MotoGP at Indy: Saturday afternoon

This is one of a series; read the previous installment here.
On the way back to our seats in the stands, Dys stopped to grab another Powerade to drink with her lunch. It was hot, and we were both pretty sweaty. I was glad I’d worn my new Rossi jersey, as it was [...]

Trans-Atlantic Thought Train

I wanted to take a moment to wish Suzy good luck with her first round of chemo today…only to forget, like a huge lummox, that by the time I got settled in to post in the morning, she’d already be done!  Shoulda done this yesterday.  D’oh!
Anyway, I wanted to link up her “going to war” [...]

How does that work? Kneedragging

In my multiple posts on my trip to Indianapolis for the MotoGP race, I’ve gotten several questions about how the riders can lean over that far and not hurt themselves.  The answers, my friends, are knee pucks.
Through the 1960s or so, racers rode motorcycles just the way you might naturally ride…in more or less the [...]

Monday Music

As a (crappy and under-practiced) musician, I take great inspiration from seeing other musicians approaching their instruments in some way other than the mundane. I may never be able to replicate the playing in this clip, but it sure as hell inspires me.
I know a lot of you probably never watch these videos, and [...]

The Champ!!

Congratulations to
Valentino Rossi
2008 MotoGP World Champion!

MotoGP at Indy: Saturday morning

This is one of a series. At this point, I’m definitely going to whip up an index post that will pull all of the parts together! In the meantime, you can follow the lines backward by going to the Friday Afternoon post. There are more photos available on my Flickr set.

I woke [...]

MotoGP at Indy – Friday afternoon

This is part of a series, and is also documented in my Flickr set and my YouTube channel. Go there if you’d like to learn more! Every pic here is linked to the Flickr photo page for that pic, so click on them if you want to read my comments on Flickr and/or [...]

MotoGP at Indy: Friday Morning

[Note: You can go back and read what happened on Thursday here.  Every pic links to a larger version, so click on the pics if you want a closer look!  And as always, more pics are at my Flickr set.]
My alarm clock was set for a ridiculously early time on Friday morning – but [...]

Flickr begged for help…

Well, not yet, but it will.
I just sorted through all of my digital GP pics, in an attempt to glean the best ones to post to Flickr. Whoops. The “just the good ones for the blog” pass pulled more than 70, which would more than double the number I already have in the [...]

My Flickr Account is Terrified

…and you should be too!
I hold in my hand (well, not really, more like lying on my desk) two CDs worth of our digital pics from the GP in Indianapolis. I am about to finish completely using up my data transfer quota to my Flickr account for this month.  So for those of you [...]