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Think about this next time you go to Chipotle and order a burrito:

13" Flour Tortilla

Rice
Black Beans

Barbacoa (5oz)

Tomato Salsa
Corn Salsa

Cheese
Sour Cream
Lettuce
Chips

Chipotle Nutrition Facts Serving Size: 1 Burrito Amount Per Serving Calories 1835 Calories from Fat 642 % DV* Total Fat 72g Saturated Fat 24g Cholesterol 144mg Sodium 3908mg Total Carbohydrate 219g Dietary Fiber 18.5g Sugars 10g Protein 76g Vitamin A 147% Vitamin C 70% Calcium 59% Iron 40%

Try it yourself with this calculator

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If you are one of those drivers that plants yourself in the left lane, riding along at 60 mph and not feeling the least bit compelled to move over and let a faster vehicle pass, then yes I am one of those bikers that "weaves in and out of traffic" as I go around you.


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Went riding with the The Rockville MD/VA/DC Motorcycle Riders Meetup Group Saturday.



We rode the backroads east of 270 north to Thurmont, MD, stopping to eat at the Cozy Inn & Restaurant before proceeding west across Cacoctin Mountain on Rt. 77. From there we ended up at High Rock, near Camp David.

Check out this panoramic view from High Rock, looking out on Great Valley:

http://www.potomacwatershed.net/resource/antimono/hirkasse.html

Here's a shot of me at High Rock, standing as close to the edge as I am going to get when the dropoff is several hundred feet.




All the pictures from the ride can be found here.


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Former UN Sectretary-General Kofi Annan recalled that when he was in school in Ghana, the headmaster Francis Bartels had once “put a broad sheet of white paper on the wall, with a little black dot in the right-hand corner, and asked, ‘Boys, what do you see?’” The boys shouted in unison, “A black dot.”

Bartels then admonished them, “So not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet of paper. You only saw the black dot. This is the awful thing about human nature. People never see the goodness of things and the broader picture. Don’t go through life with that attitude.”


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Spent today riding with a great group of guys (and a girl) from The Rockville MD / VA / DC Motorcycle Riders Meetup Group. One group started in Olney, VA and we all met on Dock Street in Annapolis.

From there our group of ten rode to Tilghman Island, MD where we ate lunch at The Bridge Restaurant. Then it was back to DC in the Ocean City traffic.



All the pictures from the ride can be found here.

The quality may seem a little off since they were taken with the cell phone camera. Don't even ask how I got the moving, on-the-road pics.....it's probably not legal.


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On March 17th, the Anti-America crowd is planning a march in DC. International Answer, a group with known links to International Marxism-Lenism (www.discoverthenetwork.org) is organizing a march to the Pentagon to call for an immediate surrender in Iraq, the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, etc. Their planned march will take them past several memorials to our military. The last time this bunch showed up in DC they defaced the Capitol Building and desecrated the Lone Sailor statue that stands watch at the U.S. Navy Memorial.



This time it will be different. Several military veterans organizations are committed to protecting the sanctity of our memorials and are organizing to counter the Anti-American crowds impact on DC. A Gathering of Eagles is the main group and information can be found on their website.

Do you care enough to spend your Saturday standing with the veterans who defend our country?


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First view this:

CAN - Father & son bond of Dick and Rick Hoyt


Then go read the story:

Team Hoyt History


Then view a longer video:

Team Hoyt


Then, sit down and think.


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If you could bury a time capsule what would you put in it? What would you say? Would you even want to say something to yourself in the future that could possibly affect the way you think about things then?

If you could email yourself up to thirty years in the future would you? You would need an email address you are sure would still be working thirty years from now. You would need a service that could send the email.

If you are intested in the fascinating prospect of sending yourself an email that would be delivered tomorrow, next month, next year, or fifteen or thirty years in the future check out http://futureme.org/index.php

And thirty years from now you can thank me for pointing this out to you.



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Beth had a photography class assignment and the topic was "architecture" so what better place to go than into DC?



I took this picture of her taking a shot of the beautiful neoclassical columns that front the National Archives building.


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Luis Bruder and I went to Summit Point Motorsports Park today to watch a motorcycle track day. This event, sponsored by the Northeast Sportbike Association (NESBA), allows riders to "enhance their riding skills in a safe, track environment without the pressure of a race event." Not sure if this is something I want to do next year but it looked darn interesting. Anyone got a cheap 600 they wanna sell me for a track bike?




Tons of pics are here.

Feel free to download and do with as you wish. Yeah, I know some of the images are slightly out of focus and not centered, but you try to catch a motorcycle in a curve doing 90 mph while you are panning the camera at full zoom. It's hard to do and the autofocus doesn't keep up. I mostly did a manual focus on a certain point of the track and panned to that spot, tracking the bike and tried to snap at the proper focus point.

I did not do any digital adjustments to the images. If they appear dark, run 'em through Photoshop and adjust.

If you want to make prints it is best to download the largest image size. Click the image you want in Flickr, select "All Sizes", then select "Original (3072 x 2048)", right-click the image and save it.

If you like the pictures take some time to drop me a note.


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