The old XBox game KOTOR is coming to iPad. You know what that means!

Yes, it's true, Bioware made a port for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to the iPad. So that means it's time for the guys at Rooster Teeth to update their old video snarking on the Mac to snarking on the iPad.


"And you know which ones are good, because you've already played them all on the Xbox, like, 5 or 6 years ago."

Signs of our times: it's headline news when a new videogame actually hits its scheduled release date.

Supposedly, Gran Turismo 6 is on schedule.

Still, Sony Product Manager Josh Walker's statement really doesn't instill that much confidence:

"There is no reason to think the proposed release window for GT6 will not be achieved."

Just to be clear, that's a release window, not a release date...

Do you like bacon? How about chocolate? Gold? How about all at the same time?

Uncrate has got you covered (in chocolate and edible gold leaf).

Personally, that doesn't look at all like I imagined it to be...

There's lots of snow in the Northeast right now, so I wonder if this guy's man cave from February is still around.

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That guy is soooo living the dream.

Why is May 25th Geek Pride Day? ThinkGeek has answers.

It's 2 anniversaries and one sci-fi reference.

Star Wars opened on this day in 1977, Douglas Adams died on this day in 2001, and it's a holiday in Discworld by Terry Pratchett.

Of course, this part applies to me, as ThinkGeek explains:

If you're reading this, odds are every day
is Geek Pride day for you.

Giro Jot 2013: Get your climbing gears on at the Giro.

That's an 11-32 cassette on the back of that bike!

SRAM WiFli, with an 11-32 cassette and a long-cage Red rear derailleur. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

For reference, I'm only using an 11-23 cassette for my 10 gears.

This photo is relevant to my interests.

 

via Brian Ashcraft.

 

Either that steamed milk is extremely hot, or that coffee is going to be on the tepid side.

In reference to the latest flickr news, here's the very last picture I ever uploaded to flickr.

I can finally see my other photos again on Flickr after they took away my complimentary pro account. Um, great? engt.co/14Ku7N0
— Joseph Morris (@joeschmo1of3) May 20, 2013

 

About 2 and a half years and 7400 miles ago.

I had an exercise goal today, and accomplishing it gave me a personal fastest record for the year.

This is a follow-up to this post, and I have to mention I beat that particular time by 30 seconds. The goal for today was to peg a certain speed at my near anaerobic threshold up a false flat, and do it 3 times. The false flat hurts; it's a 2 percent grade, and it's 1.5 miles long, which translates to about 5 minutes of agony at near threshold (if you're good at math, I've given you enough information to figure out how fast I wanted to go, hee). This year, I hadn't yet been able to hold the last session all the way through, which is what happened 3 weeks ago.

So, now I had another number I felt good about and wanted to see how that compared to the 2010 database. Now, I'm top 8, and averaging speeds on the flats comparable to the 2010 peak fitness. That's right. I am now as fast on the flats as I was in 2010 with 5 weeks to go before this year's peak fitness. The times that are faster than the one I recorded today were not seen until after 7 and a half months of training, so I'm 7 weeks ahead of the 2010 schedule. So, the question of whether I would have the same plateau at the end of 6 months as I did in 2010 has been answered. The 2013 plateau will mean faster on the climbs and faster on the flats.

I weigh about 4 more pounds than last year too, but just recently had to tighten my sandal straps again. That means even less fat and more muscle than last year. However, what I keep hearing in the back of my mind is Han Solo: "Great, kid! Don't get cocky!"



Okay, this bacon stuff might be overplayed... no, who am I kidding? This is awesome!

Bacon Taco!

Seems more to be a case of practicing one's weaving skills.

WWI airplane engine can actually fit on a motorcycle.

What I'm actually surprised about, is that a single engine for a biplane only had 150 horsepower.

Here's some video from the German guys who put this thing together.

Well, there goes the "respect mah authoritah" rule.

Los Angeles Unified has become the first school district in the state to ban defiance as grounds for suspension.

It's to cut down the number of suspensions on "minority" students. Right. Because the rule was the problem.

What is the next Trek road bike going to be called? Updated 7/1/14

Update down below for New Trek Model.

After Trek came out with some nice full carbon frames which was designated the 5000 series (I own a 5200), the elite bike was the 5900. After that, you'd expect it to go to the 6000s, right? Well, Trek made a break in logic and introduced the Madone 5.9.

