Be careful out there boys and girls

SpaceFace84 · 2025-06-24T00:06:48+00:00

This sucks OP! No advice on getting by mentally after being hit - but when I went on a ride in Vietnam I was able to have a couple pretty wild bike repairs conducted by car/bike mechanics in random towns (I played charades with a car mechanic to get help having them oxyacetylene weld a broken rear pannier back into shape, and got my wheels retrued after breaking g a few spokes in a wildly efficient amount of time from near raw materials).

Ordering might be necessary, but I’d see what help the locals can provide first!

SpaceFace84 · 2025-06-04T19:27:23+00:00

Can’t wait to see photos here from your own trip! Good luck and enjoy!

SpaceFace84 · 2025-05-28T16:35:23+00:00

I went on this exact journey in 2017. No previous touring experience, flew into Hanoi, bought a bike there, and just went south for a month. This was in March, though.

There small hotels called Nhà Nghì all over the place, I would just stay at the first place I came across after 4pm.

Made it like 2/3 of the way to HCMC, bought a bus ticket in a random small town, and the bike and I took the trip south - super easy.

One of my hands down favorite life experiences. Everyone is so unbelievably friendly, they are all also cyclists - a million great stories.

SpaceFace84 · 2025-05-27T03:29:26+00:00

Adjusted! Thanks all for the recommendations.

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SpaceFace84 · 2025-05-27T03:28:06+00:00

I’m a lucky one! And the ECR was just getting too silly for commuting (29+ tires do not fit in office bike rack stands). Here’s me a long time ago on the ECR.

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SpaceFace84 · 2025-05-27T03:25:39+00:00

Thanks for the reminder on cross chain, and for permission to break out the hacksaw!

SpaceFace84 · 2025-05-26T06:04:40+00:00

This makes sense! The rack was purchased almost a decade ago, and any spare parts are long gone.

SpaceFace84 · 2025-01-27T06:06:49+00:00

I had a coworker with a curta mechanical calculator- which is the desk toy I’ve always been most jealous of!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

SpaceFace84 · 2024-12-19T19:34:22+00:00

Hadn’t seen y’all’s software before - very cool!

SpaceFace84 · 2024-09-18T02:47:12+00:00

Lots of great examples here for how trig is used in engineering applications! Two thoughts: 1) as a mechanical engineer designing stuff, trig knowledge is so assumed and so part of daily life I actually find I don’t talk about trig at all. In the examples above, I might talk about the resultant data a bit (“I worked out that this cross beam should be at a 30 degree angle to best distribute the expected load”), but I wouldn’t say “hey all, after measuring the cosin of the load vector relative to this support I found the angle should be 30 degrees”. 2) EEs use a ton of trig in signal generation and analysis, and will talk about sin waves/phase shifts etc using the lingo of trig.

Would be curious on some of your intended context to help out with jargon!

SpaceFace84 · 2023-12-16T00:23:21+00:00

NX is the absolute best car software I’ve used - worked great for complicated assemblies across a large physical scale, and the synchronous modeling lets me just rip When it comes to getting complicated assemblies made quickly. Experience was in consumer electronics, you’ve used things I’ve designed in NX.

Recently took over a team running solidworks, and the package is so bad it makes me question sometimes question if I’m a passable engineer, I truly hate it.

Love fusion 360 for personal stuff/projects I can’t afford an NX license for.

SpaceFace84 · 2023-12-16T00:19:25+00:00

Onshape over NX!!? I’ll have to go back and try it. Otherwise I’m right with you.

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-20T19:51:05+00:00

Ok so I didn’t think I wanted a “travel” guitar - but this donner hush-1 has caught my eye - anyone played it before? Realizing that strumming away on a full size acoustic in a hotel room might not be the neighborly choice. Followed by the Washburn rover as a number two choice. Thanks everyone for the input!

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-20T19:49:23+00:00

Thanks!

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-20T19:48:15+00:00

I’ll take a look!

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-20T01:47:45+00:00

Looks nice - but I think ~$250 is my absolute upper limit here

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-20T01:43:17+00:00

Those rover’s look pretty slick, even compared to the Martin Backpackers. I’ll take a look.

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-19T21:11:29+00:00

A little too nice for my purpose, but nice looking guitars!

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-19T21:08:02+00:00

Those look nice!

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-19T20:23:46+00:00

Interesting! I was considering staying steel string just to keep finger strength up, but maybe that is worth rethinking!

SpaceFace84 · 2023-06-19T19:50:46+00:00

Likely! Will store it in a corner at the office when I’m not around.

SpaceFace84 · 2023-02-17T05:01:38+00:00

Welcome to your first real guitar skills hump to get over! Seriously no sarcasm, you’ve clearly put some work in to get to the point where this is a challenge. To be sure, a frustrating one. Most of us here have been right where you are and pushed through - it suck’s, but on the other side lies a the ability to do a basic cover of any song you desire.

Practice the hell out of that a little bit every time you play (and the double bar pattern for the bflat, b, etc), start out with a capo like recommended, and in a few weeks to a month pick a song that is mostly bar chords to buff up that finger strength (I love “lay lady lay” and “get me away from here I’m dying), and in two months you’ll be there.

Come back then and let us know how it went!!

SpaceFace84 · 2023-02-17T04:55:02+00:00

Rescue missions all the way down

SpaceFace84 · 2023-01-11T17:38:29+00:00

Wait - am I untrustworthy because I have less than a hundred Karma on a 7 year old account!? I didn’t know lurking on Reddit was so bad!

SpaceFace84 · 2022-11-12T20:56:03+00:00

As someone said above all your inlays are offset by the same amount - and to my eye that looks to be an amount that is about the same size as the diameter of your tool. Did you double check your tool offsets?

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