tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:21:45 +0000My daily ramblings and interesting things I find.http://www.davidguido.com/index.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)Blogger266125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-7888420617013980591Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:17:00 +00002010-01-30T22:21:45.084-08:00mountain bikeThis morning I did some shuttle runs up and down Skyline Trail here in Corona, Ca with Patrick and Nick. After the big rain we had last week the trails were pretty rutted, but nice and sticky. I had a great day. I only got three runs in, but they were a blast. I finally cleared that big jump... This was captured with my camera phone... Man, I need a better video camera for this stuff!http://www.davidguido.com/2010/01/bombing-down-skyline.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-8351613783324709984Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:12:00 +00002010-01-15T22:12:44.636-08:00kid quotes"Never torture a black bear." -- Ethan (age 7) http://www.davidguido.com/2010/01/quote-of-day.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-4700665786480665498Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:36:00 +00002009-12-14T21:54:14.442-08:00radio winningsmusicconcertsTricia and I went to see the Band of Skulls today at the 98.7 studio with about 25 other people. I won this from collecting points on their website, and bidding on this prize. My sister Cathi got me into this, and so far it's been fun. Here's a picture of me with the band.The show was great. They were interviewed by the local DJ and played 4 songs, including their hit I Know What I Am, along withhttp://www.davidguido.com/2009/11/tricia-and-i-went-to-see-band-of-skulls.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-5862669901113483075Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:04:00 +00002009-11-03T07:49:31.657-08:00Tour de Coronamountain bikeFor this year's Tour de Corona, I decided to repeat the ride from 2007, mainly so that my buddy John can redeem himself. He broke his leg on this ride two years ago and never felt the glory of finishing like the rest of us.The proposed ride was up Bedford (everyone's favorite climb), across the Main Divide, down the Silverado Motorway, back up Maple Springs, down the Main Divide and back down http://www.davidguido.com/2009/10/tour-de-corona-2009-aka-john-hudspeth.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-6055505186310455658Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:10:00 +00002009-10-15T07:35:51.979-07:00tripsmountain bikehike I couldn't swing going to Moab with the gang like last year, but I did manage to tag along for a long weekend on the Gooseberry Mesa for mountain biking and in the Zion National Forest for an awesome hike to the "Subway". Here's a picture taken with my cell phone.Day 1 & 2 GooseberryThe first two days were filled with some epic mountain bike riding on the Gooseberry Mesa. This is now my favoritehttp://www.davidguido.com/2009/10/zion-gooseberry-utah-trip-2009.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-3440322976818406735Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:07:00 +00002009-10-07T20:17:43.788-07:00peaksmountain bikehikeMy buddy Patrick and I bagged Gray's Peak today on our mountain bikes. Here's a picture of me at the peak with Big Bear Lake behind me. It was about 3.5 miles one way, all single track, kinda up and down (but mostly up, of course), and not too difficult of a climb. The downhill part, oh man, that was fun!The downhill from Gray's Peak was like a roller coaster... very fast and smooth. We road downhttp://www.davidguido.com/2009/09/grays-peak-bagged.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-2701299739838976541Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:29:00 +00002009-07-09T14:07:48.685-07:00mountain bikeMountain biking in Mammoth was epic this year, mainly because my buddies Patrick, Nick and Craig joined me for two full days of downhill action. The highlight for me was landing the Flow Drop, which Craig referred to as "just like riding off a curb." Yeah, right! Here's a low quality video of me doing it...I first saw this drop a year ago...but I was by myself and I didn't want to risk it. So http://www.davidguido.com/2009/07/just-like-riding-off-curb.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-8568491988381241457Sun, 17 May 2009 01:25:00 +00002009-09-13T20:30:25.103-07:00sportspeakshikeEvery year, the guys from the church do a series of hikes, mostly for the purpose of training for a larger hike. This year, there are no large hikes planned, but they started off with a doozy... to the peak of San Bernardino Peak.The hike was about 16 miles round trip and about 4700 feet of elevation gain. It was a little challenging, especially since there were some large spots of snow towards http://www.davidguido.com/2009/06/san-bernardino-peak-bagged.