You said you heard about the Challenger on the news but you were in 7th grade on 9/11? That doesn't work. That would mean that you were 15 in 7th grade.

Maybe for you that does work actually.

Mind you that is if you heard it on the news when you were a new born, which doesn't make any sense.

JFK - Not born

J. Lennon - Young, wasn't aware of it

Challenger - I was home from school due to the weather. Recall that it was cold in Florida (causing the failure); it was even colder (and snowier) here. I remember first hearing about an explosion on the shuttle on the radio. I initially imagined it being a minor incident in the payload bay or something. I was wrong.

M.J. - I first got word of him going to the hospital via Twitter (a pretty good source for flash news). Later TMZ (I believe) said he was dead. Major news outlets followed an hour or so later.

Aren't you 18?
You certainly weren't alive for Lennon, or Challenger(do you mean Columbia?). If you are 18 that would make you in 4th or 5th grade for 9/11.

Challenger was in 1986, junior Freds


"Obviously a major malfunction"--one of the great understatements in space history.

That sounds kind of like me, except I never have hooked up with the B group--just 1-3 stragglers along the way.

How fast does the B group go? Maybe we need to form an A- group.

I was 5 then, and not in kiddiegarten yet, so I had plenty of time to observe my parents reactions at the time. Of course I didn't understand their reaction or the impact of a president being killed in that way. I just remember the adults (my parents, their friends plus an aunt or uncle) glued to the TV for several days. The funeral procession I remember clearly, and it was at that point I realized the seriousness. Probably the sight of the flag draped casket being rolled down the street in a horse drawn wagon.

As soon as that whole mishigosh was over, it was back to obsessing over cartoons. And then the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show a few months later and all was back to normal.

ride here

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...-Hawk-Colorado

That's genius.

Even with me on it, that TT bike is pretty fast. Stupid deer. I can't ride that bike around here @ 6AM. Too dangerous. I'll have to do my TT bike days mid-day to avoid t-boning friggin Bambi.

Why do soccer fans call zero "nil"? This game has nil excitement.

Stupid deer.

I'm going to go for a ride on the revamped fred-mobile. Just need to stop by at work and get a bottle cage. Will it be silver, blue, or red anodized?



Yes, that is a computer on the seatpost. I don't care about ride stats on this, I just want my overall mileage.



As it sits, with fenders, rack, and U-lock, it comes in at 31 pounds.

Just so you remember I'm not always a fred:

You can change bicycles, but you can't change your inner Fred.

This is true

Speaking of addiction, I think I'm getting an iPhone. Hell yea.

speaking of addiction i've been refreshing the fedex tracking for my iphone all morning.. and yesterday and the day before that too. doesn't get here until tomorrow though, Apple hates me

That's for being a PC fan all these years.

Who could blame her.

not quite. not an early adopter by any means but I use a Mackbook pro, before that i had a hackintosh for a while and have been an iphone user since the 2g came out.

and i'd give steve jobs my liver for early access to new apple toys

Well, I was searching for an answer . . . did my best . . . that's all I got.

CNBC has this countdown clock running for the announcement from the Federal Reserve.

. . . as if we're all in suspense that the Fed might raise interest rates.

my legs feel a lot better today. i know how concerned everyone is.

You had leg problems? Should have posted about it.

Not sure how you injure hamstrings on a bicycle.

you think i'm an attention *****?


don't answer that.