What is a madone? It's a small town in the Lombardy region of Italy.

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It's a mountain in Switzerland.

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It's also the French word for Madonna. Yes, if you are riding a Madone, you are sitting on the Mother of God. Now, I hope Trek meant to go with either the Italian town reference or the Swiss alp. Please let it be so.

Giro Jot 2013: Rest Day - Nice shoes, Adam.

Well, it looks like Nike makes strange looking shoes for just about any athlete, even Adam Blythe.

Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com

Giro Jot 2013: Nice work figuring out who all the sponsors are on a Grand Tour wildcard team.

Anatomy Of A Jersey: Androni Giocattoli « Elcyclista

Today's time waster: Cat Font

Or, in Japan ねこフォント (neko fonto)

This 3D printing thing may be getting out of hand.

I'm still holding out for a working shoe phone...

 Okay, but that combines two of my most hated things: Crocs and iPhones. Sigh.

And people wonder why the Vatican thinks American nuns have lost their sense of mission.

I don't think breaking into a nuclear research facility and whacking off a piece of a uranium containment bunker counts as "social justice."

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted Wednesday of interfering with national security when they broke into a nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee and defaced a uranium processing plant.

Oh boy, it's the iJitterPad.

Here's the Claris Companion.

Now, if that subscription service it comes with lets the seniors talk at a chat screen for help and lets the operator install apps remotely like the Jitterbug phone lets their service add entries to the address book, Claris might have something.

My healthcare plan just sent me food coupons in the mail.

I don't even know what to think about that. And worse, most of them were for "healthy" candy bars and ice cream sandwiches. Oh, and one for a senior assisted living shower stall. Huh. Is this what they're spending my increased premiums on? Newspaper inserts and junk mail?

Japan takes coffee pour latte art into the 3rd dimension.

Aw, kawaii!

via Brian Ashcraft.

Blog Programming Note: No Giro Jot del Giorno this year.

The powers that be have decided that taking people's money through legal live streaming in the United States is just not good enough. Last year, Universal Sports allowed sports fans to purchase streaming events a la carte, but then Comcast made the purchase of NBC complete, Versus became NBCSports, Universal Sports became some weird orphan cable channel, and all sorts of contracts and previous agreements were changed going forward, so that I couldn't even watch the Vuelta a Espana.

Nowadays, one cannot even watch video programs on Universal Sports unless you are a satellite subscriber, which is odd, because you could just watch their programs on your TV, but whatever. And also, beIN Sport, known for soccer coverage, will be broadcasting the Giro this year, and that channel is only available on Comcast, Dish, DirecTV, and Verizon FiOS. If something becomes too much a hassle to watch, then I'm just not going to watch it.

Unfortunately, without watching several hours of furious (and boring) pedaling, I won't know what little jot of info will strike me as interesting that also won't be emphasized in the cycling press. Who else would put a screencap of a wookie on a blog post? So, this year, I'm just going to be a fan, read text updates like the old days of 2003. Oh, I think they call that the Twitters these days. Cycling media sure has changed in 10 years, huh?

I hope the play testers who enroll are way better at reporting Bethesda bugs than previous ones.

Because I've always enjoyed sitting around for a half hour while a brand new game downloads and installs a 150 MB patch. Hopefully, having them play in-house will make communication between developers and testers much better with faster feedback and response.

Inspiring and Moving. One World Trade Center nears completion.

Crane operators hoist the final pieces of the spire atop One World Trade Center reut.rs/18fwb2F twitter.com/Reuters/status…
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 2, 2013

While it's interesting that more US beer is being imported into Germany, the overall picture has me concerned.

Look at the graph from the beer story:

What is going on with Germany's cultural identity that wine consumption is holding steady while beer has a noticeable downward trend? The closest we get to some kind of answer is a hint at a generational shift in attitudes:

“The older people see beer as a daily nutrition. The younger people are more interested in different styles,” said Thorsten Heiser, the head of exports at the Bavarian Weihenstephan brewery, which markets its beermaking origins in 1040 as the oldest in the world.

I definitely see beer as nutrition, since it's part of my after dinner load of carbohydrates. If I didn't drink the beer, I would immediately drop 4 pounds.