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i was driving with morgan past yous guys somewhere around the sloop and honked a whole bunch. i figured with the trees tied to you, you must be headed to golden gardens. i tried to get morgan to turn around and she would not. lamecity.
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Matthew
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:17 pm Reply with quote
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IMG_0095

Don't worry, even though Flickr is almost as bad for the environment as riding bicycles or exercise, since you consume thousands, no... billions of kilowatts just running your laptop instead of driving there and pretending you were part of our extreme bonfire, I purchased carbon credits to offset our destruction.

By best count, we burnt 39 trees.
According to here, each tree weighs 25-45 lbs.
According to here, each ton of pine burnt releases 1443.67 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere if burnt.

Therefore, I bought (39 trees)(45 lbs/tree)(1 ton/2000 lbs)(1443.67 kg CO2/1 ton pine) = 1226.8 kg, or 1.396 short tons of CO2 worth of carbon offsets. This cost $19.54.

.83: on the road to carbon neutrality!
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mcrawfor
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:38 am Reply with quote
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Matthew wrote:
Therefore, I bought (39 trees)(45 lbs/tree)(1 ton/2000 lbs)(1443.67 kg CO2/1 ton pine) = 1226.8 kg, or 1.396 short tons of CO2 worth of carbon offsets. This cost $19.54.


That is totally badass.

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gsbarnes
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:45 am Reply with quote
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In this region, it wouldn't be that hard to do the obvious carbon offset for burning a tree: Plant another tree. Or a few other trees, since not every baby tree makes it to Christmas-tree size.

I've got two in pots in my backyard. How about you?

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GingerMac
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:21 am Reply with quote
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Matthew wrote:
That's not all, folks! Turns out by riding our bikes more, which makes us burn more calories, We're totally screwing over the planet!!!!


Ok, I can't help it. That article does start off with a rather stupid sarcastic argument, but if you read through the whole thing they have a valid point.

Quote:
“We need to become accustomed to the idea that our food production systems are equally damaging. As the man from Ryanair says, cows generate more emissions than aircraft. Unfortunately, perhaps, he is right. Of course, this doesn’t mean we should always choose to use air or car travel instead of walking. It means we need urgently to work out how to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of our foodstuffs.”


Which, they go on to say, is caused by the modern industrialization of food production, and the ridiculous shipping and trade that goes on with fresh food products (apples from New Zealand?). So in a retarded, roundabout way, that article is really arguing for localization of food production, eating fewer TV dinners and more fresh food. Which is a scary concept for most of the Fox demographic...
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terrydean
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:40 pm Reply with quote
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mopeds are my favorite way to screw up the planet!
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lantius
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:49 pm Reply with quote
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terrydean wrote:
mopeds are my favorite way to screw up the planet!

mopeds and youtube videos on the livejournal, oh snap!
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