DCC "Yet Another Year" ride
 

Jan 2, early afternoonish (around 130pm)? Anyone in for this? Or will the wuss factor be high?

Let's do it.

Cool. I am pulling another Yojimbo's early morning gig and then need to take care of a thing or two. So 130pm. Meet at the regular starting point on Halsted?

Until further notice, I'm working until 3 that day. That might change.
[165] - if you're riding from Yojimbo's to Halsted and Waveland, let me know - I would rather park there and ride up than hunt for parking for however long.

Jan. 2nd is my birthday. Bring presents, by which I mean whiskey.

No Problem

Ira! We're birthday buddies!

Cool. I'll be there. However, the weather is supposed to suck as of 10:30 pm Tuesday 12/28.

will you be back in chicago? and isn't cryptonomicon rad?

Butting in, I really dig Stephenson, good to know someone else who is into him. I'm expecting Quicksilver for Christmas from family I haven't seen yet - I've read everything up until that.

I'll try to be there sunday.

I finished quicksilver this summer and wanted to read the other two, but school intervened. such is life. cryptonomicon is great too.

Stating "TRYING" is for losers. BEING is for winners...
we need your homemade Kaluha!

Well you're always trying to be, so I guess that makes you a loser at winning.

shut up. you probably won't even show. weenie

Ha Ha! awesome. I go for "DETACHING" a la not caring.

Anyone remember: "Books Check 'Em Out" ??

jeff

Well that was inventive. Did you steal that from your granpa's book of insults?

that, um, jingle they used to play on, eh, PBS so often?

I didn't get through Cryptonomicon. I got bored a third of the way through. Which seems to be the case with me and ol' Stephenson. Same with The Diamond Age though I did finish that - eh. I still like his first book, Snow Crash.

I'm curious at this epic trilogy that he's written though.

I'm currently about 500 pages into Cryptonomicon and still loving it. At this rate I should have it finished in another week or less.

Anyway, can't make it back to Chicago for the ride. Wish I could, though. :(

We'll miss you. But in remembrance of you, we will paddle and humiliate 165 like a baby new year at the corner of Halsted and Roscoe, right in front of one of the big rainbow phaluses. Or is that phali?

You're the English teacher here... :) As for 165, I'd prefer you challenge him to a power hour and then chase hipsters around Wicker Park screaming about Mao.

Thanks FDave. Skitbra likes to project.

Gee, I haven't heard that one in at least 30 seconds.

voices in your head...again

sorry to be so anal, but Big U (mediocre at best) and Zodiac (dug it) came before Snow Crash (dug it).

Big U? Never heard of it - what is that/about? Forgot about Zodiac - never read it, but I (mistakenly) thought that was after Snow Crash.

Since you guys are off topic already....

I might be making a trip up to that area in the near future to visit family (Milwaukee and Elgin) but while I'm there I'd like to race or do a ride. Are any of you guys riding the Tour Da Chicago series? I lived in Chicago for a year when I was 9 but I'm not too familiar with the streets (I was only 9) and would like to ride with someone who knows the city.

Hell, we all know something and I am sure we could all chip in and buy you a beer or share whiskey (or home made Kaluha)

Big U is about college life at a huge generic university - I found the etext online and I'm somewhere in the middle of it. It was out of print for a long time, and was recently re-published. Its not terrible, it's good writing, not technologically oriented like his other books were.
Zodiac is worth checking out, if you want to borrow my copy let me know.

Snow crash rocked.