Ride Your Bike to Work - Blame ZIPCAR

Entered the ZIPCAR Low Car Diet competition. Get away from your car - bikes, transit passes, etc.

Geek Award of the Day

An email with this headline floated across my in-box today.
SIM President says Worst of Recession Over

Imagine my disappointment when I read the text and learned that this is NOT a new release/ community of THE SIMS - The SIMS as Economists, but is, instead, just the President of the Society for Information Management (SIM).

I had visions of creating little economists with graphs and statistics.

Once an Economics major, always an Economics major !

Sunscreen...... A Whiter Shade of Pale

Best = Bull Frog SPF 36 SPRAY. Dries ammost instantly and doesn't seem to rub off. Drawbacks: you can TASTE it as it soaks into your skin, and you really can't spray it, because you'll end up breathing it.
Worst = Bull Frog SPF 50 lotion. Unless you're at a Halloween party as Bela Lugosi, skip this. It goes on white, doesn't soak in, rubs off, and just sits on your skin like some white grease. Might as well use zinc oxide, which at least comes in colors.
OK = Neutragena Sport Face SPF 70+. Not sure if an SPD 70+ is even possible, but at least it doesn't melt into your eyes or rub off.

Le Grand Bleu

Le Grand Bleu was in New York today. 371' long (plus or minus a foot). Launched in 2000; owned by Roman Abramovich. Depending on the reference, it's somewhere around the 17th largest yacht in the world. According to yacht blogs it's been in New York since Tuesday (2 days ago). Quite impressive - check out the tiny boats in the 2nd picture.

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island

Took the day off and went to New Jersey/ New York to see Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.


Both are impressive in so many ways. High points: old photos at Ellis Island, especially the ones taken in the 1980's before any restoration work was done.




Wish we could walk around the whole island(s), even if we can't go inside the buildings.


An excellent trip back in time: hard to walk outside into the sunlight and 2009.

Rain ! Hail ! No riding !

Still not riding - it has rained every day, usually right after work, for the last two weeks. Yesterday we had hail for about 20 minutes - at 5:45pm, which is exactly when I would have been on the bike trail.

On the positive side, it appears that the police have some sort of patrols (motorcycle) in Norristown, which is good. I'm just trying to find a way to keep riding and be able to deal with the security situation, without having to always ride with someone else.

Getting Coordinated !

IceOpera is now my username on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/iceopera.)
Working on moving my personal web site over to http://home.earthlink.net/~iceopera.
Then, I just have to move Flickr, and I'll be completely coordinated !