tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159970702011-12-28T17:53:30.640-05:00There ain't no place like Richmond City. Can it get any better than this?Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05852672912492451812noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15997070.post-1152543214499539292006-07-10T09:49:00.000-05:002006-07-10T09:53:34.600-05:00

I am waaaay to busy to maintain two blogs and a billion other projects. So check out my *real* blog: Haduken.com. Seriously MaxPower since 2k2.

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Richmond lore says that like Rome Richmond was built on seven hills. Given my affinity for History and cycling, I figure the only thing to do was map out a route that takes you, by bike, up each of the seven hills of Richmond. Duh. But first, which hills are the hills?If you were to guess you might say: Oregon, Richmond, Church, Libby, Chimborazo, and ...? It turns out there is a lot of

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Off the top of my head.Happy pi day!

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My wallpaper is the Declaration of Independence.How awesome is this? Free high-resolution (10MB) images of various charters of freedom!?I love America.

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Today was Lee-Jackson Day. I celebrated in a truly Richmond fashion -- bikes, monuments, history, and beers. It all started after beerble on Wednesday night. We stood around on the porch talking about things – including the then upcoming holiday of Lee-Jackson Day. I explained to the group why I love the holiday and then jokingly said it would be cool to ride the length of Monument Ave. as a

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So I have a big family now. Before I got hitched to the ol' ball and chain I had a relatively small family with whom I had contact. Just me, the 'rents, and occasionally my dad's parents. That makes ... three – sometimes five.Well now the new family I have totals: brother, two sisters, two mothers, two fathers, three uncles and three aunts. So I basically tripled my family holdings in the matter

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I just want to go on the record and say that with out a doubt Thanksgiving could kick Christmas's ass. I know, I know, how could Thanksgiving possible be better than Christmas? Christmas has presents. Presents. Hey, I'm not against presents, in fact I probably love presents more than the the next guy. My family has a strong heritage of gadgetry and Christmas is the time of year to celebrate

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The party this weekend was pretty awesome. IHD made her famous delicious cheese dip -- and upon my request her equally famous roasted garlic spread. Mmmm. I could eat finger food for life seven times over.I found out that Guitar Hero, while stunningly awesome, is not a great party game. Karoke revolution and dance dance revolution are great party games. You can't laugh at someone while they play

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This weekend I travel to fxburg for iheartdork's turning old egg-stravaganza! For those of you that know IHD in RL and weren't invited...eee. Sucks to be you chiefs.I am stoked about this party for several reasons. First I get to hang out with the dudes from my wedding. I live in the same city as havoc but we are just on different schedules/circles etc. And midas lives all the way in fxburg, no

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Thanksgiving Thursday around my house typically means a trip to SmokeTree for dinner with my wife's father, step-mother, grandmother, and various siblings and cousins. Her step-mother is eye-talian and can cook up a mean feast. Everything tastes amazing -- except the stuffing. She makes weird meat based stuffing and honestly, I'm not into that.This year, for the first time, Val and I had grandma

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So teh dudez0rs over at the PatchworkCollective have tasked me with coming up with a plot for a one page comic for a top secret project. But I don't suppose the plot should fall under such secrecy.Here were some things I felt a comic book plot needed to have: Interesting charactersA suitable action sequenceA chance for dialogueSo on we go!General J.E.B. Stuart was a heck of a man. You can see him

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Cross posted from Haduken.comMy wife and I receive the titular stickers after voting at John B. Cary -- our Richmond City precinct. I stopped by at 8.30AM, greeted by maybe fifteen Democratic Party representatives trying to shove literature in my face. These were my actual words to them:No thanks, I've already got my...things.Wtf? I wonder what things I was referring to.Having a surname somewhere

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Today my wife and I lunched together at the Capital Ale House. I thought I would get a beer since I am craaazy, and there is one particular Oktoberfest I've been wanting to try for a while. As you know Oktoberfest beers are typically available in CocktoberOctober, so my time was running out.The beer of choice: Spaten Oktoberfestbier.The Spaten had been recommended to me by beer podcast as a high

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I almost got myself splattered on my ride to work today. Some guy thought he was awesome and decided to race me up Franklin St. to the Jefferson. He was riding a cross bike with big fatty tires, so I was pretty sure I could take him.Plus I heart hill climbing.Well SOP on Franklin around there is to run all of the red lights since they are one way streets and you can usually tell if cars are

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This is why I am a Hokie.

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That is a Charlie Brown "ARRRRGH" and not a pirate "ARRRRGH" – unfortunately. I haven't posted anything in a while mostly because I have my hands full with some of my other projects, a man only has so much time to waste time waxing on about himself these days you know?Sundays following a VT loss are terrible. I continually think about what we could have done differently, why things went horribly

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Throughout the course of the Thursday night Boston College at Virginia Tech game, an idiot behind me shouted various ridiculous things. Here are a few.Why doesn't VT throw the ball more?VT should take more shots down field.Why do they keep running the ball?Stop running out the clock!I am a Miami fanIf I were a Tech fan I would be sooo pissed at this performance.They need more four wide receiver

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First, congrats Hokies on another -- if not more stressful than necessary -- win.Second, on the way home tonight I heard Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night. Has anyone ever actually listened to the lyrics of this song? Allow me to produce the lyrics of interest:Tonights the nightIt’s gonna be alrightCause I love you girlAin’t nobody gonna stop us nowC’mon angel my hearts on fireDon’t deny your man

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This weekend, while watching the 1984 Patrick Swayze hit Red Dawn I heard someone knocking on my door. Typically I don't answer the door on weekends when I don't expect someone -- Mormons and jay-dubs and all. But for some reason I got up, answered the door and was greeted by a young man taking from the Tim Kaine campaign who wanted to ask me a few questions. I said sure. Below follows a

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I felt the previous name, I feel at home here, while true, was too myspace-slash-angsty-teen.The new title is also true. But way cooler, guaranteed 37% cooler.

