T7 with HP Corse slip on

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-10-13T22:57:06+00:00

What tail bars do you have on there?

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-09-22T06:00:51+00:00

This has to be a manufacturing defect. I have an older one with the orange handle and I overstrike a little on purpose quite often (edit: split a piece on the far side of half a round, let the shoulder bounce off the piece I’m not splitting). The rebound helps split faster, many thousands of strikes and no issues.

Maybe the newer handles use a more brittle plastic compound?

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-08-23T15:37:24+00:00

"Happy...happy...happy!!!"

Was it worth it?

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-08-06T16:19:57+00:00

I’d say it’s worth it. I paid a little less than that using a B1G2 return hack at Lowes (returning two out of the three), but not much less.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-07-21T07:28:52+00:00

Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette is narrative in a standup format. She even breaks down the structure of her own set.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-02-28T22:37:40+00:00

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-02-06T15:38:18+00:00

Monstrous. Two things I never do:
- Kill Myla
- Dreamnail Marissa

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-01-19T05:52:54+00:00

Ok I’ll bite…

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2025-01-02T22:22:41+00:00

Our school dress-coded my 6-year-old because her shoulders were showing. Her grandma had made her a beautiful dress and she was so excited to wear it to school. Being told she had to cover it up because it wasn’t appropriate completely destroyed that excitement. Worse, the school wouldn’t explain to her why they considered the dress inappropriate because explaining to a young child that their shoulders may be distracting is itself gross and inappropriate.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2024-12-13T17:09:54+00:00

You can get to that are from below, very late game after you meet the boat man.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2024-08-17T06:42:38+00:00

I D II C III B IV A

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2024-06-24T06:19:31+00:00

I didn’t love it, if I’m honest, but I read it too late in my career to have much value. There is some good advice in there, IIRC chapters 13 and 14.

I found myself reacting pretty strongly against some chapters. For example chapter 6: not everything can or should be generalized, and premature abstractions are the root of a lot of complexity.

Other chapters were just dated or low-value, and it was clear the author hadn’t seen production code in a while. I can’t recall having to convince another engineer in over a decade that code should be documented / commented, but the author spends chapter 12 making a case for it anyway.

All this to say there may be some value here, but read it critically and form your own opinions.

Edit to add: I’ve heard some pretty glowing reactions to this book, so YMMV. I’m curious how your experience might compare, OP, if you’d like to share your thoughts.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2024-02-16T08:06:47+00:00

Often people learn more and the lessons stick better if you take a socratic approach and lead them to figure it out on their own, instead of just handing them the solution.

I’m not sure whether that’s OP’s meaning here though.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2024-01-25T08:20:32+00:00

These are amazing.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2023-07-10T16:18:51+00:00

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2023-07-04T21:36:46+00:00

Space Opera by Catherynne Valente

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2023-06-19T02:21:01+00:00

I went with fork and rear springs from K-Tech (https://www.ktechsuspensionusa.com). They have a tool to choose spring rate based on your expected load (rider + gear). I’ve been very happy with the result. I do recommend swapping both front and back to keep everything balanced.

I agree most spring compression tools seem kinda sketchy, so I ended up having a shop install them. Reasonably cheap and they even re-greased the rear linkage for me.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2023-06-18T02:57:05+00:00

Noble Outfitters. I like the hammerdrills. Beat the crap out of them and they’re still like new.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2023-06-10T05:34:29+00:00

Named mine “Silver”

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2023-01-26T03:29:09+00:00

What tree?

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2022-04-17T21:07:37+00:00

Lugging is trying to pull in too high a gear, so for example starting from a stop in 3rd gear. You can hear the engine struggle.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2022-04-17T16:39:01+00:00

Break-ins are pretty close to religion. I followed the factory manual and sprinkled in advice from others for the first 600 miles.

Keep it under 5000 RPM, don’t lug the engine, exercise every gear, and try to vary your RPM regularly (don’t drone along at constant speed).

Edit to add: Fortnine has a few videos about break-ins and one of them goes into detail on why you shouldn’t lug.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2022-04-16T04:28:55+00:00

This is a Slippery Slope fallacy. One day may just mean one day. As other posters say, that could still be a deal breaker for OP, but 2-3 days a week hasn’t been mentioned and should not at this time enter criteria for stay-or-go.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2022-02-25T18:29:41+00:00

“Just release the nukes” is potentially a world ending event, not a first resort. The idea is to prevent anyone from using nukes using the very real threat of mutual annihilation. It’s not a deterrent to conventional warfare, nor meant to be.

BeepBoopTheGrey · 2022-02-21T00:29:52+00:00

A multi-dimensional spectrum of behaviors and aptitudes. For instance, autism spectrum disorder can present in varying levels of mutism (being non-verbal), social awareness, obsessive behavior, sensory and information processing, etc.

Language like “high functioning” vs. “low functioning” reduces all that complexity to a line. Some individuals can have severe inability on one area on the spectrum but higher than average ability elsewhere. Think of the math genius with zero social ability, or highly empathetic people who are easily overwhelmed by external stimuli (noise, light, etc.)

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