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somnambulant 05-10-06 02:03 PM

I'm already downtown, but I'm in office clothes, not riding clothes. If anyone wants to meet up, just name a time and a place. I'm only about 10 mins from home, so I can easily ride home and change.

Shiznaz 05-10-06 02:06 PM

all I know is that my girlfriend puts EEG nets on little kids.
http://www.wwmovers-africa.com/haro/eeg.jpg

operator 05-10-06 02:08 PM

Neh let's do a ride Friday. I hate riding down Yonge during rush hour.

Edit: What the f , EEG nets?

Editedit: o...................................k

Edit SWEET RIMS:
http://velospace.org/files/casati-dropcomplete.jpg

32flavours 05-10-06 02:13 PM

Oh man, I got offered a grad position in a brand new lab at York University that had the most insane EEG nets. They were lit up and stuff. And there were these things that were supposedly cameras, but really they just looked like giant beach balls on sticks. Mad braaaain sciiiencccce.

somnambulant 05-10-06 02:13 PM

I don't think I can do a ride on Friday.. a friend of my is defending their PhD thesis on Friday and having a celebration bash in the evening. :)

I think I might go home, get changed and then ride down to the Ex and do some laps. If anyone wants to find me, that's likely where I'll be. Unless of course someone comes up with a better plan in the next hour or so.

32flavours 05-10-06 02:16 PM

Also, Oliver Sacks is the ****. He spoke at Con Hall sometime this year but I couldn't make it. Too bad, he's supposed to be a great lecturer. Wes, I assume you read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"?

somnambulant 05-10-06 02:17 PM


Originally Posted by 32flavours
Also, Oliver Sacks is the ****. He spoke at Con Hall sometime this year but I couldn't make it. Too bad, he's supposed to be a great lecturer. Wes, I assume you read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"?

Yeah, I wanted to go to that too. :(

And yeah, that's the one I read. I have a few of his other books in my wishlist. :)

I'd also recommend Mind Hacks (both the book and site) to anyone interested too as it uses examples you can try yourself to illustrate pretty much every weird little quirk of the brain. :)

Shiznaz 05-10-06 02:19 PM

I have a huge brain.

jeremywhitehorn 05-10-06 02:23 PM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
I don't think I can do a ride on Friday.. a friend of my is defending their PhD thesis on Friday and having a celebration bash in the evening. :)

I think I might go home, get changed and then ride down to the Ex and do some laps. If anyone wants to find me, that's likely where I'll be. Unless of course someone comes up with a better plan in the next hour or so.

friday's out for me as well as my bro is getting married this weekend and i've got the rehearsal dinner then.

STEEKER 05-10-06 02:42 PM


Originally Posted by Shiznaz
My girlfriend would totally understand. She talks like that half the time anyways.


PS. She has decided that she wants that pinarello frame in the beaches. Because its so shiny and pretty... and because I spent like an hour telling her how awesome italian steel bike are... and because I took her on ebay and showed her how expensive they are as well.

To late I bought the Pinarello( BEACH) this afternoon:D after I left Cavern bike shop[

operator 05-10-06 02:45 PM

bah.
Somnambulant still doing Saturdays ride?

TRaffic Jammer 05-10-06 02:46 PM

So it's the CHRP grant you're after?
You just wanted to get paid to annoy dementia patients...... admit.
sick ......really sick.... :lol:

Is that like that brain wave feedback loop I read about to stimulate healthy brain activity?
The cure for depression?

gokiburi 05-10-06 02:47 PM


Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
friday's out for me as well as my bro is getting married this weekend and i've got the rehearsal dinner then.

tell me if you need stand-ins/extras for this rehearsal dinner. there's live food right?!

gboy 05-10-06 02:48 PM


Originally Posted by operator
bah.
Somnambulant still doing Saturdays ride?

I'm up for Saturday too, if anybody's going.

gokiburi 05-10-06 02:55 PM


Originally Posted by 32flavours
I'd like to buy NSERC Avenue for 200 dollars, please.

Edit: Gokiburi, what do you do at work that involves phonemes?

lip-synching! hmm, i've got a hotel on that. pay up sucka. :)

somnambulant 05-10-06 02:56 PM


Originally Posted by operator
bah.
Somnambulant still doing Saturdays ride?

Yeah, unless the weather is terrible myself and eyefloater will be there Saturday morning.

somnambulant 05-10-06 03:00 PM


Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
Is that like that brain wave feedback loop I read about to stimulate healthy brain activity?
The cure for depression?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurofeedback
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_wave

:)

operator 05-10-06 03:00 PM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
Yeah, unless the weather is terrible myself and eyefloater will be there Saturday morning.

Eyefloater******************** He rides????

jeremywhitehorn 05-10-06 03:01 PM


Originally Posted by gokiburi
tell me if you need stand-ins/extras for this rehearsal dinner. there's live food right?!

i assume the food will be dead once we eat it. not sure about extras (if you can even make it up to newmarket that is...i think that's somewhere near the arctic circle).

operator 05-10-06 03:11 PM

You going to do it fixed.

somnambulant 05-10-06 03:27 PM


Originally Posted by operator
You going to do it fixed.

I'll assume you're talking to me, so, yes, I will be riding fixed, as will Mr. Eyefloater.

edit. ps. heading down to the ex now. I'll likely have headphones in while lapping, so try not and scare the poop out of me if any of y'all head down that way. :)

operator 05-10-06 03:27 PM

Pfft.

STEEKER 05-10-06 03:28 PM

aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww so I can't come along then ,, thats ok Cavit8 and I and one lucky person will go to the wharehouse oval track:p

operator 05-10-06 03:29 PM

Doesn't matter, come out for it Steeker. I'm brining my super geared roadie and kicking somnambulants ass.

TRaffic Jammer 05-10-06 03:31 PM


Originally Posted by operator
Doesn't matter, come out for it Steeker. I'm brining my super geared roadie and kicking somnambulants ass.

Dude he's on a fixie. That's like fightin' a one armed man.:p

STEEKER 05-10-06 03:32 PM

this was my third day for fixed riding I can only stay at 40K nothing faster and getting bounced off the seat each time I switch position on the saddle

TRaffic Jammer 05-10-06 03:35 PM

Close but not it Som, it was an electronic device that would overlay a healthy pattern over the brain as it were. Not like a person training their brain. I read it in Wired a couple years ago I think, it made my eyes go pooiiiing!!!! :lol:

TRaffic Jammer 05-10-06 03:36 PM


Originally Posted by STEEKER
this was my third day for fixed riding I can only stay at 40K nothing faster and getting bounced off the seat each time I switch position on the saddle

This where the ceaseless spinning comes into effect. How's the gearing coming off a stop? Pretty darned good for three days, I'm afraid how apparently bad my pedal stroke has become over the last dozen years once I get on a fixie. That is a bonus for us older guys is if we've been workin on a smooth stroke it becomes muscle memorized over the course of say .... 15+ years. It had better :lol:

STEEKER 05-10-06 04:03 PM

I am runnng 42x16 and comming off a stop is ok but I am tired since I have'nt been able to work out for a year and a half.............. I just got a kinky PM

somnambulant 05-10-06 04:43 PM


Originally Posted by operator
Doesn't matter, come out for it Steeker. I'm brining my super geared roadie and kicking somnambulants ass.

That's funny because I remember kicking a certain geared ass on some hills during a CV ride and hearing cussing on my way past. :)

I'm not the competitive type btw, so you're barking up the wrong tree. Just thought I had to give you a taste of your own medicine. :P


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