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• 1998. State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo). Buffalo, New York. Ph.D., philosophy.
•1997. Goethe-Institut. Mannheim, Germany. Language and Culture Program.
•1995. Baylor University. Waco, Texas. M.A., philosophy.
•1994. Morehead State University. Morehead, Kentucky. B.A. philosophy, summa cum laude. Honors Program designee.
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Self-representation, Philosophy and Popular Culture, Feminism, History of Ideas, Film Theory
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The Philosopher's I: Autobiography and the Search for the Self (Forthcoming 2006, SUNY Press).
"Plato's Socrates and Soseki's Sensei: Living the Sovereign Life," Asian Philosophy, vol. 15 no. 1 (March 2005): 61-76
"A Report From the Front: Using Blackboard's On-line Journal Program to Enhance Philosophical Thinking, Writing, and Speaking," co-authored with Anne-Marie Bowery, Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, vol. 16 no. 1 (Spring 2004): 3-11
"Sam and Frodo's Excellent Adventure: Tolkien's Journey Motif," in The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2003), Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson, editors.
"Socrates at the Cinema: Using Film in the Philosophy Classroom," co-authored with Anne-Marie Bowery, Teaching Philosophy (March 2003):
"The Wonder of Barbie: Female Representation in Popular Culture," Essays in Philosophy vol. 4 no. 1 (January 2003): 1-27
"Silence and the Self: The Function of the First-person for Kierkegaard and Sartre," Discourse 4 (Spring 1998): 1-19


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Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Straits Times
Campaigning for Jakarta's gubernatorial election next month began yesterday amid controversy over its electoral rolls, which have been found to contain dubious names.
All five candidates who are challenging incumbent Governor Fauzi Bowo, 64, in the July 11 elections have refused to endorse the voter list.
Fauzi, supported by the ruling Democratic Party, is allowed by law to seek a second and final five-year term. His current term ends on Sept. 7.
One candidate has lodged a class action suit against the Jakarta election commission, slamming its recent move to declare the rolls official and ready for the election despite growing complaints.
"With doctored electoral rolls, the Jakarta election cannot be held fairly, as there will be citizens who can't vote and others who can vote more than once," said Habiburokhman, a lawyer who filed the suit against the election commission on behalf of the candidate.
Habiburokhman estimated the number of "irregular names" to be in the hundreds of thousands, from the seven million eligible registered voters.
"We demand that the election commission clean up the electoral rolls under the watch of a court- administered panel. We want the court to postpone the election," he told The Straits Times.
The Jakarta governor's race is closely watched because the winner effectively controls Indonesia's capital of 9.8 million people and an annual budget of Rp 36 trillion ($3.8 billion).
As the man in charge of Indonesia's biggest city, the governor enjoys a high profile and receives the most media coverage nationwide of all the governors.
He is also in a position to influence voters in the next general election in 2014.
The camp of candidate Joko Widodo, whom Habiburokhman represents, uncovered in its investigation dubious names as well as names that had been registered multiple times.
For instance, there are two voters with the same name — Achmad Syuja Wijaya — in East Jakarta's Cipinang Muara area. One is male and the other female, according to the evidence list provided in the lawsuit that Habiburokhman filed in the West Jakarta court.
In a case that raised eyebrows, a resident by the name of Suryati Lisma in Cengkareng, West Jakarta, has been registered to vote at three polling stations. "The same name and the same ID card number at three polling stations," said Habiburokhman.
The brouhaha over the Jakarta race is not an isolated one.
Disputes have often clouded elections in Indonesia. In December 2010, the country's Constitutional Court ordered fresh mayoral elections for South Tangerang after evidence showed that local bureaucrats supported one of the candidates.
Just last month, the same court rejected a petition filed by the losing parties in the election for Aceh Singkil's regent. They alleged that the winner had a criminal record.
Indonesia has 600 elected regional government posts, including for provincial governors, regents and mayors. The elections are held at different times and each office-holder has a five-year term.
Indonesians also elect members of Parliament and the President every five years.
Aminullah, the Jakarta election commission's voter registration chief, said it had accommodated all queries and done the necessary follow-ups such as cleaning up the electoral rolls and registering eligible voters who were not on the list.
Postponing the election was not an option, he said. "We have marked all the irregular names on the rolls, and those names will not be able to vote. We have also invited teams from all the candidates to our office and given them direct access to our database for checks and rechecks," he told The Straits Times.
Doctored electoral rolls are just one problem plaguing many elections in Indonesia.
Another — money politics — continues to be a big concern and is more difficult to detect.
It makes running for public office in Indonesia an expensive venture. To win over voters, candidates often hand out sums of money, in addition to items like T-shirts. In communities without proper medical facilities, for example, a candidate may hire an ambulance to ferry sick residents to the nearest clinic or hospital.
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MEMPHIS, TENN. - The University of Memphis Athletic Department and Tiger Sports Properties are returning First Tennessee Tiger Town to the main plaza level of FedExForum for the men's basketball game against the Tennessee Vols on Saturday, Feb. 23. First Tennessee Tiger Town will take place from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. and will resume from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Fans are invited to visit the First Tennessee table inside Tiger Town to enter to win two tickets to the March 8th game with UAB or a framed U of M basketball jersey.
*Only fans with a ticket to the Feb. 23rd game or a valid U of M Student ID will be allowed admission to ESPN GameDay activities and the event will be capped at 3,500 participants
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Roswell UFO crash: what really happened 67 years ago?
The mysterious crash-landing in Roswell, New Mexico is seen as the ultimate landmark event in UFO history
It has been 67 years since an unidentified object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, fuelling speculation about alien life forms that still exists today.
The incident is seen as the ultimate landmark event in UFO history, and provides the basis of an industry that has spawned multiple books and films, sustains two museums at the town of Roswell and an annual UFO festival. So what really happened on that ranch in July 1947?
