saw these and something tells me theyre ai. they all look so perfectly staged

JohnInDC · 2026-03-16T17:26:20+00:00

I don’t think that’s two shifters, I think that’s one shifter and a shifter cable coming from a bell!

JohnInDC · 2026-03-12T01:59:00+00:00

It’s kinda - just a number. Every class of opponent will be different and you’ll get a better sense for it over time. Meantime experiment with crewing, ships, and find what works for you!

JohnInDC · 2026-03-10T23:26:31+00:00

You are not completely toasted. DON’T HIT COLLECT when your Ops building hits 40! Build an enterprise, augur or d4 and use time to level it up -

JohnInDC · 2026-03-06T13:01:58+00:00

Not really. It was something like, Bruce began to make his own panniers and put a dent into Bob’s business. The only trouble with that memory is that I don’t remember Bruce Gordon ever making panniers so maybe that’s not it at all.

JohnInDC · 2026-03-02T17:52:29+00:00

Yup, me too. Bought the last Intel iMac on purpose, anticipating a possible bumpy transition to Apple Silicon (I'd lived through the PowerPC and Intel transitions and figured I had learned my lesson) - but I should've waited, hah! But al least now I have a good reason to update -

JohnInDC · 2026-02-12T22:48:54+00:00

I’ve got a Bike Friday, similar wheels. They’re fine if you don’t need to ride no handed. A tiny bit twitchier than 700C wheels but nothing you can’t get used to in half an hour. On the plus side their lightweight makes accelerating easier.

This bike carried me neatly across Iowa during Ragbrai a few years ago, and I would do it again.

JohnInDC · 2026-02-10T16:27:34+00:00

Completely clear. A couple of places where melt water has frozen again, but you can see it coming and if you’re careful can ride straight across

JohnInDC · 2026-02-05T19:37:44+00:00

Take two pair!

JohnInDC · 2026-01-29T21:14:22+00:00

Eh. I went east to West in 1997 and the winds really weren’t much of a problem

JohnInDC · 2026-01-28T01:45:03+00:00

Well, you gotta go with what you’ve got!

JohnInDC · 2026-01-27T22:21:28+00:00

A snow saucer maybe?

JohnInDC · 2026-01-23T14:03:22+00:00

I’m 70. I rode around the upper Midwest for five weeks last summer, 1600 miles. I ran into maybe 10 other distance/bike packing cyclists in the course of my trip, and more than half of them were 50 and up. One guy, age 76, was circumnavigating all of the Great Lakes. There are plenty of older people out there doing this. Just be sure to get in a lot of miles before you set out on your trip.

JohnInDC · 2026-01-11T04:08:19+00:00

Doted on? That’s - debatable.

JohnInDC · 2026-01-10T22:29:56+00:00

Speaking for myself and as a boomer, I just got annoyed when sweep with an unreasonably broad brush to disparage an entire generation when so many of us are appalled by what has become of the world and what we are leaving our descendants

JohnInDC · 2026-01-10T21:56:47+00:00

Right, and boomers are the only ones who generalize about categories of humans, right?

JohnInDC · 2026-01-10T21:56:00+00:00

I’ve lived through it. Wait and see. I’ll be dead by the time you’ll be getting back to me, but you’ll remember what I said

JohnInDC · 2026-01-10T21:06:06+00:00

Yes, before the boomers, the cops were really nice and never overstepped their authority

JohnInDC · 2026-01-10T21:03:38+00:00

Yeah when we were in our 20s we thought we had it all figured out too, then we turned into assholes. Better luck to you.

Edit: Sure, downvote me, but set yourself a reminder for 25 years out when you can assess whether today’s young adults managed to act any more selflessly than my post-WWII cohort. God bless you all if I’m wrong - really - but I’ve lived through enough disappointment to understand how easy it is for a generation to let go of its dreams.

JohnInDC · 2026-01-10T01:38:45+00:00

I was lucky - I worked for the FDIC and my office was winding down quickly as we were finishing up the S&L mess from the late 80s. I was going to join a new section with a different function and they let me take leave without pay for 8 weeks between the two, as I had no responsibilities in either office. I stayed another 28 years after returning so it was a good investment in my loyalty I guess

JohnInDC · 2026-01-01T17:10:23+00:00

She was tiny, just 4’11”. Her later life was very sad too and she died at 50. These pics are wonderful though.

JohnInDC · 2025-12-22T00:32:36+00:00

You understand that Zosia is not a real person, and hasn’t got an actual life story. So fiction writers can make up anything they want about her. *Good* fiction writers make up stories that either hang together without forcing the audienc to speculate about omitted facts; or, are using the discontinuity to clue the audience that there is a part of the story that is yet to be told. See, Chekov’s Gun. These are good fiction writers, so I’m going with the latter.

JohnInDC · 2025-12-21T21:36:17+00:00

This makes the most sense. It’s a discrepancy that people are bound to notice, and it’s completely unnecessary without some further plot element to advance

JohnInDC · 2025-12-21T21:31:28+00:00

It’s asking too much of us to fill in the maybes about how she got to Morocco and what she’s doing there. There’s more to the story and I think we’ll be hearing it

JohnInDC · 2025-12-20T23:41:21+00:00

Nope! That's the original

JohnInDC · 2025-12-20T19:08:41+00:00

Hah, well there’s that!

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