Tag Archives: motorcycle

A longer status update

By Matt Jacob | Published: September 17, 2008
I guess there’s been a lack of updates lately, but only because I’ve been pretty busy. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been doing other things online, though! If you follow me on Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, or one of the other social networking sites I belong to, you’ll notice that I’m still posting several status [...]
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Help me name the beast

By Matt Jacob | Published: August 17, 2008
No, I’m not talking about that. Get your minds out of the gutter. Jeez! I’m talking about the motorcycle, obviously. My dad and I were doing some routine maintenance last weekend (thanks again, Dad), and it dawned on me that my new mode of transportation is still without a proper name. The name needs to be [...]
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The first motorcycle fatality

By Matt Jacob | Published: July 29, 2008
I knew the cost of motorcycling when I got into this whole mess, but I never knew the toll it would take on the innocent ones. On my way home tonight, a rather large and juicy bug had the misfortune of being put down by my enormous noggin. It was the first time I’ve ever [...]
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Shifting into fifth for the first time

By Matt Jacob | Published: July 27, 2008
Since I’ve talked about it enough during the past three or four weeks, most of my loyal readers know that I recently purchased a motorcycle. That was almost two weeks ago. Well, this weekend, I finally started learning how to ride it. And it is fun. It’s more fun than I could have imagined, and [...]
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The motorcycle post

By Matt Jacob | Published: July 20, 2008
I’ve been putting this post off because I don’t even know where to begin, but I think we’ll hit the good first and then come back for the bad and the ugly. So, I got a bike on Wednesday! And it’s pink, and it has training wheels and streamers and a horn and… not really. But [...]
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The absence of clutter

By Matt Jacob | Published: July 20, 2008
I cleaned the living room today and finally got rid of the last of the boxes and various piles of crap (not literally, don’t worry) left over from the move… which was two months ago. But now the room is completely empty except for a few random instruments stashed away in the corner. I have no [...]
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    • Doing a long-overdue paperwork purge. How come I can file digital things just fine, but not physical pieces of paper?
      5 days ago
    • Saw a car with an "HONOR GOD" bumper sticker driving 20+ posted speed and tailing people aggresively. That really frosts my cookies.
      9 days ago
    • The tea party movement might be a little out there for me, but I could definitely see myself joining a sweet tea party movement.
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    • In running for the governorship of California, Meg Whitman's starting bid is $40m and her Buy It Now price is $150m.
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