Dave Morse

Holy Shit! Specialized now has TWO types of bike helmet geometries, based on how eccentric of an ellipse your head is, in addition to three sizes. Coming from the "The Alien" school of skull geometry, this is huge.

Goodbye to an annoying business! Spectrum, my former internet provider, miraculously discovered they could charge me $20/month less when I called to cancel the service. Had they simply had low and low-hassle pricing I would have stayed. But I hate calling every year to get the rate reduced.

You know, when we first got it, I was pretty stubbornly refusing to use the e-assist. But it's a big bike and we're big people, and the geometry isn't as comfy for me as on my commuter. Now we ride with the e-assist on.

So if you've noticed the world going to hell in a handbasket:
blame us.

Oooh, I'll watch this.

And speaking of Avatar: today I learned that there was denialism of the outcome of the First Opium War in the Qing dynasty. I wonder if was the impetus for Ba Sing Se's denialism?

Google has unilaterally changed the power button on my phone to no longer power-down the phone. Instead it summons an AI!

So if the AI malfunctions, how do we turn it off? 🤔
Ominous metaphor, much? 👌

Find me a profession that's accurately portrayed in a super hero movie, and I'll buy you a lunch.

Robert's been working on social justice in Kentucky since his childhood. We're lucky to have him running!

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

"It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA" www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...

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p.s. We're having a lot of "Which is why the person who said, or rather typed, offhandedly 'people should bike more' really means all people need to bike everywhere under all circumstances and is callously indifferent to people who..." on this thread.

A while back I wrote my Senators encouraging them to arm Ukraine. IIRC Hawley didn't write back, but Eric Schmidt finally replied to say "Ensuring complete and total accountability of every item and every cent throughout the process is a chief concern.".

Uh, it's a war, not an accountancy exam.

Neat! I only know where the first of the four are.

That's awesome! How much time in the saddle does it take you?

Bicycling was already _so easy_ compared to walking. Now it's _even easier_?!

After toiling in the bike advocacy trenches for decades, it turns out the pedaling - the thing I was barely aware of doing - was a big blocker for a lot of people. 🤦

See & Raise: I dreamed that there was a fire in the Mines of Moria. Aragorn was bravely trying to contain the blaze, using magical fireproof rope. But the POV in the dream was that of the rope, which was just in a closed dark chest most of the time, with Aragorn coming by periodically to get more.

It's so tragic.

Our built environment serves only certain age ranges and abilities, and some people can't navigate it (or navigate it *safely*). The movie _Whisper of the Heart_ as window into a modern society where children have the freedom to travel safely - how much more alive they are!

Looks pretty dang good, ne?

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Water tower in twilight

Saint Louis

AI helps me solve 10 problems a day. I can see the enshittification coming, but right now it's the only thing that's not enshittified. Might as well get work done while we can.

Wherein Matt follows up on his vow to have a microphone set up and then leave town.

And Cole cautions of the dangers of getting too invested in one single game to a guy who might - just spitballing here - be pretty focused on Twilight Imperium.

When the survey references 'the current design' are they referring to what's on the ground now, or some document somewhere I'm supposed to be able to read, but can't?

Legitimate feelings. We can work on more than one thing at a time, and that's a strength.

What?! What!? What?! @mattleacock.bsky.social 's Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship is already fully implemented on BoardGameArena.

I'm excited to play over-the-board with my Fellowship, but I'm already feeling the lure of the ring beckoning me to try it online... 😅

Meanwhile, Target opened a store so close to me that I only have to ride on 2-lane roads to get to it, including a magical express way underpass that's closed to cars and is actually a skate park. And they stock Legos, finally.

It's a magical wormhole from the city to suburbia.

Epic!

Tanner in One Night Ultimate Werewolf

Zoolander villain Mugatu opines: "That Pirate is so hot right now!"

YouTube video by ClickHole We Get Some Kids Riled Up For Pizza And Then Leave

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDmR...

A tandem bicycle is fundamentally an accessibility tool! Hear me out!

What capabilities does a tandem bike give you?
1. You move two people using the skill of one person
2. You move two people using the sum of their power output
Skill and power are barriers to bicycling. Tandems can lower them.

But 100% biological bikes have the same speed limit as all other vehicles, though?

Bio-bikes use a non-bio power-source when going downhill, too.

What about e-bikes that aren't using any chemical battery power when they're going downhill or pedaled by a strong rider. So many questions.