What was reported at the time?
On 8 July 1947 Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that a "flying disk" had crashed on a ranch near Roswell during a powerful storm. Later in the day, as government scientists arrived in the area, the story appeared to change. A press conference was held and it was stated instead that a weather balloon had crashed. Reporters were shown debris said to be taken from the crash area, such as foil, rubber and wood, which appeared to confirm that the object had been a weather balloon. The incident then went largely unreported for 30 years.
What happened in the 1970s?
In 1978, Stanton Friedman, a nuclear-physicist and UFO researcher, interviewed Major Jesse Marcel Sr, who was said to be the first military officer to investigate the wreckage. Marcel suspected that the debris he recovered in 1947 was "not of this world". He believed he had found an alien spacecraft and that his superiors had covered it up. His claims were later published in the National Enquirer and led to the publication of the 1980 book The Roswell Incident, with more witnesses coming out to support his story.
What have other witnesses said?
Several people claimed to see debris scattered over a wide area and at least one person reported seeing a blazing aircraft in the sky shortly before it crashed. One former mortician, Glenn Dennis, claimed in 1989 that a friend who worked as a nurse at the Roswell Army Air Field had accidentally walked into an examination room where doctors were bent over the bodies of three creatures. They apparently resembled humans, but with small bodies, spindly arms and giant bald heads. In 1995, Ray Santilli, a London-based entrepreneur, claimed to release footage of an alien autopsy performed in Roswell in 1947. Experts immediately ridiculed the footage as a hoax and he admitted years later that it was almost entirely fake. Nevertheless, Santilli insisted real footage existed, but due to its poor condition he had been forced to recreate it. Critics have questioned the validity of various witnesses and pointed out that many claims over the years have come from "friends of friends" who supposedly saw something out of the ordinary.
How do US officials explain the 'bodies'?
In the 1990s, the Pentagon revealed that the object in Roswell was not an ordinary weather balloon after all. It said the debris found at Roswell came from a 700ft-string of weather balloons, radar reflectors and acoustic sensors that formed part of a top-secret experiment to eavesdrop on Soviet nuclear weapons tests. The balloons had been launched on 4 June 1947 in an experiment called Project Mogul, it said. A second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of alien bodies actually related to life-sized anthropomorphic test dummies.
Or could it have been something else...?
The mystery surrounding Roswell took another strange turn in 2011 when journalist Annie Jacobsen claimed Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and the infamous Nazi Dr Josef Mengele were behind the crash. Stalin enlisted Mengele, known for experimenting on human prisoners during World War II, to create a crew of real-life "grotesque, child-size aviators" to provoke hysteria across America, Jacobsen claimed in a book called Area 51. A plane seized from Germany at the end of the war was apparently filled with "deformed" children with "unusually large heads and abnormally shaped oversized eyes". But, Jacobsen said, Stalin's plan to scare the US with "human guinea pigs" was hushed up by the Americans when the aircraft crashed in July 1947.
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What a disappointment. I still don't know what really happened at Roswell, after reading this. There's still no definitive answer...
Five year old Mary England and her family were traveling through Roswell, New Mexico when they witnessed two alien spacecraft crash into each other in the air.
The wing fragments were reverse engineered a long time ago in order to determine how the hexagonal tiles on the bottom of the spacecraft develop lift.
That is because the article leaves out crucial facts that support the ET hypothesis.
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I have tried your emulator...sad it only holds for 2 min. I tried some different games and it seems to work just perfect. I only had a problem running marioland. It starts perfect but when I start the game I get som vertical lines in different colors. I have been playing this game on another emulator without any problems though it runs slow compared to yours.
It could be nice to try your software for at bit more than 2 min. so it is possible to exclude problems when shifting levels and so on....
I've always thought picodrive to be the best myself...but i havent run it on SPV classic so wouldnt know how it performs
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Yes, this emu is 100% my code; I like to own 100% of what I create .
I have tried Picodrive on my Pocket PC and it has impressive speed for a Genesis emulator. I'm not sure why it would be a good choice for SmartPhone considering its lack of sound and the fact that Genesis titles are 320x224 or 256x224. Squeezing that to fit on a 176x220 screen doesn't sound like a good idea. GG/GBC games are 160x144 and fit nicely on the Smartphone display.
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The football fraternity hailed the coming in of business houses and leading personalities from cricket and entertainment industry in the
high-profile Indian Super League after the organisers announced the eight franchises winners.
The bid winners of the eight franchises of the league, which is scheduled to be held in September-November, was announced in Mumbai by organisers IMG-Reliance after evaluation of the bids by a seven-member panel.
Indian cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly were among the host of high-profile winning bidders, which also include Bollywood stars Ranbir Kapoor, Salman Khan and John Abraham, for the league that is set to take Indian football by storm.
Legendary footballer and former captain I M Vijayan said that the involvement of the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly will lend credence to the ISL and help in taking football forward in the country.
"I am excited and thrilled at the news that Sachin has bagged the Kochi team. He is the greatest sportsperson in the country with millions of fan following. Sourav Ganguly has also won Kolkata. Certainly, their presence will do wonders in the ISL and in Indian football in general," Vijayan told PTI from his home in Kerala.
"For long, the business houses have been shy to invest in football. But now with the coming of the ISL, some big businessmen have come at least. Money will be poured in Indian football now. It is a wonderful news for football," he said.
"I am glad especially for the domestic players and youngsters. They will rub shoulders with some top players in the world. They will gain in experience. Financially also, they will gain," he added.
Vijayan, also known as the 'Black Panther' in Indian football, said Tendulkar being the owner of the Kochi team will be a great boost in reviving football in Kerala.
