A Whole Lotta Nothing

"when a man wearing skintight pants is behaving more sensibly than you..."

Here in Portland, Maine there are plenty of people still using derailleurs, but very few people wear helmets. The only consistently helmeted group are the road bikers/spandex pod people; when a man wearing skintight pants is behaving more sensibly than you perhaps it's time for some self-reflection.

-- selfnoise on "What's up with all the fixies?"

You get what you pay for

Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2000 campaign: $1,889,206
Contributions from Oil & Gas industry to Bush 2004 campaign: $2,596,725

Price of a barrel of crude oil at the beginning of 2001: about $23
Price of a barrel of crude oil at the end of April, 2008: nearly $120

$1 trillion profits to OPEC nations predicted for 2008

A Message to Pennsylvanians from Bill Clinton

30 second clips from the aquarium

I love that flickr is limiting videos to 90 seconds. It makes it the twitter of video that way and I don't find myself ever getting bored clicking around my contacts. Here are a bunch of 30 seconds-or-shorter videos from a trip to the aquarium today.

Cycling/diet update, two months in

A short update to last month's post: I barely squeaked into first place in the monthly cycling challenge with just 266 miles ridden, and I've lost another three pounds. Not too bad for taking a week off being sick and having some pretty horrible weather.

I did end up buying a new bike and I'm hoping to start putting down 100 miles a week and continue the weight loss as the weather finally starts getting warmer and dryer in April. In terms of total weight loss, I'm down about 10lbs since I started in mid-January and I've got another 25 to go, which I'm hoping to hit by the end of summer.