PolarLava::Blog

Fear not, he's left us a sign.

Not an original find, but worthy of propagating from digg.

So I went on a recon Christmas shopping trek today, had some extra time and stopped in at Handlebars Cycle Company.  As anyone that spends much time around me knows, I've been pining for a new bike for quite a while.  So while discussing options in my price range with the guy at the shop, I walked past a cyclo-cross bike.  This wasn't a new bike, but well maintained.  We started talking about it, in particular the carbon fiber wheels.  Apparently they were custom made and there are only two sets in the world -both for this bike.  The shop guy walked around the corner and them came back with the spare front wheel and handed it to me.  Literally it weighed virtually nothing for a fully built wheel.  I just looked at him and said it felt like a Frisbee.  You could easily sail this this through the air a good distance because it was very rigid and lightweight.  Pretty much in the one-of-a-kind realm.  I know these aren't the most expensive wheels one could buy, but well out of my price range at $2000 a pair.  That's about 2/3rds of what I would like to be spending on a new bike.  A dream that appears as though it will continue to remain unfulfilled.

Well, it's taken nearly 11 months since I mentioned it when I got my CanoScan 8600F scanner, but here it is.  Hugh Downs advocating the medical exploration of LSD in the January 1967 issue of Science Digest.  It's not the prettiest thing, but then again this is a scan of a photocopy that I've been toting around since 1989.  Enjoy…

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PolarBlog V1.10.2 has been released.  This is a bug fix and performance improvement release.

Enhancements

• Improved query topic indexing.
• Improved comment indexing.
• SafeSQL*.class.php Added released NULL support and fixed PHP5 abstract method declaration error.
• E_STRICT Compliance: Fix Call-time pass-by-reference errors.
• E_STRICT Compliance: You need to set your default timezone via date.timezone.  See PHP: Date and Time Functions, PHP: Appendix J. List of Supported Timezones and the .htaccess File section of the PolarBlog Documentation.

• Entries in deleted topics causing the entry index page to fatal.
• Search results not being properly sorted, partially due to V1.9.1 change to prevent memory overload.
• New and updated entries that are post dated shouldn't ping Ping-O-Matic (if enabled).

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