"Kerala was a football powerhouse of Indian football some years back but it has declined. Now with the coming of the ISL and Tendulkar on board, I hope football will be revived in Kerala."
Former India captain and Olympian P K Banerjee said the ISL will improve the infrastructure.
"It's a fantastic news. There's no denying the fact that money will be poured in to Indian football now. Infrastructure and all will change now."
"Money is a very big factor. In our times, when I was the coach of the Indian team for the Asian Games in 1982, many players had stopped coming to the camp for lack of money", Banerjee recalled the tough times they would face back in those days.
"I had discussed this with then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. We had suffered like anything in our days. But it's great to see that things are changing these days. I envy the boys who are getting to play in this time. I'm sure ISL will …continued »


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Lee Berg is a good friend of mine and has been developing quite an impressive YouTube channel lately. I did an interview with him this week and you can find that linked below. We talk about ConfigMgr, Wisconsin weather (we both live in WI) and other things.
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That's my default setting
lol love it
:) thanks
It takes all types to make the world go round.
Hard to tell. You never know what their background or sensitivities might be .. or even their culture.

But everyone has a different idea of what "fun" is too.

Most people on here are very nice .. in all different ways.
They are just BORING! Lol...
We can't all be as cute and fun as Cocker Spaniel puppies...
well to the ones who are serious about things may be fun to them - their definition of fun is not the same as your definition of fun - what may be fun to you might not be fun to them and visa versa
You mean why isn't everyone like you? Maybe it depends on your definition of fun. What is fun to some people can be just stupidity to others.
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Srinagar, January 10Scoop News) – South Kashmir Range level Talent hunt competition "Choona Hai Aasman" season III was held in Anantnag. Winners will compete for at Zonal Level in the next tier of the talent hunt competition in Srinagar.
About 30 participants who had been earlier selected at District level Talent Hunt competition participated in the Range level contest.
Tasaduq Rashid held the responsibility of an anchor of the competition. The participants competed in different categories in which six competitors were declared as winners.
Miss Masrat Aziz resident of Chatpora, Pulwama was declared winner in Singing Senior category, Lafeesa Bilal Mir resident of Ganran, Shopian was declared winner in junior singing category. Aamir Farooq Mir resident of Sirnoo, Pulwama won the dancing junior category. The Pulwama group won the group dance junior category. Adnan Bilal Wani resident of Kokernag won the Acting junior Category.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Lawyers and citizen groups in Pakistan are taking to the streets in a protest march that started today. Pakistani lawyers, civil activists, and a coalition of political parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), started the four-day march amid scuffles with police to call for an independent judiciary.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Lawyers and citizen groups in Pakistan are taking to the streets in a protest march that started today. Pakistani lawyers, civil activists, and a coalition of political parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), started the four-day march amid scuffles with police to call for an independent judiciary.
One of the main goals of the protest march is to pressure the current president Asif Ali Zardari to reinstate deposed Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Muhummad Chaudhry. Chaudhry was sacked in March, 2007, by then-president Pervez Musharaf. His firing outraged lawyers and activists, and galvanized them to fight for his reinstatement.
The march began in Karachi and Quetta, and is expected to gain support as it moves through various cities including Multan, and Lahore. It will end in Islamabad on March 16 where representatives from various groups will stage a sit-in in front of the federal parliament building.
According to Athar Minallah, a
According to Athar Minallah, alawyer and Chaudhry's spokesperson, the aim of the lawyers' movement is "to [get] rid [of] the doctrine of 'law of necessity,' through which dictators have destroyed democracy and institutions in this country."
Pakistan's 62-year history is riddled with military dictators taking broad license with the constitution, and judges being subservient to the executive government.
After being fired in 2007, Chaudhry was briefly reinstated on July 20, but by Nov. 3 General Musharaf declared a state of emergency and deposed the chief justice again, this time with other judges. It's believed the moves came after Musharaf caught wind of rumors that Chaudhry and the courts intended to rule his presidency illegitimate.
Chaudhry is known in the lawyers' community for being among the few honest judges, and not susceptible to bribery. Since his firing, lawyers have waged an ongoing campaign for the rule of law in Pakistan. They argue that there can be no independent judiciary without independent judges.
"The lawyer's movement must succeed, and the principles of the movement must be upheld," said Minallah. "The citizens need confidence and trust in the system and to know their fundamental rights are protected and have a stake in the system."
PML-N, Pakistan's second biggest party and its leader, Nawaz Sharif have from the beginning called for the reinstatement of Chaudhry. Sharif has recently been more vocal in support of the lawyers' movement, calling on all Pakistanis to join the upcoming march.
During the 2008 elections Sharif and now President Zardari formed a coalition, united against General Musharaf, and jointly called for the reinstatement of the sacked judges once the elections were settled. Since then, Zardari and his Pakistan People's Party (PPP), who won the election, have said they will not reinstate the judges. Instead they say they will let Parliament make the decision, putting Sharif and Zardari on opposing ends.
In recent weeks, since a ruling by the Zardari government that bars Nawaz Sharif and his brother, Shabaz, the former minister of Punjab Province from contesting elections and holding office, the relationship between Sharif and Zardari has grown even more contentious.
Those that support the march, like Chaudhry's spokesperson Athar Minallah, believe that the success of the march and the lawyers' movement will be a turning point in Pakistan's quest for democracy.
"History has shown that the absence of this trust between citizens and government makes people lean toward rough justice," said Minallah.
Aysha Haq contributed to this report.


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September 13, 2013 - Day 5
Parkways are for Winners
September 13, 2013 Day 5
Out of nowhere, Mississippi tossed me some curves. A serpentine line replaced the road winding through trees and houses, leading me further into rural Mississippi. Despite the rough chip seal road surface with pothole accompaniments, I was enjoying such a change of pace from the straight and narrow.
