I'm taking a bus up. I was already going up for a different party, so I'm stoked that (as hoped) Robin's shindig fits into my plans.

She's going to two parties in Barrie, what are the chances these would coincide? :lol:

Barrie is Ontario's new hotspot, didn't you know? You must be getting old to be so out of the loop (zing!).

I'm riding the bus with echo-thug!

On that note: need to discuss on irc with you

Honey...compared to you lot I am, Yoda old... :lol:... I only look and feel young. I have tee-shirts and skateboard bearings older than Operator. :lol:
I remember there being farmland when driving from Barrie to Toronto....:lol:

Unfortunately I will be a no show as I'll be out of the province. Back for CM though, hopefully.

so who's coming out tonight?

Weird! The firewall was blocking BF all morning and I thought I was screwed for time wasting, but then I just starting shunting it through google translation, but that stopped me from posting. And now it works again all of a sudden. I think some IT guy is playing tricks on me.

Also for some reason 'Ill Mitch' is simplified Chinese for 'Chicago hurricane'... Go figure.

I am coming tonight.

see you peeps tonight!

8:30? I will.

Me too! Still at the Honest Ed's parking lot?

Hola from Argentina all! It´s been a while so i thought i´d drop some bike-related observations here because i have no one to share them with here. first off let me say that my desicion to not bring a bike was, i think, a wise one as i would probably be dead and buries if i tried to ride a bike in Buenos Aires. i have never in my life seen people as insane on the roads as the drivers here. firstly, there are no stop signs so crossing an intersection involves looking both ways and sprinting if you see a car. they also don´t pay attention to the lane divisions so you´ll typically see a cab lane splitting between a bus and another car then stop diagonally to get a fare. there are bikes here, yes. most of them are fat tired cruiser types with coaster brakes and super wide handle bars, or cargo bike with a front wheel smaller than the back and a sort of funky front kickstand the supports a heavy duty front rack. most of these bikes are used for deliveries, so it´s not unusal to see a bike like this with a basket the size of small desk filled with break, market bound on a weekend morning. also most of the city´s pizza (of which there is lots) is delivered in the same manner.
i haven´t seen many bike messengers, but there are a few that use the aforementioned style bike for small deliveries but most of this type of work is done on motorbikes as it never snows here. so far i´ve only seen one or two ¨road¨bikes, a coulple of carbon framed ones out in the country side but mostly they´re old steel frames with mid level parts and those crappy old SIS rear mechs which seems to be all people car get down here. anyone with money to buy a bike it seems buys a mountain bike, even to ride on the street. sadly, no fixies here either.
i´m looking forward to getting home and back on the bike. i´ll post when i get back and i´ll need to go out for some hard rides to get into some sort of shape again. five weeks of red meat, wine and pastries does not do a body good (although the wine is cheap which is good. a very nice table wine can be had for the equivalent of $2 canadian and a nice ¨vintage¨bottle starting at about $10). i´m freezing my ass off here; i hope you´re all warm and toasty!

YOOO WTFFF SOMNAMBULANT**********

I know those are some logitech z5500 you're rockin' I gots the same, but is that also a Sceptre 20.1" LCD display too**********?

'cause if it is I have that too, that'd be just too crazy...

what computer sdo you have?

on closer inspection of the monitor, looks like a Dell

hey. hey you.

guess what?

SNAKES ON A PLANE TOMORROW

werrrrdddddd

Jeremy, I still have beer waiting for you!

hehehe.. yeah, those are the 5500's. And that's a Dell 24" LCD. Both of those are currently hooked up to a 15" Powerbook (open slightly behind the keyboard) and an xbox 360 (right above my head). I have a PS2 and a PC (Athlon 2500 w/ ATI x800) as well, but the PS2 is in the living room and the PC hasn't been hooked up in about a year.

I'm definitely into doing some regular 100k+ rides... probably not fixed though. My fixie is no longer set up for anything remotely long distance. :P

Okay, if anyone knows someone looking to get into fixed the Pake is officially for sale for $830.

Pake frame, Steamroller fork (55cm)
FSA Orbit X headset (1")
Sugino Grand Mighty cranks (48T, 144 BCD)
Mavic CXP 33s w/ DT Competition spokes (3x/3x)
Formula hubs (32/32, fixed/free)
KMC Kool Chain (1 1/8")
Surly cog (17T)
Suntour Cyclone track pedals (loose ball, freshly re-packed)
ITM fluted seatpost (27.0mm)
"saddle" (the Rolls is formed to my ass now - gotta keep it)
either the Nittor RB-021s or road drops or the flipped cruiser bars
CX brake lever
Shimano Tiagra front brake

... love.

That was a fun cv ride. nice to meet you all.:)

Y O that SAUCE WAS TOO MUCH , gboy + offhoff got dropped so fast omg.

My phone delivered unto to me more interesting plans for the evening.

Hope the ride was good though, I had a great time climbing north.

Donut ride ftw?

hahaa, i have a 15" powerbook aswell, but open as an extended display

Haha yea, it was nice running into you guys on my way home.

wonder if operator made it home alright :O hope so, he just disappeared.

edit: oh hello operator, i didn't see you there. too much food yes?

Yeah I stopped to put my light on and when I looked up you guys were nowhere to be seen. Timetrialed east for about 3 km and then I gave up. Did you guys go past coxwell (the closed road?)

yea we went passed Coxwell, it isn't closed though they are just doing road work on Eastern in between Woodward Ave. and Coxwell.

We just rode to Eastern/Kingston and Queen and waited at the corner for a few minutes to see if you'd show up.

After that we all decided that we'd head home.

mcmc, shiz, lymbzero and ronin went back along eastern i think.

darkmother and I headed up kingston to woodbine, up woodbine and then parted ways.

sorry for all of these consecutive posts today...

I am just curious how you are running the speakers. just direct with a 1/8" cable, or something else?

I have an m-audio sonica theater usb sound card, it's real pretty

yeah, just out of the pbook via 1/8". And digital optical from the 360.