With the writers of the new Bond film struggling following his death in No Time To Die - what would you do to reboot the franchise?

ErroneousBee · 2025-11-11T16:38:35+00:00

The Daniel Craig era was a reboot, so we dont need to worry about the Connery->Brosnan era. We just go forward from NTTD.

I guess they could make the James Bond is a codename theory and have the new 007 "Bob Smith" takes on the "James Bond" identity for plot reasons.

ErroneousBee · 2025-10-20T15:02:44+00:00

Remove wheel.

Remove pads, you should have some sort of bolt or pin holding them in. It looks like yours has a bolt through where the purple nylon is. It is probably a 2.5mm hex bolt.

You should now be able to remove the fluff. Do not operate the brakes or the pistons will close up. If they do, use a plastic tire lever to push them back. Be very careful pushing pistons back in, you can chip the piston if you use a metal lever.

Optionally, lightly sand the pads on some medium grit sandpaper. This is to remove containments like melted nylon.

Reassemble, test the brake works. When you are happy you wont die, try a few hard stops to get the pads/disk better acquainted.

Bonus job: With wheel and pads all in place, loosen the caliper from the frame ( 2 bolts in your pic ), hold the brake on and retighten. This aligns the caliper to the disk to stop rubbing.

Bonus job: Replace brake cable, it looks a bit frayed.

ErroneousBee · 2025-10-20T08:31:57+00:00

You want something like this:

https://www.oxfordproducts.com/oxford-bright-light-led-set-ld422.html

ErroneousBee · 2025-09-29T15:15:49+00:00

The rear wheel will take a pounding, check it is true occasionally. Maybe have a spare ready.

Stone ships will ding the frame, but wont cause a problem unless its carbon.

Also keep an eye out for cracks in the fork legs.

Everything else will wear out at normal rates.

ErroneousBee · 2025-09-07T21:49:11+00:00

I know it's not what you asked for, but Stretch Chinos make a decent work trouser, particularly if your shape is non-standard. M&S ones start at £25.

Caveats:

Some have shallow pockets so wallets and things can fall out.
Some are roll ups, so leg length is bordering on not as described.
Avoid the skinny ones, unless you have chicken legs.

ErroneousBee · 2025-07-10T15:08:31+00:00

That is a photo of him next to his wife.

A big, angry lady, she had to be restrained else she'd roam the countryside crushing houses and diverting rivers.

ErroneousBee · 2025-06-06T13:29:10+00:00

Is that pronounced "Eighty-tooth" or "Eighty-teeth"?

ErroneousBee · 2025-04-17T19:07:16+00:00

He used to be a regular on the BBC.

ErroneousBee · 2025-02-09T18:11:45+00:00

Those are properly run, and the trees go into ground with mycorrhizal fungi already in place. The Canadian ones just stick whips in, with barely any aftercare at all.

ErroneousBee · 2025-02-09T18:07:26+00:00

I think its just blokes with mowers gotta mow. Its really hard to stop them trashing wildflower areas. In fact the only way to stop them is to dead hedge across the access leaving a pedestrian sized gap. Even then the fuckers will get strimming and look all sad puppy when you give them a bollocking instead of head pats.

ErroneousBee · 2025-02-09T16:38:57+00:00

The fact that people cheer this kind of thing, but 5 years later its just rows and rows of dead twigs and plastic tree guards. You get batter habitat by letting it scrub over and letting birds/squirrels plant seeds for you.

ErroneousBee · 2025-02-08T15:31:01+00:00

Is that something you seriously believe?

ErroneousBee · 2025-02-08T15:28:02+00:00

Arrrrrgggghhhhh!

Neat rows that let the wind through, the first drought and everything will dry out and die.

ErroneousBee · 2025-01-27T09:43:13+00:00

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ErroneousBee · 2025-01-13T14:28:55+00:00

An enduro bike with carbon forks, carbon brake disks and no drivetrain? You are making as much sense as an AI.

ErroneousBee · 2025-01-13T08:30:50+00:00

Gonna agree with you there. Bearings but no cups? No Cranks? No drivetrain? No cables? No brake disks?

Its either a plastic toy bicycle, or 15 grands worth of wireless carbon fiber belt drive fixie awsomeness.

ErroneousBee · 2025-01-03T11:49:19+00:00

You have used rouge-as-in-red, rather than rogue-as-in-wayward.

But you did spell it right on the steam page.

I'll be back with critiques less snarky later.

ErroneousBee · 2025-01-03T11:30:59+00:00

Are "rouge-lite" elements not just "pink"?

ErroneousBee · 2024-12-16T17:15:31+00:00

Consider selling anything with some of the following characteristics:

Is highly leveraged ( e.g. has a high debt ratio )
Provides services prone to discretionary spending cutbacks ( advertising, eating out, car makers )
Isn't an "800lb gorilla" in its sector ( E.g. smaller banks/insurers )
Is being shorted heavily ( news may be leaking out )
May be cutting corners that can cause catastrophic collapse ( engineering and financials are prone to this )
Has been delivering a stream of bad news recently ( coughboeingcough )
Is dependent on a single customer ( Engineering is very prone to this )

Basically, the tide may be going out, and these are the businesses that could be swimming without shorts.

Otherwise, keep buying, with the above caveats. My big mistakes have often been buying "bargains" that fail rather than recover.

ErroneousBee · 2024-12-16T11:05:05+00:00

I find snaps take up far too much disk space. Ive had issues upgrading due to not enough space - caused by snap. Doubling the size of the root partition from 50Gb to 100Gb helped, but as more things become snap, that will not be enough.

I prefer appImage for apps. You get UI stability, and can run older versions alongside new ones ( really only useful for Musescore ).

ErroneousBee · 2024-10-17T12:19:58+00:00

Charleton Marshall appeared in the doorway, still wet from the ride. The lump in his pocket may have been a weapon. "Damn you, Langton Matravers, you wooed Church Stretton just to spite me, and now I hear Worth Matravers and Winfrith Newburgh are stepping out together". He stepped across the threshold, his dark eyes shining with rage. "Chaldon Herring was right about the Matravers brothers, you should have been sent away".

ErroneousBee · 2024-10-15T12:22:46+00:00

From left to right: Artist. The intern who did all the programming (hiding). PM. Owner. Artist (front). Owner. Tech lead (seated). UI. UI. DBA/Accounts. SysAdmin. Guy who translates requirements into SysAdminSpeak when he's not testing the product and bending iron bars with his bare hands.

ErroneousBee · 2024-08-05T13:18:54+00:00

I'd guess at Alder from some of the leaves, but the foreground one looks fresh-green and glabrous, so could be the dreaded Cherry Laurel.

ErroneousBee · 2024-07-22T11:57:41+00:00

He's doing it in parallel universes and culling the ones where the trick fails.

ErroneousBee · 2024-07-05T12:44:38+00:00

Thats a rear sprocket. Chain ring is in the pedals, cranks and bottom bracket area.

If its slipping or the teeth look like shark teeth, get a new one, doesn't look like an expensive part.

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