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The Central Coast at 10mph or How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Posted on August 29, 2010 by cp

Fletcher and I got back a few days ago from a bicycle tour down California’s central coast. We started in San Simeon and rode down to Ventura stopping in Morro Bay, Pismo Beach, Santa Maria, Buellton, El Capitan State Beach … Continue reading →

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4×9

Posted on July 16, 2010 by cp

Hola, Amigos. I know it’s been a while since I’ve rapped at y’all, but it’s been a busy year for the old cp. Well, I guess not much busier than normal, but busy enough that finding time for the old … Continue reading →

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December Cycling and 2009 in review

Posted on January 2, 2010 by cp

December Miles: 85 Percentage of Monthly Goal: 51% 2009 Miles: 2,642 (Slightly cleaned up from November’s total) Percentage of 2009 Goal: 132% Well, the year ended with a bit of a cycling whimper. Between a cold and rain and travel … Continue reading →

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November Riding

Posted on December 13, 2009 by cp

November Miles: 276 Percentage of Monthly Goal: 166% 2009 Miles: 2,494 Percentage of 2009 Goal: 125% Wow, a bit late on this one. Not a lot to say about November. The weather was great for commuting for most of the … Continue reading →

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October Riding

Posted on October 31, 2009 by cp

October Miles: 202 Percentage of Monthly Goal: 121% 2009 Miles: 2,218 Percentage of 2009 Goal: 110% October is the riding month that Stephanie and I had been planning for all year. We had signed up for the Livestrong challenge in … Continue reading →

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Collective nouns for “Hawk” in New Zeland

Posted on October 21, 2009 by cp

An aerie of hawks A boil of hawks A brace of hawks A brood of hawks A cast of hawks A couple of hawks An eyass of hawks An eyrie of hawks An eyry of hawks A flight of hawks … Continue reading →

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Twitter is my randomness entropy

Posted on October 16, 2009 by cp

Inspired by Henry’s Facebook comment. import urllib2, hashlib TWITTER = ‘http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json’ def hashed(seq): sha1 = hashlib.sha1() for x in seq: sha1.update(x) yield sha1.digest() def words(wordsize, seq): for x in seq: for i in xrange(0, len(x), wordsize): yield int(x[i:(wordsize + i)].encode(‘hex’), … Continue reading →

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September Riding

Posted on September 30, 2009 by cp

September Miles: 196 Percentage of Monthly Goal: 117% 2009 Miles: 2,016 Percentage of 2009 Goal: just over 100% Well, an exciting month for certain. I made my goal for the year this month. Just this morning, in fact. I left … Continue reading →

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Hike and Bike camp sites in California

Posted on September 19, 2009 by cp

View California Hike and Bike Parks in a larger map I have no idea what the state budget issues will do to this list, but as of September 19, 2009, this is what the California State Parks web site has … Continue reading →

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Pwned

Posted on September 5, 2009 by cp

Looks like there’s a pretty glaring hole in all but the most recent version of WordPress. A brief inspection of this site reveals that I’m way behind current and was broken in to. A fresh install was in order, and … Continue reading →

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