West on a North road, then West on an East road. Mississippi roads are messed up. I detoured for a quick moment near Alberdene Dam, hoping to get to a nice position for photos. I missed the turnoff, but kept along the detour as it looped back around to the road I needed to ride, anyway. It wasnt exactly the super-twisties, but it was a fun side trip.
I wanted to go southwest, and found out that the Natchez Trace Parkway tended along that direction. Parkway it is!
The Natchez Trace reminded me of the bastard child between the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Colonial Trail, just less popular than either and a lot straighter. But the lack of traffic and just-placed trees managed to keep the temperatures a bit cooler than otherwise off the Trace.
I came upon the tornado damage area from 2011, and it was a shocker. One moment I was cruising along a lush forest, and then BOOM, ragged scrubs, skeletons of trees, and a general swath of recovering death popped out of nowhere.
At one stop I wanted to get some video footage, so went about setting up my GoPro for a drive by shot. For some reason my mind was on the setup (and hoping nobody would steal my camera), so I managed to drop the Ninja as I forgot to put down the kickstand. Sigh. First time ever doing that. The drop snapped off the outer ¼ of the left foot peg, so it now matches the right. A Ninjas accessory components mirrors, footpegs, etc are made of super-brittle cast aluminum and snap if you look at them wrong. It cost me two mirrors before my frame sliders came in. Oh well, at least I got the shot and shaved off a few ounces of weight.
At a few spots, you can actually view the original Trace. Nowadays its little more than a path in the woods kept there only by the park rangers, but its a cool sight.
Lunch was my custom Almond Butter Gorp.
Actually its a pretty tasty and super nutritious meal. Plenty of protein. I stretched out and took a break at a rest stop on the Trace, and enjoyed the shade.
I hopped off the Trace and took Old Port something road, recommended by locals online. It was a treat. The road surface was chip seal and somewhat rough, but it was twists and turns with some sweepers for fun. A great detour, all around, and it lead me to my first confirmed ethanol free gas fillup. Cant say I noticed a difference.
I said hello to a few turkeys, I think.
The Cyprus Swamps were awe inspiring. My mind cant place why I found them so enamoring the water was completely stagnant, the trees towering, and the wind still. While everyone else was at the river bend, the quiet swamp was mine entirely.
As hotels were starting at $57 before tax and I found a state campground at $18 with hookups, bugs and sweat it was! Im glad I had a freestanding tent as the spaces were geared for RVs with no soft ground for tents. I got a little creative as rain necessitated the rain fly, and guy lined it around the tire of my motorcycle.
There were some left behind/stray cats in the camp site, including one that looked like a smaller version of the cat I have at home. It jumped on the picnic table to drink some water I left in a bowl when it thought I wasnt looking. Such a sad sight, but I couldnt take the critter with me.
That night I slept a bit fitfully as the temps didnt start to really cool till midnight, and as rain was so scattered I had to leave the fly on. This held in the heat longer, causing me to toss and turn a decent bit through the night.
Daily Stat Whore Stuff
Daily Mileage: 317.1 miles
Total Trip Miles: 1704.1 miles
Daily Time/Moving: 7h 55m /5h 55m
Speed Max/Moving Average: 72.9 MPH / 53.5 MPH
kamikazekyle screwed with this post 09-16-2013 at 04:56 PM
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Really like the bridge picture. Like the contrast of the green against the bike on your bike.
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Gnarly Adventurer
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Location: Greater Hampton Roads, VA
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Why Did I Do This Trip?
September 14, 2013 - Day 6
I had no idea the name of the town -- nearly from the start the various dots of population in Louisana blended together. The local drivers blared around without a care to law, residents gave me eerie looks, and the entire state was caught in a giant orgy of insects taht stuck to every surface like glue.
I folded away the atlas, saddled up, and eyed the turn out of the parking lot to the intersection. There was some sand in the far tire track, but there was no traffic, the light was green, and if I swung the corner in a steep enough lean I could dodge the sand. I popped out of the parking lot and pushed the bike down while I rolled on the gas. Alas, my rear tire decided it wanted to keep going as it kissed the sand, only to suddenly regain grip out of line with the bike. Instantly I was tossed upright as the bike tried to buck me off in a highside crash right in the middle of the intersection. I'll be damned if I was going to bungle it with such a silly move, so I held on, kept the throttle constant, and rode it out. By the time I was across the intersection the bike had settled out and I escaped with merely a stubbed toe when my foot slipped off the peg. I didn't feel any panic, fear, or concern during or after the incident -- merely a sensation of "what else do you wanna throw my way, you bastard? Bring it the fuck on."
I hate Louisianna. There, I said it. Well I shouldn't say I hate the whole state, but outside of the Gulf and New Orleans it takes some planning to actually find something interesting to do. Who wants 55 MPH speed limits on flat, straight roads with two mile sight lines, anyway? The locals sure don't. There are also some interesting dual sport opporunities I passed. Perhaps I'll revist the state with my Sertao and hit up everything I missed -- this time with a plan. I did veer off from time to time to swing around some twisties on the map, but by and large it was straight line humping from tiny town to rural cluster of buildings.
It was at one of these small towns where I pulled over at a bank (weekend so they were all empty) to wipe the splooge off my helmet, and had a chat with my girlfriend. I was quite down and wondering just why I was doing this trip -- it certainly wasn't working out like I had hoped. But after some talking I pepped up a little and continued on.
Gassing across the border at Logansport into Texas, vegitation disappeared as soon as I left the bridge. "Here, welcome to Texas! This is what you think it looks like, right?" I enjoyed the cheap gas at the border, however.
