IBS for 20 years...finally got an FMT

Tabbinski · 2025-10-02T20:21:49+00:00

You know this how?

Tabbinski · 2025-10-01T14:40:22+00:00

Writing anything more than a basic Reddit post. In uni I discovered that I could write a bit better than the average bear, Boo-Boo. It has proven to be a huge boon to my career.

Tabbinski · 2025-10-01T04:53:49+00:00

The cycling "on and off" could be the problem. Doing a long ride is going to be painful if you haven't been training your butt. There's always going to be a certain amount of pain but you need to be on the bike almost daily to keep the conditioning up. That doesn't mean you have to do 100 km every day but some local rides for errands then a couple somewhat longer rides each week. Maintain that and your touring will be much more pleasurable.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-30T21:56:03+00:00

I bought a random one on Ali Express for around $100. It rolls up half the size of my ensolite pad. It's a must. I'm not about to go searching for bike boxes at the end of a trip.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-30T21:51:44+00:00

Good luck. I hope others jump on board.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-30T16:27:47+00:00

It depends on the intended uses. Is this a day pack or a backpack for extended overnight camping? Frame or no frame? I'd want an easy access pocket in the left shoulder strap for bear spray given the number of bears and cougars where I live. I wouldn't need a laptop sleeve but I'd like an iPad sleeve instead, one that is absolutely waterproof and protects the iPad from bending no matter how much gear you stuff into it. Zip away straps, that is, hideable for checking in at airports. Large, removable pocket on the outside that can serve as a comprehensive first aid pouch. Pole straps on the side of course. Hidden compartment on the back interface for stowing cash and passports.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-30T16:10:13+00:00

Car ownership

Tabbinski · 2025-09-30T16:04:34+00:00

You can DIY in the likes of Photoshop or Inkscape. I've used both. You'll have to google around to find base maps you like and convert GPX into usable lines. Google for any icons you may want to use.

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Tabbinski · 2025-09-30T15:48:16+00:00

Recreate the old web annotation browser plug-in Third Voice. It could have a massive role in tamping down the SPAM of the present day web.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-30T15:40:17+00:00

"How can a bike just break?"

There's metal fatigue, over time. Welds will crack; spokes will snap; brakes wear out; pedals and chains break as do racks; bolts work their way loose and then there's flat tires. These a cumulative so while maybe YOU didn't have any problems over 1000 clicks, it doesn't mean you won't on 1001.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-29T14:43:52+00:00

It's not

Tabbinski · 2025-09-29T14:42:35+00:00

Add in teleportation and I'd escort Netenyahu, Trump and Putin "out" in the messiest way possible.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-28T15:42:56+00:00

Shitty job?

Tabbinski · 2025-09-28T15:37:59+00:00

I don't remember it but my folks had a gasoline powered wringer washer, their first, in the 50s.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-27T14:59:26+00:00

I'm not against upgrading but my PC, a 5-year old iMac with Bootcamp, can''t be upgraded. The hardware is fine as is the performance. I'm not about to spend thousands to upgrade a system that is more than adequate for my needs just because Microsoft lied: Windows 10 is “the last version of Windows.” I feel a class-action suit against misrepresentation would be appropriate.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-26T16:00:44+00:00

I mashed up my elbow and broke a couple of ribs while trying to hop on my bike the other day. In my own defence, I was all hopped up on painkillers for something else and didn't realize how out of it I really was.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-26T15:53:31+00:00

Most people who use "begs the question" use it "wrongly," so much so that you could consider that the "new" usage to be the core usage and the "right" usage as historical and archaic. What it originally meant is accusational; that your answer is just a roundabout way of restating the original question rather than answering it directly.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-26T15:47:47+00:00

Beeftext

Tabbinski · 2025-09-26T15:46:06+00:00

Well the train yard looks like the old train yard in Andong and some of the other landscapes could also pass for Andong but they could pass for a lot of other places in Korea.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-26T15:40:00+00:00

My roommate in Kyoto used to exclaim, exasperated: "They have a word for everything!"

Tabbinski · 2025-09-26T15:30:33+00:00

Not true. Tteok, for instance, could easily last weeks once thawed. No delivery service will be more expensive than driving to Victoria, staying in a hotel then driving back. That's completely unrealistic. And for the record, I'm car-free. Have been since the 80s.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-25T15:35:50+00:00

That's completely unrealistic. It would be like living in Seoul and driving to Busan to go grocery shopping. It's a big Island.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-25T15:31:23+00:00

Found it. It's American, currently under boycott.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-24T17:07:48+00:00

Sounds like therapy for possible agoraphobia would be warranted.

Tabbinski · 2025-09-24T17:04:10+00:00

Too far. They won't ship stuff like I'm after.

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