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I confess. All my jeans are Swedish.

Before leaving San Francisco in December, I purchased a pair of what at the time were the best-fitting jeans I’d ever worn. Handed to me by the clerk at Rolo, with her suggestion that I just try these on, I fell in love with their ideal balance of skinny and not-skinny. I immediately bought them, along with an olive Nice Collective jacket.

Stuck in Heathrow a month later, flipping through the Lonely Planet guide to Stockholm, I saw a mention of Acne jeans, pioneers of the skinny leg. I blinked, and contorted myself to see the label above my butt. Sure enough, Acne. I was headed to Sweden wearing Swedish jeans.

Today I went out to refresh my dwindling supply of jeans without holes in key places. I’m not sure what happens to my pants—bicycling, motorcycling, climbing, dancing, drinking, [falling down]—but they all end up dying a slow death. So shortly before executing an entirely graceless low-speed high-side off the Ducati—my first, and right in front of Desmosport, YES—I paid a visit to Rolo Garage.

Rolo Garage on Howard Street has Acne jeans for $80. Eighty bucks. Anyway, happy dance, shortly after sadface when my calves didn’t fit into the black jeans I also tried on.

Extra bonus shopping win: Before jeans & T-shirt purchase, I went to REI to replace my time and Pista-worn approach shoes. Until March 30, REI is giving members 20% off on any single item. That, and I had a fat dividend to spend. I walked spending less than half of what the Merrells cost new.

In conclusion, I R HAPPY WITH NOT SPENDING THE MONIES. Also, this post brought to you by the letters G, A and Y.

This morning's ride up the Headlands and subsequent burning forearms and calves was a simple reminder why endorphin is my drug of choice. I look forward to ride two.

The gearhead inside me can’t not post this insanely stupid cool video of Ken Block and his WRX flying through the air in New Zealand through flocks of snowboarders:

Originally posted to shaderlab.com on June 27, 2001.

Added a pager to the bottom of pages with several items to cut down on loading time. This makes it possible to reimplement the “new” filter at some point. Also fixed a stupid bug that was causing duplicate textures to not appear in every category they match.

The mail server is back up, so everything should be slagtastic.

Went to a major league baseball game for the first time in a decade last night. Was reminded several times why the I haven’t been going. Maybe by 2011 the (admittedly a minority) overzealous asshole fans will have grown up and I can enjoy a game again...