The Blaſphemous Bicycler

It wasn’t too long ago, I was talking smack on DCNR for having crappy maps compared with those the Game Commission was putting out.

Map geeks rejoice!

The Bureau of Forestry (at least some districts) has come out with some absolutely gorgeous PDF maps. They appear to have been vector generated (you can zoom in to 6400% without any loss of detail.
Check ‘em out. (Warning: big-ass PDF files)

• Tiadaghton State Forest
• Bald Eagle State Forest
• Weiser State Forest

Every black dotted line, double dotted line, and double line is bicycle-able. There are almost 300 miles of fire roads in the Bald Eagle forest alone!

Anything that’s green, you can bike/backpack-camp on.

I’m so excited, I think I’m gonna throw up.

The sun no longer gets up before I do, so I’m rocking the LED blinkers, the headlight, and the fancy tires. Sometimes it seems like a lot of work.

_{Dig those sexy reflective sidewalls.}

But then, sometimes, it’s worth it.

It looked pretty evil this morning.

I have now seen everything.

Ichthux is an operating system aimed at Christian users. It is based on Kubuntu in order to provide the best desktop environment of the moment, together with Christian programs and settings.

At first glance, this is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Upon closer examination, it appears that some good can come of this. They are working on getting input methods and fonts together for ancient languages like Biblical Hebrew.
They also have a neat application called “bibletime” which lets you compare various translations of the bible.

Personally, I would like a program like that to compare translations of the Tao Te Ching, because no two translations seem to agree on what anything means.

If you weren’t already sick of the Turtle King, you will be after this!

Now you can download an animated slideshow/ show-and-tell of the Turtle King Story.

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Don’t worry, school starts back up in a week and I won’t have time for this foolishness after that.

I spent the weekend in the woods again.

I found a tent in my basement that I bought 10 years ago and never used. I used it this weekend. It’s the “3-person” version of TexSport tadpole. In order for this tent to comfortably accomodate 3 people, It would have to be a menage a trois of midgets…

It weighs a whopping 9 pounds, but it’s very comfy inside.

_{I fit in here pretty well.}

I cooked over my Esbit stove for the first time. I was a little disappointed. It couldn’t quite seem to bring the water to a rolling boil. The food turned out good anyhow. I had Backpacker’s Pantry pad Thai, and it was pretty darn good. 4 Jihadis out of 5, I’d say.

Girtong had Mountain House Beef Stew, and he said it was good enough for 4 Jihadis also.

It started raining pretty hard this morning, so I broke camp and headed out.

As I was leaving the forest, I had a vision!

A prophet of the Turtle King appeared before me!

We spoke at some length, and suffice it to say, the mountain turtles have a different point of view than the lake turtles we met last week.

The search for turtular wisdom is not over yet…