http://www.simianlogicstudios.com/2007/10/01/new-bike-take-1/ indie game developer, web tinkerer, and transplanted Southerner living in Silicon Valley Sat, 10 Dec 2011 02:10:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.simianlogicstudios.com/2007/10/01/new-bike-take-1/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Grill… check. Electric bicycle? Maybe Thu, 29 May 2008 00:22:25 +0000 http://simianlogic3d.com/blog/2007/10/01/new-bike-take-1/#comment-10 [...] Though I keep telling myself not to make frivolous purchases, this is a product I’m so familiar with that it’s a necessary luxury.  While I don’t like gas grills at all, I probably could’ve made do for the first summer with just a little Weber for $100 or so.  Those tiny little grills are best suited for hamburgers and hotdogs, though, and having a real cooker out back sort of opens up the arsenal of what I can grill.  At least that’s what I’ll be telling myself all summer long.  I did a Boston Butt on it the night we got it home, then hotdogs + burgers + corn for a crowd of around twenty on Memorial Day. With around $1300 worth of grill/table sitting on my back patio now, though, talking myself into my next big purchase is going to be an even tougher sell.  When I first moved to California and started my new job, my apartment was 4 miles from my office.  I hadn’t ridden a bike since I was around eight years old, so four miles seemed pretty intimidating at the time.  In the end, though, I talked myself out of an electric (it was ONLY 4 miles…), grabbed a cheapo off of craigs list, and dove right in.  It was such a success that I upgraded bikes in a few weeks and continued biking in to work a few times a week… until I busted my ankle back in January.  The ankle was just getting healed enough to ride in again (okay, it was probably good enough about a month before that) for me to bike in to work one last time before moving.  I’ve done some weekend biking since we moved, but the commute (now 9 miles, with a few fairly steep grades) is just a little too intimidating.  Even at four miles, I’d come in drenched in sweat.  If only there were a way to take that 9 mile one-way commute and shrink it down… [...] [...] Though I keep telling myself not to make frivolous purchases, this is a product I’m so familiar with that it’s a necessary luxury.  While I don’t like gas grills at all, I probably could’ve made do for the first summer with just a little Weber for $100 or so.  Those tiny little grills are best suited for hamburgers and hotdogs, though, and having a real cooker out back sort of opens up the arsenal of what I can grill.  At least that’s what I’ll be telling myself all summer long.  I did a Boston Butt on it the night we got it home, then hotdogs + burgers + corn for a crowd of around twenty on Memorial Day. With around $1300 worth of grill/table sitting on my back patio now, though, talking myself into my next big purchase is going to be an even tougher sell.  When I first moved to California and started my new job, my apartment was 4 miles from my office.  I hadn’t ridden a bike since I was around eight years old, so four miles seemed pretty intimidating at the time.  In the end, though, I talked myself out of an electric (it was ONLY 4 miles…), grabbed a cheapo off of craigs list, and dove right in.  It was such a success that I upgraded bikes in a few weeks and continued biking in to work a few times a week… until I busted my ankle back in January.  The ankle was just getting healed enough to ride in again (okay, it was probably good enough about a month before that) for me to bike in to work one last time before moving.  I’ve done some weekend biking since we moved, but the commute (now 9 miles, with a few fairly steep grades) is just a little too intimidating.  Even at four miles, I’d come in drenched in sweat.  If only there were a way to take that 9 mile one-way commute and shrink it down… [...]

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