First of the Cool Nights...

My Cycling Page - Cool Night Riding.

41kph!!!

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Finally...Did It: My Cycling Page: 41 kph.

Fun w/ paint.NET (after)

Fun w/ paint.NET (after), originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

I didn't go riding tonight...so instead, I loaded this new free program called paint.NET. After fooling around for a little over an hour, here's my creation.

Not bad, I would say, considering how badly worn the originally looked below. Pretty awesome what you can do, nowadays, with all the free programs out there!

But...I think I still would have rather gone riding...

Fun w/ paint.NET (b4)

Fun w/ paint.NET (b4), originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

This is what this funny and still VERY poignant Calvin and Hobbes comic strip looked like prior to my creation.

I had cut this out way back when...thinking how ridiculous the whole "image makes the man" mass marketing scene was (is)...and myself being definetly NOT a logo or brand name kind of guy...it's so funny...

Campagnolo vs Arundel???

Aero Water Bottles...Old School vs Carbon Newbie: http://mycyclingpage.blogspot.com.

Go Bows!!! UH Football Big Time!!!

Go Bows!!! UH Football Big Time!!!, originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! to the awesome University of Hawaii Football Team!!! What a super exciting win over the Big Ten Purdue Boilermakers. My voice is still hoarse today...

It's so true..."There's Nothing Like Being There!!!" Go Bows!!!
Let's kick some a$$ next week too!!!!!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving Everyone...

Some Thanksgiving Day party deserts...time to burn some calories.

Hope everyone has a lot to be thankful for...lots of family, friends, pets, a song, a good bike, a job, goodtimes and much happiness...

I've been doing a lot of riding lately: Nite Riding and Pali Loops.

My Retro Ride...

1990 Bridgestone RB-1, originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

Back in the day...when no one had STI or Ergomo...when 6 and 7 speeds ruled the land...when D was just too cool to wear a helmet...and when GEL 280's and Saavedras were the lightest sew-up rims around...

My retro ride: My Cycling Page

1965 Rambler Marlin

1965 Nash Marlin, originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

Gotta love the lines on this '65 Rambler Marlin. Really looks kind of like the sleek lines of a real marlin.

Don't see these around ever. In fact I can't remember ever seeing this car around before and had to do a search on the web to find out the model and year. This was from back in the day when American manufacturing and automobile design was in its heyday...

Wishing Well

Wishing Well, originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

A wishing well??? along the exit driveway of Waioli Tea Room.

Breakfast at Waiola Tea House

Breakfast at Waiola Tea House, originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

Went to eat brunch is morning at one of my mom and dad's favorite breakfast places...Waiola Tea Room. The food there is very very good.

The Future of Autocross on Oahu...

In this litigious world we now live in, as of now, it looks like this may not be happening anymore at Aloha Stadium.
Click here: My Car Page.

"ON ROULE COMME SUR UN BILLARD"

Something only a cyclist would appreciate or understand.

Click here: My Cycling Page.

Mmmmm...

Mmmmm..., originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

Here's a picture taken w/ my new T-10 w/ no flash and at high speed ISO1000. There is some noise and a yellow cast from the home lighting.

Mmmmm.... (After Processing)

Mmmmm.... (After Processing), originally uploaded by dancedream2002.

Here's the same pic after some easy post picture digital darkroom processing.

First I used the software that came with the camera to adjust the RGB/tone curve to remove the yellow cast. Then I used this awesome program called Neat Image (the free version) to remove most of the visible noise - while still leaving lots of detail.

Much better I think!

My Sony DSC T-10

After a couple of MONTHS of research and nerve racking thinking...I finally "bit the bullet" last Friday and decided on this beautiful silver Sony T-10 for about $312 + tax. Since then, I've carried it with me ALL the time and taken quite a few pictures...thanks to it's super small size (almost as small at the Casio S600).

I really like it. The best thing being, it has an optical image stabilizer to keep the images blur free. I actually did several side by side comparisions, twice in store with a Canon SD630, and, with my bicycle-insider friend's Canon IXY80 camera in a very low light shooting situation at Ruby Tuesday's this past weekend.

So long as the subject's not moving, the T-10's pictures come out super clear. My friend's IXY80 LOOKED like it took a brighter picture...through the LCD, BUT...it was NOT blur free, compared to my pictures.

Here are two shots, one taken in Auto Mode w/ no flash, and the second taken at High ISO (1000) w/ no flash. Amazingly, both at 1/8 second, you can still read the words!



I would say, though, that for all intents, the T-10 NEEDS the image stabilizer since it has a "slower" 3.5 apeture on the wide end, compared to Canon's standard 2.8. So when shooting moving subjects, in general, it would need more exposure than the Canon. On the long end, though, the T-10 has a faster 4.3 opening compared to Canon's 4.9???.





Gotta relearn how to hold the camera better, though, since the non-ergonimic corner lens has caught my finger a few times while shooting like this:

;-) Better Days Ahead...

It wasn't close in the House and it was VERY close in the Senate, but finally, intellect and logic has won out over the the Idiot's "bumper sticker" politics and fear mongering control tactics. I'm smiling and with some with the new direction to be provided and some luck...there are better days ahead.

For my little take on this issue...click here: www.thepoliticsofpeace.blogspot.com

For an interesting map and explaination on where voted what, click here: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2006/.

Here's a map from that site showing who voted what by population (although Hawaii's not shown, it went Blue):

What a Great Day...a Blue Senate Too???

Holy smokes...looks like we might also get control of the Senate too.

What a heavy weight fight tonight has been with McKaskill's and Webb's unbelievable come from behind WINS!!!

By tomorrow morning, the smoke will have settled, especially in the Webb race.

It's been a great day!!!

GO BIG BLUE...WE'RE DOING IT!!!!!

At this moment, the House looks like it will go Blue, but, the Senate looks iffy...

With a blue House, we will get the Idiot's worst FEAR...that is SUBPOENA POWER to investigate the evil doings of the Idiot and his absolutely corrupt administration.

Keep your fingers crossed...

Tomorrow is the DAY...A New Beginning...

And the Beginning of the End...of Idiot and Company ruining our nation. We ARE about to get some d@mn needed oversight. And, it hopefully will even be the end of record high gas prices in Hawaii, if, we can get Idiot loving Lingle OUT of the governorship of this State.

I'll be out proudly riding my bike tomorrow with my Democrat jersey for sure...there ARE better days to come...



Talking about better days, since last week Monday, Mike Malloy has been back on the air and it has sweetness to my ears! Check him out on Novaradio.com from 4pm to 7pm. If you've never heard him, this is last Friday's podcast in which he discusses Republican gay hating hypocrites and NeoCons: http://novamnetwork.com/podcasts/malloy/MalloyShow-(3-11-2006).mp3

Novamradio will also be doing a special broadcast tomorrow covering this most historic election. Tune in as they will have some of the best liberal talkshow hosts there including Mike!!! Nova M Radio Listen Live Link Here. Should be super fun...

But talking about these NeoCons, click here for what I think about these dysfunctional Republican killers: My Politics of Peace Blog.

For the sake of our country...get out and VOTE "D" tomorrow...I already did...