Obstructions

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:20:32 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:48:12 -0600, wrote:

Why I was glad that I did my daily ride early today, before the
obstructions began pelting down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5ReHT1Dao

Skip to the end for one of the obstructions in my hand.

A photo as things began to wind down:
http://i26.tinypic.com/or05te.jpg

A 0.43 ounce obstruction, partly melted before it occurred to me to
pick one up and put it on a digital scale:
http://i28.tinypic.com/5mhggi.jpg


Good video. Why is it titled "1965 hailstorm" ?

Dear Andrew,

The title honors the previous 1,964 photos and videos taken on that
camera.

YouTube just grabbed the filename that I clicked on and started
uploading.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:48:12 -0600, wrote:

[snip]

At the end of my ride today, this obstruction buzzed down out of a
tree, scaring me half to death before I realized what it was:
http://i28.tinypic.com/f50w42.jpg

It's about two inches long. The Schrader valve cap is for scale. The
blue jar lid is 4 inches wide.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Aug 2, 9:30*pm, wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:48:12 -0600, wrote:

[snip]

At the end of my ride today, this obstruction buzzed down out of a
tree, scaring me half to death before I realized what it was:
*http://i28.tinypic.com/f50w42.jpg

It's about two inches long. The Schrader valve cap is for scale. The
blue jar lid is 4 inches wide.

Wow, has it been 17 years already?
DR

wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:48:12 -0600, wrote:

[snip]

At the end of my ride today, this obstruction buzzed down out of a
tree, scaring me half to death before I realized what it was:
http://i28.tinypic.com/f50w42.jpg

It's about two inches long. The Schrader valve cap is for scale. The
blue jar lid is 4 inches wide.

Valve cap for sale?

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Aug 2, 10:09*pm, DirtRoadie wrote:
On Aug 2, 9:30*pm, wrote:

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:48:12 -0600, wrote:

[snip]

At the end of my ride today, this obstruction buzzed down out of a
tree, scaring me half to death before I realized what it was:
*http://i28.tinypic.com/f50w42.jpg

It's about two inches long. The Schrader valve cap is for scale. The
blue jar lid is 4 inches wide.

Wow, has it been 17 years already?

I should temper that comment with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

These obstructions were common where I grew up on the east coast and
were NOT referred to as "locusts" there.

DR

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:48:12 -0600, wrote:

[snip]

The fattest, sleekest hog-nosed obstruction that ever decided to puff
up its neck and slither off down a handy hole instead of playing dead
as soon as I took the photo:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2a82gl4.jpg

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:48:12 -0600, wrote:

[snip]

Late this morning, a goddamned full-grown cougar ran across the
highway in front of me, just outside the city limits.

I'm tempted to get a helmet camera.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

On 2009-08-17, wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:48:12 -0600, wrote:

[snip]

Late this morning, a goddamned full-grown cougar ran across the
highway in front of me, just outside the city limits.

I'm tempted to get a helmet camera.

I mounted mine (a Flip Mino) to the bars, and it works OK. Helmet-
mount would be better for following quarry off the trail, but I made
do with what I had. YouTube videos of a test ride available upon
(email) request.

http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_mino.shtml#scene=sceneMain
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicycle-Camera-Mount-for-under-%241/

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Kristian Zoerhoff

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:32:51 -0600, wrote:

Late this morning, a goddamned full-grown cougar ran across the
highway in front of me, just outside the city limits.


It should be no surprise that an apex-level predator should finally
come along to take advantage of the buffet you've long chronicled in
this thread. With all the poultry, reptiles, mutton, venison, rodentia
(spiny and succulents) and whatnots that've apparently overrun greater
Pueblo (is there a lesser Pueblo?), you should be up to your eyelashes
in wolves, cougars, bears, lawn crocodiles and any other beasties
looking for an easy meal.

I'm tempted to get a helmet camera.

Fogel Labs should be good for it. Think of the testing applications.

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John Dacey
Business Cycles, Miami, Florida
Since 1983
Comprehensive catalogue of track equipment: online since 1996
http://businesscycles.com
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On 2009-08-31, wrote:

A damp and irritable 3-foot obstruction caught my eye off to the side
of the road, coiled up during the thunderstorms that invariably
accompany the Colorado State Fair.

Hey, how would you like to be gently prodded with a handy stick?
You'd stick up your ol' beady-eyed head and hiss and rattle too! :-P

Yesterday I barely managed to avoid what I think was a Santa Cruz
garter snake[1] stretched out across nearly the entire width of a
singletrack on Mori Point. I just got around him on the edge of the
trail, but it was close!

[1] http://www.californiaherps.com/snake...a.atratus.html

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"You uudecode it."
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