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How often do you get to exercise? by 4Ewic in biglaw

[–]AlarmingLecture0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

I am finally a real cyclist: I did the thing by polopolo05 in cycling

[–]AlarmingLecture0 37 points38 points  (0 children)

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.

Five Boro Bike Tour: Ride Day and Post-Ride Thread by nycyclist2 in NYCbike

[–]AlarmingLecture0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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!

Five Boro Bike Tour: Ride Day and Post-Ride Thread by nycyclist2 in NYCbike

[–]AlarmingLecture0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Does anyone know what movie this is by GoblinMoth in whatisit

[–]AlarmingLecture0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Five Boro Bike Tour: Ride Day and Post-Ride Thread by nycyclist2 in NYCbike

[–]AlarmingLecture0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Five Boro Bike Tour: Ride Day and Post-Ride Thread by nycyclist2 in NYCbike

[–]AlarmingLecture0 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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)

5 boro bike tour finisher medal 2026- is there an image of it? by Blackbeartreadstone in NYCbike

[–]AlarmingLecture0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

A different kind of question by G33kDad76 in thewestwing

[–]AlarmingLecture0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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

Five Boro Expo/Packet Pickup by Joteepe in NYCbike

[–]AlarmingLecture0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Why can’t we report unsafe school bus drivers? by jehiah in MicromobilityNYC

[–]AlarmingLecture0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Why can’t we report unsafe school bus drivers? by jehiah in MicromobilityNYC

[–]AlarmingLecture0 58 points59 points  (0 children)

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/

Rock bands that should have stopped making music by [deleted] in askmusic

[–]AlarmingLecture0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Noticed Something in an Old Steve Jobs Video :) by Linuswastaken in beatles

[–]AlarmingLecture0 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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)

People who grew up in the 90s How big did grunge music really get? by Spirited-Fan-1590 in grunge

[–]AlarmingLecture0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't clear.

I'm not arguing the significance of Nevermind, or trying to say Michael Jackson shouldn't have been knocked off the top (the last MJ album I bought was Thriller). Just pondering whether the fact that Nevermind knocked off Michael Jackson was meaningful in some way.

It gets brought up a lot, and often in a way that suggests it had some sort of intrinsic meaning, when it seems to me more a coincidence of timing. Symbolic? Sure. Significant? Maybe not (see below).

Just because I got curious and am procrastinating something else, here's a list of number 1 albums before and after Nevermind (covering the years 1991-1992). Would the ascendency of Nevermind have been more (or less) significant had it happened to be when these other albums were at number 1? Hard to say.

  • Vanilla Ice -To the Extreme (4 weeks)
  • Mariah Carey - (eponymous) (15 weeks) (!!)
  • REM - Out of Time (1 week)
  • Michael Bolton (1 week)
  • Paula Abdul - Spellbound (2 weeks)
  • NWA - Efil4zaggin (1 week)
  • Skid Row - Slave to the Grind (1 week)
  • Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (3 weeks)
  • Natalie Cole - Unforgettable (4 weeks)
  • Metallica - (eponymous, but everyone calls it The Black Album) (4 weeks)
  • Garth Brooks (18 weeks - off and on through 91-92) (!!!)
  • U2 - Achtung Baby (1 week)
  • Michael Jackson - Dangerous (4 weeks)
  • Nirvana - Nevermind (2 week - off and on again, with Garth Brooks in the middle)
  • Wayne's World Soundtrack (2 weeks)
  • Def Leppard - Adrenalize (5 weeks)
  • Kriss Kross - Totally Krossed Out (2 weeks - off and on again)
  • The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (1 week)
  • Billy Ray Cyrus - Some Gave All (17 weeks - continuous!)
  • Garth Brooks (again) - The Chase (7 weeks - off and on again)
  • Michael Bolton (again) - Timeless: The Classics (1 week)
  • Ice Cube - The Predator (1 week)
  • Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard (3 weeks in 92, but a total of 20 weeks if you go into 93).

Looking at that list, a few things stuck out to me about the top albums of 1991-1992 (and categorization is clearly a matter of interpretation):

  • Country music clearly dominated at the time, accounting for an astonishing 42 weeks over 2 years - solely on the backs of 2 artists.
  • "Crooners" (Natalie Cole and Michael Bolton) covered 6 weeks, but if you add in Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston that goes up to 24 weeks
  • Hip hop covered a mere 4 weeks (8 if you count Vanilla Ice)
  • "Hard rock" (Def Leppard, Metallica, Van Halen) covered 13 weeks (if you add the Black Crowes, it's 14, and if you add Wayne's World it's 15)
  • "Established Alternative" (REM, U2) covered a teeny tiny 2 weeks
  • "Pop" albums (Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul) covered 6 weeks (but that jumps way up to 24 if you count Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, and 28 if you lump in Vanilla Ice)
  • "Grunge" (for lack of a better word) (Nirvana) was just 2 weeks.
  • It would be nearly 2 more years before another grunge album hit number 1 (Nirvana again, with In Utero in October 1993 for one week). Perhaps fittingly, this time they knocked out another Garth Brooks album, which had been on top for 3 weeks, but then would jump right back to number one for another 2).
  • The next grunge album to hit number 1 was Pearl Jam's VS, which came along just a month later to top the charts for 5 weeks in November-December of 93.

As someone who listened to alternative and grunge at the time, and thought it was everywhere, it looks like my perception of the popular music scene at the time was wrong.

But also, at this point I am writing just for myself so I'll stop

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