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-8437451177945241857Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:09:00 +00002009-02-27T18:30:55.164-08:00familyTricia's Kindle2 arrived today! So of course, I had to check out what davidguido.com looked like on it. Not to shabby, huh?Her family and I pitched in to buy it for her birthday. I bought it a month in advance, and of course, it was back-ordered. So for her birthday, I found a picture of a Kindle, wrote a message on it in Photoshop, printed it out, and pasted it to a piece of card-board. It took http://www.davidguido.com/2009/02/kindle2.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-6381019946778167943Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:50:00 +00002009-02-10T06:59:43.859-08:00mountain bike At the bottom of the Troy Lee trails at Skyline (SoCal), there are a series of three nice jumps that are well maintained. They are much easier to hit on a downhill or freeride bike, but here's a pretty good photo of me hitting the second one with my cross-country bike. There's about a 4-5' gap that's not in the picture. Photo credit goes to my man, Steve F.http://www.davidguido.com/2009/02/skyline-jumps.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-7284627569477497480Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:22:00 +00002009-01-24T14:01:07.804-08:00art One of the most fascinating parts of the historic inauguration this week is watching the events unfold over Shepard Fairey's Obama poster.The "Hope" poster got Fairey's foot in the door, then it somehow landed in the friggen' Smithsonian! You just have to see these photos of the guys at the Smithsonian hanging it up with white gloves. There's also the "Progress" poster that's very similar, then http://www.davidguido.com/2009/01/shepard-fairey-obama-poster.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-8104215733360948561Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:45:00 +00002008-11-18T16:54:09.032-08:00artI love to follow new types of street art and graffiti. Here are a couple of interesting ones...Check out Aakash Nihalani or watch a cool video of FatBlodded Following Aakash Nihalani.Also check out INVADER - Binary Code Street Art.http://www.davidguido.com/2008/11/new-street-art.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-5912516159298186530Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +00002008-11-06T07:53:37.203-08:00Tour de Coronamountain bikeFor the first time in the Tour de Corona's 6 year history, all of the riders completed the whole ride. Way to go!We had a great ride this year. Nothing too strenuous, no serious injuries like last year, and no death march like the year before.This year we started off at my house, as usual, took a 6 mile road ride to Skyline, stopping at Steve's house on the way. We went up Skyline, traversed the http://www.davidguido.com/2008/10/tour-de-corona-2008.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-783517128797158492Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:23:00 +00002008-11-06T08:59:43.716-08:00sportsMy brother-in-law invited me to this "new sport", explaining it something like "arm wrestling, with their hands strapped together and their belts hooked to the arm wrestling table, but they get to punch and kick each other!" So of course, I'm like, "I'm in!"Here are a few photos... photo 1, photo 2, photo 3We show up to the American Sports University in San Bernardino and take a seat in this http://www.davidguido.com/2008/10/x-arm-my-brother-in-law-invited-me-to.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-903650004921868033Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:51:00 +00002008-11-06T08:47:25.345-08:00tripsmountain bikeBig "thanks" to Steve, Brian and Bob for a great week of hard mountain bike riding. Special thanks to Jesse for showing us the local spots.Day 1 Gooseberry7.93 miles, 1h 59mBumps and bruises - I bumped my left shoulder on a tree pretty hard, which left a scratch. I also caught my right knee on a sharp twig, so it was bleeding a little. The ride was fun, of course, but I was so friggen full from ahttp://www.davidguido.com/2008/09/moab-gooseberry-utah-trip-2008-big.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-3399457004381058343Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:09:00 +00002008-11-06T08:53:00.065-08:00break dancing http://www.davidguido.com/2008/08/38-and-still-kicking-it-old-school.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-7685455352728134942Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:11:00 +00002008-11-06T08:58:30.402-08:00kid quotes"Daddy, you need to say 'Excuse me' when your butt burps!"