I was a bit bored so hauled out the atlas for ideas. Hey, that's a twisty road that goes down next to the Toledo Bend Reservior. Let's do it. I was introducted to Texas secondary roads, and was wondering from bend to bend why the secondary roads in Virginia weren't this nice. Sure, the chipseal based road wasn't as grippy as asphault and seems to eat tires, but by God it was a full two lanes, not that many pot holes or patches, and even had LINES. No traffic, either.
Riding my high I came across a bridge on the Reserivor with a boat launch. I yanked in for some photos and a rest stop (here I was introduced to >100F temps in the Texas sun).
After my photo session I suddenly realized my bike looked a bit more streamlined. Yep...my GoPro 3 Black mount had completely fallen off somewhere. That would explain why my remote couldn't find any cameras, hence a light photographic content day. Oddly I wasn't upset -- I think I was burned out by that point and just didn't care. Saddling up, I finished the twisties and made my way to Texas 7.
This road kindly introduced me to 75 MPH speed limits on non-interstate highways with residences right against the road. I cheered up as the speedometer ticked higher. The road was still chipseal, but hilly and with gentle sweepers and quite refreshing. As fast as the interstate but without the traffic and better scenery -- still fairly green and plenty of trees compared to what most people initially think the whole of Texas looks like. Eventually I putzed into Nacogdoches and splurged $60 on a Best Western. The whole "it's so hot it's cooler OUT of the wind" bit pushed me in that direction.
So far, so good in Texas. I quite like it. Hot as hell even in September. I can deal with heat no problem while I'm awake, but can't sleep at all unless it's cold. Outside of that and the kinda harsh/more-slippery-than-asphalt roads, it's a great state.
Daily Stat Whore Stuff
Daily Mileage: 287.4 miles
Total Trip Miles: 1991.5 miles
Daily Time/Moving: 6h 42m /5h 42m
Speed Max/Moving Average: 112 MPH (darn Louisianna - I mean GPS)/ 53.2 MPH
kamikazekyle screwed with this post 09-17-2013 at 11:47 AM
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Ouch on the camera! Someone will enjoy that bad boy for sure. What's your average mpg on the bike? Do you own a Camelbak? You will get dyhidrated for sure with all the gear plus scorching heat.
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Location: Greater Hampton Roads, VA
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Texas, well, eats gas. Probably because of 75 MPH speed limits and headwinds. I'm averaging 39 MPG no matter what octane I run: I lost about 2-3 MPG.
I run a 1.5L Camelbak, which is nice, small, and doesn't get in the way. I have a larger one that can actually store stuff, but it can bang against whatever I have on the passenger seat. I try to remember to drink from it periodically, but often forget. If I'm enjoying the ride, I'll forget or skip lots of things.
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Whereupon I Define Canyon Carving
September 15, 2013 - Day 7
Texas continues to surprise me. Everything I've heard from people that had been through Texas or seen on popular media -- with the exception of my girlfriend who lived there -- has been that it resembled a giant wasteland with endless straight roads. The rider on a supersport veering into my lane as I raced out of a sweeper helped to prove otherwise.
The rider dodged out to attempt a double yellow pass entering the turn which I was leaving. Noticing his error, he jerked the motorcycle back into his group, wobbling and struggling to not lose control from the abrupt maneuver. I passed by the group as he stabilized, thankfully preventing a potential pile up of riders. I shook my head and went back to the awesome road.
Splurging for the Best Western last night was a good choice. Not only did I have a comfy bed, nice AC, and shaded parking for the motorcycle, but their "contential" breakfast was damn near of a full on sit-down resturant quality. Tasty orange juice, properly sized muffins, fresh name-branded cereals, eggs, bacon, and even honest-to-goodness breafast burritos. I could have spent $5-$10 alone for that at a resturant, and here it was included in the meal. Yum.
Outside the day was still cool, though I could feel the first tingles of heat coming on. I also solved several little quirks I've been having on the Ninja for some time, which were exasperated by the different oil. The idle speed on the Ninja had creeped to just below 1,000 RPM, but the bike still idled fine. On a suspicion, I upped the idle speed to 1100 RPMs and the bike has suddenly transformed when stopped. Prior the engine would take a bit to turn over when hot, showing symptoms of vaporlock. Now it kicks over instantly on the first revolution. Secondly, to be expected, the higher idle speed means the engine doesn't lug without throttle when slothing around below 5 MPH and feathering the clutch.
All in all, a great start to a beautiful day.
I did, however, have a series of bug bites on my right leg underneath the boot line I noticed the day before. Too big and welty to be mosquitos, my best guess was a spider. My last camp site had many insects, and I neglected to check my boots before donning them. Oh well, I'll either loose my leg or develop super powers.
I read in the AMA Road Guide to America (or was that Greatest Motorcycle Rides in America?) about a loop in Texas invovling 1431. It was a nifty squiggly line on the map, and according to the atlas there was a sizeable dam just a bit past. Setting my route in the GPS, I wandered off, mostly on straight line roads.
As I neared 1431, the terrain suddenly turned into Western California, or at least what I envisioned Western California to be. Mountains, low growth trees, shrubbery, and sandy colored rocks.
And a road that lept up and down, planting me into long, elegant sweepers that would let any vehicle flex its throttle to the limit. Most curvy roads I ride are technical and twisty; better suited for a smaller displacement motorcycle or supermoto. I still prefer those, yet didn't let that hamper my enjoyment of the massive sweepers and high speed corners. Traffic was light as I landed on the road towards the afternoon, and thus far it's been the only place outside of a large city where I've seen sportbikes in Texas.
If there was a road for superbikes, this was it.
One rider -- whom I shall name Idiot -- attempted a pass on a double yellow while entering a turn. Now, if you want to attempt a double yellow pass, go right ahead. Just do it logically and NOT when you're getting ready to go into a limited line of sight turn where another rider -- like myself -- happens to be exiting. He yanked the bike back and saved it, and all I could do was shake my head and give him a "WTF" look behind my face shield.
