I want other people to enjoy cycling.
12-06-18, 01:39 PM
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People ask me how I got my last name. I tell them it runs in the family.
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12-06-18, 04:21 PM
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I'm the end of the line. My paternal grandfather had four kids: three boys and a girl. All the boys had daughters except for me. I had two daughters. But one is gay and may have a kid and may pass our name down, so we will see.
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12-06-18, 04:35 PM
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I had a neighbor whose brother had a different last name. Their parents thought that the two boys should each have the last name of one of the parents.
I'm the end of the line. My paternal grandfather had four kids: three boys and a girl. All the boys had daughters except for me. I had two daughters. But one is gay and may have a kid and may pass our name down, so we will see.
I'm the end of the line. My paternal grandfather had four kids: three boys and a girl. All the boys had daughters except for me. I had two daughters. But one is gay and may have a kid and may pass our name down, so we will see.
12-06-18, 05:14 PM
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All 3 of my kids are step kids, so end the line for me. Of my two brothers, one has all foster children and the other has 4 boys. I’m not at all disappointed to not keep my last name going. My wife took it when we got married out of tradition, but it doesn’t mean much to me or to her. I usually call her by her first name anyway. Honestly saying her first name and my last name sort of sounds like my sister. That’s a little weird.
12-06-18, 05:43 PM
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12-06-18, 06:45 PM
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Round and round we go. Cycling is an activity, not a religion. Someone with more time on their hands than I have could have a lot of fun satirizing it as a religion though. Doing anything with a bike doesn’t require renouncing anything. There’s no conversion. It doesn’t require a change in anybody’s existing belief structure to ride a bike in any fashion or really to do anything with a bike at all.
12-07-18, 12:50 PM
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It's been up and down as time has gone on, but it seems to me that the balance of practical or bicycle-related content vs. borderline P&R content in LCF has skewed heavily toward the latter in the past several years. What was once a source that had some practical information from time to time now seems to have very little cycling content, despite the attempts of a few members to bump the useful threads.
12-07-18, 01:54 PM
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Since I still feel compelled to share for whatever reason, here's a little Google Earth street view photo montage of my commute from home to work ….On and on I babble.
Don't know about now, but in the olden days of about six years ago the Kool Kidz- of 50+were real big on babbling.
Your post count suggests you’re not so bad at babbling yourself. I’ll go check out 50+ if you’ll be my babbling buddy over there.
Maybe 50+ will take me as an honorary.My hair is thinning, my beard is gray, and I’m in the late stage of denial about the early stages of arthritis.
JimfromBoston would be your ideal babbling buddy.
You both seem to share a need for non stop quoting and repetition of your own previously posted pearls of wisdom.
You both seem to share a need for non stop quoting and repetition of your own previously posted pearls of wisdom.
Back in 2008 when I joined BikeForums I wrote in my Introduction:
…I have been perusing this site for a few weeks and I have had several comments to make so I hope to make useful contributions to future discussion threads, as well as glean from the comments of others….[then in 2018]
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
(on a now-closed thread) I think I have absorbed all the good advice I can for a complete and agreeable cycling lifestyle, and recently I have clicked on many fewer threads than before.
In the past I have offered IMO several useful suggestions about cycling, particularly for winter and urban cycling, to multiple repetitive threads. They are usually lost in the morass of often scores of replies, both in agreement and dispute with mine.
I’m not especially motivated to read or write about rides in areas I will never visit, or bikes I would not buy. Other cyclists’ biking stories are often meaningful to me, but usually not consequential enough for a reply.
Frankly, now my main enjoyment is reading the personal clashes on the various threads, such as these current ones: "I work with a moron", or ”How often do you check your mirror?.”...
I think that the use of quote boxes, which I have not seen elsewhere is a remarkable way to graphically diagram a dialogue. Personally for me, as a diversion, it’ s challenging to arrange the quotes, and to find them in prior threads. I think it’s a succinct way to capture the variety of a topic.
In the past I have offered IMO several useful suggestions about cycling, particularly for winter and urban cycling, to multiple repetitive threads. They are usually lost in the morass of often scores of replies, both in agreement and dispute with mine.
I’m not especially motivated to read or write about rides in areas I will never visit, or bikes I would not buy. Other cyclists’ biking stories are often meaningful to me, but usually not consequential enough for a reply.
Frankly, now my main enjoyment is reading the personal clashes on the various threads, such as these current ones: "I work with a moron", or ”How often do you check your mirror?.”...
I think that the use of quote boxes, which I have not seen elsewhere is a remarkable way to graphically diagram a dialogue. Personally for me, as a diversion, it’ s challenging to arrange the quotes, and to find them in prior threads. I think it’s a succinct way to capture the variety of a topic.
