Thanks everybody.

[topaz]

Thanks everybody., originally uploaded by qwrrty.

Comments

[jasra]

Congratulations!

[coraline]

congrats. you are a total rockstar :)

[randysmith]

Wow.

Two questions:
* How long did it take you, start to finish?
* Did you just snap pictures as you rode, and the iPhone took care of the rest, or was posting them to LJ more complicated than that?

[entrope.livejournal.com]

This is a beautiful photo. :)

[blk]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

You go!

[agaran.livejournal.com]

What she said.

dammit

[arfur]

Why the heck can't I ever take pictures that good with my iPhone?

Re: dammit

[malefica-v.livejournal.com]

Try putting them in the picture more often?

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Start to finish was roughly 11:25:00. The timestamps on the pictures are my best way of keeping track - the picture I took at the starting line (about 5-10 minutes before I actually left) was timestamped 6:19am, and the last picture (about five minutes after I arrived) was at 5:55pm.

That surprises me a little bit. I did absolutely no training this year -- practically my only riding this year was the 8-9 mile round trip between Arlington and Kendall Square -- and expected to see my trip time suffer. But it looks like this year's ride only took me 10-15 minutes longer than when I did it two years ago.

I mailed the photos to Flickr to post them to LJ. Flickr allows you to create an e-mail address specifically for copying photos to a blog, which I'd already done. So posting was a matter of: take picture, tap the photo album icon, tap the "send" icon, start typing the Flickr blog address, select the autocomplete address, type a subject and maybe a little caption text, hit "send". Not bad but not fully automatic.

There's also a LJ client for the iPhone that allows posting pictures directly to LJ without going through Flickr. I didn't use that in this case because I actually wanted them to show up in Flickr photo pools as well.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

It really did turn out great! I didn't even get a chance to see it at its full size until just now. I dunno quite how I managed that. :-)

Re: dammit

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I don't even know how I got a picture that good. I'm still scratching my head.

Re: dammit

[arfur]

The clouds in your eyes are amazing.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*beams at you*

[omegabeth.livejournal.com]

This is the photo you said was no good?? Goodness! Next year, my friend, Team Helpful.

Re: dammit

[omegabeth.livejournal.com]

Did he tell you not to schedule a wedding June 19, 2010 yet? We expect to be in town. And, that you will have ridden it with us. :-)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

It's horrible! My mustache was getting totally shaggy!