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Sandbox - Trash Talk, Tall Tales & Flotsam... It's a mess in here!

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someone get Owens some Depends and me dome popcorn
It all depends if the boat was running molasses, sugar, or hookers.

Mmmmmmm. Molasses
On Apr 2, 2014 2:12 PM, "dstokes"
As George Carlin said: If you've got 24 odds and ends on the table and 23 of them fall off, what've you got?

I wasn't sure what thread this wholesome bit of community news would fit in, but since this appears to be the most random thread on the forum (where the "flotsam" comes in):

For all yous Kissenas who have kids who have outgrown their bikes, or if you have a bike that's been outgrown which you'd like to donate, come on down to the Bike Swap at Gowanus Grind tomorrow, happening at Douglass Greene Park (3rd Avenue between Douglass and DeGraw).

Bike swap! Helmet giveaway! Kids learning how to ride bikes! Climbing wall! (Probably terrible) live music!

I'll be at the bike swap check-in, which is on the north side of the park, from 11 am to 1 pm, forfeiting a Kissena group ride for the next generation of bike nerds.

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Omg France
On Apr 11, 2014 7:58 PM, "Kayt Mathers" <
yo guys remember the time Bertucco beat Niki terpstra?


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Whoever manages the Kissena Twitter account could learn a thing or too from this.

http://www.dailydot.com/lol/us-airways-tweets-graphic-photo/
Running a clinic on social media right now. I'm in the zone. You can't touch me. http://youtu.be/itvvFfeLh84
ROTFL! x 2
Thanks vlad4vlad.
This is what I'm thinking for timeline Saturday. Tell me what you think/if
this is possible. Also, can you pick me up at my apt on 46th and 9th Ave in
Hell's Kitchen. I want to bring my trainer if possible and spare set of
wheels.

9:00 AM- Pickups/depart Manhattan. You/me/Konrad and whoever else is coming
with.
11:15 AM- Arrive in Philly. +/- 30 mins with traffic, stops, tolls, etc.
12:00 Noon- Eat, do tourist stuff like Museums, etc.
1:30 PM- Arrive at race site.
2:00 PM- Warm up, pre-ride course, check out field.
3:00 PM- Race 3/4's. Should be 50 minutes- 1 Hr.
4:00 PM- Race 1/2/3- Try to finish this race. Should be 1.5 hrs max. Stick
around for results/prizes, etc.
6:15 PM Depart Race site.
8:30 PM Arrive back in NYC.


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Kissena Cycling Forum <
This is what the internet was meant to do:

http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/


Hey kids...

Want to practice architecture in one of the world's great architectural cities? My friend from High School has an opening at his firm:

http://www.aiachicago.org/jobDetail.asp?postID=3503


Hey kids...

Want to practice architecture in one of the world's great architectural cities? My friend from High School has an opening at his firm:

http://www.aiachicago.org/jobDetail.asp?postID=3503


P.S. You'll have to start liking racing crits. LOL.
My new favorite song:

http://gawker.com/unicef-makes-music-video-reminding-people-not-to-shit-o-1563636698
^ That's fresh! ... Manhattan Bridge early last Sunday. "Who the hell walks their Great Dane over the bridge on the bike lane side?".

BIG win for SickWhat Anthony Clark @ Paris 2 Ancaster!

http://www.cxmagazine.com/clark-paris-to-ancaster-maghalie-rochette-takes-womens-win-2014-report-results

Garrigan in 7th. Looking forward to any stories Mike might share!
Anyone have about an hour or so Monday 4/28/14 during 9-5 hours for some moving of furniture?  It would be from the upper east side to harlem.  A van would be involved.

contact me offlist.  mugwump@panix.com
Ok @Perlberg, the gauntlet has been thrown...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ-XFC5qzyM#t=402

that shit is really hard. mad props. I doubt I've gone sub 7:30 in one of those. 

I've heard he's a legit elite runner. don't know the back story. 

also that seemed somewhat depressing. When I did these it was 30 guys and gals, late at night, totally silly and fun and rowdy. Then we jumped the fence at the Strawberry Canyon pool and went swimming. That reference is for you Stokes. 

  
We didn't drink beer in Strawberry canyon. And certainly didn't run around in circles while we were doing it. Although late one night we got on our bikes and rode round and round the sidewalk outside Calvin lab and almost sent some poor grad student to the hospital when they tried to exit the building.
A little bio of the guy:

James Nielsen

James Nielsen

Founder

Born and raised in the Bay Area, James started running in 7th grade when two of his teachers started a middle school cross country team. He went on to run collegiately at UC San Diego and Stanford. James now lives in Marin County with his wife and 2 children.

Two-time NCAA National Champion in the 5k, two-time IAAF World Cross Country Championship qualifier.


5flat. from a can huh.....hmmmm
Epic

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/ele/4441240957.html

Here's a question for all you experts in the dark arts of the internet and computers and things.

You know those spam emails we get from familiar names, our friends, but click on the message and it opens a message that is clearly fakey/virusy and trying to get us to open a link? Where do they come from? Because they don't have the person's correct email address? Nothing even close even. And yet they are ostensibly from one person to another who said person knows.
The answer to life, the universe and everything is...?
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/sites/www.cfa.harvard.edu/files/images/pr/2014-10/1/animation.mov

Edit: not a joke, it just takes forever to load the first accurate model of the universe from big bang to now.
http://m.runnersworld.com/general-interest/vibram-agrees-to-settle-class-action-lawsuit
Marc,


Here's a question for all you experts in the dark arts of the internet and computers and things.

You know those spam emails we get from familiar names, our friends, but click on the message and it opens a message that is clearly fakey/virusy and trying to get us to open a link? Where do they come from? Because they don't have the person's correct email address? Nothing even close even. And yet they are ostensibly from one person to another who said person knows.

Where does anything bad on the interwebs come from? This is a philosophical conundrum for the universe. Mostly it is spambots that are using your friend's computer to add more computers to their botnet. 

Botnets are how bad actors in the dark corners of the internet, do things like use your computer's unused cycles to mine bitcoin, send spam, conduct DDS attacks, and all the other nefarious things they do when they're not being a lower form of life than E coli bacteria.*


* There are good forms of E coli, which cannot be said about people running spambots/botnets  
@Marc I'm not sure what your question is; how does nefariousness happen online or how do they make the "from" field look like it was actually sent from someone you know?

Either way it's a technical question that is going to require you to up your Google-ing game.  Suffice it to say that there is no "new" treachery online that doesn't exist in the real world; just new widgets through which to perpetrate old scams.

Joel de La Guarza (former Kissena) is now the Chief Security Officer for BOX.com and does this stuff for a living; if you want I can connect you.

(Frequently walking my dog along Riverside Drive in the morning, I can say one thing for sure about "Freds" and triathletes: They sure do get up a lot earlier than most of us "real" bike racers.)

Here's a question for all you experts in the dark arts of the internet and computers and things.

You know those spam emails we get from familiar names, our friends, but click on the message and it opens a message that is clearly fakey/virusy and trying to get us to open a link? Where do they come from? Because they don't have the person's correct email address? Nothing even close even. And yet they are ostensibly from one person to another who said person knows.
another part to remember is that sending spam is cheap. Spammers don't have to know your name or your friend's name...they just need to put in "Mike" or "Marc" and eventually someone will be a Marc and know a Mike and vice versa.  There are lots of them.