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NiteRider TriNewt Beam Shots

Published October 5, 2008

NiteRider TriNewt Wireless: High

Having acquired a NiteRider TriNewt Wireless headlight for biking I wanted to compare it to my other lights, so I put together a small setup in the garage to see how they all compare.

In short, none of the other lights I have compare to the TriNewt.

These test shots were taken in my garage with both the light being tested and camera set up on my workbench 30 feet from the garage door. A Robin Myers Digital Imaging Gray Card (buy them here) was propped up along the base of the door for use as a color reference, if needed. All comparison photos were taken with a Canon EOS 20D and a Canon 24-70 f/2.8L lens at 24mm, ISO 100, f/11, six (6) second exposure, with the white balance native (aka “As Shot”). This exposure was based on an automatic test exposure of the target using the NiteRider TriNewt on high and chosen to set an upper limit of brightness.

Here’s the items and their results:

NiteRider TriNewt Wireless: High · Low
Planet Bike Blaze: Single Setting (On)
2D Cell Mag Lite w/ OEM 3W LED Upgrade: Single Setting (Focused As Narrow As Possible)
Planet Bike Superflash: Steady Mode
Reference Overhead Lighting: Two 300W Incandescent Bulbs

It’s pretty obvious that the TriNewt on either Low or High blows everything else I’ve had away. I can’t wait to try this out in the woods.

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NiteRider TriNewt Wireless

Published October 3, 2008

NiteRider TriNewt mounted on my helmet. It's a bit heavy, but should work well.

Today I received my new bike light, a NiteRider TriNewt Wireless. I’ve been needing a head light of my own if I want to do any riding after work and this one should work pretty well. It’s a lithium ion battery powered helmet or bar mount 486 lumen LED-driven bike light, and based on my initial tests it’ll work very, very well. The on/off switch is on the battery itself, which would normally be a hassle, except that this version comes with a keyfob-like remote control switch and hardware for mounting it on the bike.

I plan on posting beam shots comparing it with some other lights I have around the house later on, but for now if you’d like to see photos of the bundle as I received it, please feel free to take a look at my NiteRider TriNewt Wireless photo album. Here’s one photo I find particularly interesting, a macro shot of the LEDs themselves in the lamp assembly. I don’t dare look at these while they are illuminated.

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Dead Owl

Published October 2, 2008

A truck with a dead owl hanging from the front bumper.

This morning I was told about a truck which supposedly had a dead owl hanging off of the bumper. Yep, that’s definitely a dead owl.

This must be a rare occurrence. Not only is it rare to see an owl, I imagine it’s even more unlikely that one would hit one, have it stick in the bumper, and have it end up in such a photogenic pose.

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Server Issues and Rainbows

Published October 1, 2008

A rainbow above Stony Creek High School before a wednesday night MMBA group ride.

As some of you may have noticed before, all sites hosted on my new server was inaccessible for a brief while this morning. It turns out that there was a slight issue which led to the switch port being turned off for a while. Everything had remained up, but the server was unavailable until it was turned back on. So, it’s still fine. This is a huge relief.

Tonight was also the normal Wednesday night group ride. I was a bit cold at first wearing just a long sleeved Target running shirt and shorts, but after we got going I was fine. This (intentionally saturated) photo was taken from the parking lot where we meet right after the rain before the ride stopped.

Thankfully some friends loaned me a head-mounted HID light so I could ride in the dark. This was definitely needed in the latter half of the ride, and particularly after the rain moved in. The ride back to the car was a quick 1.5 miles, but a bit unpleasant being in 50°F weather and down a muddy dirt road with rain coming down. At least it stopped once we got to the parking lot, making loading my bike into the car easier.

Now I’m home, relaxing, doing some laundry (yay, clean socks!), debating turning on the furnace, and generally thinking about bed.

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rowla.nuxx.net, RIP

Published September 28, 2008

PuTTY screenshot of a disconnected session to rowla.nuxx.net after shutting it down for the last time.

That’s it. rowla.nuxx.net has been turned off, and I’m slated to pick it up tomorrow sometime around lunch. Everything has been moved over and seems to be working great. So, if I host your stuff on nuxx.net and you are having a problem, please let me know so that it may be corrected.

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New Bedroom Arrangement

Published September 27, 2008

My bedroom after Danielle and I rearranged it. I like the look of this layout quite a bit more. The bent blind will be replaced soon.

Tonight Danielle and I rearranged my bedroom, and I think now it makes more sense. In the above photo (also here) the door to the hallway is at the far left side.

The bent blind will hopefully be replaced this weekend. This damage was caused by my sister’s dog Molly on Monday. When my sister was here picking her up, Molly got really excited as my sister carried things to the car, ran from window to window to look out, and jumped up on the blinds bending the bar of one set and tearing the plastics on another.

The blinds were dirty so I guess I don’t have to wash them now, but still…

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Daily Dose of Bigotry

Published September 25, 2008

This nice piece of bigotry, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West showed up in the mail today.

Today I received two nifty things in the mail. The first was these Olympus knock-off batteries from Eforcity for my new Olympus Stylus 850 SW.

The second is the winner, though; that DVD up above there, of Obsession The Movie. In order to form a proper, informed opinion of it I’ll be giving it a viewing, but I suspect that it’ll live up to its reputation of being a neocon-backed piece of anti-Islam propaganda. We’ll see, though. My understanding is that its production has a bunch of neocon backers and copies of it are being mailed out en masse in swing states. Yes, that’s how it came to me… Completely unsolicited, via the US Mail.

I guess it’s time to cue Göring:

Naturally the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

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