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06-18-18, 09:03 AM
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Speaking of temperature. This last weekend was gross. 90s and humid. Like, glasses fog up when you walk outside humid.
06-18-18, 09:07 AM
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06-18-18, 09:18 AM
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And while miles and kilometers aren't that similar in terms of size, both tend to get used in the modern world in situations where we deal with almost arbitrary numbers; it's a routine thing to drive hundreds of (whichever) and only slightly less so to fly thousands of (whichever), so the unit doesn't particularly change with km vs miles.
06-18-18, 09:20 AM
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06-18-18, 09:58 AM
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Went on a overnight weekend getaway to Winona, MN last weekend. Visited the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. I didn't think I'd see anything super interesting going into it, but ended up seeing Washington Crossing the Delaware. Unexpected, but pleasant surprise.
06-18-18, 10:37 AM
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We are out of Tahoe and tasting wine in Napa Valley now. Growth here is amazing even though we have only missed visiting for a year or so. Ate at Thomas Keller’s Bouchon last night. Disappointing. Slooow service and nasty loud bass driven music playing the whole evening. The food was good but not great. Just meh. Seriously, why does a vibrant restaurant like that need loud music? There are only two possible reasons for it. Either to kick up the mood/vibe at the restaurant or to entertain the clientele. Nobody goes there for entertainment and the mood is already upbeat due to it being a treat to be there. The music is just an annoyance. Go figure.
06-18-18, 10:52 AM
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Vain, But Lacking Talent
Off topic: (Wait, is there a topic?) I hate when people call a movie series a "franchise." It's not a flipping McDonald's. It may be technically correct, but it feels like a cold word to me when applied to cinema.
06-18-18, 11:06 AM
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06-18-18, 11:12 AM
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06-18-18, 11:26 AM
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Farmer tan
For now, I've just got a 3rd conti sprinter rolled up.
06-18-18, 11:31 AM
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Love how they make it seem so dramatic. Where he crossed the river ain't much. I remember John Madden commenting as much during the broadcast of an Eagles game.
06-18-18, 11:34 AM
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That's just another symptom of the thing I see, which is being designed for engineering elegance rather than daily utility. I see it a lot more places than that, and temperature is the one that probably annoys me least of all.
06-18-18, 11:37 AM
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06-18-18, 12:40 PM
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06-18-18, 12:50 PM
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That's what's good about MTBs. Frame measurement in inches. And bar width was in inches BITD, but then Europeans went and screwed that up, now bars are usually quoted in mms. Sad.
Wonder what the last road bike listed in inches was. Mid '80s Schwinn, maybe?
Wonder what the last road bike listed in inches was. Mid '80s Schwinn, maybe?
06-18-18, 01:18 PM
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Our President is calling for the creation of a 6th branch of the military called the "Space Force" so we can have dominance in space.
Beam me up, Scotty.
Beam me up, Scotty.
06-18-18, 01:38 PM
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shaken, not stirred.
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The only reason I know any imperial measurements is that I learnt to drive in old British cars. Their owners manuals and speedometers were in (proper) imperial. I know a gallon is 4.5 litres, 30mph is approx 50kmh. Everytime I see anything in imperial I have to convert it to metric to mentally grasp the dimensions. I have no idea what the American Imperial volume measurements equate to since they abandoned proper Imperial and use a reduced amount. And as for Fahrenheit, you may as well be talking in Swahili.
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06-18-18, 01:49 PM
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Farmer tan
My chain did not fall off.
06-18-18, 01:53 PM
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The only reason I know any imperial measurements is that I learnt to drive in old British cars. Their owners manuals and speedometers were in (proper) imperial. I know a gallon is 4.5 litres, 30mph is approx 50kmh. Everytime I see anything in imperial I have to convert it to metric to mentally grasp the dimensions. I have no idea what the American Imperial volume measurements equate to since they abandoned proper Imperial and use a reduced amount. And as for Fahrenheit, you may as well be talking in Swahili.
06-18-18, 02:00 PM
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I've never put a torque wrench on a cassette lockring. #shadetree