http://www.nicoleswan.com I like to ride my bike. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:22:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Piano playing for me is always in fits and starts. I may go a couple months and barely glance at the piano from across the room. Then something will switch and I'll find myself playing over an hour per day. I'm currently in the latter phase. ... http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/11/trois-gnossiennes/ As noted when it was taken, if ever there were a photo that summed up our sisterly bond, this could be it. Me being annoying, The Sister (tm) annoyed. Not only should I watch myself, but perhaps you should too. Hope everyone's Halloween was great! http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/11/sisterly-halloween/ Yes, I'm a geek. As I was finally unpacking some boxes of books and papers that haven't seen daylight in about 3 years, I found my fun box of computer science textbooks. Data structures, SPARC architecture, C++ -- it doesn't get much better than this! And thank god they're ... http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/10/my-geek-box/ Part of this video is hard to watch, the rest makes me laugh every time. If you're cubicle warrioring, you may, um, want to turn down your speakers. http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/09/currently-entertaining-me/ I have long been "that person" who will reply all to a forwarded email -- it's not a requirement that I know everyone on the forward list -- with fact check information or a disproving Snopes.com link. This one caught my radar because not only is it factually incorrect ... http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/09/lets-be-for-something/ Now that my bike computer features an inclinometer, I can't help but have a sick fascination with seeing it tick upwards. The miles I've put on my bike have been ridiculously low since the Copper Triangle, hovering around maybe 75 miles per week, but I finally headed out for ... http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/09/data-gathering/ Aw, hell. The Garmin-Chipotle guys dominated the US Cycling Pro Championships road race all day last Sunday only to lose a 110-mile race by an amount easily countable in millimeters. I first felt disappointment that one of the G-C guys didn't win, and, secondly, I thought "Why did it ... http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/09/rock-racing-an-analysis/ What better way to spend a Saturday than at a bike race, right? In this case, Mother Nature decided to bless the day and the previous 36+ hours with a steady rain (and snow in the upper elevations of Colorado). The Boulder Roubaix course is 75% hard packed ... http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/08/boulder-roubaix/ I'm just going to throw this out there: I'm fighting feelings of disappointment in the Olympic men's road race. I've thought about this all day, had an email back and forth with a friend about it, ranted to a coworker, and continued to mull over it while I did ... http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/08/olympic-mens-road-race-internal-conflict/ My non-Intel iBook is apparently not cool enough to watch the streaming video coverage of the Olympic cycling events. Now this just ticks me off. Chances are good it would still work on my system, but I'm being specifically screened. That's annoying. And that's bad form NBC. Update: A ... http://www.nicoleswan.com/archives/2008/08/i-didnt-really-want-to-watch-the-mens-road-race-anyway/