Alas, no photos. I didn't have my GoPro anymore, and as my point-n-shoot was chaffing my neck it was tucked away in my tank bag. Damnit.
Speaking of dams, I finally made it to Buchanan Dam. A mix of brick and Gothic architecture spanned across the body of water in the distance, and I instantly wanted a closer look. Too bad the dam doesn't seem to allow any damn tourists. Vehicle after vehicle came in, looped around a tiny parking lot with no view whatsoever of the dam, and left.
I did, however, get a picture of a bridge. Whee.
I wanted to make it further southwest so I could see Big Bend and the Rio Grande, and Junction, TX looked like a good spot to stop for the day. I booked a motel for $30 as I couldn't find any prices or info for the nearby state park on camp sites, set the GPS, and hauled ass.
It wasn't a bad ride, just hot and the land started to become more sparsely vegitated.
Things really started getting big and empty.
Even the towns were tiny and seeped "old".
Downtown London, TX:
Though some hills started popping up, hinting at the southern mountains.
I coasted into Junction on fumes (PROTIP: fill up when you see a gas station if you don't have at least another 100 miles of range), and payed 20 cents more a gallon on one side of the interstate than the other.
As for the motel, well, it's nothing to write home about. It looks like a converted 50's motel with a tiny room, but furnished with a small table, desk, and even a closet -- though only a shower and no bathtub. The pillows were stained and I didn't dare check the bed, and my shower towel smelled funny. Enh. It was cheap and I had an nice, icy sleep inside my sleeping bag. It also had WiFi as I needed to find a tire.
While lubing the chain I spotted a rough spot on the tire. Lo and behold, that section of center tire was cupping and was shredding it's last bit of rubber before exposing cords. Other spots on the same wear line had around 2mm left before the wear indicators, and as I hadn't done any burn outs or really locked the rear tire, I have no idea why that one spot on the tire would wear faster than the rest.
In any case, after researching I had to give in and decided to backtrack to San Antonio the next day. There I had a good chance at finding a tire in stock and get it put on by a dealer who worked on Japanese sport bikes (the Ninja's chain adjuster is a little weird). Because today is Sunday, it would mean at least one and a half days "behind" still in Texas. Luckily I found a Ramada Inn for $42 a day -- scattered thunderstorms were called for day and night through Wednesday, so I didn't want to camp with a rain fly in 90+ heat.
To add some more fun, my Mountain House Chicken Teriyaki leftovers spilled out of the bag and all over my drybag containing food. I had everything wrapped up in ziploc bags, at least, so it was simply a matter of pulling stuff out and washing it. Annoying.
Daily Stat Whore Stuff
Daily Mileage: 404.7 miles
Total Trip Miles: 2396.2 miles
Daily Time/Moving: 7h 36m /6h 36m
Speed Max/Moving Average: 112 MPH (taps GPS...it works, I swear)/ 61.2 MPH
kamikazekyle screwed with this post 09-17-2013 at 12:29 PM
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September 12 Update
September 12th Quickie post has been updated to a full entry.
Click here to view the updated September 12th post along with TONS more photos.
September 13th Quickie post has been updated to a full entry.
Click here to view the updated September 13th post with lots of pics.
I'm working on the others and will post when they're updated. I've got all the photos uploaded and done, so it's just a matter of writing them up.
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In for the rest of the trip! If you (for whatever reason) end up passing through St. Louis on your way back you've got a place to stay for the night here.
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Come Thursday I'm going to start making my way back home, though probably not by the fastest route. I doubt I'll be passing through your neck of the woods, though. I appreciate the offer and might have to stop by on one of my next trips. The way this trip has panned out has given me some good insight in how to plan future trips, which I intend to do once or twice every year.
At the moment, while I kill time waiting for dealers to open and source a new tire, I'm thinking that I'll meander up through Arkansas, through the edge of Tennessee (and get my Natchez Trace stamp I missed the first go round), and once in Kentucky head East through southern Virginia towards home. That'll let me check off a few states I've never been to, and grab some twisties in the Blue Ridge Mountains before life returns to the flatlands, farms, and swamps of Hampton Roads.
I'm only averaging about 400 miles per 8 hours of moving time with, oh, 10% Interstate riding or so. And without twisties to get my bum off the seat or something like an airhawk, I dunno how many more miles I could manage before my ass begins to enter the first stages of necrosis. So about 5 days, plus/minus, for me to get home.
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Managed to source a new sport touring tire for an okay-ish price. I settled on a Pilot Road 3, and the tire + mount and balance ran me $250. I'm not a huge fan of Pilot Road 3's as when I ran a set on my Multistrada I could always feel the transition between compounds and they didn't feel super confident, though part of that was a lack of proper suspension tuning on the Multi. And other Ninja 1000 riders have reported odd feedback from front Pilot Road 3's; I'm still running an Angel ST on the front so I'm not too concerned. But they're undoubtedly long lasting. I enjoyed the Angel ST rear and it did give me about 7,000 miles, but the OEM Bridgestone sport tires netted me 4,000 and still had life left when I replaced. I think after the Pilot dies off I'll try the Angel GT.
Glad I prebooked the hotel for two nights. Even though I was in at 9:45 am, tires were first come first served and I didn't get out until 12:30. At least the Alamo Cycle Plex had a nice waiting area.
Later on -- if the weather holds -- I'm going to head out for a quick scrub in ride and dinner, and to also re-calibrate my speedometer. I use a SpeedoDRD to correct the speedo and was running a 190/55 tire. The new one is 190/50, which again I'm not a fan of as I like the extra agility of a 55% profile, so it throws off my speedo again.
In the meantime, I'm working on getting up the next day's ride report. Stay tuned, er, refreshed.
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September 14th updated to a full entry.
