Tree Magnet Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 8 minutes ago, Barry said: There's at least 1 cop on a bicycle in ATX that I'd hate to have chase me! I know that's right. Of course, the problem that he would have is that he'd want to PASS you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJsnoozer Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 He can start saving the economy by stuffing some steel in his mouth on public television. When, not if this gets into the capitol he's gonna be first in line for testing and treatment. F%CK HIM!!!!! Did you actually watch the interview to point where he says this?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafeend Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 I didn't realize how many bike related TED talks there are on YT. Some pretty cool talks if you are bored or want some background noise while working at home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Just now, Cafeend said: I didn't realize how many bike related TED talks there are on YT. Some pretty cool talks if you are bored or want some background noise while working at home Have some to share? I've listened to a few economics TED talks lately but won't share, because let's face it, that shit is an acquired taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cafeend Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 1 minute ago, AustinBike said: Have some to share? I've listened to a few economics TED talks lately but won't share, because let's face it, that shit is an acquired taste. In You Tube , I searched TED Talks and bikes and got numerous choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJsnoozer Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 The Rapha Gone Racing is a pretty cool series to watch. They follow the World tour guys doing the alternative racing calendar and racing everything from Leadville to DK to some crazy race across Europe. Leadville- And I’m not even a Leadville race fan. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 7 hours ago, FJsnoozer said: Did you actually watch the interview to point where he says this? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Ok Im done with you! Go Fuck Yourself! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
June Bug Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, Barry said: There's at least 1 cop on a bicycle in ATX that I'd hate to have chase me! On our first Chihuahuan Dirt Fest, two of our rides in BBRSP were led by Texas Parks and Wildlife bike cops. They were both incredibly strong; they carried a lot of heavy gear all day everyday while on patrol. I've also seen Highway Patrol bike patrol guys being trained, getting ready to head out from the Highway Patrol main hive on Guadalupe @ Koenig. There are Highway Patrol bike "troopers" who patrol the state capitol and the Governor's mansion. Edited March 27, 2020 by June Bug 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tip Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I've seen lots of funny event related things. Reaffirms my faith in humanity with how clever people are. But this one made me laugh until I cried. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATXZJ Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Was relevant then, and still now. ((((CAUTION NAUGHTY WORDS AND THOUGHTS)))) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidingAgain Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 6 hours ago, The Tip said: I've seen lots of funny event related things. Reaffirms my faith in humanity with how clever people are. But this one made me laugh until I cried. Oh... The donut... Couldn't help but laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidingAgain Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 18 hours ago, Chief said: Ok Im done with you! Go Fuck Yourself! And here it was thinking it was just me. Shoot... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Gringo Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Things governments could do help out, if they really cared (Feel free to add on): 1) Open BCP/Forest Ridge to recreation to reduce density at parks/trails and keep up with Austin's population boom 2) Return the drinking age to 18. It used to be 18 (then 19) in Texas. Then, when Reagan tied highway finding to the drinking age, Texas raised it to 21. My son just moved back from Canada and could be fueling local establishments as he did in Canada, but he's only 20. He also pointed out to me that Texas should opt out of the funding anyway because it's a net loser for Texas: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Lawmakers-say-Texas-getting-shortchanged-on-13733169.php 3) Abandon the asinine proposal to send US troops to the Canadian Border. We continue to allow travelers from hot-spot countries in other parts of the world with no screening (first-had knowledge of this) but now we're going to militarize the Canadian Border - I think there's more useful ways to deploy our troops? 4) Instead of tax breaks for solar panels, hybrid vehicles, etc., provide tax breaks for people to prepare for emergencies (outbreaks, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.) so they don't freakout and clean out the grocery store at the last minute. A home freeze dryer is $2,600. Awesome for being prepared and prepping your own custom meals for camping, etc. and the food lasts up to 25 years. 