ah pook is here Vox 2008-07-15T04:46:57Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c2251e57f0549d/ bikes, books, unix, everyday madness hamming it up tag:vox.com,2008-07-15:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00fad699c8560005 2008-07-15T04:44:48Z 2008-07-15T04:46:57Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Gunnar-crazy-grover Classic Sesame Street - Grover and Madeline Kahn

My kid is a total ham. He said "My singing is loud. I don't like my singing." And then... Whoa. The bit at the end is when j3n, completely unscripted, started playing this brilliant bit from old skool Sesame Street

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]]> book review: wizard's first rule tag:vox.com,2008-07-09:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00fa96869f900003 2008-07-09T23:39:04Z 2008-07-10T16:44:43Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, Book 1) The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn) The Sleeping Beauty Novels: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release (Boxed Set) A Dance with Dragons (Song of Ice and Fire)

I haven't written much about books lately but I just finished Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind last night and it's kind of itching for a writeup. Let me first say that I'm an unabashed fan of epic fantasy, and it's mainly the ever-longer gap...

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]]> chick magnet tag:vox.com,2008-06-30:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00fae8c7c8ff000b 2008-06-30T22:03:45Z 2008-07-01T15:27:59Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

chick magnet

This truck is phenomenal. There's so much pure awesomeness here it's hard to capture with a single photo, but I had to try. The stars-n-bars, the "CHICK MAGNET" stencil, the "Danger Ranger / Stay Back" spray... You can see all of those. You c...

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]]> ride report - giro di peninsula 08 tag:vox.com,2008-06-29:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00fad695c03b0004 2008-06-29T01:40:05Z 2008-06-29T01:40:51Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom My second year riding in the Festa Foundation's annual charity century got off to an early start when my duty pager blasted me into consciousness shortly after 4AM this morning. I'm the nighttime on-call person for this week and a maintenance need...

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]]> Skating comedy tag:vox.com,2008-05-27:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00fa96796eb50003 2008-05-27T17:45:56Z 2008-05-27T17:45:56Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

VID00019

Soupy Sales would be proud.

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]]> gettin' better tag:vox.com,2008-04-18:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00e398f138f70005 2008-04-18T07:10:29Z 2008-04-25T00:01:01Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

IMG_5366 laswell, happy

So things are getting somewhat better as I heal up. As you can see, I'm not quite so hamburger-ized this week: But I also got this hard cast on yesterday which, while it's definitely a stylin' shade of blue, is not removable like my hospital s...

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]]> metacarpals tag:vox.com,2008-04-16:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00f48d0ddc2b0001 2008-04-16T20:59:25Z 2008-04-17T19:28:41Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Took this shot off the x-ray display -- this was from the ER last week.

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]]> Wear your helmet tag:vox.com,2008-04-10:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00e398eeaa480004 2008-04-10T05:08:02Z 2008-04-10T05:43:04Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Helmet-scrape

Ah Pook Destroyed Originally uploaded by flickrawwwr Ever want a convincing argument for use of helmets and polycarbonate lenses? Here it is. More at j3n's flickr set: Ahpook Destroyed Sadly, these are the best-looking photos of the ...

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]]> ouch ouch ouch tag:vox.com,2008-04-09:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00f48cecc1b00002 2008-04-09T06:24:51Z 2008-05-07T23:11:13Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

eric-meat

Today started off much like any normal bike-commute Tuesday. Last week was Distance Week, which makes this Interval Week, so I was on the Della Santa and taking the San Tomas Expressway-to-Central Expressway route from Campbell to work in Palo Alt...

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]]> what's in the bag? tag:vox.com,2008-02-20:asset-6a00c2251e57f0549d00e398de671f0004 2008-02-20T02:28:55Z 2008-03-10T17:36:28Z eric http://ahpook.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

IMG00058 IMG00057

I haven't been bike-blogging a lot lately, but it's not because I'm not biking. I forgot the 11,000 miles odometer post and now I'm at 11,312. Here's my Jamis rigged for full California winter commuting (HID, fenders, waterproof Delta pannier): ...

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