KHS stands for Kickin', Hoppin', Stabbin'...

...cause that's how bad ass the new bike is; it's like a deadly ninja, kickin people, hoppin around off of balconies, fountains, and rooftops, and stabbin people 8 times before they hit the ground.

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the new stem makes all the difference in the world. for the first time, a bike actually fits me well. lordy it's nice. the bars are perfect in terms of reach; they are much closer to flop-n-chops lengthwise, which is great, because i don't like to be really stretched out while out on the horns. and the flat part of the bars is actually phenomenally comfortable. i can rest my palms on there and it is so broad and supportive. i could ride there for a long time w/o any problems. i can also grab in close to the stem on the round part of the bars, which is just substantial enough to give me a good solid grip on it. the brake lever, while at an angle that is not aesthetically pleasing, is much more functional than those setups where people run the cross-top lever parallel with the flats of the bars... that is just stupid, you'll give yourself carpal tunnel just tryin to reach it. anyway, i could pull the brake off quickly, for.... i don't know, the proverbial stuntin', but i'm gonna leave it on for now (you're welcome naomi).

thanks to bill too for all the hookups on the new cockpit.

(yes, yes, i KNOW that the date on the pictures says 6/8/2005... this camera's a piece of junk, so the date's wrong, and i always forget to turn to date option OFF until i'm already home. anyway, i cropped it out of most of the pictures, but that one, it would've just ruined the look of it, so i left it in there. shut up.)

better pics to come soon as soon as i go for first ride : )

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good song

SeeqPod - Playable Search

Ruben's Tube

awesome

bike ride

the weather was finally nice enough to go for a long ride today : ) rode all over the place, then stopped kinda near the plaza and relaxed on a bench in the sun for half an hour. i haven't got to enjoy being outside in months; i was thrilled.

i like this

"the difference"

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

google maps "bike there" petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/bikether/petition.html <--sign it

"in my language"

a short film made by a 27 yr. old autistic woman. it's ~7min long, and is really, really interesting.

new bikeshop

this is the new shop that opened down the street from me:
http://volkerbicycles.blogspot.com/

pathologies

boy, i sure hope i never get this:

funny

Comics - Explosm.net

the west bottoms

here's a pair of pics from google street view of the creepy KC West Bottoms, and a huge warehouse that they call "The Edge of Hell."
(took me a while to hunt it down on street view, as the address on file for "The Edge Of Hell, Kansas City, MO" doesn't take you to the right side of the warehouse.)




and here's me there earlier this year, when we stumbled upon it while leaving the circus. no joke.
(i'm the one groveling for mercy and begging the gargoyle not to eat me)



click around in the map to explore the west bottoms yourself:


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neat graphic

The relative sizes of, and distance between, Earth and Moon, to scale,

with a beam of light travelling between them at the speed of light.

(from wikipedia)

hahahahaha

a quote from a forum (edited for clarity):

Me and a few friends attempted to naked ninja someone last night(refer to bottom of post).

We went into the wrong room, the room of someone none of us knew, and he got incredibly angry with us.

He came downstairs with a fucking sword (yes...a fucking sword) swearing that he would cut all of our wieners off. He proceeded to call us a bunch of "fucking indie faggots"...we laughed...he cried...the end.

Naked Ninja - Trying to run, naked except for only a belt, into a room where a friend is having sex.