Hunter and Tracey finish up their season of being
Training Ride Leaders and share a little of what they’ve learned

ouchie! A steel cruiser bike roared blindly out of a blind drive and ran into me.  The impact “taco-ed” (crumpled) my wheel and pitched me over the handle bars and the 2nd bike. I hit the pavement, but managed to not break anything or hit my head.

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!,  is on tour this month across the country.  She visited San Francisco for two days this week.  My boss, Brewster Kahle from Internet Archive, knew that I am a raving fan of Amy and her amazing show of independent journalism. He was kind enough to invite me along to a long breakfast discussion with Amy.

ffmpeg v0.5 just came out. it’s the bomb. it’s got tons of fixes and massive amounts of new codecs that it can read. for example, it can now decode my professional filmmaker brother’s “DVC ProHD” highly proprietary (and massive bitrate!) format! it can also decode flac and 24-bit flac. (encoding flac is disappointing though).

This is it! The big cheese! Join us to the Dark Side and complete your training!! muhahahahaaaaa!

This is a great and pretty country classic! We tour the mostly flat canyons first east and then south from Orinda.

This ride is our easiest of our five, but prolly the most surreal.

Mar 21: Ride 1 of 5: Mt. diablo Halfway (50 miles)

is the name for Tracey’s video love and hobby outside of work.

This ride is EPIC!! This is our most loved (as well as the most remote) ride in our history of riding the area for over 5 years now.