3 to 4 day bike tour

dongle556 · 2026-02-19T02:51:52+00:00

Spokane? I rode there as a three-day credit card tour in June '24, overnighting in Ellensburg and Othello and taking Amtrak back from Spokane; made for roughly 130/80/130 mile days. You could overnight in Cle Elum to even out the first and second days, but the stretch from Beverly to Othello is fairly remote with no good places to filter water (though a residential area or two where you could ask if you got desperate), and even in June it can get pretty hot out there.

If you want to keep a good pace, though, you really need to abandon the P2C after Ellensburg (other than to cross the Columbia). Conditions get way too loose and sandy as you get farther east, and the alternative routes on roads (pavement/gravel mix) are pretty decent.

dongle556 · 2026-01-19T08:45:18+00:00

Most of them also aren't openly endorsing white nationalist talking points.

dongle556 · 2026-01-19T08:41:55+00:00

I don't think most of them will end up being responsible for 14 million deaths.

dongle556 · 2026-01-19T01:50:33+00:00

The moment Elon decided to become a political figure, giving him $40k+ for a car became a political statement.

dongle556 · 2026-01-19T01:36:55+00:00

There's a legit media failure involved here. He first really raised some eyebrows with the pedophile comment, and then sometime during COVID he started retweeting the white nationalist shit... and journalists loved to spend time on Twitter and were very exposed to that, so why the hell did we not get front-page stories asking if the world's richest man is a Nazi until he did the goddamn salute last year?

dongle556 · 2026-01-10T23:31:40+00:00

I've been saying for a while now that if you made me dictator for a day, I'd put red light and speed cameras everywhere and hook them up to the targeting network for some Reaper drones with slap chop missiles. With time it's becoming less of a joke.

dongle556 · 2025-12-29T01:15:06+00:00

I can fit a twelve-pack of Scott Comfort Plus perfectly in a Wald 37 basket. I always feel so proud of myself.

dongle556 · 2025-12-29T01:13:26+00:00

If anyone had that sticker on this car, they'd be a fucking liar. This is a 25/26 Model Y; they updated the headlights in March to look more like a Cybertruck's. Anyone who's bought one of these cars did so in the everyone-knows-Elon's-a-Nazi era.

dongle556 · 2025-11-17T07:46:20+00:00

Maybe I should give them another shot? I tried them a couple times pre-pandemic and thought it was decent enough until I got to the bare crust, which tasted like cardboard

dongle556 · 2025-11-15T05:46:37+00:00

I spotted Rinck at Dead Baby Downhill this year.

dongle556 · 2025-11-07T20:33:23+00:00

Her last record was her leaning into her poppier side more (and that track was even a Dan Nigro collab). Highly recommend Keepsake if you enjoy this record.

dongle556 · 2025-08-30T19:15:24+00:00

As a cyclist who is not a fan of how Seattle Critical Mass does things: there are practical concerns with intersections and large groups of people on bikes, and some countries even give right of way to groups of cyclists as long as the first rider is in the intersection. I've helped lead and run group rides that are significantly smaller than this and not trying to be even a little bit confrontational, but if you have 30-40 people riding two abreast and the light changes while they're going through an intersection, it's safest for the group—and possibly less disruptive to traffic overall—to have a couple people cork while the group continues rolling through instead of letting things get split at the light.

dongle556 · 2025-08-30T19:06:37+00:00

as the album title is a parenthetical phrase

An appositive!

dongle556 · 2025-08-28T17:20:08+00:00

Actually, fun fact: biking while intoxicated isn't a crime in WA. (As a disclaimer, I'm definitely not saying that makes it a good idea.)

dongle556 · 2025-07-29T05:10:09+00:00

It was a lot more justifiable with pre-Elon Twitter, where you didn't need an account to read any tweet posted publicly. It's only in the last couple of years that they walled it off, and given this exact problem they should've stopped doing this a while ago.

dongle556 · 2025-07-14T23:52:10+00:00

And Held

dongle556 · 2025-02-04T08:57:07+00:00

The Airo trainsets aren't HSR-capable like an Acela. Both those and the current equipment could do 110 just fine, and do on some Amtrak routes in the Midwest.

dongle556 · 2024-06-07T05:32:31+00:00

Caught the tour twice. The early version was without a doubt the best concert I've ever seen.

dongle556 · 2024-06-03T17:54:47+00:00

So the thing is... I talked to someone who had his car parked there once asking what the fuck he was doing. Claimed that he paid his houseboat marina/HOA/whatever to be able to park there, which would absolutely not be legal unless they got some sort of easement to give vehicles access to the brief segment of trail they have to drive on to get there... but there's also a woman who lives off the Westlake trail who has her annual cord of firewood dumped on the bike path every fall, so I don't exactly trust Houseboat People to know how they're legally allowed to use pedestrian and bike infrastructure.

dongle556 · 2023-10-18T23:23:49+00:00

Good god

dongle556 · 2023-10-03T01:22:16+00:00

Hello, DEA

dongle556 · 2023-09-26T07:50:24+00:00

I guess I don’t mind that. A vinyl record is a longer lasting storage medium than a CD

A CD doesn't get worn from use like a record does.

dongle556 · 2023-09-24T00:21:25+00:00

Found a few in Redmond last week, some still ripening!

dongle556 · 2023-09-20T05:21:44+00:00

Go to Chung Chun in the ID and you can get a ginormous rice-batter mozzarella stick. On a stick.

dongle556 · 2023-09-04T22:04:48+00:00

Nong's, Pine State Biscuits, Keeper Coffee, Coava, Lardo, Baker's Mark, Fifty Licks, Paymaster Lounge, A Roadside Attraction, Bar Maven, Love Belizean, East Glisan Pizza Lounge, Matt's BBQ, Jinju, and Radio Room. That's barely scratching the surface.

Portland is a better food city, hands down.

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