Click here to view the updated post. No new photos because I lost the GoPro that day, but I fleshed out the text a lot.
September 15th post updated and is now a proper full report entry. Lots of added photos.
Click here to view the updated post.
kamikazekyle screwed with this post 09-17-2013 at 12:31 PM
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September 16, 2013
If Life Gives You Slick Centers, Then Use the Sides
September 16, 2013 - Day 8
Screw the belts showing in my tire. They're only in the center section, so that only applies if I'm going in a straight line. Naturally, this means I won't go in a straight line.
I pull out the atlas and look around the dot called Junction. There's some spaghetti splattered on the map heading generally towards San Antonio. I take the beast, slide out of the parking lot, and aim for the corner.
A $30 motel in the middle of nowhere is about what you think it is. I didn't get any bed bugs, but those bug bites from earlier were still itchy.
They reddened a bit after I was up and about, engorged with blood. Yummy. The Ninja was still sitting outside, thankfully. I'd hate to try to find a ride.
I loaded up, skipped the free breakfast, dropped the key in the repurposed mailbox, and buggered out. I had time to kill before checking in, and didn't want to just ride the interstate in to San Antonio. Besides, if I have belts showing on the center of my tire, I better minimize the use of it. Hello, Mr. Curvy road.
There was a little bit of not-so-curvy stuff on the way out, and there were constant remineders of just how empty the regions you were entering, as if the lack of any phone signal for hours wasn't clue enough.
Frankly, I don't think they can read.
After a while, the curves started to appear with a gradual rise in altitude. Throughout the day the quantity of curves was directly proportional to the altitude, and my enjoyment level.
Eventually I began to crest into the montains proper. Texans, in their usual way of doing things, didn't let something as silly as a mountain stand in their way. They carved right on through from top to bottom. Screw tunnels.
Traffic was almost non existant, curves were endless, scenery was stunning, and generally the ride several magnitudes of awesome, even if my rear tire liked to slide a bit when the exposed metal belting kissed the chipseal road surface.
The curves eventually smoothed out as I went from small town to small town and neared San Antonio.
Mountains still called in the distance.
I finally met up with the Interstate for the final run into the city. Along the way I ran into my first real rain of the trip as I passed through a variety of localized storm cells. One second I could be in a light mist, then a short jaunt of sun, and next a "I can't see my hand in front of my face" downpour. Those moments were a bit hairy with a failing rear tire. It would go squiggly under braking, slip free when leaving a stop, and generally be a nusance. Nevertheless, I lumped into the hotel, hung my stuff up to dry, and hunkered down to catch up on the ride report.
All in all, not a terribly long day and done totally on the fly, but very fun. Your usual day of just riding the twisties, enjoying the bends as they come with little other care than the next turn or how much fuel you have left.
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Daily Mileage: 225.3 miles
Total Trip Miles: 2621.5 miles
Daily Time/Moving: 4h 58m /4h 1m
Speed Max/Moving Average: 86.2 MPH / 56.0 MPH
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New Tires; It's Like Christmas!
September 17, 2013 - Day 9
It was starting to get late in the afternoon and the stoplight slog out of San Antonio exercised my clutch hand. But like rats escaping from a sinking ship, the slower ones soon fell behind while I dashed ahead to the hills.
I killed some time after breakfast until the motorcycle dealerships started to open. I crossed my mental fingers and hoped that I would be able to find a sport touring tire; I really didn't want to get a sport tire and have it dead by the time I got home. My first call was to the Alamo Cycleplex, and success! They didn't have my preferred 190/55, only a 190/50, and only a Pilot Road 3. So while not ideal, it was within my okay range and they just so happened to have an install special going on for $30, and the tire was only about $20 more than I could get it online with coupons. I still had to fork over $250 in the end with taxes, disposal fees, and shop consumables fees tossed in, but enh.
Lots of weights to balance the tire, which surprised me. That's the most I've ever seen.
I'm glad I booked the hotel for two days, though. I was in around 9:45 in the morning, and didn't get out until nearly 12:30 in the afternoon. Not a huge deal, and they did have a pretty plush waiting area with leather couches and a big screen TV. I even got to see Zero motorcycles in person -- I want one.
A quick hop back to the hotel for lunch and ride report work, and then out the door at three for a quick scrub in ride and hopefully dinner. It was a pain trudging through afternoon traffic to get out of town, but at least I got a decent bead on the new speedometer error and mostly corrected it with the SpeedoDRD. A little more fine tuning should dial it in so I have an accurate speedometer.
Once out of town, the traffic disappeared and the dark clouds gave way to blue skies and fluffy cotton. It was time to bang the corners. I dug out my old GoPro HD and propped it on a RAM mount for some pictures. They pretty much speak for themselves.
I still like the Angel ST's better. The Pilot Road 3 is a harder tire -- especially on the center compound -- and was a little more squirrely on the chipseal than the Angel ST's. Though to be honest, my last Road 3 took some time to really bed in. On good asphalt, it seemed to plant well enough. On the Ninja I couldn't detect the transition from one compound to the other, and their hardiness will come in handy on the way home.
On the way back to the hotel, I splashed through a five second downpour and quickly dodged to an exit to don rain gear. I just so happened to pull into a Red Lobster parking lot at five in the afternoon but before the dinner rush hit. I was hungry, I hadn't eaten at a Red Lobster in years, and it was raining. Hey, multiple problems solved!
I gorged myself on overpriced seafood, still hit some rain on the way back to the hotel as I got lost, and then polished off the last of my chain lube to make room for the new can. Not much else to say on the day as it was largely a "work" day, catching up on bike maintenance and ride reports.
Tomorrow I start heading for home. By which way, I have no idea, but I'm going to try to see a thing or two rather than just slab it all the way.
