Frank, All enjoyable stuff. I'm beginning to recognize some of your messengers. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:59 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > Last peso I mentioned our messenger holiday dinner. Before the dinner we had > a charity alleycat called Shop 'til You Drop. I think this is the third year > we've done it. > > So: an alleycat is an illegal messenger race. You pay a small registration > fee and various messenger-friendly businesses (bike shops and coffee shops > mostly) donate prizes, the registration fee goes into a pot for the winner > and we all have fun. > > The way the races are done is that there are between six and ten checkpoints. > At each checkpoint you get your manifest signed by the checkpoint guys and > the finishers must show a completed manifest. > > Routing is up to each rider, all that matters is that you hit all the > checkpoints in any order you want. > > And that's an alleycat. We do about ten a year. > > For the alleycat before the holiday dinner there was no entrance fee. Instead > of checkpoints the competitors were given a list of non-perishable foods and > a list of grocery stores. You had to buy all the stuff on the list and > instead of a signed manifest one had to show receipts from the specific > stores. > > The foodstuffs cost about twenty dollars. > > Last Sunday was rainy so only about ten intrepid folks raced. After > everything was tallied up, receipts pored over and winners declared, the food > went back into the messenger bags and we went to the local firehall to donate > the stuff for their Christmas drive. About a hundred pounds of > non-perishables were donated. > > All this long-winded explanation finally brings us to the peso, in which a > group photo of racers and organizers was taken: > > > http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/12/shop-til-your-drop-post-race.html?m=0 > > The light was horrible and the K10D only goes up to ISO 1600 so image quality > wasn't great. However I think it has sort of a vintage gangster-era look to > it. In any event it was all in fun and the guys had fun mugging. > > Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. > > Cheers, > frank > > "If the world were clear, art would not exist." -- Albert Camus > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
