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The arch Libertarians and the Objectivist disciples of Ayn Rand’s writings have always seemed humorless but this is pretty funny. From the article:

On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter’s home. Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land. The proposed development, called “The Lost Liberty Hotel” will feature the “Just Desserts Café” and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon’s Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged.” Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans. “This is not a prank” said Clements, “The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development.”

Everyone who knows roadside dining knows about Jan & Michael Stern’s Roadfood book and website (though it’s too bad they decided to cash in on the site and make it a subscriber service) and lots of people know about Chowhound and its unedited forums but this evening I stumbled across Holly Eats where food writer Hollister Moore rates low food and regional eats. Check it out.

This morning I mounted a set of Fastway Performance footpegs on my BMW R100GSPD. There was really nothing to it and the whole job took about thirty minutes. I picked them up from Adventurer’s Workshop. You can see the gallery here. The only hitch was that the pegs were intended for the R1100 and later models and Fastway supplies half a dozen .20mm washers to set depth of the camber adjustment bolt but this is too little to level the pegs on the R100. I used two zinc-coated steel lock washers from Lowe’s along with one .20mm washer to shim each peg.

I’ll have to see if I like them in the “standard” position. They have a “low-boy” position- achieved by driving out a collar, flipping it and moving the peg to the other side- that locates them down and back about an inch. That position might be more comfortable.

I’ll also have to see if I like the cleat arrangement. The F3 model pegs have removable Allen-head cleats. I opted to fill the first two rows with the shorter 8mm cleats and the rear row with the longer 10mm ones. I may end up removing the first row of cleats to let my boot hang a little at the edge of the peg.

Got in one more ride in before our baby arrives. Maria gave me a day pass and I joined the SBONYC riders for Father’s Day on Route 301 near Carmel, NY. It’s a nice curving road and we made laps between the Firehouse and the bank parking lot. Later that morning, Mike led a fifty-mile loop with some moderately technical turns but I peeled off when we intersected the Taconic.

I had fitted the stubby sport shield in place of the Parabellum touring shield and wanted to try different conditions, at least that was my excuse. Hopping I84 and Route 17, I rode into Ulster county to visit my parents then blasted up 44-55 and 299 into New Paltz, down the Thruway to I84, exited at Fishkill and took a meandering ride on 9D to 202 into Peekskill before catching 9/9A to the Sawmill and back to the city.

It was a 350 plus mile day, ten hours of riding and another two stopped according to the GPS. A couple of the guys had pointed out that my GPS model has very limited capacity for track points. I hadn’t noticed until reviewing it tonight but the StreetPilot III drops track points when the log fills. That would explain why some of my earlier logs were incomplete. Very irritating as I’ll have manually set mark points while riding to ensure I get at least a rough idea of the locations.

I’m experimenting with Denis de Bernardy’s Semiologic theme and CMS on my dev box. I like the CMS features even though I’m not thrilled with the included theme. The Kubrick theme, wordpress default and used here, is much more clean and readable.