Facing off against Como’s A-team.
My first time in Minneapolis, Minnesota. What a cool city! The streets were truly alive at night which being from Oklahoma kind of shocked me. The Tournament was great too. I played with the “Polo Furries” from Florida, we got 7th out of 48. I really enjoyed playing with Jerret and Jason and learned a lot in the process. It was also my best finish yet.
PHXated was started by Bill Wyman to focus on commentary and news about the Phoenix arts and media scene and since launch as amassed over 400 blog articles.
Article written by Yuri one of PHXated’s three new contributors
There is still an equally large part of this site covering events and happenings in Phoenix that is preparing to launch.
See the latest about the news in Phoenix at PHXated.com.
Idea from Chris Bottles on
League of Bike Polo
This kind of dual-brake setup would rule the court if it existed. The key is that the outer back brake could pull independently allowing you to skid and the inner front brake could pull together with the outer for immediate stop.
I’m pretty sure no one has ever made a split-lever brake before. In hardcourt bike pole we ride with one hand so this seems like a natural evolution. I can’t take credit for the idea but maybe drawing it out is enough to warrant me co-inventor status.
If anyone out there makes this part please send me a sample to test.
In Tulsa there are only about 12 polo players. We’ve met twice a week for the past year and had a great time. The style of play that developed was fun and challenging.
Photo by Pdillo at Tracy Park, Tulsa
Mainly one person played goalie and two took on two looked for openings and took nice close shots on goal. It wasn’t especially fast-passed. People didn’t exactly pull out in front of you to “stop short”. There wasn’t a huge amount of hard hacking or aggressive play. In short, we lived in a bubble.
A few months ago we went to a bike polo tournament in Columbia, MO. It was the first time our club had gotten out of our city to play other teams. Our insular circle collided with an other larger circle and things changed.
Our game is now about speed. Now everything is about fast-breaks and pushing the ball up. The goalie is obsolete. The intensity is over the top. We’re like Piranha circling and nipping at the ball and anything within our reach.
PHXated is part blog and part events listing. The blog will launch later this week and the events listing will be following over the next few weeks.
A challenge was the DRY concept of not restating the dates for multiple posts on the same date.
Promise Acres Arena started July 27th, completion August 11th. Launch Date: August 12th.
Promise Acres Arena has a nice CMS to handle updates, events, and sales. Design, content, plus business logic delivered in two and a half weeks.
It’s still a work in progress but go ahead and take a look: PromiseAcresArena.com
It’s totally on!
Tulsa has been playing bike polo for almost a year and this will be our debut tournament. We’re all totally stoked to try out our skills against some real competition.
If you’ve got a team, you want to be on a team, or just want to go please let me know in the comments. We could easily take three teams. There is plenty of housing so no worries there. We’re going down the night before.
Oh yes! I will take that.
I’ve been the chief web developer, designer, project manager, and sales agent for years. Although I like the independence of it, I now see the usefulness of a team. I’ve got the web development and design part nailed down but I think I could use help in the sales department and maybe project management area.
Enjoy Forest Living!
Update: This contest was reopened and I was able to enter this shirt design. No news back if I won but if I do I’ll be pretty stoked to see these on the streets.
After years of hand-drawing letters I thought maybe I’d just go ahead and complete the set.
Making my own fontset was a bit more work then I initially realized. I knew about the twenty-six letters of course but then there’s upper and lower case. On top of that, there’re the numbers and twenty plus special symbols.
Blue boxes are drawn around the individual assets
Creating a layered header by cutting small transparent .gifs and weaving them together with html and css delivers smooth sharp loading even on slow internet connections. This approach is a lot of extra work and most people may not notice much difference but to me it’s totally worth it.
This site can be seen at DaddyHinkles.com. If you visit them please leave them a comment and let them know how much you like their new website.
You need some accurate information on where you are today.
A web audit can show you how people are using your site, evaluate competitive opportunities in your market, and examine your technical and logistical situation. Understanding your website’s environment will let you target your advertising spend, and in doing so, increase conversions and market share.
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Made by Asa age 5 April 26
After watching Return of the Jedi, Asa sat down and made this AT-ST. Jango Fett may have never actually driven one of these he just happens to be one of Asa’s favorite Star Wars characters.
Rebecca had this bag when we got married and I’ve used it as my fall back bag every since. It is an extraordinarily simple canvas bag. There is really not much to it. Two side pockets and an inside slip pocket and two straps that hold it mostly closed.
Moderately used canvas backpack at least 8 years old
My wife probably used this bag for massage linens and the pocket to carry oil because I can see what appear to be a few oil stains. Canvas really soaks up the oil and over all the bag appears a bit dingy. To my knowledge the bag has never been washed but I bet it would take a washing well.
Stick fires have become my favorite fires for cooking. They’re plenty hot for cooking a beautiful steak. They last about an hour then burn themselves out which is nice.
In a few minutes this fire will be just right for cooking.
They’re easy to start and arrange in a nice square shape for even cooking. I always stick four sticks into the ground at the corners and then build inside of those post so everything stays put. After you put a couple down one way, fill in the center with paper, or whatever you’re going to use to light it, and then stack the rest the other way.
organic cotton thin tshirt
This conference is a long time in coming. Back in 2004 when Rails really hit hard for me it wasn’t so big in Tulsa. It’s just one of those things that has to have years to build.
Now our Rails community may still be small but we’re stylish. These are hand printed in my garage one at a time. Hit me up for one of these vintage threads early and let me know you’ll be there.
