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Go pro or go home

So, a couple of weeks ago, I caught a tweet about VeloInk. Having had a desire to have my name on the toptube ever since Trek started offering the Project One line during Lance Armstrong’s reign.

Anyway, Matt at Veloink was amazing. Within an hour or so of me placing the order, he’d dropped me an email to confirm that, yes, indeed, I really wanted the Nutmeg state flag, rather than something that’d be clean at the resolution his machine could print. I said “Yep”, figuring that it’d either be funny to those who recognized the flag, or an obvious but inside joke to those that didn’t pick up on it. And mostly, it’d be an attention grabber to pimp this website. And maybe, just maybe, a theft deterrent.

I went with plain white with black letters – not quite original, but there were plenty of other choices.

They’ve been sticking solidly to my commuter for 3 months in the cold and rain.

Eventually, I’ll have my dream of a custom frame with custom paint and lovingly hand-lettered “Jank” on the top tube. However, that’s somewhere about a decade away (Got to get the kids into college before my marriage will survive the request); till then VeloInk rocks. $18 well spent.

Wednesday Random 10 (day late)

Aping off of Randomduck, who’s got a great tradition of this.

  1. Beastie Boys, “Rhymin & Stealin”, Licensed to Ill
  2. Kanye West, “I’ll Fly Away”, The College Dropout
  3. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, “On The Road”, Come Poop With Me
  4. Duke Ellington, “The New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo”, The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz
  5. John Coltrane, “My Favorite Things”, New Thing at Newport
  6. Jay-Z + The Beatles + DJ Danger Mouse, “Moment of Clarity”, The Grey Album
  7. Beck, “Hell Yes”, Guero
  8. Lex Zeppelin, “The Wanton Song”, Physical Graffiti
  9. Beastie Boys, “Paul Revere”, Licensed to Ill
  10. Delbert McClinton, “Mama’s Little Baby”

Mostly it’s thanks for reminding me what a great album Boy was.

Word of the Day

So, I subscribe to Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day. Usually, it bores me (Rocked the SAT Verbal).

Today? Deipnosophist

How cool is that?

Best part, is I think I can use it. It’s defined as “Someone who is skilled in table talk”, which describes lots and lots of folks I encounter in my job.

Crash the server like Lance

So, I’m an unabashed fan of Nike+iPod. Love it, love it, love it.

And, I’m favorably inclined to Lance Armstrong. Not a huge fanboy, but, barring some bombshell revelation of pictures of him with gallon jugs of EPO, an IV in his vein, and random farm animals smoking post-conjugal cigarettes, Lance is OK as far as athletes go. (I’m still miffed at the whole Kristen split – seems entirely at odds with his views on marriage in “It’s Not About the Bike”, but we’ll leave that dog lie).

Anyway, Nike’s announced a “Run Like Lance” challenge, where it aims to collect 50K miles through Nike+iPod prior to the NYC Marathon in November.

Nike will donate $1 to the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) for every mile run and logged by Armstrong and runners that visit www.nikeplus.com from October 2nd until November 5th. … Armstrong recently selected five New Yorkers, one from each borough, who are participating in this year’s marathon to serve as borough captains in the “Run Like Lance Challenge.” Runners from around the world can also contribute by logging on to www.nikeplus.com to donate miles to the borough of their choice.

Anyway, went to check the Nike+ site, and it’s running awful slow. Kind of a cool effect. Though $50K seems to be chump change for a group like Nike…

*** Per Blaine‘s comment, I want to be clear – Kudos to Nike for committing to the $50K; it’s leaps and bounds above what a lot of companies do. Stupid Gen X cynicism strikes again…