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Day: November 4, 2008

Bandit Downhill / Freeride at Stony Creek

Published November 4, 2008

This appears to be some older bandit freeride stuff at Stony Creek.

I hadn’t realized it existed, but while poking around some unsigned single track at Stony Creek today I came across what seems like some older bandit downhill and freeride stuff at Stony Creek.

I made my way down some of the downhill stuff, although the ~16″ drops were a bit of a surprise. I didn’t attempt the bridge shown above, but instead just turned around and walked my bike back up the hill.

After riding around some I started heading back to the parking lot, but just after passing some folks and crossing over a small jump-like area on the double track between signs 2 and 1 I saw what I initially thought was a wallet and a bunch of ID laying on the ground. Heading back I found that it was just a Genuine Innovations Patch Kit Large opened and spread across the ground. I picked it up, posted about it on the MMBA forum asking if anyone lost it, and I’ll just hang on to it unless someone claims it.

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Fox, CNN, MSNBC, et all Call It For Obama

Published November 4, 2008

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.
     Winston Churchill

Well, it looks like a wrap. Even Fox is calling it for Obama. Let’s just hope that Obama (and his appointed administration) do some good for this country. We need it.

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Voting: Done

Published November 4, 2008

Voting this morning only took about half an hour, despite the polling place being almost completely full of people. I arrived at about 7:04 AM and departed the parking lot at just about 7:40 AM. The roads seem to be quite crowded this morning with areas around schools and churches (polling places) fairly crowded. Work itself is quite empty.

Now, to see how it all plays out… After this meeting and finishing up some other tasks, of course.

Also, my phone’s camera doesn’t have anything remotely like a macro mode. As demonstrated last night it also doesn’t do well in low light. Oh well. A crappy picture is better than none.

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Coldplay at The Palace of Auburn Hills

Published November 4, 2008

Coldplay at The Palace of Auburn Hills (#2)

I ended up some tickets to see Coldplay at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Upon collecting them we found that they were in a rather nice location, and while this isn’t the sort of music I tend to listen to it was quite an interesting show. It was also the whitest show I’ve ever been to, but I guess that’s to be expected.

We were about five rows up from the front corner of the stage, just high enough up that we could easily see everything happening on stage without being too high up. As can be seen above we or in the links below we were close enough a basic cell phone photo without digital zoom just barely fit the main part of the stage. There were some really nifty effects as well, including spherical screens with internal projectors, video feedback displayed on a large screen behind the band, and die-cut fluorescent plastic butterflies dropped while the venue was lit with blacklights.

Here’s the five cell phone photos I grabbed during the show: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5

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