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Oh I heard the sirens from my house getting ready for my ride. When I rode past the veloway entrance there were 2 fire trucks and another truck & trailer for the rescue ATV. No idea what happened but it must have been serious. On the veloway everyone should be going the same direction ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You know just after that I got stuck behind someone going down terminus with headphones and one of those roadie helmet mounted rear view mirrors. He never saw me and didn't hear me and was going annoyingly slow so I bailed out on the sneaky shortcut halfway down. Headphone users are the worst.

When a tree falls across the trail and you didn't bring the Husqvarna.

It'll be dry and hot. Which is better than humid and hot. So you got that going for you. Which is nice.

18 hours ago, ATXZJ said:

We still miss the smell of rain on the open expanses but pretty much over living in the desert now.

Stop it. I'm already missing my trip there this summer and you aren't helping. Agree about living there.

18 hours ago, ATXZJ said:

Also like NM, the drive to BBNP is a whole lotta nothing. You can turn right or left at ft stockton but youre still driving to fucking ft stockton😁

LOL True. Pretty much any drive west has parts that suck but Ft Stockton and I-10 west of Junction is my least favorite. No scenery boring interstate highway. That stretch just east of Roswell kinda sucks too if you come in from San Angelo which is the way I usually do it. It's flat and boring past that sand dune park until you get to drive off the bluff and down into Roswell. That's kind of cool at least.

1 hour ago, mack_turtle said:

POV footage of a bike ride with the phone strapped to a backpack is guaranteed to be unwatchable, though

Until someone adds the GoPro stabilization alien technology to phones then yeah it'd be terrible.

Yeah I have a few disposable old camelback bags I can experiment with. If I ever get it started I'll definitely post pictures here but I'm still backed up on other projects. Like a mini dopp kit for bikepacking someone wanted. I haven't even started that one. 😥

I'm going to 2nd NM. Going higher in altitude will get you to cooler temps quicker. Ruidoso is your closest best bet. Check and see what's open though obviously.

17 hours ago, The Tip said:

My wife uses something like this. If I wasn't worried about my peers doubting my manhood I would use one too. I carry my phone in my hydration back pack. It's a pain in the ass to get out and I wish it was just right in front of me like hers is. It looks big and unwieldy but it never impedes anything she does.

I would worry about my ability to leapfrog the bars when going over the front. Not saying I do that a lot but the 2 times I have (clipless even) I was impressed by my own agility and it saved me from certain doom. I wouldn't want to catch a foot on my bikes fanny pack and eat shit.

I'm not just here to humblebrag about my OTB ninja skills though. I agree with wanting quick access to the phone. I've been thinking about how I can create some kind of pouch/pocket to add to a hydration pack shoulder strap. Something just big enough to slip the phone in and maybe even have a camera hole for some super shaky video. I was thinking mesh material with a little drawstring or elastic closure. I keep meaning to prototype something up but I have a day job and I don't have the right materials 😞

Is Fairdale still a local company?

4 hours ago, Tree Magnet said:

I think it’s amazing that these hacker groups can still get away with these types of attacks. If Garmin just said “...here’s $10M world. Bring me these hackers.” Could it be done? Is their kungfu that much better than the law abiding programmers out there?

Or maybe they should have listened to the advice of the people with good kung fu at the beginning not begging for help after it happened. #biased

On 7/9/2020 at 5:08 PM, AntonioGG said:

Those look gorgeous!  What are you doing the cuts with?  That's something I struggle with.  The King Arthur site says to use a serrated knife but it doesn't seem to work well.  I tried a single edge razor blade but it didn't work great either.  I'm resisting buying the special knife for this.

How are you proofing?

Thanks!

So the top one I didn't cut. Instead I tried putting in the oven wrong side up and it naturally split that way. Kind of a kneat trick but it went out more than up and that was disappointing. The bottom one I just cut with a filet knife because it's the least used (sharpest) knife I have.

They were both from the Jim Lahey school of no knead. For the proof I'm turning out and folding a few times to form a ball then it sits covered like 2 hours. Still working on that step to get good height for better sandwich slices and that 2nd picture is maybe my best so far. The recipe is all over the internet and youtube but this one is closest to what I'm doing: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/no-knead-bread-56389453

I've bought a lot of stuff from BSS over the years. I've stopped going. Every time it's a different employee that I have no relationship with. I hate having to grill them for 30 minutes to prove they have basic bike knowledge before I can start to do business.

I like to go to a shop where they know me. Where the staff is drawing straws to see who has the privilege of talking to me. Because I need to know if my X01 derailleur is compatible with Enve stems and if they can install one for free because I found it cheap online.