5) Declare defeat in the War on Drugs. This sucks up $51B annually of US taxpayer money and results in having to endure pedantic PSAs. We recently made multiple border crossings between WA and Canada. I was a CBR warfare specialist in a previous life and took all the precautions to maintain a "clean" environment while we traveled through WA and OR. Our biggest compromises occurred at the border. In Canada, paranoia that we were trying bring in "cannabis products" at 1:30AM resulted in a secondary detention, complete with swabs of our bodies, a tear-down of my truck, and a drug-sniffing dog. Talk about vectors for infection. Coming back into the US, same thing - repeated questioning over marijuana and "party drugs" followed by the customs agent wiping his nose and then rubbing his hands all over our passports. Despite a growing outbreak in WA and OR, not a single question about where we had traveled, whether we were feeling, well, had recently been on a commercial aircraft. My cynical side wonders if they weren't trying to spread it. No concern for COVID-19, but great concern over a natural plant - which, by the way, is legal for recreational use both in Canada and WA. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATXZJ Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 5 minutes ago, El Gringo said: Things governments could do help out, if they really cared (Feel free to add on): 5) Declare defeat in the War on Drugs. This sucks up $51B annually of US taxpayer money and results in having to endure pedantic PSAs. We recently made multiple border crossings between WA and Canada. I was a CBR warfare specialist in a previous life and took all the precautions to maintain a "clean" environment while we traveled through WA and OR. Our biggest compromises occurred at the border. In Canada, paranoia that we were trying bring in "cannabis products" at 1:30AM resulted in a secondary detention, complete with swabs of our bodies, a tear-down of my truck, and a drug-sniffing dog. Talk about vectors for infection. Coming back into the US, same thing - repeated questioning over marijuana and "party drugs" followed by the customs agent wiping his nose and then rubbing his hands all over our passports. Despite a growing outbreak in WA and OR, not a single question about where we had traveled, whether we were feeling, well, had recently been on a commercial aircraft. My cynical side wonders if they weren't trying to spread it. No concern for COVID-19, but great concern over a natural plant - which, by the way, is legal for recreational use both in Canada and WA. On board with this one. The US has been losing every war since WW2. This is no exception. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
June Bug Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 San Marcos, as of 11 pm, Tuesday, March 24: City to close river parks to protect public health Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
June Bug Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 On 3/24/2020 at 9:01 PM, ATXZJ said: 30+ % vinegar is not messing around in the least. It's basically acid and failing that, nothing survives salt I have a gallon of this 30% for weed control; IIRC, I bought it at The Natural Gardener. I hate to use salt, because it's irreversible, but it does get the job done. A past co-worker gave me a tip on the efficient use of Round Up. Cut everything down to the point where there's only a leaf or two remaining on the target plant. Coat those leaves with Round Up; the plant will then suck the poison into the root system and the plant dies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATXZJ Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 2 hours ago, June Bug said: I have a gallon of this 30% for weed control; IIRC, I bought it at The Natural Gardener. I hate to use salt, because it's irreversible, but it does get the job done. A past co-worker gave me a tip on the efficient use of Round Up. Cut everything down to the point where there's only a leaf or two remaining on the target plant. Coat those leaves with Round Up; the plant will then suck the poison into the root system and the plant dies. You'd be surprised how much salt it actually takes to keep anything from growing. Ill never use roundup. There's enough of it in our food for me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Gringo Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 6) Tax breaks to renovate residences/properties to accommodate parents currently residing in assisted living facilities. These people are now completely shut off from their families and the outside world. In humane. We are dealing with this personally. Give us the resources to give quality of life to our seniors and decrease/eliminate a vector for the spread of the disease. Much better ROI than than solar panels to warm your pool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 7 hours ago, El Gringo said: 6) Tax breaks to renovate residences/properties to accommodate EDUCATE parents currently residing in assisted living facilities. These people are now completely shut off from their families and the outside world. In humane. We are dealing with this personally. Give us the resources to give quality of life to our seniors and decrease/eliminate a vector for the spread of the disease. Much better ROI than than solar panels to warm your pool. There, fixed it for you. My father is in a retirement home. He is 85 and has had heart issues and diabetes. Basically he is the most targeted market for COVID and he still complains about all of the restrictions that they have put on his community. WT actual F? Those places are a Petri dish for things like COVID and when it takes hold, it can rip through there. Yet many of them don't perceive the issue even though they are the most at risk. They only let people out to go to doctor's appointments. My dad had one the other day and then after the appointment he went to the dollar store. The goddamn MFing dollar store? Again, WT actual F??? If you want to help those facilities, education is imperative. A good addition to it would be what I call "moderated Facebook" where a family member could intercept and moderate a paren't feed without them knowing. Luckily my father refuses to use the internet, but he is surrounded by idiots who share fake memes all day long. