Archive for October, 2005

My poor puppy!

One of our dogs, Daisy, tore her ACL in her rear left knee. She just had a TPLO surgery to 'fix' her leg so she wouldn't be a gimp for the rest of her life. What they do is cut the bone just below the knee and change the angle of the joint - then reattach the bone →


Weed makes you smarter?!?

"Chronic use of marijuana may actually improve learning memory when the new neurons in the hippocampus can mature in two or three months" Just the ideas presented by this research will make a lot of people I know very, very happy. It seems that high doses of cannabinoids actually increased the creation of neurons in the hippocampus in the brains →


Time for some school

I've been riding for a couple of years now. When I first started I took the California MSF course. Overall, it was a worthwhile experience. I've moved from my 450cc Honda, to a CBR600, and now I'm on my Triumph Speed Triple. The Triple is definitely the right bike for me. Anyway, I think I've →


Twisting Asphalt

Twisting Asphalt is the blog of a fellow Los Angeles motorbike rider. This guy is one of the more proficient moto bloggers I've run across and I enjoy his posts a whole lot. He's an insightful rider who obviously truly loves the sport and takes the time to translate the experience of riding into words as much as →