MattPie
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On 8/30/2024 at 3:13 PM, PerreaultForever said:
I can guess perhaps that this is a new distinction police make for traffic incidents to distinguish them from EBikes or other motorized cycles. It might change some of the legalities around where you are on the road etc.
Not really, bicycles, ebikes, and motorcycles are normal road users and can use the entire lane if they need to.
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51 minutes ago, Getpucksdeep said:
Nice job. A few familiar names on the start list. Face plant at around 2:30 minics my CX experience lol, I stick to the road.
The guy that won was apparently a pro for awhile, but I'm not sure what level.
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Cyclocross is freaking hard. Not my video, but somewhere in it you'll see me get lapped.
EDIT: ~26:05, I'm in orange and navy kit.
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5 hours ago, mjd1001 said:
The new Stadium is great and all, but give it 10 or so years, and once Pegula is gone (maybe before), I find it hard to see how the team will stay in Buffalo long term when there are so many other cities that can generate 4x, 5 times, or more revenue than here. Unless the Bills find a way to tap into that Toronto/southern Ontario market/money a lot better than they did last time...
If only they could have put the stadium somewhere that was more convenient to people coming over the border. Heck, find the right place and you could have run a ferry so people didn't have to drive. If only that place existed. Sigh.
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32 minutes ago, nfreeman said:
Having said that, if Calgary were to retain $2.5MM or so, I would trade for Kadri in a heartbeat. He is exactly what the doctor ordered for this team.
I kinda agree. At a cap-hit of like $4.5M, that's something that I bet a lot of teams are carrying around with a bad contract or two. You could even trade him and retain some and I bet there'd be takers.
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I can't believe the state of this franchise; they can't even get PTO players to sign here!
(Did I do that right?)
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- Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series is a really good read; sci-fi distant future stuff
- A Half-built Garden by Ruthanna Emyrs is a good near-future sci-fi book where people work together rather than have corporations dictate tastes
- NK Jemisin The City We Became and The World We Make is a fun comic-book-ish horror series centered around NYC
- Currently reading The Ray Nayler The Mountain in the Sea, more near-future but dystopian sci-fi that I'm really digging
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On 8/10/2024 at 8:08 PM, Doohickie said:
Nope, hadn't heard of those yet. Intriguing.
My new bike has tubeless tires. I wonder what it will be like when I get a puncture. Supposedly small holes self-seal with the sealant inside the tire. For larger holes I have a plug kit that can quickly inject a plug in a hole, and yes I have a coupla CO2 cartridges to fill the tire afterward.
Most people recommend to carry a tube just in case you get something that you can't plug. We had this happen on a recent gravel ride; oddly enough, it was a guy on MTB. Unfortunately, he ended up walking for awhile until one of us got back and picked him up with the car.
If you get a really bad hole, you can also use a wrapper or dollar inside the tire to cover the hole and it'll hold until you get home. FWIW, my gravel bike didn't like getting set up tubeless, so I'm still running tubes there.
Speaking of bikes, I might be in Ft Worth in October; my tradition for work trips is to bring my bike and ride a couple days after the trip is done. Are there some good places to ride out there?
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10 hours ago, Flashsabre said:
I mean, easy in hindsight but there *were* some big question marks at the time.
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On 7/19/2024 at 7:20 PM, thewookie1 said:
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5 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
When I lived in L.A. in the 1980s, we only had one car so I would often take my bike to work just south of LAX. We lived a little north of LAX. It was longer to ride, but I would often ride out to the strand on the beach than take the shorter "overland" route up on the bluff.
Since those innocent days I've heard the Ballona Creek bicycle path got kind of dangerous, with people getting mugged/bikes stolen.
Oh jeez, we were staying right where you worked. AC Hotel on Nash and Maple a block or two south of LAX. I didn't ride Ballona Creek path (although that was on my radar), I was going to ride along Playa Del Beach, but instead went to Venice beach and then rode from there up to the end of the path past Santa Monica pier and back. I rode a bit of that section of Imperial Highway and I found it uninspiring, other than airplane-fan me looking over at LAX.
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Some more LA photos. Turns out, you can ride a bike up to the top of Mt Lee behind the Hollywood sign. Also some Santa Monica beach pics in there.
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11 hours ago, Doohickie said:
Another day, another ride. Swung by the bike shop and they helped me adjust the seat height. Now the bike feels even better.
That's such a sweet ride, congrats. I don't have a carbon bike, but I love all the other things you mentioned; brifters, disc, and clipless. And gravel bikes rock, almost as fast as a road bike, but go anywhere. I do a Thursday night ride that ends up on gravel roads, state forest roads, and some state forest trails.
I'm doing a minivacation in LA right now, and managed to do a decent climb in the Santa Monica mountains last night. 2000ft up over a little under 8 miles. Never thought I'd enjoy riding bikes up hills this much.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BfGWHw4JdywMQB8B7
Latigo Canyon Road, near Malibu. It's cloudy, but the ocean is in the distance there. Life goals.
