Putting the jerseys away until September.

With the heat index now regularly over 100, it's time to turn on the air conditioner when riding bikes – namely, time to wear cotton tank tops.  Sure, they get heavy with sweat and rain, sag, stretch and all that, but man are they ever cooler!  And in this heat, a rider needs every edge.  Maybe not UCI-compliant, but then the UCI doesn't want to know about where I ride.

Here're a couple of gratuitous bike-in-the-woods shots from today:

30.9 fun-filled miles of mayhem.

Cool Physics: bouncing lasers off mirrors near absolute zero.

A short video clip over at PhD Comics.  Very unexpected things happen.  Well worth your five minutes.

Good News, Everyone!

Wait, did somebody else already use that line?  Anyway, there is good news and here it is: You drink a lot because you're supersmart, study says.

Well, I guess it's news to some people.  It is gratifying when a study backs up your long-standing hunch.

Bizzarre Experimental Planes

Seen here.  Worth the ten minutes' tour.

BTW, it's over at one of the Mythbusters' sub-sites, tested.com  It's kind of like the Smithsonian Air & Space, you could spend days there.

The Hobbit Part 2 Trailer

The Desolation of Smaug

Got to re-read The Hobbit before the second part comes out.  Target release date is December 13th, so there's plenty of time.

Drink Notes

Why coffee is sometimes called "joe", over at Quartz.  Huh, this even sounds plausible.  And Crooked Letter Brewing from over in Ocean Springs has a coffee-and-chocolate brew called Mystery Romp that is darned tasty.

Which, by the way, the Mockingbird now keeps on tap.  Things are definitely looking up in and around the Bay.

Saturday Recap

Re last Thursday's post, the free "beer" for biking in was PBR but on the other hand Idewild String Confederation was very good and everybody had a good time.  End of show, they handed out freebee homemade CDs and that was a really great and unexpected bonus.  It was a good evening.