So, I’ve heard about this but I didn’t get a chance to watch it on Comedy Central. Yesterday at Lunch I watched it, and finished watching when I got home. I have to say this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched. Check it out here! Robot Chicken Star Wars!
Next trip is all planned. Going to take off on Wednesday night October 10th and return on Sunday October 14th. Its gonna be a blast of a ride. I’ll be meeting Kevin and his Dad in Payson, then we’ll ride from there and check out Utah. We’ll stay off the dirt this time since his Dad is riding a BMW R1200RT (I could be wrong on that)
Next time I want to hit this road. Utah State 279 There are some dirt sections but the views look awesome!!! Then on to planning the Tour of Mexico in Spring of 08. Anyone want to come? 
And have someone who is not you show up? WTF? I mean really, how can there be ANOTHER Jason Liebrecht. Weird….just weird. Here’s what Google has to say about it: Google Search
Apparently this OTHER Jason Liebrecht is an actor of some sort. I guess I could pull a joke on people and say “I” had been in a movie. I should contact him and say “Yo! You’ve got my name!”
Here’s some great info on colorblindness.
I was talking to Diane the other day, who was trying to help me with the colors on my site. And, I explained that I’m red/green colorblind. The world I see is not the same as 91% of the rest of the world. Oddly enough, there are three people at work including me with the same colorblindness, and one of them is on my team. So we totally understand each other. Its funny how much this affects everyday life really. Websites don’t look the same, stoplights turned sideways can be confusing (Simon found that out in Calgary, haha), video games using red and green to indicate friend or foe. So, I thought I’d share some of my world with all of you. So, take a look at some of the cool stuff here!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness
I’m classified as Deuteranomaly.
Having a mutated form of the medium-wavelength pigment. The medium-wavelength pigment is shifted towards the red end of the spectrum resulting in a reduction in sensitivity to the green area of the spectrum. Unlike protanomaly the intensity of colors is unchanged. This is the most common form of color blindness, making up about 6% of the male population. The deuteranomalous person is considered “green weak”. For example, in the evening, dark green cars appear to be black to Deuteranomalous people. Similar to the protanomates, deuteranomates are poor at discriminating small differences in hues in the red, orange, yellow, green region of the spectrum. They make errors in the naming of hues in this region because the hues appear somewhat shifted towards red. One very important difference between deuteranomalous individuals and protanomalous individuals is deuteranomalous individuals do not have the loss of “brightness” problem.
(Wikipidea, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness)
This site has a cool little tool that you can change how the picture looks.
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/2.html
If you rollover Deutan you’ll see how that picture generally looks to me.
This one is a tool that you can use to see the color pallet affect.
http://colorlab.wickline.org/colorblind/colorlab/
This picture was taken by a fellow rider who did the dream ride around the world trip. You can read the rest of his thread over here. But my favorite quote from it all.
true dat. I always said that if a Jeanie came out of a bottle and offered me a wish, it would not be for money or fame or any of that stuff. I would want to ride around the whole world.
I remember being in Kyrgyzstan. I met this very attractive Turkish woman (who turned out to be part of some sort of powerless royal family) and I rode her across that country. The Kyrgyz language is essentially old Turkish so she could get us accommodation in yurts and good food etc. The roads are not paved and the mountains are high and jagged and snow covered. The dirt roads cut back and fourth to get up them.
We woke up in a yurt one morning and ate with the nomads. We rode for a while to lake Issyk Kul. It’s the second highest lake in the world so it should be freezing, but there is volcanic activity so it’s the worlds biggest hot tub surrouned by the Tien Shen mountains. We swam there and started riding again. Some nomads rode up on horses and camels and after talking for a while, invited us to stay with them. We were riding back to thier tents and I’m looking at the view and I’m thinking. “I’ve been riding for well over a year, I’m in Kyrgystan on my beloved GS, the view is breathtaking, the road is perfect, the sun is shinning, I’m going to sleep in a yurt with Kyrgyz nomads tonight and there’s a freaking Turkish princess on the back of my bike.
What was missing from that picture? Did I leave anything out? Should there be TWO princesses? I dunno man. There are plenty of snapshots like that that pop into my head when I’m in the middle of doing something like tracking a package for a customer or something.
petefromberkeley – advrider.com
I got to take a ride around the Southwest US last week, visit the family, and see some cool places. The highlights were the Grand Canyon, Glen Canyon, and Zion. This is the first mostly solo ride I’ve done. There are some nice things about running solo, but there is something to be said about having a companion on these trips. So, most of what I experience, I’ll just have myself to talk to about it. But I’ll share what I can with you all! So here we go!
Stats:
8 days – 9/1/07-9/8/07
1743 Miles
Photo Album: Southwest Tour 07
The Route:
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Heading East – 9/1/07
I woke up around 3:30 AM with the intent to be on the road by 4 AM. I didn’t roll out of bed until 4:15, DOH! No worries, I had no real agenda heading up to Williams Arizona other than to be there before dark. My greatest desire was to beat the desert heat which was getting up to around 110 Fahrenheit. I hit the road around 4:30, double checking all my gear was strapped down, running through my checklist in my head. It was still dark, but warm so I didn’t have to bundle up. It was kind of nice being on the road that early, hardly a vehicle on the road, it was all MINE! My route took me through El Centro, Glamis (Which I had never been to before), Blythe, Prescott and then on to Williams. The ride was pretty uneventful, at one points I found I was Beyond Hope! Before going beyond Hope I stopped at the Kofa Cafe. Excellent breakfast! They made fresh squeezed OJ right in front of me. The road up into the mountains around Prescott is very nice. Twisty and a ton of fun. I passed several cruisers and notice a few ‘interesting’ parking jobs by sport bike jockeys. DOH! There was a big festival going on in Prescott and some Classic Porche club in town as well. I made it to Williams around 2:30, about 30 minutes after my parents. We were staying at some campground that was marginal, no table, no firepit, and hardly any level ground. We had great burgers, and crashed out pretty early. I had a 7 AM flight the next morning. Read More »
