Magazine, A Race and Computer Porn

Adventure Monkey Magazine News

Yes, Adventure Monkey – the magazine, Issue Two is in the works albeit the planning stages. I emailed a person that I want to feature on the cover. If it happens it will be a delicious cover. I have set the bar pretty high putting Bobby on the cover of Issue One, so the pressure is on. If this works out, I guarantee a cover and inside photos that will leave your jaw on the floor and stars in your eyes. The person did respond with something like,

“I am on my way out the door to go snowboarding, but I love your idea and I’m very interested in taking part. I’ll be out all day today and half of tomorrow. So I’ll try and look at your mag and get in touch tomorrow afternoon or Friday.”

Adventure Monkey likes that kind of response. I have my fingers crossed. At this point I have no money to offer, just Adventure Monkey stickers. Hopefully the excitement of spreading adventurous living to others will keep this thing going.

On that note, if you haven’t downloaded Issue One please do. More than it being awesome, I am tracking the number of downloads to use when I attempt to get advertising. I will need more than 41 downloads to get any companies’ interest peaked, that’s for sure. And I plan on only allowing Adventure Monkey approved companies to be in the magazine, no junk. I will keep you posted, but so far it looks like it has been downloaded at least 241 times and viewed 328 times on Magcloud.com. Not bad, but could be better, so spread the word people!

I Challenge You to a Race

I was one of the 500 people to register in time for the 100 Miles to Nowhere race. Read the details of it HERE. All the profits go to Livestrong to help in the fight against cancer. In case you were just too lazy to click that link and read about it, the 100 miles to nowhere is just that. I have to ride 100 miles without going anywhere. That means all 100 miles will be done on rollers or on a very, very short route. If you join me, it will miserable and fun all at the same time and we will raise money for cancer research. We are going to do it in Emporia and don’t know if I am going to do it on rollers or on a short route, but I DO NOT want to do it alone. Remember if a lot of people do something it no longer seems foolish, so I need your help. Here’s how it will work:

We will pick a place to ride rollers or trainers OR we will figure out a very short and miserable route. You will pay or raise money to be miserable with me. How much? I don’t care. We are raising money for cancer research. Raise as much or as little as you want. Everyone that raises at least $100 will receive Adventure Monkey stickers and a first edition Adventure Monkey T-shirt! That’s right, I just committed to making T-shirts. We will ride on May 8. You must either get me your money 2 weeks before May 8 or if you bring all of it the day of the race, I will have to send you your T-shirt or something. Just want a T-shirt? I think I can make that happen and all profits will go to Livestrong.

I am thinking we should do this somewhere public where people can see us, feel sorry for us and drop some money in a bucket. I am not a good event planner so I am going to need some help on this. Don’t leave me hanging here people! I want to create a video and a hilarious write up and raise enough money to maybe just possibly get us on the Fat Cyclist’s blog or maybe just in the Emporia Gazette.

Extreme Computer Porn Ahead

Don’t worry this is a family place, but if you continue scrolling down you will see some extremely awesome pictures of a computer. Here’s why:

I am not a computer nerd in that I can fix computers or figure out why your PC doesn’t work. I use a Mac and love them. I don’t know or care how they work, they just do. That said, the lease on the old machine came due and I ordered a new one at the “real” job. A bright spot at work. Believe it or not, I actually saved the company money. The guy before me didn’t know anything about Apple machines or graphic design or video editing. The company that leased us that system sold us a lot of expensive stuff we didn’t need. I pared it down, but got a screaming fast machine with a lot of RAM and hard drive space for storage. Why is this on a cycling blog? Well, I am a photographer and everything is on the computer. This machine was so beautiful and easy to set up, I had to share it with you. Ten years ago, I would not have believed a machine of this magnitude was possible. Geeks enjoy and non-computer geeks enjoy the pictures too.

Feed Your Monkey!
-Eric

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