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This weekend the wife and I made the nine hour drive down to Atlanta, Georgia. Here are our chronicles.First, some of you may think of the South as a morally conservative stronghold. A place where strippers, Adult Stores, and fireworks cause people to flinch – you know, because of their moral superiority. Well I am here to tell you that I have never seen so many billboards for Topless! Topless!,

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IPA's and grapefruit juice share two correlated things in common. A lot of people don't like either IPA's or grapefruit juice IPA's and grapefruit juice have strong unusual tastes By unusual taste I mean a taste that you wouldn't normally encounter in day-to-day eatings. The strong-slash-unusual tastes – usually – lead to the average guy's face puckering into itself upon consumption. This –

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Last night my wife and I went on a pseudo double date with RMSZero (hey update your blog once in a while) and Andi (she didn't know about blogs so I can't link to her) to Akida. Apparently if you want cheap and delicious sushi in Richmond, you should go to Akida. Although I have very little sushi experience in general, I can vouch for both the cheapness and the goodness. Let me say this:33$ for

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In reverse order of never-wanting-to-live-ness: Wilmington, DE. Delaware. Now, I've never seen Wayne's World but when it hit theaters I lived in Delaware. Y'all know the scene with the "We're in Delaware..." Well, all of my friends thought that each state got its own different version of Wayne's World poking fun of California, Ohio, etc. They had no clue that Delaware truly sucks. True

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Children, old people and dogs beware!

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Senator Barack Obama has a podcast (subscribe with iTunes)! I think he records a new one each Wednesday so be sure to check that out every now and again. So far in his three episodes he has covered mostly Katrina related issues: general Katrina relief efforts, relief spending accountability, non-oil based energy solutions, poverty in America, and – oddly – the proposed national ID card.You should

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Every other Wednesday my wife and I host a potluck at our house. Attendance typically hovers around 10-15; last night we had 6. It doesn't really bother me when people don't flock in droves to my house, but I enjoy having people over.So for everyone that likes to feign ignorance on potluck dates: October 5th October 19th November 2nd November 16th November 30th December 14th (

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This weekend I did four things I love and one thing that rocked – literally.Friday nic hosted a Halo 2 party preceded by 2$ drafts, free chips and salsa, and free wings at Chili's. You won't ever see me linking to Chili's ever again, so get your clicks in while you can. Apparently every weekday at every Chili's from 5pm - 7pm they offer the stated ridiculous deal. Granted you don't get to choose

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Another foodie blog. Tonight, after a week full of crazy adventures, my wife and I had a date. I cooked up something that we don't usually do around here: fish – tilapia specifically. Tonight we had Cilantro Parsley Lime Fish and Daddy's Fried Corn and Onions. The pairing actually worked pretty well together; the buttery sweetness of the corn and onions balanced out the acidic lime on the fish

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Today I raced a guy on a mountain bike up Franklin Street past The Jefferson. He really didn't have much of a chance; his bike probably weighed twice as much as mine. Oh sure he pulled away right as the light turned green on Belvidere, but I didn't know we were racing at that point. Once I could see him in front of me an instinctual urge to beat him to the top of the hill bubbled up inside of me.

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As I promised, pictures of dinner on Friday! We had stuffed green peppers and vermicelli. I thought the vermicelli came out excellent, while my wife preferred the peppers. The peppers were really nothing more than a meatloaf crammed into a pepper – natures handy container. They could have been a lot better with some more salt and maybe not such a lean meat. I think we used 92% lean.The

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Last night I made corn fritters for potluck. The first ones turned out kind of blah -- mainly because the heat was way to0 high on the pan, and I burnt the things into little bits. But once my friend the chef arrived and lowered the heat (duh) things went off rather well. Slathered in honey, those corn fritters tasted pretty darn good.I'd say I've done pretty well at potluck the last couple times

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The weather has taken a turn away from oppressive heat and humidity to mild temperatures and less oppressive humidity -- for Richmond anyway. You can do two awesome things when the temperature is just right: drink beer outside and ride bikes (presumably outside). Or if you are crazy-slash-awesome you can combine the two into Bikes and Beers™!Usually when I ride with my bike crew (name still

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Last night a friend of mine hosted a birthday party slash Guys Poker Night™ – the second such event I've attended.In general I won't gamble because I feel like it is bad stewardship of my money. Note: I don't claim to have a consistant set of internal beliefs. I can easily see how someone could construe spending 8$ on a six of Brooklyn Brown as "bad stewardship." But whatev, regardless I won't

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Sometimes my wife says I am slightly OCD. It mostly shows when I am forced to organize the books on my bookshelves. If you don't have a precise organizational method, you will never find what you are looking for. For me, I categorize by genre: Reference, Literature, Youth, Fantasy, SciFi, Horror, Religion, Nerdery.Looking at my collection I see a ton of Math reference books, a great collection

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Enceladus was a Gigantes which, according to wikipedia, were giants "who sprang forth from the blood of the wounded Uranus after he was castrated by Cronus." The blood of Uranus. Too easy, toooo easy.Enceladus is also a smallish moon of Saturn, about half the size of the UK. As everyone should know, Cassini replaced Galileo (rest in peace) as Most Can Do Satellite™ around, and currently orbits

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It's true. Yesterday I had two dogs -- one of which had a uterus. Today I still have two dogs, but neither of them have a uterus anymore. In fact there is only one uterus in our entire house hold: that of my wife.We take our dogs to a vet way out on Staples Mill for some odd reason, even when there are a handful of vets in the city. Yesterday morning my wife took Zapp in, dropped her off, and

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