Daniel @daniel@campduffel.social
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6) This bike is quiet.
7) I missed riding a bike. It was fun!
I'm not sure if it's worth taking apart and returning. I would probably have to pay some kind of fee. Bummed that it didn't work out for her though. I had planned to do something cheaper for myself, but now I don't know.
I didn't want to Frankenstein together a bike for my wife, so I got one online and put it together this afternoon. I learned a few things.
1) The bike is too big for her at 57cm(she is 5'9"), but it is fine for me.
2) Presta valves are a thing.
3) Hauling a child comfortably will require more gears.
4) This is a pretty good single speed. I was pleasantly surprised that it was geared fairly high.
5) It was not relaxing or very comfortable to ride, though 5 miles in 20 mins was nice.
Anyone here build a bike from scratch with online parts? There are some pretty cheap whole bikes with decent reviews, but with a couple flaky parts. Maybe just upgrade those parts? Seems like anywhere wants around $600+ for a decent bike. I just want a steel frame, single speed that fits and rides well.
@mary and I have been getting into the Hamish Macbeth series.
Was reading an article about hail and how a child was recently killed by a hailstone.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62736383
Revelations describes a coming hailstorm with stones over 100 lbs! I can’t think of many structures that could survive such an event.
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My little garden has had a hard season. It has gone through: snow, days of pouring rain, hail, wind, heat, moles,ants,moths and tiny black bugs!
I muscled my way through some pretty beat up thick skinned vegetables. The insides are sweet soft tender goodness that will nourish my husband and I through the winter.
I think we Christians probably look a lot like this little kohlrabi with it's tough skin from our enemy constantly hitting us with everything bad...BUT!! God will provide,protect and use us to complete His good will.
So, let us keep our attitude looking for the good in all things and ppl. Let's march on in the strength of Jesus Christ our Savior.
I continue to pray for all you beautiful DD ppl!! My family - my forever friends!
This is an interesting/well done documentary about interactive fiction(AKA text based games). It's given me some things to think about for sure.
https://youtu.be/LRhbcDzbGSU
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@ifixcoinops I recently learned that a whole bunch - hundreds to maybe thousands - of those "wooden castle" playgrounds from the 70s were the work of (mostly) one guy, Bob Leathers. He'd travel to different cities, spend a bit of time "consulting" with kids to figure out what they wanted in a playground, then in a four day blitz of community volunteer labor and donated materials they'd build a playground from scratch. His work is all over the US and Gen X / elder Millennials probably played on one of his creations. Each one was a real community effort and personalized to the kids' wishes.
As they had an estimated 25 year lifespan, many have been bulldozed and replaced with bright metal painted safer equipment. Some still remain in active use though, or have gotten a refurb by the community!
(Excerpts from a 1980 NYT article about his constructions)
Back in 1909 two trains collided head-on near the Air Force Academy.
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@mary patched one of our old leather chairs. If you know, you know.
@Russ Didn't you pull the rebar out of this guy's skull like King Arthur and Excalibur?
https://youtu.be/DYQRCvKQv5s?t=1378
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Jen, came in to see what incredible things the engineers and artists had come up with. Everyone was staring at a television set hooked up to a development box for the Sony Playstation. There, on the screen, against a single-color background, was a black triangle.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120229000202/http://rampantgames.com/blog/2004/10/black-triangle.html
Cruising with the windows down on a cool summer night with the pups and jamming some good tunes.
Fun with XMPP. Agh, OMEMO implementations don’t always work across clients. It has to do with the byte length of the initialization vector for AES which should be 12. A few folks use 16 and it throws a wrench in things. Old problem, but at least I know why now.
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