Kent Fackenthall

  • New Merch and Design Work

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    I’ve been pretty busy lately with design and web and there’s quite a bit to show for it. There’s three different places you can currently find and purchase merchandise featuring artwork I’ve done for the Bike Commuter Cabal, an informal bicycle commuting group on Google+. First up, I launched a Redbubble store to sell t-shirts,…

  • The Return of Green Day?

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    Ok, so pursuant to a thread last week on my Google+ page about Green Day records, for the past week I’ve been checking out their latest ‘trilogy’ for lack of a better word, Uno! Dos! Tré!. I remember being nonplussed when they started releasing these. I have to admit that my first reaction was, they’re…

  • Surly Pugsley First Ride Impressions

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    So back in October of last year I officially put in an order for a Surly Necromancer Puglsey. Having wanted one for years, I’d finally managed to save up the scratch to get one. My goal was to bomb it around all winter, but also to hopefully commute through most of the winter up here…

  • Why you should consider Google+. Again.

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    I’ve been having lots of conversations with people lately regarding their trust – or lack thereof – of Facebook/Instagram and their use/intentions with regards to your content and data. I’ve always maintained that posting info on ANY service on the internet is never going to be 100% guaranteed, but how a company conducts itself ethically,…

  • Pumpkin Cross Race Report: It’s All About the Lebuckskis.

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    Rode my first cyclocross race today and it was a blast. A quick recap. I missed out on the holeshot at the start due to a huge group of riders in front of me at the start. I decided to start way at the back to make things more interesting. I enjoy the challenge of…

  • Google+ Only August

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    I am the mad scientist of social media. Back at the end of July, in another one of my social media experiments, I’d sort of made a resolution to myself to only use only Google+ in August and see what it got me. I didn’t really tell anyone about it, just sort of did it.…