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12-07-18, 02:20 PM
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12-09-18, 04:46 PM
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I appreciate Jim from Boston’s posts. The Forum is a really limiting means of communication. It’s harder to create context. Jim makes it work. I guess to some people it might not make sense, but I get it. I appreciate the reference material. If a person wants to stay sharp and maintain a skill set more engaging than just hammering away at a keyboard going for max keystrokes a minute, this would be a good way to do it. I use half keyboard (PC), half thumbs (mobile). It’s a weird combination of experiences. I’m not a communication expert, but my wife is. If Jim does all that quote nesting mobile, that’s another thing.
Edit: I’m too lazy to tag Jim directly while mobile. Sorry, Jim.
Edit: I’m too lazy to tag Jim directly while mobile. Sorry, Jim.
12-10-18, 05:49 AM
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I appreciate Jim from Boston’s posts. The Forum is a really limiting means of communication. It’s harder to create context. Jim makes it work. I guess to some people it might not make sense, but I get it.
I appreciate the reference material. If a person wants to stay sharp and maintain a skill set more engaging than just hammering away at a keyboard going for max keystrokes a minute, this would be a good way to do it. I use half keyboard (PC), half thumbs (mobile). It’s a weird combination of experiences.
I’m not a communication expert, but my wife is. If Jim does all that quote nesting mobile, that’s another thing.
Edit: I’m too lazy to tag Jim directly while mobile. Sorry, Jim.
I appreciate the reference material. If a person wants to stay sharp and maintain a skill set more engaging than just hammering away at a keyboard going for max keystrokes a minute, this would be a good way to do it. I use half keyboard (PC), half thumbs (mobile). It’s a weird combination of experiences.
I’m not a communication expert, but my wife is. If Jim does all that quote nesting mobile, that’s another thing.
Edit: I’m too lazy to tag Jim directly while mobile. Sorry, Jim.
Posting has become an avocation for me. Since my job requires writing formal reports, with legal implications, I consider myself a “wordsmith,” and beside the exchange of information and ideas, I enjoy the mechanics of writing, such as grammar, composition , style, etc. for that additional mental stimulation.
So with my experiences in cycling, and my frequent posting over the years, if I have replied on a recurrent topic, written to my satisfaction, I’ll just quote it. A further challenge then becomes finding the post.
Regards however to my specific style using the quote function, I have described it in previous Forum posts:
Regards however to my specific style using the quote function, I have described it in previous Forum posts:
…Last year I came upon a post that to me embodied the communication style that I like about BF. In response to a long quote, @turbo1889 wrote [not to me]:
So when I nest quotes, I feel I’m emulating a conversation…”He said," then “You said," then “I said, and now I’m saying…” I leave my quotes as links to identify the author, and if anyone is interested in reading further, or verifying those quotes, they can easily be followed right from the post.
Instead of just snipping,…I use ellipses,"..." to eliminate as much as possible, and still leave the context of the quote comprehensible; and I [underline or] bold key words and phrases to emphasize the core content of the discussion.
While even if nobody reads my posts, I do try to communicate clearly to the reader. At least I try to evenly space, and keep my paragraphs short for easier readability, FWIW.
First of all you have no need to apologize for a lengthy post, least of all to me of all people.
Part of the reason I like forums as apposed to other forms of written communal internet forms is because I consider it the "long deep conversation format" rather then the quick short snappy sound bite like format like twitter and such.
Part of the reason I like forums as apposed to other forms of written communal internet forms is because I consider it the "long deep conversation format" rather then the quick short snappy sound bite like format like twitter and such.
Instead of just snipping,…I use ellipses,"..." to eliminate as much as possible, and still leave the context of the quote comprehensible; and I [underline or] bold key words and phrases to emphasize the core content of the discussion.
While even if nobody reads my posts, I do try to communicate clearly to the reader. At least I try to evenly space, and keep my paragraphs short for easier readability, FWIW.
12-10-18, 05:54 AM
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I appreciate Jim from Boston’s posts. The Forum is a really limiting means of communication. It’s harder to create context. Jim makes it work. I guess to some people it might not make sense, but I get it. I appreciate the reference material. If a person wants to stay sharp and maintain a skill set more engaging than just hammering away at a keyboard going for max keystrokes a minute, this would be a good way to do it. I use half keyboard (PC), half thumbs (mobile). It’s a weird combination of experiences. I’m not a communication expert, but my wife is. If Jim does all that quote nesting mobile, that’s another thing.
Edit: I’m too lazy to tag Jim directly while mobile. Sorry, Jim.
Edit: I’m too lazy to tag Jim directly while mobile. Sorry, Jim.
Is there an App (the horror of using that word) that works with BF?
12-10-18, 01:47 PM
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PS to @Phamilton:
I appreciate Jim from Boston’s posts. The Forum is a really limiting means of communication. It’s harder to create context. Jim makes it work.
I guess to some people it might not make sense, but I get it...
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I guess to some people it might not make sense, but I get it...
Jim from somewhere between New Jersey and Vermont gave us a post which is more than one foot long...
The rest of you just need to surrender and bow down.
The rest of you just need to surrender and bow down.
…Wow. That is masterful. I've always thought it was just self-indulgent and convoluted, but now I see that they are really performance art.
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
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