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Upgrade Mere hours after Superbite gets the upgrade from leaky street tires to a set of used dirt tires (from a guy who only ‘pounded pavement’ with them) she’s already got her eyes on something bigger and better. She’s on 33s now, assuming I can get the drivetrain to handle it should I be going for 37s or straight to 42s?

Upgrade

Mere hours after Superbite gets the upgrade from leaky street tires to a set of used dirt tires (from a guy who only ‘pounded pavement’ with them) she’s already got her eyes on something bigger and better. She’s on 33s now, assuming I can get the drivetrain to handle it should I be going for 37s or straight to 42s?

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Com Truise - Futureworld

Friday Night Music Party!!! Thanks for the heads up MS!

A Distance Click on the picture to see where I live (green dot) and work (red dot) in the context of the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD. Man technology is crazy. Can you see your house on that image? Thanks gwilli!

A Distance

Click on the picture to see where I live (green dot) and work (red dot) in the context of the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD. Man technology is crazy. Can you see your house on that image? Thanks gwilli!

Rabbitguts

Rabbitguts

Cantilever I have a thing for these giant cantilevered service station roofs from the ’60s or whenever time it was that happened before I was born. Check the next station you stop at. Wouldn’t it be better if it had one of these instead? I thought so. Speaking of which, I found an awesome place to live, but it’s only for sale and not for rent. Anyone want to help me sort out a mortgage in this crazy country?

Cantilever

I have a thing for these giant cantilevered service station roofs from the ’60s or whenever time it was that happened before I was born. Check the next station you stop at. Wouldn’t it be better if it had one of these instead? I thought so.

Speaking of which, I found an awesome place to live, but it’s only for sale and not for rent. Anyone want to help me sort out a mortgage in this crazy country?

SAKURA / YUZU Found a spot in Sacramento that sells fresh mochi and manju! ^_^

SAKURA / YUZU

Found a spot in Sacramento that sells fresh mochi and manju! ^_^

Epitype 9.7. An epitype is a specimen or illustration selected to serve as an interpretative type when the holotype, lectotype, or previously designated neotype, or all original material associated with a validly published name, is demonstrably ambiguous and cannot be critically identified for purposes of the precise application of the name of a taxon. When an epitype is designated, the holotype, lectotype, or neotype that the epitype supports must be explicitly cited (see Art. 9.18).

Epitype

9.7. An epitype is a specimen or illustration selected to serve as an interpretative type when the holotype, lectotype, or previously designated neotype, or all original material associated with a validly published name, is demonstrably ambiguous and cannot be critically identified for purposes of the precise application of the name of a taxon. When an epitype is designated, the holotype, lectotype, or neotype that the epitype supports must be explicitly cited (see Art. 9.18).

“A cricket kept me awake for some time. At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, are big as roman candles and as lonely as the Prince of the Dharma who’s lost his ancestral grove and journeys across the spaces between points in the handle of the Big Dipper, trying to find it again. So they slowly wheeled the night, and then long before actual sunrise the great red light appeared far over the dun bleak land toward West Kansas and the birds took up their trill above Denver.” — Jack Kerouac - On The Road Speaking of stars, driving the donk at night is like living in a rural area - when was the last time you were in a moving vehicle that doesn’t have a single interior light or illuminated indicator? It’s kind of nice to only be able to see things outside.

“A cricket kept me awake for some time. At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, are big as roman candles and as lonely as the Prince of the Dharma who’s lost his ancestral grove and journeys across the spaces between points in the handle of the Big Dipper, trying to find it again. So they slowly wheeled the night, and then long before actual sunrise the great red light appeared far over the dun bleak land toward West Kansas and the birds took up their trill above Denver.”

— Jack Kerouac - On The Road

Speaking of stars, driving the donk at night is like living in a rural area - when was the last time you were in a moving vehicle that doesn’t have a single interior light or illuminated indicator? It’s kind of nice to only be able to see things outside.

CLEAR BRA TECHNOLOGIES Best company name ever?

CLEAR BRA TECHNOLOGIES

Best company name ever?

A Series Of Tubes

A Series Of Tubes

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

Who knew about RSA Animate? Great stuff, thanks MH.

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Django Reinhardt - I’ll See You In My Dreams

Friday Night Music Party!!!

Beginners (2010) Don’t let the darkness win. Do something drastic involving SOPA and PIPA to support the sites you use every day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA (And thanks for the movie rec, MT!)

Beginners (2010)

Don’t let the darkness win. Do something drastic involving SOPA and PIPA to support the sites you use every day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA

(And thanks for the movie rec, MT!)

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells. Haruki Murakami - 1Q84

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

Haruki Murakami - 1Q84

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99 Percent Invisible - #43: The Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators

Ever since the industrial revolution, when it became possible for products to be designed just once and then mass produced, it has been the slight imperfections and wear introduced by human use that has transformed a quality mass produced product into a thing we love. Your worn blue jeans, your grandmother’s iron skillet, the initial design determined their quality, but it’s their imperfections that make them comfortable, that make them lovable, that make them yours.

I should have gone to ride the Wheaton escalator when I was in DC, I didn’t realize that it was the longest in the western hemisphere at ~70m. Although according to the wikipedia, they top out at about ~140m in St. Petersburg metro stations. They don’t specifically list which is the longest, so I guess I’ll have to go back and measure them. Great stuff, thanks MBM.