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    Whatcha reading?

    I reread Endurance about six months ago. really not all that nautical. it's just a truly great story about the toughest group of men I've ever heard of.
  2. Operatuh, can you help me place this call...
  3. off topic: who was that Texas baseball player that had Prison Sex as his coming to the plate music, several years ago?
  4. the subject of MC Escher came up a few weeks ago on a family vacation, and I remembered I had a big book of his work that my aunt had given me, when I was a kid. when we got back, I took it out for my kids to look at. of course, they just left it lying around, so when I went to put it back, I flipped it open to a random page and found these. I must have stashed them in the book to protect them when I moved out to go to school. they don't hand out shit like this at gas stations anymore.
  5. did you think all those bottles are still empty?
  6. yikes. well, stay out of room 237.
  7. Hyatt Regency KC says hold my cerveza https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse I remember watching tv when the cut away to coverage of it for the whole rest of the night.
  8. it all makes sense, now
  9. I got a "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE RIGHT!?1", a few days ago after she'd been repeatedly attempting to plug in the lightning end of her charger cable into the (old school) USB port on the plug. the morning of our departure, as we were packing, I noticed about a 1" hole in the elbow of her hoodie. I felt pretty good that I had learned my lesson and kept my mouth shut. not my problem. day after we got back, talking about someone else, she said, "I never lose it like that". big lol from me. to her credit, she owned it after I reminded her about the USB incident.
  10. YUCK! also FUCK! heal up quick, dude. but don't mess around with eyesight.
  11. and the kid's name? Thadeus
  12. how gauche in my house, I clean the cast iron and the kitchen knives. It's worth it.
  13. Thanks, Braff. that one drop is higher than my saddle, so about 3' to the base of the ledge. the sloped landing zone adds at least a foot to that, depending on your speed and Red Bull level. funmeter was prettymuch maxed on each of the four runs I took at it, but it felt like butter. new fork, I guess. and the Cascade link. I run Minions, with a DHF 3C EXO Maxwhatever up front, and a DHR DoubleDown in the back, since I seem to be much harder on my back tire (rocky landings, etc.). my brief racing days are way behind me, so I accept the major weight penalty in favor of not worrying about it. fwiw, my riding bros that spend way more time reading and researching bike stuff are pimping Specialized Butchers as the next "best ever".
  14. got my ass beat on Wednesday, sailing, of all things. one last jibe to get out of my gusty cove, and got slammed into the white caps, then turtled; then turtled again when I got it back up, rinse and repeat, more times than I can remember. obviously, I eventually got back, but I'm still just a ball of bruises and pulled muscles. but I've been wanting to session this new section since I first saw it about a month ago, and I knew it'd be hero dirt, today. almost every landing on this trail is off-camber, esp if you know how to jump--which I still don't.
  15. I did something similar, some years ago. not that knuckle, but the next one further out on my ring finger, iirc. used a loop of velcro as a quick-and-dirty, removable splint. doc was kinda impressed with the "device". since then, I don't bother with xrays on stuff like this. if it's not poking out, there's really nothing to be done but maybe tape it up. semi-related: I don't remember why I bought it, but I picked up one of those spandex "copperfit" sleeves, I think for my knee. never worked as advertised, but it works great as a bandage wrap. just carry it and some gauze pads and you can cover just about any gash until you get to the truck. machine washable. I've actually loaned it to buddies who've had some deep cuts, grazing stumps and whatnot. don't have to worry about tape not sticking, and it gives some compression to the wound.
  16. fuck Festival People in their goat asses. and for the ravers especially, fuck their parents, too, for producing this trash.
  17. speaking of incels, check out this posterchild
  18. wrist is still not 100% (see skateboarding thread). hit the greenbelt with the boys, this am. the pucker factor on the first drop in this video was huge for me, today. after getting that out of the way, it was all good times. 10.5 miles and >1200ft of climbing. not bad for only my second ride after a month off.
  19. eh? Angel Fire is just down the road from you (Taos, right?), and has a progressive drop zone off by itself, so you can session it. it's also 98% tables tops. the few gaps are on the double-black trails.
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