Ctopher's Blog

Cervelo BBright

2011-12-17T20:56:00.000-08:00

Back pain

2011-12-10T20:21:00.001-08:00

I found out today after an ER visit I have a herniated lumbar disc. This is the most pain I have ever had!
I don't know how it happened.

Herniated Lumbar Disc

Cervelo S5 bike, great job team!

2011-12-07T19:34:00.001-08:00

Cervelo S5 - Best New Bike

China & Hong Kong Nov 6, 2011

2011-12-06T22:45:00.000-08:00

MapMyRide.com | View IMapMyRide: Nov 28, 2010 12:29 PM in Orange, California

2010-11-28T21:12:00.000-08:00

MapMyRide.com | View IMapMyRide: Nov 28, 2010 12:29 PM in Orange, California: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Canyon Ride on 10-24-2010

2010-10-25T14:12:00.000-07:00

A ride mapped on 10/25/2010

Find more Cycling Routes / Bike Rides in Orange, CA

Solvang Prelude, Nov 6

2010-10-18T12:29:00.000-07:00

Solvang Prelude 50 Mile Route
Find more Bike Rides in Santa Ynez, California

Cervélo Engineering - Tech Presentations

2010-10-18T08:05:00.000-07:00

Cervélo Engineering - Tech Presentations: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Cervelo R5ca - Eurobike '10 VeloNews

2010-10-07T20:16:00.000-07:00

Cervelo R5ca - VeloNews: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Thanks Australia

2010-09-20T21:41:00.000-07:00

Written by an Australian Dentist

To Kill an American

You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

I hate hypocrites!

2010-09-19T17:51:00.000-07:00

Christians pray in shuttered church in Indonesia: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Cervelo R5ca Road Frameset with Rotor Crankset 2010 | Nytro Multisport

2010-08-16T12:35:00.000-07:00

Cervelo R5ca Road Frameset with Rotor Crankset 2010 | Nytro Multisport: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

New Cervelo bike video

2010-06-08T12:12:00.000-07:00

Link: Project California Part 2

New Cervelo R5ca bike.
My place of work.
(I'm not in the video)

New Cervelo bike

2010-06-07T07:56:00.000-07:00

The new Cervelo R5ca bicycle.
http://bikereviews.com/2010/06/cervelos-r5ca-california-road-bike/

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/05/road/cervelos-new-bike-the-superlight-super-expensive-super-limited-r5ca_118703

Project I have been helping on designing tooling/fixtures/molds via SolidWorks.

Russia's Sukhoi T-50 Challenges U.S. Jet

2010-02-01T20:42:00.001-08:00

Quoted from http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/world/2010/01/29/russias-sukhoi-t-challenges-jet:

FOXNews.com - Russia's Sukhoi T-50 Challenges U.S. Jet F-22 Raptor

Internet Explorer

2010-02-01T18:48:00.000-08:00

I hate IE! I am now switching to solely to Firefox.
I have used IE for years and have been used to using it, but lately it crashes without warning and for no reason.

I have also been using Microsoft products since the beginning, approx 1984.
With Apple's technologies quickly surpassing MS, I am considering an Apple computer when the time comes for replacement.

Microsoft needs to take the hints of Apples success and give off of their lazy asses and do something worth while.

And for the loser virus/trojan programmers, you start praying we never meet!

Cheer competition

2009-12-08T21:23:00.001-08:00

C. Saller wrote:

Cheer competition

Kaylee's (my daughter, Cypress High School) team won 1st place today in their first competition (at El Toro High School).

They did very well.
Chris

Dual-monitors, window hidden

2008-11-27T21:56:00.001-08:00

Switching from dual monitors to a single monitor then losing windows?

Select ALT-SPACEBAR on your keyboard, then 'M' (for Move), then use the keyboard arrow keys to move the window back into view.

I have used this trick for a few years and it works great!

Before I switch from dual to single monitors, I drag all of my windows to my primary monitor before closing them. This will save the positions for the next time they are open.

Obama

2008-11-04T21:22:00.000-08:00

First "black" president?!

Give me a break!
"We are in a recession!" People are losing jobs, their homes, their savings, and their trust in the U.S. government...and people are concerned about the "first black president"??

Then the media's headlines are concentrating on Obama being the first "black" president??

Who cares??!!

What is he going to do for us to make this a better place to live?
I say this for any president.

I would get reprimanded, yelled at, possibly fired, or get into a fight if I were to call an "African American" black!

I once had a "black" woman ask me where I was from. I said Los Angeles. She asked me what country my last name is from. I said I am "German American".
She said I can't say that because I'm not from Germany.
She said she's "African American" because her ancestors were from Africa.
Damn!! I told her I'm more German than she is African!!
She called me a racist! A racist?? A racist calls me a racist??!!

When I applied for the LAPD, I was told I can't go forward because they weren't hiring "white males"!! Well...F*** you!!

