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Velo Vol 04-15-20 05:47 PM


Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21419884)
It's never too late to learn a new skill.

I sometimes wish I could speak a foreign tongue.

Originally Posted by Jadesfire (Post 21420449)
It got published in the NEJM. He'll be OK.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.105...7800?query=TOC

Good thing because I don't think there's a lot of upside for him as a professional influencer/vlogger.


Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 21420453)
All caught up. Except for the three days I missed completely.

You're missing out.

Jadesfire 04-15-20 05:50 PM


Originally Posted by velo vol (Post 21420471)
good thing because i don't think there's a lot of upside for him as a professional influencer/vlogger.

Truth.

WhyFi 04-15-20 06:03 PM


Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21420416)
Not enthusiastic about hidden nipples.

Yeah, I like nipples out in the open, too.

kissTheApex 04-15-20 06:07 PM


Originally Posted by Trsnrtr (Post 21419957)
My wife got home from a lab draw a few minutes ago and I happily told her about our stimulus check and we should figure out what to buy. #excited

She informed me that it's going to be donated to a local food bank. #disappointed

She’s an angel.

Bah Humbug 04-15-20 06:09 PM


Originally Posted by WhyFi (Post 21420340)
Uh oh - MoAlpha is going to have to bin his new wheels with these featherweights hitting the market - https://bikerumor.com/2020/04/15/lig...d-bike-wheels/

18mm internal width? I'm surprised you let that page sully your browser.

WhyFi 04-15-20 06:11 PM


Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 21420509)
18mm internal width? I'm surprised you let that page sully your browser.

I'd like another millimeter, but wouldn't we all?

Bah Humbug 04-15-20 06:20 PM


Originally Posted by big john (Post 21420346)
I can set up a printer. I got tech overload at the job troubleshooting computers every day. Trying to figure out why the computer on the car won't do what it's supposed to do by using a computer that won't talk to the car. Doing programming and all the myriad of problems with that. They actually had a land line for me to use to call tech support, which I did nearly every day.
The worst thing about cell phones to me is what they do to people. Mrs John even brings hers to a restaurant sometimes, it makes it like eating alone for me.

The thing I love about cell phones is that it maps a number to a person. A land line maps a number to a location. Generally, when I dial a number, I'm hoping to connect to a person, not a location.

What they do to people... when I got my first iPhone (3Gs), notifications weren't really a thing. Other than texts or calls, it sat silently until I went to check on it. Then push notifications got big, and somehow people got to feeling they had to immediately know of every tweet, every like, every DM, and everything else I'm too unplugged to even know. Then their phones ping, and they have to check, and they're too FOMOlicious to just turn it all off.

However, much of the time AG and I are out (and her family), out come the phones. To a great degree, I support that - we spend the rest of all time together anyway, so we're not missing much quality time in a restaurant. Past that, I've always hated talking with meals - it just encourages people to talk with their mouths open.

Bah Humbug 04-15-20 06:21 PM


Originally Posted by Velo Vol (Post 21420471)
I sometimes wish I could speak a foreign tongue.

Spanish is pretty easy.

rjones28 04-15-20 06:24 PM


Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 21420526)
The thing I love about cell phones is that it maps a number to a person. A land line maps a number to a location. Generally, when I dial a number, I'm hoping to connect to a person, not a location.

What they do to people... when I got my first iPhone (3Gs), notifications weren't really a thing. Other than texts or calls, it sat silently until I went to check on it. Then push notifications got big, and somehow people got to feeling they had to immediately know of every tweet, every like, every DM, and everything else I'm too unplugged to even know. Then their phones ping, and they have to check, and they're too FOMOlicious to just turn it all off.

However, much of the time AG and I are out (and her family), out come the phones. To a great degree, I support that - we spend the rest of all time together anyway, so we're not missing much quality time in a restaurant. Past that, I've always hated talking with meals - it just encourages people to talk with their mouths open.

