Wanna see a funny javascript trick? Select and copy the code below:
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Paste it in the address bar. Click go. The pictures fly round. Ooooh.
Michael Motorcycle Appreciation Day
On this day in 1973 Michael Motorcycle was born. He is my older brother, and every year on this day we observe the Ceremonial Gloating, where he says to me, “and now I’m two years older than you again. Nyaaa,” when Mom isn’t looking.
A talented child actor, Michael Motorcycle acted in film with the likes of Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, and that guy who played Max Headroom’s real-world counterpart.
Michael Motorcycle is also a talented lawyer, and a partner in a firm in the capital of South Carolina.
Michael Motorcycle is married, has two sons, and a golden retriever.
Packing
But I’m not packing. I’m going through boxes and boxes of stuff that have accumulated over the years. And I’m looking it all over again before throwing it all away.
On the inside of an empty packet of cigarette papers, below a quote from Wilhem Busch, I found a handwritten url: icdlbooks.org. Looking it up, I remembered hearing about this site five or six years ago on NPR, but never went to it. Hmmm.
Against all odds, I finally figured out how to get my external hard disk to run at USB 2.0 speed using a PCMCIA card on my laptop.
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A last minute tidbit, something that really makes this 4th o’ July better than the last seven: MSNBC’s Olberman’s promised July 4 Polemic. It’s shrill, it’s melodramatic, and for f*ck sakes, it’s about time.
Tour de France fever
These 20 stages have the following profiles:
* 11 flat stages
* 6 mountain stages
* 1 medium mountain stage
* 2 individual time-trial stages
Distinctive aspects of the race
* 3 mountain finishes
* 2 rest days
* 117 kilometres of individual time-trials (including the prologue)
* 21 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed
Visit the official TdF
Website
Or, dig this lady doing parkour:
I’m slowly in the process of sorting out the videos I took in Paris. So far I just have this one, where we encountered a really tacky American athlete training for the Tour de France.