People with this arrogance don't belong here. Get a life, move on.

I have just as many rights as anyone else in this country, I don't care what damn color anyone is.
Citizens of the U.S. need to get their thumbs out of their mouths, grow up, and act like human beings!

We have lost our technologies to other countries, all do to corporate greed, government bureaucracy, and plain 'ol stupidity.

If change doesn't happen soon, there will be no turning back.

Pink Floyd's Richard Wright

2008-09-15T22:14:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite bands of all time has lost an original, Richard Wright (keyboards)

Sad and he will be missed.

SolidWorks models

2008-09-09T11:30:00.000-07:00

I have been asked a lot about where to find models/parts to download.
Here are some links to help some of you find them.
I hope this helps! ;)

http://www.3dmodelsharing.com/free.php

http://beta.3dcontentcentral.com/Browse.aspx

http://www.katorlegaz.com/3d_models/index.php

http://www.3dvia.com/search/models.php?search%5Bresults_per_page%5D=100&search%5Bsort_order%5D=Rank&search%5Bquery%5D=SolidWorks&search%5Bfields%5D=software

http://www.3dcadtips.com/login.php

http://www.cben.net/

http://www.worthingtonmillwork.com/cad_moldings.html

http://www.sheetmetaldesign.com/Cad-SolidWorks/index.htm

http://www.us.kohler.com/tech/cadsymbol/symbols.jsp?module=All&type=3D

http://www-users.aston.ac.uk/~smithdi/_private/Models.htm

Update. Thank you to Casa De Toad.
http://www.tracepartsonline.net/(S(ryy4o5uopg0djc45gu0dkj55))/ws/mcadcentral/index.aspx

"Death Race" boycott

2008-08-30T18:21:00.000-07:00

I was at the Jimmy Kimmel show Friday, Aug 29 with my daughter. It was a fun show. But, when Tyrese Gibson announced that everyone at the show could go across the street and see "Death Race" for free...ON HIM, it was bogus. We even recieved wrist bands from the Jimmy Kimmel staff to see the movie!
I talked to the theater manager who walked across the street to the Jimmy Kimmel show and talked to a manager there. The manager said it was all a joke! It was a huge let down for my daughter and myself.I passed the word and I will boycott all of Tyrese's films from now on! I hope other's will follow.

SolidWorks "Ctopher's Material Database"

2008-08-22T21:46:00.000-07:00

For access to download my SolidWorks "Ctopher's Material Database", please select one of the links below:

Ctopher's Home: http://home.roadrunner.com/~zoerme/ctopherCADtips.html

SolidWorks Legion: http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog/?s=materials&pwp=1

AUGI CAD Camp

2008-05-23T15:49:00.000-07:00

I visited my first AUGI CAD Camp on Wednesday, May 21 2008.
I don't want to go into too much detail, so I will be brief.
Although I am an avid SolidWorks user, at my job I also do Autodesk Enterprise Support for our company.
Autodesk has a lot of products and a few have improved over the past few years.
But, there is a lot more improvement needed. They have WAYYY too many products and much of them overlap. AutoCAD 2009 now has features imported from Inventor.

There was a lot of 3D talk. AutoCAD is now starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and moving to 3D. The two products I heard the most were Rivet and MEP.

Satellite TV installed

2007-12-09T15:37:00.001-08:00

I made the move from cable TV (Time Warner) to satellite TV (DirecTV).
Much improvement!
The tech took approximately 10 hours to install the dish and run cables for 4 rooms and did a very god job.
The cable was HD ... about 10 HD channels, now the satellite is HD ... about 100+ channels; huge improvement in quality also!
I'm keeping the cable high speed internet, but will not go back to cable TV.
I get more channels and options than cable, and is a little cheaper.

I did have him leave all cable TV cables in place for future use.

Scams

2007-12-06T18:30:00.000-08:00

I ordered satellite TV and it is getting installed on Saturday.
Yesterday I received a call from a guy from India, very poor English, asking me to give him all of my information again because the computer lost it.
It seems very fishy to me, so I hung up.
I called the satellite dish company, they said everything is good and they did not call.

For anyone looking to have anything installed, do not give out your information on the telephone to anyone if they call you. Call them back and check, it is probably a scam!

2007-11-27T19:50:00.000-08:00

To all spam and solicitors:

If I don't know who you are, I will not answer the telephone or open your email.

For paper mail, it will be returned.

SolidWorks "How To Videos" tip

2007-10-09T20:37:00.001-07:00

For those of you that have not found them yet or not aware they exist, there are numerous "How To" videos in YouTube for different subjects, including SolidWorks. You can do a video search in Google and it will also direct you to the same YouTube page.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=solidworks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0mGgQo1UeY&mode=related&search

My first blog

2007-10-06T09:55:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone. This is my first blog. Please be patient with me, the blog is still under construction.