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Addiction LXXVII

Old 02-06-20, 12:19 PM
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The wife thinks that a camera for the bike is a swell idea, so I've now got a Fly 12 CE inbound... and, even better, the purchase didn't come out of my bike crap funds.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
The wife thinks that a camera for the bike is a swell idea, so I've now got a Fly 12 CE inbound... and, even better, the purchase didn't come out of my bike crap funds.
Most excellent!
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
The wife thinks that a camera for the bike is a swell idea, so I've now got a Fly 12 CE inbound... and, even better, the purchase didn't come out of my bike crap funds.
Hope you never have to use it.

My wife was ambivalent. I believe her thinking is that she's mainly interested in my safety and the camera doesn't affect that. As for the rest, she's financially secure, I've got long-term care insurance, and she's not the vindictive type.

Still thinking about it and I'm much more worried about my Six.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
Hope you never have to use it.

My wife was ambivalent. I believe her thinking is that she's mainly interested in my safety and the camera doesn't affect that. As for the rest, she's financially secure, I've got long-term care insurance, and she's not the vindictive type.

Still thinking about it and I'm much more worried about my Six.
I'm hoping that the only use it sees is pathetic excuses for town sign sprints but, at the very least, I figure that reaching a critical mass of cyclists with cameras will be a good thing. The sooner that it becomes common knowledge among drivers that private eyes are watching you, the sooner they'll rethink the *******ry that crossed their mind.
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People here don't get it.
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I could have sworn I made a post a little earlier today but now can't find it. Well, it does seem to be that sort of day. It is gray and gloomy and the rest of the week looks the same. It is so bad I began to set the bike up on the trainer and the outlook has to be awful for me to do that. So on this gray contemplative day, here is a piece of contemplative music by a Ukrainian guitarist.
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A cheerful reminder on a gloomy day, coming soon to a garden near you. Hopefully.

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This will take a long bunny hop.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
nothing that a full suspension can’t handle.
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happy thoughts and pixie dust.
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When I was hauling the race car, I don't think I ever came home from that part of the country via Anchorage.



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Originally Posted by LAJ
When I was hauling the race car, I don't think I ever came home from that part of the country via Anchorage.



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USPS must be using those shortest distance "great circles" that make sense when you're looking at a globe but are confounding when looking at a flat map.
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Old 02-06-20, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
USPS must be using those shortest distance "great circles" that make sense when you're looking at a globe but are confounding when looking at a flat map.
I like it, and think you may have nailed it.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
USPS must be using those shortest distance "great circles" that make sense when you're looking at a globe but are confounding when looking at a flat map.
That route would make “sense” to any user of Military Air Command flights.
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Originally Posted by MoAlpha
That route would make “sense” to any user of Military Air Command flights.
Oof. I mean, I'd take the free transport, but oof.
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Oof. I mean, I'd take the free transport, but oof.
We looked at the book when we were young and Upper Middle Class and said NFW!
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Originally Posted by bampilot06
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/l...drivers-448481

be cool if the police did this here.
or, we could all move to Norwich.... Naah, I’m sure I’ll be the first one to ride on the right lane and get killed in a head on collision
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
???

Off the top of my head I have no idea what user this is running as. Why does it matter?
Many exploits require an admin user to be logged in to really get control of your computer, and these are the exploits that many win updates are released to combat.

Eventually you'll want to run software that won't run on Win 7, that is when you need to consider an upgrade.
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It is so nice out right now. These are the times I think I could learn to be a xerocole.
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Most planes look like they make sense, but watch a C5 or the like and I have to wonder how it can hang in the air like that.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Looks heavy.
I'm a flatlander at the moment. Only aero matters.
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Originally Posted by abshipp
What's the reasoning behind this?

My home desktop is on Windows 7 and I really really don't want to have to replace it.

Anything that prolongs its life is of great interest to me.
See response to VV post above ^
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Congrats. Less work sounds good to me!

How’s the noggin? Got my own little concussion recently. Weird feeling.
Noggin is all better.

But getting back into racing shape has been tough. I lost muscle, gained an alarming amount of fat, and fitness went to squat zero. I got back into fairly decent shape by Thanksgiving and then the dachsund field trial season started and Puppy Love was on such a roll that I had to go with that. Its very time consuming, I was probably out rabbiting with the dogs 3-4 hours per week and the trials and hunt tests are literally sun up to sun down, for 8 weekends from right after Thanksgiving to mid Feb. Eats up a lot of training time, plus it trashes your legs being out in the field all day. So now I am back to only slightly better than squat zero fitness with my first race coming up. Oy.

What happened to you? I assume a bike crash?!
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
My head is fine.

Probably.
Your avatar looks like the training rat I have in my garage right now.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Most planes look like they make sense, but watch a C5 or the like and I have to wonder how it can hang in the air like that.
c5 make more sense to me than an f5.
If you look how thick a C5 wings are and how much area they actually take up, they produce a hell of a lot of lift at slow airspeed.
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