FBC Upward Basketball Photos

March 5, 2010 in Blog, Charities | No comments

Many thanks to all of the players, parents, coaches and volunteers for making our first season of Upward basketball a great success.  The photos from the last day of games is hosted on timbrown.us at this link:

http://www.timbrown.us/index.php?album=%2FFBC%2F2010-02-20%20Upward%20BB%20Games

(The server was updated overnight to another system as noted in a previous blog entry.  Hopefully no one will have any trouble finding and downloading images on the new system.  But if you do, email me using photos _at_ timbrown.net)

timbrown.us server was down – now up

February 27, 2010 in Blog, Photography | No comments

Got up this morning to find the server running the photo archive site, timbrown.us, was powered up but unresponsive.  Nothing I have tried so far lets me see POST message or status, so I am thinking the thing is pretty much dead.  So right now I am getting an old machine updated and hope to have it in place sometime this weekend.
Update:
Spent most of Saturday updating an old laptop that was a couple of revisions behind on Ubuntu.  Installed Apache and PHP to turn it into a web server and connected the web content drive via USB and timbrown.us is up and running.  This will probably be the set up for the next few weeks while I move all of my desktop data over to a Windows 7 box I picked up a few weeks ago to replace the DJ computer at Jellybeans.  Using the computer at the rink didn't work out so it became my new desktop system.  Once I get all of the data off of the old desktop, it will take over hosting the timbrown.us site.

Too Busy

February 9, 2010 in Blog, Cycling | No comments

Something is going to have to go from my busy schedule.  Between several work projects, UNC CPDM modules, DJ'ing, and trying to fit in some exercise every now and then, I am out of balance on my time.  Tonight I did manage to get to the Bicycle Chain and spin on the trainer for an hour.  Tomorrow is looking like a 16 hour day with work and DJ'ing.  With all of the snow and rain we have experienced over the past two weeks and the forecast calling for wind gusts to 35mph on Wednesday, I am hoping that the behemoth trees in my yard have strong enough roots to keep standing. 

Tammy Lynn Ride & Trainer Riding

January 29, 2010 in Cycling | No comments

Debby met with Ralph and Dileep to plan the next Ride for the Tammy Lynn Center that will be June 26th.  Looks like there is a lot more support for the ride this year from the center on the marketing side of things.  The start will still be Centennial Campus and NC State, but there will be some adjustments on the return route

I did try my first trainer class at the Bicycle Chain a couple of weeks ago.  To get the bike ready, I put a cassette on an old wheel off of Debby's bike.  Not sure what was going on with it, but I couldn't get on the big front sprocket.  Got home and checked it and it looks like some cable stretch that needs a little more tweaking than I can do with the barrel adjustment.  As far as the class itself went, there was no instruction, just cyclists going at their own pace while watching the last hour of one the Tour of Flanders races from a few years ago.  Without my big sprocket, I couldn't do a lot of heavy peddling, but I tried to work on technique with the new Ritchey pedals.  The left cleat needs some realignment.

Debby and I visited the Cycling Spoken Here shop last weekend and their trainer nights are led by an instructor with a focus on being able to hit the road at pretty much full strength once the weather changes.  We will have to check that one out sometime in the near future.  When I was by the store tonight, they had a new Madone with Di2.  I guess the hardest thing to get my head around was the size of the little wire running where cables housings usually go  It was a sweet looking bike.

First & Second Workout of 2010

January 4, 2010 in Cycling, Fitness | No comments

First workout of the new year almost kicked my butt. Too many Christmas goodies along with a cold over the holiday almost did me in. My heart rate maxed out at 186 BPM, but my lungs are as clear as they have been in a couple weeks. Hey RPM, I will be back tomorrow to do it all over again.

Update: (1/5) Tonight went a little better on the HR side of things, but the room was very hot so I lost a lot of fluid.  Stopped by the Bicycle Chain and checked out the trainer sessions they have on Tuesday and Thursdays.  I plan to give that a try next week.

ePub Books Mao Tse-Tung

December 29, 2009 in Blog | No comments

Thanks to a twitter post by Lori Bush, I ended up at the Internet Archive for books and texts that are publicly available either through open source or groups like Project Gutenberg.  I am currently using the Adobe Digital Editions reader software for OS X to read ePub editions.  To test the software I downloaded a 1960's Mao Tse-Tung text entitled "People of the World, Unite and Defeat the U.S. Aggressors and All Their Lackeys".  The booklet is only ten pages, but is an interesting read.  Given the time that has elapsed between these writings and today, you have to start to wonder if the Chinese are behind the scenes  with some of our former friends who are our new antagonists.  Who is to say Hugo Chavez will not be driving a Volvo in the near future.

RoadID Discount Code

December 24, 2009 in Cycling | No comments

Via Twitter:

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Bobkeroll

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Not sure how long these will work, but I keep getting google referrals with folks looking for a current discount code.

Merry Christmas!

New Pedals and RPM

December 11, 2009 in Cycling, Fitness | No comments

I finally caught up with posting my RPM spinning class data on the Cycling and Fitness page.  It's interesting to see that the calorie calculation from the FR60 is still holding pretty steady at about 600 calories per class.  My heart rate consistently maxes out around 180 and my average is about 150.  Sadly, I can tell I have lost a lot of core strength and upper body fitness between two surgeries and failing to make it to the gym this fall.

On the outdoor side of cycling, I picked up some Ritchey Look style road pedals from Performance. The price was right considering the friends and family sale.  The reviews on them vary a great deal, so it will be interesting to get a test ride in on them prior to the New Year's day ride.  I hope the larger platform will make me feel a little more stable coming out of the saddle.

Update

December 4, 2009 in Cycling | No comments

Between Thanksgiving and other commitments like CPDM, there has been little time to update anything.  CPDM is still churning along with a paper due every two weeks.  The most recent papers have covered chemical, biological and radiological attacks along with a scenario paper on safely feeding 8 million NYC residents in the face of a multi-day power outage.  All I can say is, better keep a stock of canned food and dry goods in your pantry or you may go hungry.

I have been able to get some short rides in and managed to go for a 40 mile ride the day before Thanksgiving.  Note to self, the 10 miles from Bonsal to Cary on Old US 1 is better done in reverse order.  The weather looks pretty bad this weekend, but hopefully I can get to spinning classes and manage a couple of weekend rides before the end of the year.  I have not heard if there is a plan to do the New Year's ride this year, but I will plan to make it for my second year if it takes place.

Tired

October 10, 2009 in Cycling, Fitness | No comments

Okay, I started out doing the short ride (34) with the slow spokes group and had a couple of friends show up to ride with Debby and I.  Things were going well other than running a little hard on the first 13 before the split.  One of my friends decided to do the 50 route and it did not look like there any other takers, so I changed the course in the Garmin and went with Ralph after giving Debby the keys to car so she could head on home and I would just ride home.  It worked out, but my average heart rate for the last 37 miles was 160 and it was all I could do to try and keep up toward the end.  To say I am about to crash at the moment is an understatement.  I am supposed to ride mountain with Josh tomorrow.  Hopefully I will be able to make it.  At this point it’s doubtful.

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