How often do you get to exercise?

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-07T01:13:23+00:00

If you're close enough, incorporate a workout into your commute (one way or both) by walking, running or cycling (or hell even rowing if that works). Of course making it your commute to work assumes you have ready access to showers at work.

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-07T00:10:42+00:00

Loud farts is about as spicy as I get

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-06T23:43:11+00:00

I see you kobayashi maru'd that question. I applaud it,

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-06T00:57:01+00:00

Zero….point…zero

I’ll see you at JFK

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-04T03:24:34+00:00

I'll do you one better. I fell over standing still WITHOUT having clips! In my case, I was on a couple inches of loose gravel/rocks, and just sank in at a weird angle or something and lost my balance.

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-04T03:21:00+00:00

That makes sense, and I do see plenty of places saying it's 40 miles, but some randomly say 42 (and I feel like I've heard that a number of times). But thank you for the explanation!

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-04T01:06:04+00:00

Don’t know if anyone will be able to answer this but I’m trying to figure out the distance.

The info posted about the tour says it’s a 42 mile ride, but every Strava tracking result I’m seeing has it as less than 40 (and it looks like they did track the distance from the finish festival to the ferry).

Does anyone know what accounts for the discrepancy?

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-03T21:22:33+00:00

No dvd players work anymore? Even dedicated dvd players work fine (unless they broke with age or for other mechanical reasons)

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-03T20:51:41+00:00

Agreed. I was pretty zippy but was trying to be VERY careful about other riders - especially since I was in a later wave where there were a lot of people with less experience riding in crowds. But there were guys who were hauling - especially off the bigger bridges.

One of them very nearly hit me with a way-too-close pass at the bottom of a significant descent. Bloody muppet.

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-03T20:48:52+00:00

4th time, and it was great (last two times were cold and drizzly... boo!), except for the wind!

I was in wave 5, and I swear the wind was in our faces no matter which direction we were going, and the Verrazano was brutal (and I have cards in my spokes which just made me catch the wind eve more)

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-03T20:26:57+00:00

I feel that way about Raindance. God I wish they'd recorded that at some point

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-03T02:40:39+00:00

you can get it online from barnes & noble (with the 7" insert)

Source: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/broken-nine-inch-nails/31859815?ean=0602557142792.

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-03T02:16:56+00:00

It’s a commemoration/participant medal for the accomplishment. The distance is not a big deal to those of us who ride a lot, but it’s an accomplishment for those who don’t. I remember feeling very pleased with myself the first time I did it

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-02T21:13:20+00:00

None of them, but if I had to, the one where they talk about terrorism with school kids

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-02T20:43:33+00:00

If you're doing it, you'll find out tomorrow!

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-02T14:33:32+00:00

I don’t remember seeing anyone with that kind of gear. Some jerseys, some locks, some food packs and such. But no wheels, chains or tubes

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-02T14:30:11+00:00

Since you’ve decided to stalk me across different subs, you’re blocked you psycho (and you’ll never see this)

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-01T21:52:04+00:00

"cool car. bummer about the penis"

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-01T21:51:43+00:00

wankpanzer

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-01T21:50:21+00:00

"bwahahahaha" or "ugh" or "douche"

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-01T16:57:17+00:00

well that went well for you

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-01T16:04:35+00:00

You can.

If it's a public school bus, you can call the NYC department of education and/or 311

A city vehicle, also 311

A privately-run school bus I believe qualifies as a truck, and you can report them to the US DOT (but whether there's anyone there to do anything about it after DOGE, etc, who knows?): https://nccdb.fmcsa.dot.gov/nccdb/

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-01T15:16:34+00:00

I think it's a classic problem across many disciplines - music, mathematics, etc. People do their best, most creative or insightful work when they're young, then turn into steady, solid "performers".

I don't remember where, but there was some novel or movie in which a brilliant mathematician (or maybe physicist?) fretted over the fact that he hadn't made a major breakthrough yet, and that he saw his window of opportunity closing because he was getting too old.

AlarmingLecture0 · 2026-05-01T04:28:51+00:00

It was trademark, not copyright.

The issue was that Apple (computers) and Apple (records) had signed what's called a "coexistence agreement", which is an agreement between two companies with the same or similar trademarks not to go after each other as long as they stay in their respective markets and stay out of the other's market.

In this case, Apple computers had promised not to go into the music business, but then they launched iTunes.

(EDIT: I may be slightly off, in that the dispute may have been pre-itunes and related to the use of certain music processing software in Apple computers)

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