MattPie

I have a date tomorrow night (spoliers for the F'N Friday thread!) and I don't know how to date someone local any more. The last two girlfriends lived out of town, and the one before that our first date was in 2003. Anything changed in the last 8 years?

Larry Quinn? He was a part owner, was he not?

I only way I can stop my brain from hurting when it comes to creation and time and whatnot is that time is simply not the linear progression that humans see it as. It's the only thing that makes any sense to me. There may well be some being, "God" if you will, that can perceive time or the universe in a different way and is therefore omnipotent. I've also wondered if the answer to "Why doesn't God just show himself and remove all doubt?" is that his time runs significantly faster than ours and he nipped out for a beer (so to speak), or that he's busy somewhere else. What I do know is that I don't have the answers, and since I don't think anyone has much more info than I do I'm suspicious of anyone that claims they do.

Sorry chz, condolences. Complaint: I sit in a smallish room at work with 3 cubes in it, next door to a server room. It's fa-reezing in here. I chalk it up to having 1/4 of the servers in the other room (virtualization and bugdet), and 1/3 of the people (budget). There used to be 3 bodies, 9 monitors, and 7 computers running in this room, and now it's down to 1 body, 3 monitors, and 2 computers. I feel like Mr. Rogers; I get to work, take of the bike jacket, and put on a fleece/sweater. It's nice that I don't have to worry about playing music though! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6ho1-G6tw The first song is just stuck in my head. Plus the bike video is incredibly well shot and pretty. Loch Lomond - Wax and Wire

Fair enough. I'm happy it's a nice day out, and I can work from home with the windows open and the listen to great music[0]. I'm happy that I have a job. And I'm reasonably healthy. And caraway triscuits. And HOCKEY IN ONE WEEK. [0] Like this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_v8lEbVG8

Bump. I have nothing fantastic to report.

I dated a technical editor for a long time. I thought that just meant you couldn't use works like "indefatigably". The logic could be convoluted as you like. :) (She needed to edit software manuals down to a sixth-grade level for non-native English speakers)

I forgot to bring in salad dressing and the company store is closed. I'm looking at 3/4lb of plain spinach, carrots, and broccoli.

I like it! There are lots of kinda-drunk Irish bands, but not as many country ones that I've run into. Thanks!

If you're going to write a silly parody song, it better be "Don't Stop Bill-eveing".

Went down into Philly last night. Hit a Beer Garden (complete with trees and picnic benches), had beer and sausages, and hung out with good friends. Beautiful day/night to ride with no rain (forecast was pretty ugly). Hot tub party in Binghamton tomorrow, and I get to ride some more this weekend despite the rain.

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I tend towards the big, heavy classical stuff. Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, and the like (it just ocurred to me that they're all Russian too). I had a friend in high school that played those on piano and I loved listening to her. EDIT: Thanks, BTW. You've just picked my music for today in the office. I'll be digging thru all the classical on my ipod.

Nope, we need to blare butt-rock in the arena all the time.

I don't think you have a leg to stand on. I'd imagine you could make some sort of claim that it violates the 40-hour week or something, but that would be the fast track to losing the job entirely.

Wow, it's like listening to the Blues, but it actually makes you depressed instead of cheering you up. Sadly, I can completely relate to Mel on that song, but this isn't the right thread for that.

There's a chain called Fox and Hound that has Center Ice, and quite a few TVs. Looking thru the location list, they seem to be spread out from the East coast to the Front Range and Arizona.

This.

Hmm, these to posts together are giving me an idea... It's 9mi via the shortest route. Getting out there isn't too big a deal, it's pretty flat or downhill. The problem is the 200ft climb right at the end of the return trip. I'll have to go ride down the hill and back up to see if it kills me. For Friday: I'm happy that I'm going to help a friend clean out his flooded house in Binghamton and not the other way around. Sucks for him, of course.

Would seem apropos, even though I dislike the song. I much prefer the Weird Al version. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTTVkh6NX50 Weird Al: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos&ob=av3e I'm not going to Tweet this though, since I'd hate to listen to it on a regular basis.

I'm trying to get in shape. Just in the last week, I'm seeing improvements with everything I'm doing except shoulder/back stuff. I can't find a way to work myself into doing pull-ups. I can't do one, and trying to use my legs to 'help' seems to be a lot more leg than pullup. I really don't want to deal with a gym, but I can't think of good way to work into what's a full-body weight exercise.

Not in this case! The problem with laying her down is generally speaking you're going to be travelling in roughly the same direction as you were when you were rolling. So you're on the pavement, sliding, and hoping you don't run into your own bike or whatever you were aimed. If by some chance you don't hit any of that stuff, you likely wouldn't have hit it had you stayed on your wheels. Except that you'd still have a shiny motorcycle to ride home and arms to use to get drunk afterwards. I think Korab touched on it before: most of the 'I had to lay it down' stories are covering for people that paniced, grenaded the brakes, and locked everything up. PRACTICE EMERGENCY STOPS! And buy a bike with ABS like I have, and *still* practice emergency stops. :) It only takes a couple seconds to haul a bike down from 60mph; you need to be shifting into first and looking for a way out so whatever's behind you doesn't nail you. That takes practice to do smoothly. Oh, and car drivers can often suck.

And that's the truth! Some models of bikes (I'm thinking certain sport bikes, mostly) are known to rub the gas tank on the pavement when they crash. It doesn't take too long of a slide before you wear a hole in the tank and let the gas out. For example: http://www.traxxion.com/r6tanksliders.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucPMCAwW8NQ Bystanders save biker trapped under burning car. Guy is banged up by should be OK. One thing really annoys me about the AP article. They talk about how the guy 'laid her down' to protect himself. That's never the right thing to do. Ever. OK, if you're going to run into a tractor-trailer across the road, perhaps. Otherwise, modern bikes stop pretty damn fast. When you're out riding, you should be practicing maximum-effort stops. And emergency swerve technique. You don't want to be learning when you really need it. The second part is when you lay it down, you've completely lost control of the situation and where you slide, you slide. In this case, you end up trapped under a car that's starting to catch fire. That's less than ideal. Let's say you didn't lay the bike down, and we assume that even a practiced rider couldn't stop in time. Odds are you t-bone the car and fly over it and slide down the highway. If you're wearing gear (which this guy wasn't, ahem), you maybe break/sprain/dislocate some body parts. You don't get incinerated, if not for a dozen people picking up a car to save you. I don't want this to sound like I'm bad mouthing the guy, but as a engineer we're trained to learn from failures. Learn from other people's mistakes so you can find new ones to make. :)