Twitter Sucks

I had a Twitter account.
Twitter is completely pointless.
I deleted my Twitter account.

Human Compassion

So, I walked down Swan Street today and noticed a dude laying on the ground. 10+ people just walked straight past, they didn’t even glance at him. As I approached the poor fella I noticed that the dude was bleeding from his face and seemed to not be in the best shape, so I stopped to ask if he was all right and if I could help somehow.

Turns out the dude had fallen/been hit by a car and had severe pain in his right leg and down the side of his body. Granted the dude seemed intoxicated by something, probably alcohol, but what the fuck does that matter? How fucking hard is it to show some compassion and just stop to see if a person needs help.

As soon as I had stopped to show him some attention, of course other people came swarming in. Pathetic!

I’m glad I stopped and I’m glad I’m the kind of person who don’t just ignore people in need of help. And I’m definitely glad that I dialled 000 to get an ambulance to the scene.

Be a human being. Look after the people around you.

Site Refresh | Focalpoint

The latest in line for a website overhaul is Focalpoint. No time to write a lot at the moment, so head on over to the FP site instead. There is always new content there!

Site Refresh | Tempered Bikes

This one might have gone under my radar. Not sure when the site got refreshed and the url got updated to temperedgoods.com…

I discovered it when the grapevine told me that Mike Vockenson had a new edit out. Head on over to the Tempered Bikes site and enjoy 3:28 of kick ass riding.

[Also don’t miss the new universal and horror tee catalog that are available to view by clicking either of the links on the splash page.]

EZ frame by Simple

Here’s a first look at Eduards Zunda’s signature frame from Simple Bikes. It’s a pretty straight forward frame. The main thing that’s a bit different is the dropouts where the chain stay and seat stay end caps are one piece with the dropout instead of welded on separately. It gives a rather clean look and the way it is welded also leaves a lot of clearance on the inside of the dropouts for running hub guards and whatnot.

Also check out this Southern California edit from Ed and his buddy Arthur Dietrich.

Simple @ Interbike

Simple is at Interbike too.
From this video on Vital BMX I learned about some new prototypes that are being shown.

[Click screenshot to warp to the source post.]

Tempered @ Interbike

I just saw some shots on BMXunion of the stuff Tempered Bikes is showing off at Interbike in Vegas. Mat and Tempered has a nice spot in the Sparky’s Distribution booth. Let’s hope it’s a solid launch for Tempered in the US!

[Photo borrowed from here. Click the photo for more from the source.]

Daniel Johnson | Focalpoint X Animal

After being off the bike for just about two years while waiting for, and recovering from, a knee reconstruction, DJ is now back riding and he’s definitely killing it. This edit, commissioned by Focalpoint and Animal, has some serious moves in it. DJ also recently won a decent sum of cash at Colony’s King of the jibs comp that I forgot to post about.

Good to see you back DJ!

Det Svenska Riksdagsvalet

Ja, så har det Svenska valet passerat. Tyvärr var jag själv inte vaken nog att styra upp hela grejen med att poströsta från utlandet, så jag är en sån där fördjävlig röstskolkare.

Känns ju jävligt risigt nu när det visat sig att en stor andel svenskar varit dumma nog att lägga sin röst på Sverigedemokraterna.

De trångsynta människor som är aktiva inom det partiet och de stackarna som inte vetat bättre än att ge sitt stöd till SD är de som egentligen borde skickas ut ur Sverige.

Om det här är vad vi har att vänta oss av Sveriges befolkning i framtida val så känner jag verkligen inget större behov av att flytta tillbaks dit. Visst, det är “bara” strax under 6% som röstat på SD, men det är tyvärr tillräckligt många för att få mig att tappa tron på svenskars tolerans och medmänsklighet.

Är mycket tacksam över att ha kunnat bli mottagen med öppna armar och finna min plats i ett land som verkligen anammar sin stora mångfald.

Simple site refreshed

Travis has been hard at work creating an updated interface for the Simple Bikes website. It’s still got basically the same layout, but instead of side scrolling between posts, now they are displayed in a vertically scrolling fashion.

It’s now also possible to search via tags attached to each post (welcome to the modern world of website browsing).

I think it’s a good update.