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10-26-2007, 04:29 AM
Tuckervill

Lisa, that room looks JUST like my bedroom in my attic. It's only 9x9. Yours is probably longer, at least. My ceiling is only 7 ft high.

I wish I had my hardwood floors uncovered. We're going to build on a master bedroom and then that little room will be an office, too.

Karen
10-26-2007, 04:50 AM
Jo-n-NY

Silver,

Your work is incredible. The shields are amazing.

~ JoAnn
10-26-2007, 04:57 AM
sandra

Lisa, spread those speakers out and get you some glorious music going on while you work. I have two small Bose speakers and I'm coveting yours thrown in the shoebox!!!
10-26-2007, 07:01 AM
Flybye

Hi-jack !!!

Silver - I love your tri pendant - what about doing a cycling pendant for us weenies who can't run and/or don't want to get wet?

Carry on as usual and forget the hi-jack. :o
10-26-2007, 07:12 AM
Pax

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flybye

Silver - I love your tri pendant - what about doing a cycling pendant for us weenies who can't run and/or don't want to get wet?

Carry on as usual and forget the hi-jack. :o

Excellent suggestion! I'll take a pin! :D
10-26-2007, 07:44 AM
mimitabby

since my company makes airplanes, we test airplane parts and the microphones measure how loud the parts are in the wind. Yes, it would be fun to put a bike in that tunnel (not with me on it) Jan Heine already did a test (in the last issue of his classic bike quarterly) at the U of Washington wind tunnel. They found out some cool things like
don't wear a hoody while you're riding.
fenders don't increase drag, they decrease it.
bike duds are actually good for riding bikes because they create less drag.
showers pass raincoat has less drag than
burley raincoat .
10-26-2007, 07:56 AM
blueskies

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Originally Posted by sandra

I'm not at work right now, but here's where I hang out at home. Anyone know what I can do with the mess of wires to the right of the desk? :eek:

Sandra, The Container Store has this Cable Zipper product:

http://tinyurl.com/yp89n7

I haven't tried it, but just remembered seeing things like this. I'm sure that you can similar things at other organizing stores.

Personally, I'm challenged enough by the top of my desk, that I haven't gotten around to organizing what lives underneath!

I'm loving this thread. Sandra & Lisa, you're pictures are inspiring to me. My home needs a little attention...
10-26-2007, 08:00 AM
MM_QFC!

hey Mimi...didn't Lance use it several times (along with UW's wind tunnel too)? I had a friend/avid cyclist/BigB employee who remarked on it a few years ago. I'm guessing that he had Nike, Giro product folks on his "TT improvement team" with him too.
Also, while he was up here, he did lots of rides in the area and a group of us spotted him (I'd recognize those calves anywhere, even covered up in gunky, cold weather!) while we were riding the LW loop...he was headed in the opposite direction with another rider and gave a friendly wave.
10-26-2007, 08:54 AM
BleeckerSt_Girl

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuckervill

Lisa, that room looks JUST like my bedroom in my attic. It's only 9x9. Yours is probably longer, at least. My ceiling is only 7 ft high.

I wish I had my hardwood floors uncovered. We're going to build on a master bedroom and then that little room will be an office, too.

Karen

Yes, mine is about 9x15. It's just a very cheap old pine subfloor. Actually, it had old disintegrating linoleum from the 60's stuck on it with black ASPHALT TAR (!!) and when we bought the house we had a guy grind it all down to the pine. Then I varnished in with clear. Looks refreshing with no covering on it.

Shefly- yes, I meant a CAT on my desk. :D

Sandra- I'd give you the speakers but apparently they need to stay hooked up for my sound to work at all. Sadly, I cannot deal with any kind of music while I'm thinking or working in my office, even soft volume- it's just too distracting to me for some reason. :o I love working in the quiet.

Silver- very nice shields!
10-26-2007, 09:17 AM
sandra

Lisa, I love that pine floor. It may be a subfloor, but it's not a cheap ole floor. I'd love to have that instead of this engineered hardwood that I have.
10-26-2007, 09:36 AM
Eden

Quote:

Originally Posted by MM_QFC!

hey Mimi...didn't Lance use it several times (along with UW's wind tunnel too)? I had a friend/avid cyclist/BigB employee who remarked on it a few years ago. I'm guessing that he had Nike, Giro product folks on his "TT improvement team" with him too.
Also, while he was up here, he did lots of rides in the area and a group of us spotted him (I'd recognize those calves anywhere, even covered up in gunky, cold weather!) while we were riding the LW loop...he was headed in the opposite direction with another rider and gave a friendly wave.

I think Lance was here maybe once or twice, but most of the wind tunnel testing was actually done with a body double - no joke! One of the guys who was on my husbands team a couple years ago was paid to be Lance's body double for most of the really tedious wind tunnel testing stuff. He was the right size and shape - even down to the slight hump in the back. Very nice guy - he was studying Oriental medicine and I think the body double gig was needed cash (he was the one who told me I could get $25 massages at the school!). I believe he's finished up school now and has gone on to bigger and better things.

Jeremy otherwise didn't actually look like LA, but there is a guy around here who totally does. I know its not really him, but there was this guy who'd show up to the Thursday crits at Seward park (dressed completely in solid black too) who looked so much like Lance it made a lot of people look twice.
10-26-2007, 09:52 AM
MM_QFC!

Interesting about the body double...didn't know that, however LA needed to ride while here, so a former pro-rider I know said his friend (a Seattle local) was contacted to be Lance's training ride buddy during his visit (mainly to show him western WA routes) and he had some good stories about Lance powering up his after-burners and leaving him in the dust on some area loops.
10-26-2007, 12:14 PM
wannaduacentury

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Originally Posted by Regina

I work in boring cubicle-land on the 13th floor (yeah, I know, an unlucky floor - but it's really the 16th story, if you count the plaza and 2 mezzanine levels below the 1st, so it sort of confounds the bad juju of 13!) in the middle of a city. Nothing worth taking a picture of. Think "Dilbert".
But....I had this cute visitor outside my window today. I think it's a kestrel, but it was all wet from the rain, and busy preening. This was taken with my cell phone through a triple-pane window, so it's not great....

We have a crow that likes to peck at upper level windows, I tried to take a pic one day, but they flew to a tree limb and then flew away. little stinker. Jenn :rolleyes:
10-26-2007, 12:19 PM
wannaduacentury

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Originally Posted by SheFly

Zip ties. I used this trick in my home office to try to keep things semi-under control. Just zip tie all of the wires together, and it looks a "little" less messy.

SheFly

There are some velcro like zip ties that you can get at the hardware store, they make moving wires easier if you change your office around. I like mine :) jenn
10-26-2007, 12:57 PM
silver

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flybye

Silver - I love your tri pendant - what about doing a cycling pendant for us weenies who can't run and/or don't want to get wet?

Carry on as usual and forget the hi-jack. :o

continued hi-jack and my apologies to Queen:

thanks,gals!

I do have a traditional cycle pendant charm that I get from my supplier, but I've never tried to make a stylistic one.....maybe I'll give it a tri.....I mean...a try. ;)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y16...g/100_0996.jpg

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