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3 hours ago, SabreFinn said:
Not as userfriendly as capfriendly imo, but it works. I go with this one.
Userfriendly was a hit when it stopped creating new content too.
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12 hours ago, Doohickie said:
Oh come on, your company can't be that large that it has that many Coltons. And what did you do, search the Enterprise White Pages?
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How could you have possibly figured that out?!!?
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FWIW, I work for a large company. There are at least 50 employees with "Colton" as a first name. Based on scanning the profile pictures, they're not all NHL-player aged. Does seem like a lot of them work in southern states, so it might not be as common in the Northern states.
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8 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
Not really. As long as the two teams playing aren't involved you can do whatever you want. The window before free agency is short so some teams want to get things done (or not) so they can go into free agency (and the draft) with clear plan A's or plan B's.
I suspect teams in the finals *could* make a trade, but the incoming player wouldn't be eligible to play so there's zero benefit. Interesting question though: if you play a game in the finals or enough during the season, but get traded before the end of the series, do you still get your name on the cup?
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Rando New Pink info in the comments:
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18 minutes ago, mudberry said:
Was that the same as the Pink Flamingo?
Think so, early on. I remember there being a "New Pink" to, but have no idea where that was.
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I don't think I was ever in there. I didn't drink much when I lived in Buffalo, that start after I moved away. MsPie used to sneak in the kitchen door when she was in high school, lol.
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7 hours ago, kas23 said:
I don’t think players would automatically gravitate towards good (ie playoff) teams. Players want to play, so they’ll likely go to teams that have potential spots open. That said, sometimes players have the wrong priorities and pick solely based on city. In the end, it should be a mix of factors: multiple spots open, stability of FO/coaching, make-up of the rest of team (they don’t want to go to a complete bottom dweller), and locale.
Weird that you get to decide which priorities are "wrong".
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26 minutes ago, Taro T said:
No data. Thus the "(d)idn't watch it or even know about it before it happened, but THAT is innovative" part of the post. 😉
Also, though am just outside Ra-cha-cha, which is still kind of a hub for the deaf community, had not known what the differences are between ASL and say the "Rochester Method" or other sign languages. (Knew Ra-cha-cha had its own thing going for a time. Never really learned much about it (still haven't). (Add one more item to the seemingly endless "to-do someday" list.))
Interesting, I didn't know about Rochester Method! I knew there were different ways to sign but regional differences are fascinating.
EDIT: Oh, interesting: Rochester method is finger-spelling the English in full, as opposed to words having unique signs.
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3 hours ago, Taro T said:
Be innovative, but intelligent about the way they do so. (This isn't directed at the Sabres but the league as a whole.) Heck, they actually DID do something innovative on Saturday. They broadcast the game with an ASL interpreter doing the play by play on one of the alternate ESPN channels. Didn't watch it or even know about it before it happened, but THAT is innovative. No idea if they did anything to highlight where the puck was as watching the announcer would necessarily distract from following the play on ice (tough to watch 2 things closely at once). But for once, the league was thinking outside the box. (It was likely ESPN's idea and not the league's so they could test it out on a sport that gets lower ratings and work out the bugs there before implementing it in NFL coverage.)
I wonder what the ASL signs though. It can't be the names (other than maybe goals) because of how long they take to spell out, so are they just describing the action that you can already see? Or telling stories about the players? 🙂
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38 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Craig Patrick. From the Patrick family (essentially NHL royalty, his grand dad was Lester Patrick (yes, THAT Lester Patrick) and his father was Lynn Patrick). Played in the NHL for a long time, was one of the few GOOD (not great, but good) California Golden Seals that didn't get immediately poached like some of the others such as Reggie Leach. Had a long career but always seemed to end up on bad teams. (Even though he was a Patrick, he also was an American, might've had something to do with the good teams staying away.)
Was the Assistant Coach to Herb Brooks on THAT Olympic Team.
GM of the Pens when they won back to back Stanley Cups.
Was an advisor to the Sabres soon after Pegula bought them.
Duh, thanks. I was brain farting on that one. I'm now thinking that Craig Patrick is the root of the Pens-affinity in the Sabres' hiring. I vaguely remember talk of "pulling people from the Pens because they're successful" early in Pegula's ownership.
4 minutes ago, dudacek said:The pattern we were discussing was the hiring of first-timers in key positions.
There certainly was a “know this guy already” vibe with Ruff and some of the others you cite.
But there is none whatsoever that I’m aware of with the topic of this thread, Leone, or his predecessor Appert.
I don’t know that the Sabres hire “guys they know” more than other teams. The team I follow the next most closely, Vancouver, is stuffed full of Jim Rutherford connections.
Rutherford has earned more of a benefit of the doubt.
You're right, it might all be connections in other orgs.
Leone and Appert are both former USNTDP coaches, so "guys we've worked with".
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Buffalo Bills 2024 Thread
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The guy is making a career out of 1-2 year deals. Definitely good for him, I'm glad to see him moderately successful.