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it makes me feel a bit better that I'm not the only poor bastard on the 30YO chopping block this year. Make it a good one.

This thread has made me super paranoid. :| Good to know to keep an eye out for at least.

Howdy, from a guy sitting in Hilliard at work right now.

I blocked off the weekend from work so I should be able to attend this year. Since it's my first ride with you guys I'll opt for the slow group to start.

oh no, the dreaded "design by committee"! this may have been a bad post fo me to find.

Intersections are the worst offenders, I wouldn't go blasting into them. Generally cars aren't stopped or moving terribly slow through normal turns so the amount of muck is less of a problem. That doesn't mean you should trust every corner though as you will find gravel or other debris / pot holes / random obstructions in the road mid corner every now and then. If I'm on an unfamiliar road I generally take it easy. You don't want to be riding at the edge of your abilities and run into something unexpected. Not to mention it's pretty stupid to ride like that on the road in the first place.

Will be doing some maintenance on Friday and probably going for a ride Saturday. Not sure where I'm going to go though.

Life is way too much. Negligent homicide yes, but I would expect life sentences to be given to people that were aware of the fact that they were killing someone and felt no remorse doing so. Life in prison means that the person is not nor ever will be able to live in society. This lady has to live with the fact that her actions led to the death of a father and son, I don't see the reason for much more than a hefty fine and a small amount of prison time. Was what she did stupid? yes, incredibly, but it wasn't malicious. I kind of wonder what her driving record looks like, though. If she has more accidents / injuries under her belt then that changes things.

You're making me miss the roads down there Jim...

It took me a little while to get over the "what if" jitters after I went down the first time. I learned 'when I should stop riding due to mental fatigue' that day; luckily the bike and I weren't terribly injured but things could have been a lot worse. Best thing to do is figure out why you went down so you can correct any mistake you may have made or be more aware of things that weren't previously on your radar and then start riding again. Lane position while riding around town is pretty important, try to stay out of the middle of the lane during corners as that is where oil and other slippery crap usually ends up. Other than that I guess just watch out for dark spots on pavement… sadly there's not much you can do except be more vigilant when scanning for potential hazards.

now if only they would fix the disaster that is the 315/270 interchange. swear to god there is one major accident there every day...

ride a slow bike, no pace problems ever. CBR takes off on a straight and disappears? no worries, i'll never catch him anyway ...guess i'll see him at the next intersection. sv650s club

im up right off bethel / henderson. i'll be around for most of the summer but bike will be in shop until the 18th or so of this month. i'd be down for some weekend rides if anyone knows some good roads around the area, haven't gotten out much since i moved here unfortunately.

we actually had this happen to us last summer on a trip down to WV. my uncle (jschaf on here) passed a guy in a jeep grand cherokee who was driving rather slowly and the guy proceeded to try to catch him and drive down the center of the road stopping me and my other uncle from passing. i think the guy got up to at least 100mph on the straights trying to catch up to jschaf, who had been given about a minute to get ahead of the guy before he decided to start going all crazy. he was also taking the corners at dangerous speeds for that type of vehicle, not to mention he was fully in the oncoming lane while going around the blind curves. i decided to stay the hell back. i thought for sure we were going to get gunned down at the next traffic stop if the guy didn't cause some horrific accident on the way. crazy people everywhere i guess. was half expecting to see that same black grand cherokee in the video heh.

The easy way to do it is just to make the 'O' separate from the 'hio' and eyeball it. You can use the old logo as a reference. There are kerning/tracking settings in photoshop, but I'm not sure if they are in elements or not as I use CS4.

Now let's talk about letter spacing(kerning)! Bring that O in a little closer to the H in Ohio. Currently it looks like it is being anti-social and doesn't really want to participate in the formation of a word, yet feels obligated to be there because his friend's cat just died and he wants to offer su... sorry I got a little off track. Anyway, letter spacing! Oh, another thing to look into that you might find helpful is the "rule of thirds." This rule is pretty standard when putting together a composition and can be applied to pretty much any medium. Likwid, I belong to the "less is more" school of design myself. That advice your friend gave is good, but it really depends on the type of work you are doing so it wont be true 100% of the time.

oh god, that video again... was listening to O&A a while back and one of the guys on the show made the comment "looks like michael j fox on his way to work." now i laugh every time i see it. :|

try a white stroke with #3 instead of black. should get rid of the white line around the type, or at least hide it. also might want to try reducing the logo size a tiny big so it isn't bleeding off the edge of the image. give it a little breathing room and it will be happy.

a stroke is line around something, and 1px = 1 pixel. for example; the stroked type has a 2px red stroke, and the unstroked type has a 0px stroke as it has no stroke at all. also, the grey in the logotype is a bit hard to read with the multi-color background. if you get rid of the stroke I would think about putting something behind the type so it stands out from the photo a bit better otherwise it will be lost. as for which image; the first one is better at the moment, but i think with some cropping you could make the 2nd image look good as well. if you have higher resolution versions to work with i would play around with cropping the 2nd image down a bit so more of the image is filled with the bikes, kind of like the first image. the reason i suggest doing this is you would have more room to play around with the ohio riders logo in the second image if you have a higher resolution master. white/negative space is typically a good thing as it gives the viewer a bit of breathing room and doesnt leave the image feeling claustrophobic. the trick is knowing where your focal point is set and balancing your focal point with the negative space. focal hierarchy is the most important factor when dealing with any image, and it's what you should use as a foundation when putting together any type of imagery or typography.

the eyes of a serial killer

Birds will be the end of us all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLoZE396xfE

I don't think I will ever understand people's obsession with beer. All the drama is good to read while sitting bored at work though!

unless you are highly self-motivated i would stay away from online courses, at least for your first couple quarters. gen3 is correct about buying used books. if i had bought all my books new in the 4 years i was in school, it would have easily added on an extra $5,000.00 to my student loans. as for parking... you have a bike right? i mean you are on this website. scout around the campus for a parking gray area where you can wedge your bike into a corner or hide it behind a row of bushes or something. the town i went to school in was a huge tourist trap therefor parking was always a big problem. my lovely SV got me through my last 2 years parking-problem free.

25, started on bikes when i was 22. snowmobiles since i was 2.

god I want to get back down there now that I have another year and a half under my belt and no more D220 stock tires! SVRider Rally inc?