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Allow me to humbly submit olivejuice.cc as one of the most useless, if pretty, sites on the net. I don't pretend to offer up the contents for world wide web viewing; I'm much too lazy to design for proper navigation, to provide fresh and compelling content, to respect those on 56k dial-ups ;-) No, first and foremost only I and my cycling buddies need be satisfied. If others also get some measure of enjoyment, I say right on.
Now that the proviso is out of the way, it has been suggested I add a few features to the site:
-- threaded discussion board. honestly, would you ever use it?
-- ability to bookmark image pages; so I removed thumbnail / full image synchronization.
-- faster site speed. I *could* degrade the images even more. should I?
-- some full images now have Easter Eggs in the form of offsite linkage.
-- there's still a standing call for feature articles. become a guest contributor.
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So there I am dining across from an older, not to say elderly, woman at the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp dinner table. Ryan sits to my right; we're like the Far East version of the Bobbsey Twins I suppose. But I digress. She happens to be from our neck of the woods (Danville) I find out. "Oh, so you must've hiked Mt. Diablo...blah blah blah," I titter. "Oh, yes...blah blah blah," she titters back. Nice enough lady I think to myself.
Dinner progresses. We're not quite to the nuts, but well past the soup when Ryan "Seinfeld" Hata cracks wise by way of some cheeky Asian reference. Part and parcel of our normal kibitzing, really. "Oh, are you Chinese," the dame ingenuously asks Hata. Ryan politely and informatively responds that no, he's not Chinese, and promptly returns to his dinner. "Oh."
"You're Japanese, right," this broad then deduces while turning to me. Blue hair strikes again. "Um, no, I'm Korean," I reply consolingly. "I can't tell them apart," she reveals to me in a whisper, all wrinkle nosed and conspiratorial like.
"Neither can I." Wait for polite chuckle. Neither can I.
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Here, then, is one incontrovertible truth: World Champions are not born.
Corollary: They're bought with a big fat check!
Our very own Hata-sama only recently laid some FIVE LARGE down for the privileged ownership of the 2002 Limited Edition Mapei "Oscar Freire" World Champion bicycle. May the wind always be at his back and may all his creditors be on steel bikes ;-) And so say all of us.
Be sure to delve into the Yet another jumbled assortment photo journal. Within you will find images both static and dynamic of this beauty of a World Champion (Bicycle). I guess Ryan is pretty, too, in his own way. But he's not a world champion.
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