Jam Vid

Saturday Jammin'

The boys were at PoohBear's on Saturday night and we all let rip with some good tunes. We played from 5 pm to about 130am. Many drinks were drunk and the music flowed loud...and it flow

Steve Dean Art Show

COFFEE AND TOAST

TWO NOSE MAN











Taking place in April 2007 at Breaking New Grounds and Zharra's Monumental Coffee Shop, both are in Portland, Maine. Check it out, see them all.

Buy some art.

Adult Ed.

My good friend the Ranger had the first Adult Ed. class on Dreamweaver last night. We arrive at the class room three minutes before 6 at the local high school and the faint reek of vomit hangs in the air. Oh yeah! Glad I don’t teach.

To say the class was painfully slow would be a drastic understatement. Two hours to introduce the class: what we will be doing, figure out what people in the class know about operating PCs...Blah, blah, blah…2.5 hours later I wanted to smack my self in the head with a large fish.

The saving grace is that I will be doing class with the Ranger. There is also one other guy who seems to be on our level, Ill call him Sappi.

Now I’m no PC whiz but I did grow up with computers to some extent. I understand file organization, some html code, and shit but other than the Ranger and Sappi we have a couple of older women with, IMO based on last nights class, limited knowledge of computing, and a dude Ill call Uni who probably surfs more net porn than Larry Flint, but that’s just speculation on my part.

Any way, I’m looking forward to learning the program, producing a good web page and hopefully be able to sell art work. So in the future keep your eyes out for :

STEVEDEANART.COM

And for those of you in the Portland, Maine area we will be showing the art at Breaking New Grounds on Exchange Street and possibly Zharra’s Monumental Coffee House just across from One City Center both in April 2007.

Bicycle cellphone charger

Surfin' today I came across this new invention by Motorola...below is the text.


Motorola’s Bike Charger for Mobile Phones
by Warren McLaren, Sydney on 01.10.07
Science & Technology (alternative energy)
The big news of the day might’ve been that Apple had finally taken the wraps off their iPhone, but the greener gossip was to be found in the Motorola camp. This communications giant was unveiling a more modest gadget, yet of immediate utility to umpteen million folk, in what are termed ‘emerging markets’. Their particular do-dad is a battery charger for mobile phones that is powered simply by riding a bicycle. Motorola’s CEO, Ed Zander rode a bike into his recent keynote speech to highlight the technology. He reckoned it would be of use to the multitudes of people needing communications, but still lacking in grid connected services. "Farmers in Senegal use the phone to monitor crop prices. Health workers in South Africa use their phones to locate records while dealing with patients," he said. And it seems that rural China is a prime market for Motorola, who suggested that in a country with 500 million commuting cyclists, there are also five million new mobile phone subscribers every month. India, Asia and Latin America are in their sights too. ::Motorola. Via Engadget, Textually, and Vancouver Sun.

This as an occasional bike commuter seems like an invaluable tool. Plus I can imagine the other applications for such a device; such as: laptop charger for one. It could make blogging on long distance bike tours easier.

SNOWING!

It is finally snowing. I have a feeling its going to stay around this time. So I got firewood into the house, picked up the dog toys and gave the snowblower a test run.

So i get the s'blower out. plug in the electric start and give it a crank.

whopwhopwhowhopwhhopwhhopwhowhopwhhwp pahh!
whopwhopwhowhopwhhopwhhopwhowhopwhhwp pahh!
hophwhopwhowhpwhopwhopwhophwopwhopwhop pahh!
whopwhopwhowhopwhhopwhhopwhowhopwhhwp pahh!

Humm. I pulled out the spark plug and see that there was no spark. shit. well I hope that NAPA is open. So fly up to Farmingdale, find a new plug and a little started fluid and get it all home.

Give a little spray with the fluid, put in the new plug and give it a go....

whopwhopwhowhopwhhopwhhopwhowhopwhhwp pahh!whopwhopwhowhopwhhopwhhopwhowhopwhhwp pahh!
whopwhopwhopBRAGEBRAGBRABBBbrabrbrabrabrabrbrabababababababb!

Feeling like I just rasied Frankenstein from the dead I bellow into the neighboorhood...

"ITS AHLIIVE!"

Bring on the snow. I got a floating holiday to use tomorrow and a hankerin' to throw some snow.

Bent ride '07

So the weather-people are all excited about a snow storm finally coming. They have been jumping up and down about it for three days now. Give me a break already. Anyway, in a last ditch effort to ride before the snow really flies I squeezed in two rides actually. One on Friday during lunch. My usual loop up to falmouth and back.. -13.somthin' miles at about 18 mph avg.

Then on Saturday i took the 'bent out for a 27+ mile loop around the homelands. I tried to shoot some video footage with my helmet cam but i am having a problem with the download. Apparently, the PC isn't 'seeing' the files when I open the drive. The data is there, as evidenced from the reduced shoot time, but I cant see the files. I fear I may have damaged the video card some how.
But at least the ride was awesome. My legs were blasted. I had an avg. speed of 15.6 mph which is about right for that bike, considering the terrain. One day I need to bring this bike to a flat state somewhere mid-west. Maybe try the RAGBAI in the future.

cant believe it!

In 2006 i thought i had got an early start riding (see march 06 post). But today i just finished my first ride of 2007. January 4, 2007. wow.

Skillins Loop 13.39 miles at 18.5 mph avg.

The weather was overcast, 45 deg.F, and the roads are dry...sandy, but dry.

Im thinking the whole global warming thing could work out to be good...(more on that later)


*its a beautiful day in the neighboorhood*

Cycle Trainers

so my wife calls me. 'HEY! guess what I'm borrowing? Two cycling trainers. and three Carmichale dvd training videos." Cool. so I get these yellow framed kinetic (i think) trainers set up and she tries it out first and got a really good work out. The next day I tried it out with her...so we are in there spinning along and I was just overpowering the thing...after 30 mins i stopped. I was getting sweaty but just not really worked. On tuesday wife...

*sidebar* at this point wife is on a mission to find a trainer. i got her into cycling this year and I have created a monster. which is great! but its all classic wifey this is awesome i want all the equipment now. Of course it has taken me years to get the shit i have, but somehow she has almost everything by the end of her first season. anyway... *

on tuesday she went to the LBS (local bike shop) and managed to bring home (without purchasing it mind you, just borrowing) a different model Kinetic trainer , who the guy at the store..swore i would not be able to over power.

Well, he was right. I busted my gnads last night for 30 mins. I suspect it will be purchased by the end of the week and my abs will be ripped by the end of February.