Don't most people talk with their mouths open?

#notanexpert

Velo Vol 04-15-20 06:33 PM


Originally Posted by Bah Humbug (Post 21420528)
Spanish is pretty easy.

Two years of high school and a year of college says otherwise.

One of my worst college classroom memories: the first day of "Intermediate" Spanish, the instructor walks in and starts yapping away.

I sat there staring at him, "wut"

MoAlpha 04-15-20 06:39 PM


Originally Posted by seedsbelize (Post 21420370)
When I was a kid, pork and sauerkraut was the traditional New Years Day lunch. Later in life, I used to make it in stoneware crocks in the root cellar.

Auch bei Uns zu Hause! My wife insists its better luck than black eyed peas, which she hates.

big john 04-15-20 06:40 PM

Frequently I see couples at a table and they are each glued to their devices. We used to go out to lunch once a week when I was working, 6 to 10 guys. It was a fun thing and we invited a guy who was phone obsessed one time. We had to shake him when the waitress came to take orders. We didn't invite him again.

MoAlpha 04-15-20 06:50 PM


Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21419983)
I saw one made from a Rapha musette on the 'gram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-_t0usjNUf/

Guy looks alt.right up top and AntiFa below.

Bah Humbug 04-15-20 06:56 PM


Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21420530)
Don't most people talk with their mouths open?

#notanexpert

I got caught between "chew with their mouths open" and "talk with their mouths full", of course.

noodle soup 04-15-20 07:04 PM


Originally Posted by datlas (Post 21420419)
My dad is 86 and a huge Red Sox fan since he was a kid.

My dad was born 10/27/27, and passed away on 7/7/18. He was strong physically and mentally through 2014, but the decline was noticeable after that.

In February of 2014, we painted the house together. He could have paid to have it done, but he wasn't gonna have any of that.

big john 04-15-20 07:12 PM

My dad died in 1994 @69 years old. I'm 3 years away from that. My grandfather and one uncle only made it to 54, my oldest brother died @60.
My mother's side had longevity.

MoAlpha 04-15-20 07:18 PM

Considering a refurb Stages L crank PM. It would be strictly for relative measurement, especially because my left quad is still an inch smaller than the right from an old L3 root injury.

How wrong can I go for for 250?

indyfabz 04-15-20 07:26 PM


Originally Posted by big john (Post 21420561)
Frequently I see couples at a table and they are each glued to their devices.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

LesterOfPuppets 04-15-20 07:26 PM

Bulk trash day coming up, so some of this extra cactus gotsta go!!!

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...019af92ae0.jpg

indyfabz 04-15-20 07:27 PM


Originally Posted by datlas (Post 21420398)
To the IRS??

That will come later.

MoAlpha 04-15-20 07:32 PM


Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 21420645)
Bulk trash day coming up, so some of this extra cactus gotsta go!!!

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...019af92ae0.jpg

Can't cook that, huh?

BillyD 04-15-20 07:35 PM


Originally Posted by rjones28 (Post 21420278)
Mrs. rjones28 and I took a stroll in Cazenovistan this evening. We did not wear masks.

Reported.

LesterOfPuppets 04-15-20 07:37 PM


Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21420658)
Can't cook that, huh?

Never tried cooking that variety, just nopalitos (iirc)

Cooking onion burgers atm.

LAJ 04-15-20 07:43 PM


Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21420629)
Considering a refurb Stages L crank PM. It would be strictly for relative measurement, especially because my left quad is still an inch smaller than the right from an old L3 root injury.

How wrong can I go for for 250?

Christ on crutches. Half-assed junky powermeter will just piss you off. Get the Assiamo pedals when it's time. Of course, there is a manufacture delay from Clever Training, but there are others.

LAJ 04-15-20 07:44 PM


Originally Posted by MoAlpha (Post 21420658)
Can't cook that, huh?

Looks too dangerous to cook.


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