I wish I found an Airhawk or some other seat pad, though. My poor bum is gonna hate me by the end of this week.
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Daily Mileage: 148.2 miles
Total Trip Miles: 2769.7 miles
Daily Time/Moving: 2h 44m /2h 27m
Speed Max/Moving Average: 89.8 MPH / 60.5 MPH
Joined: Jan 2013
Location: Edwardsville, IL
Oddometer: 18
Looks like you're having a good time down there! It's giving me the itch to get out on another long trip...
I just put a set of Pilot Road 3's on my SV1000S and have no complaints whatsoever about them, but we'll see how their tread life is. I got almost 12k out of the set of Road 2's I had on before, and that's not including however many miles the previous owner had put on them already. I also noticed they had to use a bunch of weights to balance both the front and rear Road 3's so maybe something is a little off with the factory mold or something?
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Anyone use igloo building techniques?
When I see a dome being made out of blocks I cannot help but think of building an igloo. I can imagine that classical Italians may not have been exposed to Inuit construction techniques. :-)
Is there any merit in using the single or double spiral technique for a brick oven? Should I try it? The advantage is that it is self supporting as you build and there is no keystone requirement at the peak.
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I built my first pizza oven using the construction techniques of the inuit people, but all the ice blocks melted when i lit a fire in it, and the pizza got very soggy.
Re: Anyone use igloo building techniques?
Nick, that's just about the funniest post I've seen on this forum.
The popular concentric ring method really wasn't too hard for me. In fact, the dome was probably the easiest part of the whole project except for laying the hearth bricks! Why fix what isn't broken?
The trick in the igloo "spiral" method is in increasing the size or height of each brick as you go around the circle the first time. Perhaps you should give it a try, and let us know how it works!
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I chose to allow Firefox to add a new RSS feed for me. I use Outlook to gather and read RSS feeds because I spend the majority of my day in Outlook. However, when telling Firefox 3.0 to use Outlook to add the RSS feed, it doesn't seem smart enough to know that an instance of Outlook is already running, and opens up a new, separate instance of Outlook to add the feed.
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On this day in 1949, the body of Private Felix Longoria of Three Rivers, Texas, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Longoria had died in the Philippines near the end of World War II. When his recovered remains were sent to Three Rivers for burial, the funeral director refused the use of his chapel for a "Mexican." After action by the American G.I. Forum and Lyndon Johnson, Longoria was buried in Arlington. The affair provided a model case in the Mexican-American struggle for civil rights.


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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> yeah, i read about this in jeff's 1st link. i'm not really doing much
> integer stuff, so it wasn't an issue and i didn't check it. interesting
> that integer divide by zero gets caught!
In the x86 architecture, integer division by zero generates software
interrupt 0; that makes it easy to catch the problem:
I'm not sure about how the x86 interfaces with the FPU, so I couldn't tell
you why it doesn't get caught. However:
- Floating point division by zero is a well defined behavior. Such
an instruction shouldn't kill the program by default.
- Integer division by zero should (in general) kill the program by
- Therefore floating point division by zero and integer division by
zero can't have the same default handler.
> > I'm not sure what kind of errors your program would have if it's not
> > generating "inf" or "nan".
> example:
> temperature = 1.0
> trials Energy per site
> 1,000 -2.000000
> 10,000 -1.998448
> 100,000 -1.997171
> 1,000,000 -1.997530
> 10,000,000 -1.997312 <-- very close
> 100,000,000 -14.163610 <-- very not correct
I have no idea what that means... At a glance, it looks like a rounding
error to me...
> mark, did you mention arbitrary precision library? just out of
> curiosity, what is it called?
I just mentioned it because there's one for Java so I figured there'd be
one for C and/or C++. Doing a quick "The Big G" search yields GNU MP:
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I'm sure that Rush thinks Jesus was a phony Christian.
If these "Christians" get their way, we probably wouldn't even be fighting this war.
We have to put an end to these "Christians", before "Christians" put an end to our freedom!
West Point Graduate Granted Conscientious Objector Status
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After petitioning federal courts for release from the U.S. Army because his Christian beliefs compel him to love his enemies, not kill them, Captain Peter D. Brown has been granted conscientious objector status and honorably discharged from the military.
Im relieved the Army recognized that my religious beliefs made it impossible for me to serve as a soldier, Brown said. In following Jesus example, I could not have fired my weapon at another human being, even if he were shooting at me.
Brown graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point in 2004. Though he comes from a religious family, he said he had not felt the conflict between his faith and military service until after his graduation, when he attended a civilian religious education center in Holland and began to examine the Scriptures and his beliefs in greater depth. After nearly two years of study, prayer and reflection, Brown said he came to believe that Jesus taught that I should bless those who curse me and not fight back against evil with force . I am supposed to love everyone. Killing others is not loving them. And I am even supposed to love our enemies.
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I'm sure that Rush thinks Jesus was a phony Christian.
But..... but...... Onward Christian Soldiers?
How the hell are we going to keep this latest Crusade going if the Christians won't fight???
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One of the most genuinely left-of-centre two-dayers to emerge recently, this new favourite might boast kraut pioneers Cluster and Brooklyn hype victims Telepathe but it's the spread of music across the weekend that won Offset so many friends last year.
And it's contined in 2010: These New Puritans and Rolo Tomassi can't often boast to be some of the more conventional acts on a festival bill. Scuzz-punkers Male Bonding, goth-schlockers O.Children, wizard-metallers Invasion and terrifying and terrifyingly fantastic noise bastards Factory Floor keep things dark and sexy, while the hardcore stage is returning, there's loads more bands still to be announced and they've scored a genuine, bona-fide coup in the shape of the ludicrously influential punk-funk outfit Liquid Liquid's second ever UK show. And just a short distance outside London, it's easy as pie transport-wise.