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Being offically ‘old’ this year, it’s my ambition to ride the route know as the coast to coast before I become thirty. As part of that ambition, myself, Alan, and Brian did a training ride today along some of the excellent cyclepaths in the area. We were riding into the strong headwinds on the entire trip out, giving us an average speed of about 10mph, and at one point one of those old gnarly cyclists with legs like granite sped past us.
(I think we got pwned, but Brian says it’s something to look forward to - being old gnarly cyclists, that is, not being pwned)
On the way back we stopped off for a beer and burger combo at a Lloyds sports bar on Newcastle’s Quayside. Although it was only midday, already there was a hen party wearing masks at the bar. I felt a little self-conscious in my cycling gear, but mainly knackered.
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Two of my friends, Clare Ruddock and Ele Carpenter, are working on a project they are calling Open Source Embroidery. As part of this project, they are making a patchwork quilt, made up of six-sided patches, with each patch a different colour from the 216 listed ‘web-safe’ colours. This is an open project, and anybody can submit a colour swatch using the handy list which they are creating using google docs, join their Facebook group, read about the project on their respective blogs. Hurrah for web 2.0.
Now, if each patch has a number in hex notation embroidered on top, that makes this it visualisation of the hexadecimal notation scheme. The wikipedia page also points out that there are several words you can spell in hex, including c0ffee, which works in the paired-triad format that these HTML patchwork colours are represented in. For those who are wondering, c0ffee is a pale blue.
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