-- Ava (age 3)http://www.davidguido.com/2008/08/quote-of-day.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-3230999962022286022Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:49:00 +00002008-11-06T08:51:32.857-08:00tripscampingThis was my first two-week vacation ever, and it turned out to be the best vacation ever. The only downside was the heat in Yosemite, otherwise we had a great time and will probably do something similar next year. Here's how it went...Day 1 - Traveled from Home to Mammoth, CA - Set up campsite, hung out with family.Day 2 - Mammoth - Full day of downhill mountain biking at Mammoth Mountain ski http://www.davidguido.com/2008/07/mammoth-yosemite-trip-2008-day-1.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-1833151691713376230Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:56:00 +00002008-11-06T08:58:40.767-08:00kid quotes"You mean, you can't rewind the radio? Well, that's dumb!"-- Ethan, age 5 (clearly of the TiVo generation)http://www.davidguido.com/2008/03/quote-of-day.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-4951643520381047338Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:06:00 +00002008-11-06T08:54:01.162-08:00Muddy Buddymountain bikeThis year's Muddy Buddy race was a lot of fun, as usual. Unfortunately, Tricia was in Connecticut so she couldn't make it. Her sister Gina helped take care of the kids though.Jordan and I had pretty low expectations going in; not really prepared at all, and ended up doing better than we did last year! The results show us coming in 11th place at 47:30, but we have a very clear photo of us coming http://www.davidguido.com/2007/11/muddy-buddy-2007-this-years-muddy-buddy.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-6465729001259974011Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:38:00 +00002009-10-12T08:08:24.137-07:00Tour de Coronamountain bikeThe attendance at this year's tour was much slimmer than last year's. Partly because I gave less than two weeks notice, but also because nobody likes to climb Bedford Road.The proposal was to start at my house, climb Bedford to Main Divide, take a right and go down Silverado Motorway. From there we climb back up Maple Springs to Four Corners, back down Main Divide and back down Bedford.And that'shttp://www.davidguido.com/2007/10/tour-de-corona-2007-this-years-presance.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-742780501730998905Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:29:00 +00002009-09-13T20:30:56.688-07:00peaksTour de Coronamountain bikeThis year we started at 9:00, went up Bedford, up Main Divide all the way to Santiago Peak, back down the same route, hitting the single tracks, back to my house to enjoy some tasty beverages, grilled meat and UFC 65.Here's a cool map of the planned route...The ride started with 16 of us:Dave (me)RichBrianJoeBobSkippyFrankPatrickBartJohnCodyJeffJeff Jr.TonyAdrianLamond... and ended with 8 at the http://www.davidguido.com/2006/11/tour-de-corona-2006-this-year-we.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-116277589102700630Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:09:00 +00002008-11-06T08:55:23.791-08:00funnyEveryone that knows my wife, knows how young she looks. I mean, she gets carded about 98% of the time. Sometimes it's flattering to her, but most of the time she's insulted. I really don't understand why she gets insulted because she goes through every last measure to maintain her young appearance... She takes extremely good care of her skin, she eats good, exercises, dresses young, dyes her hairhttp://www.davidguido.com/2006/11/everyone-that-knows-my-wife-knows-how.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-116331160340806591Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:03:00 +00002008-10-21T06:58:50.677-07:00Muddy Buddymountain bikeThis year's Muddy Buddy race was the best so far. The kids were way more into it and our team did pretty damn good, if I do say so myself. After last year's race, Jordan and I both said we'd shoot for top 10. Out of 62 teams in our division this year, we ended up at a respectable 14th place. Not too shabby. But besides all that, we had an absolute blast.Ethan did great this year by just getting http://www.davidguido.com/2006/10/muddy-buddy-2006-this-years-muddy.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6126572.post-114775386641210490Tue, 16 May 2006 04:27:00 +00002008-10-21T06:59:14.621-07:00kid quotes"Hey Aunt Gina, wanna come into the bathroom with me and smell something stinky?"-- Ethan, age 3http://www.davidguido.com/2006/05/question-of-day.htmnoreply@blogger.com (David Guido)0