The Tip also thought that dress was white and gold. Just sayin.

Did anything ever move into the old location between the picture frame shop the seasonal honey baked ham store and that sub shop? I do like that sub shop but everything else over there seems cursed.

I went out yesterday and by the time I had made coffee, fed the kids, and waited for the wife to be back from her run it was 10:30. I was doing okay until I finished the Slaughter Creek loop and had to ride up the hill on 1826. That put me in a hole that I never recovered from. By noon it was so hot and there was no way I was going to finish the ride I had planned so I pulled the plug and took the neighborhood roads back. Don't do what I did. Go out early and take it easy.

45 minutes ago, throet said:

Assembler Lang course at SWTSU in '81

Took it in the late 90s and it was VAX Macro Assembly. I've never been good at nor wanted to be that close to the machine level ever again. Did fine in the class but I enjoyed OS and Data Structures a lot more. Found my real passion in databases and software engineering.

I think social interaction at school is just as important of creating a healthy future member of society as what we think of as education. I'm afraid for the world if nobody ever leaves the house again for anything. And I'm a dedicated video game computer nerd.

On 7/9/2020 at 5:06 PM, AntonioGG said:

The trainer is a place to suffer and build (or maintain) your cardio.  It's never going to be anything like the real thing.

This. I went with the quietest direct drive trainer DC and GPLama reviewed so I could ride in the AC while the kids were sleeping. It came with a Road Feel setting so I can ride on virtual dirt or cobbles or whatever. I don't care. I stare at my HR and my watts and suffer. It feels totally unnatural out of the saddle which is the only reason why I wonder about the rocking thing. Riding a lot of trainer and going back the the real world is jarring in how much more comfortable and natural it is to have the bike move around instead of stuck in one position suffering at a set wattage.

5 hours ago, The Tip said:

scared that a mountain biker is going to taint the water table

Is that what you call it when we cool off in the life giving waters?

59 minutes ago, AntonioGG said:

One of the EE weedout classes at UT was Digital Logic, about half the people dropped the class and moved onto computer science

And when they get to OOP or assembly language half of them will drop to something else. At least that's how it was 25 years ago.

52 minutes ago, AntonioGG said:

They are both learning Spanish and they love using that app and are actually learning from it.

My oldest is doing Spanish too! I had a 45 day streak going for French about a month ago. Once that broke I stopped though 😞

53 minutes ago, AntonioGG said:

My youngest especially is very driven when he gets in his head he wants to make something:  pipe cleaners, foam shapes, paper mache, popsicle sticks, clay, paint, scissors, glue, etc.  He made himself a Kylo Ren full helmet out of paper mache.

If you have HBO check out the show Craftopia. It's a totally wholesome crafting competition reality show for kids. We have so many crafting hobbies in the house from cooking to leather working. The kids loved it.

I had one miss half of her kindergarten and the other missed half of 3rd grade. I felt like it wasn't such a big loss that they wouldn't be able to recover. Maybe their skills with scissors and glue sticks wont be as good. I know school, even Kindergarten is a lot more than that but I felt like they have time to overcome whatever they missed.

Kind of glad it happened at the age it did for us. I don't know how the older kids are dealing with it all. What happened to seniors headed to college? I can't imagine missing out on something like algebra or a whole history class.

It's probably easier to keep my kids indoors too. They don't really question it. Trying to trap social media connected teenagers in a house? F that. My kids don't have cell phones and their world simply shrunk. They have each other and us. They play together better now than ever. Any bullshit about limiting screen time is out the window at this point. I bought them a Nintendo Switch and I built them a RetroPi. They can play every old Atari and Nintendo game ever made and the older one saw some of that process. So she knows how to pirate ROMs now. Every now and then I try to push a David Attenborough show on them.

Working on my bread.

He's not human. Love his videos except somehow I always end up being reminded that I need to buy something else at Jenson and then I do.

That's gotta be a rough day. You get run over by Kanye then he gets out and cuts your dick off. Damn.

Sweet price and it sounds like you have the right setup already. I've only read about the rocking stuff and saw some people building their own. It's interesting for sure.

LMFTFY: "Have you folks read about Kanye West's political platform? I cannot tell if he's serious or trolling the whole world. probably the latter so he can sell sneakers or something."

Ooh that's the one with the side to side rocking thing. I'm interested in that feature but I wonder if it's a gimmick or actually feels more natural. Never tried that brand though.

Are you putting a MTB on it or like a beater road bike? You are going to want a spare wheel with a trainer tire if it stays on there for long. Certainly if you have a MTB tire now.