Metallifan33

I went to the doctor the other day and realized he was younger than me.
I'm not sure this is safe. Doctors aren't supposed to be younger than you.
I thought I was making a cameo on Scrubs.

MoAlpha

I fairness, I'm not late either, principally because I sit around editing stuff or in meetings all day.

Right now I am editing a manuscript from the absolute rock bottom of hell (illiterate and pompous statistical manipulators section). I want to drive down to Charlottesville and shake the guy. I can't even ask to have my name taken off because I was in charge of gathering the data.

datlas 

Meetings? Sounds like a waste of time.

MoAlpha

About 50% definitely are. Some of them are attempts to protect the innocent, right wrongs, and guide those who stray from the path of enlightenment.

seedsbelize 

And gnus

Velo Vol 

Be more specific.

datlas 

Yes. But no French Showers.

abshipp 

datlas what's your gearing on your singlespeed?

LAJ

My Doctor is younger than I am, as well. It's OK. I can run faster, jump higher, and ride faster than he ever thought he could, so I'm good with that. I don't run unless there's a siren involved, and the same with jumping, but that doesn't matter.

Velo Vol 

CWPOTD

rjones28 

rjones28 

WalksOn2Wheels

I actually really need to go see a doctor for a checkup. I have been in the first stage of hypertension recently, which was another factor in me trying to get serious about exercise again. I jumped on the machine in the grocery store just yesterday actually and it's still high.

The last doctor I had seemed to not care very much about my general health because I asked for a referral for a specialist (dermatologist as a matter of fact, datlas) and nothing ever happened. Then I had an appointment I made way in advance for a checkup. I got super busy with work and the reminder in my phone failed me after a phone change. I thought I would maybe get a robocall reminder the day before, but got nothing. Perhaps they might call me the day of if I was a no show? Nope. If the date passed, I thought they might call and ask why I skipped out and if I wanted to reschedule and got nothing. Then I logged on to some online health account thing I forgot I signed up for and it showed that I had made a visit and had blood work done on the date of the appointment even though I never came in. So I have no idea what any of that was about, but they obviously weren't worried either way.

Velo Vol 

wut

MoAlpha

It's study on people with occupational exposure to explosive blast who underwent a huge number of tests in an exploratory effort to find abnormalities, making the likelihood of false positive findings very great. The sample size is also too small to be reliable, making strict statistical precautions and disclaimers mandatory. This guy is using a statistical approach and language appropriate to a full-scale, hypothesis-driven, study instead, and claiming that the unexpected and uninterpretable differences in brain structure he's seeing between the blast exposed folks and the unexposed controls are real and not a chance occurrence. He should be saying the differences are "interesting" and need fully-powered, hypothesis-driven, studies to find out if they are real. Unfortunately, biomedical science is full of this kind of unintentional fraud.

bampilot06

My BP was through the charts, and my initial doctor down played it too much. I think he was trying to be friendly but the message wasn’t going through to me. The next doctor was like DAMN!!!!!! and then it clicked.

55 pounds later and i’m off all BP pills.

datlas 

It's 46x16. That's perfect for cruising on the flats at 15-19 MPH. I do have to stand up and grind the hills, but I make a point of using only on routes I know, or trails, to minimize hills.

bampilot06

Do you ride it fixed or strictly single?

abshipp 

That's still a little tall for me. I've been running my fixed gear at 40x16 (67.5") and I really like it. Shortly I will be changing it up to 44x17 (70"), I'm hoping that's not too big of a jump for me to stop enjoying it.

My first foray into fixed gear riding was on a too-small track bike geared at 44x16 (I think, I just remember it was something like a 75" gear). I hated it, and it turned me off from riding fixed for a long time.

datlas 

I have a flip-flop hub and have a 17t on the fixed side to complement the 16t on the freehub.

But I pretty much always ride it SS. I am too ascared to try fixed. Some day maybe.

Velo Vol 

Sounds like he should be at Big Pharma.

bampilot06

I had a bianchi pista several years ago I road fixed. I don’t know how I didn’t die, I had no Idea what I was doing then. Basically all the richmond kids started riding fixie, and the trend made it to where I was living. Wish I still had it though.

Metallifan33

Nice man!

datlas 

I expect you will do fine. The difference between those two is quite modest.

WalksOn2Wheels

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