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 My mother in law who is 82 doesn't live in assisted living but lives alone in East Quogue/Westhampton beach Long Island. My wife and her speak every week to each other. When this was just getting started she asked my wife if she could go to get her hair done, my wife's response was NO. My wife gets a call from a friend of her mother telling my wife that her mother has been going out everyday to go shopping and to the bank and who knows where else and that my wife needs to tell her to stay home. My wife explained that she tried to tell her but there is nothing she can do if she won't listen. I believe that if the country had taken appropriate action to this right from the beginning we wouldn't have these kinds of issues. There is too much contradicting information as to how bad this situation is and that's why we have people going to spring break, Mardi Gras and filling up public parks when we should all be sheltering at home. INSANITY! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Yeah, remember the outrage when they canceled SXSW? Those comments have not aged well. The consolation for canceling my May vacation to England/France was my buddy saying "now you'll be around to see The Rolling Stones with me..." And crazily, I thought that was the upside of all of that. Naive of me. But I learned. The older generation has not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Gringo Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 3 hours ago, AustinBike said: There, fixed it for you. Thank you, professor. Everyone has individual needs. My stepfather was involved in a very serious car crash in college - ejected from the vehicle and wasn't expected to live. Once he did pull through, the doctors said he would never walk or talk, he learned - through herculean effort to do both. He completed college and traveled extensively throughout the world, and spent most of his life reading.He's very well educated. He is now 81. He's not looking to go to the Dollar Store. He's looking for quality of life. We'd rather he be in quarantine with our family, rather than sitting alone in his own room - but we would have to make special accommodations for his situation. Respectfully, we took this much more seriously much earlier than most others did, and were prepared. The last thing we need is *education* from self-important armchair quarterbacks who think they have all the answers for everyone else. Quit wasting the tens-of-thousands of tax dollars I spend every year and let me use some of it to make my own decisions. I have a BA, an MBA, and a law degree, was a CBR warfare specialist, and spent 8 years working in infectious disease for J&J. If I can't be trusted to make sound decisions, then clearly education isn't worth anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 My father is an engineer. A supposedly smart guy, he's not alone, there are many like him. We have an odd dichotomy in this country right now. Young people think they can't get it (or it is like the flu). Older people don't believe it. Somehow those of us in the 40-60 range seem to have gotten the message. I don't understand how to get that message to the other groups. I made no reference to your father, I specifically called out my father as the culprit here. And many others in his community. For every story of spring break parties during all this there are just as many stories on the other end of the age spectrum. We still have a lot of people who don't understand the severity, even if all of us have been doing the right things. Here is an example of what I am talking about: https://www.newsweek.com/virginia-pastor-dies-coronavirus-after-previously-saying-media-pumping-out-fear-about-pandemic-1494702 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinBike Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 For those of you with Netflix, “Tiger King” is binge worthy. And season 3 of Ozark is out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
June Bug Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Sometimes you're on the internet and find stuff like this cardboard thing. It's basically two tools: a serrated knife a screw like thing (like what you'd use to hang something on drywall) that joins pieces of cardboard together Then you or the kid or you and the kid make things, probably out of Amazon boxes. Could be fun and a great way to repurpose bike shipping boxes into...something. https://www.make.do/collections/all-products Heading out to the front porch to take down Christmas lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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