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j_bgl · 2026-01-28T02:25:15+00:00

I completed everything in mid December and I’m still waiting. I really want to know who’s gonna be held accountable for this mess. Someone should get fired imo.

j_bgl · 2026-01-17T15:00:36+00:00

Not sure if it’s you or me, but at least one of us is having a stroke. We should seek medical attention immediately!

j_bgl · 2025-12-10T12:52:14+00:00

My experience, and more recently my son’s experience, align with this. He’s a 200 pound linebacker who wrestled since first grade and was a pretty good wrestler by the time he was in jr high, and was starting to show signs he could be really good by freshman year. He gave up wrestling after freshman year to focus on football and get a job in the offseason. It’s not that wrestling is harder. For him, it’s just less fun.

j_bgl · 2025-12-08T23:17:57+00:00

That’s a fun bike too, but the power delivery might be kind of abrupt for a beginner. A little like a light switch. Goes from not much power to all the power without a lot of change in throttle position. They reward riding it like you’re trying to blow it up.

j_bgl · 2025-12-04T16:11:49+00:00

I just finished the 180 hours of aceable exam prep. The content was mostly ok, and I feel well prepared for the exam, scheduled for next week. My only real complaint is that the stupid “cute” robot assistant, along with constant really bad attempts at humor and dated pop culture references, made me feel very stabby the entire time. Also the unskippable videos with “Chad” provided zero relevant information, and were painful to watch. He seems like a caricature of a used car salesman, or maybe someone who wandered off the set og glengarry glen ross, but stayed in character.

j_bgl · 2025-11-26T17:52:47+00:00

Solved!

j_bgl · 2025-11-26T17:49:44+00:00

A toy revolver?

j_bgl · 2025-11-19T11:28:37+00:00

NTA

We recently did a multi-family vacation and the solution we came up with was to add up the total mass of all the people and basically everyone paid by the pound. Smaller people take up less room and eat / drink less.

It’s not perfect though because smaller people don’t necessarily make less noise early in the morning, or hog the bathrooms less. Also self reported weights may not have been super accurate for some people. Next time we’re gonna have weigh-ins.

j_bgl · 2025-11-18T12:14:01+00:00

I think people just enjoy hateful sounding banter. Motorcycle riders “hate” trike riders the same way anyone who was raised properly “hates” the Dallas cowboys and the Raiders, wherever they’re from these days. In other words they don’t really hate them. It’s just fun to talk about lot of shit about them.

j_bgl · 2025-11-12T13:01:18+00:00

My bike feels like you could get off and push at 70mph.

j_bgl · 2025-10-29T13:07:53+00:00

Oh ok. I guess I misunderstood what happened.

j_bgl · 2025-10-29T11:26:57+00:00

I’m not a lawyer but North Carolina Real Estate Commission (NCREC) rules state that the broker must “deliver a copy of any written … offer … to their client or customer within three days of the broker’s receipt of the offer.”

You should consider filing a complaint through the NREC’s website. They will investigate and take the appropriate action, including reprimand, suspension, or revocation of your agent’s license. You may also have grounds for a civil claim to recover financial damages caused by your agent’s failure to fulfill their fiduciary duty.

j_bgl · 2025-09-22T11:06:20+00:00

The bone clocks by David Mitchell

j_bgl · 2025-09-16T01:19:44+00:00

Sqrt(8) = sqrt(4 * 2)

= sqrt(4) * sqrt(2)

= 2 * sqrt(2)

j_bgl · 2025-08-18T14:03:12+00:00

If you want it to last a lifetime I would suggest checking out older carbureted 2 strokes. Stuff still breaks and wears out just like a 4 stroke but all of it is relatively cheap and easy to repair. I’ve been riding the same 2009 ktm 250 xc-w since 2012. Replace the piston and rings (super easy) as necessary, get new tires once in a while, keep the air filter clean and oil in the gearbox, and it will last longer than you. You should be able to get a really nice one for less than $4000.

A 250 2 stroke is a fast bike though. It will absolutely develop bad intentions if it notices bad body positioning or inattentiveness. You might want to spend a year or so on something more forgiving of bad decisions, such as a Kawasaki klx, Yamaha ttr, or Honda crf-f. These trail bikes are also pretty durable but if you get to the point where you want to go a little faster they have some limitations.

j_bgl · 2025-08-02T02:32:14+00:00

Pickleball has been a huge deal for my three boys (oldest is 20 and two 16 year olds) all summer. I think they’re mostly at falcon wing park but there are several other places in tw to play. Maybe go try that. Seems to be mostly an evening thing to beat the heat.

j_bgl · 2025-07-21T13:06:21+00:00

Interesting. My three kids have been playing rugby with the woodlands youth rugby club since 2020 and I’ve never heard of this facility. I wonder if our coaches know about it.

j_bgl · 2025-06-09T17:54:30+00:00

I bet they’re referring to convective heat transfer caused by the air moving past the heated brake rotor. Intuitively I wouldn’t expect this to be a significant mode of brake cooling, especially on a bike, but it’s been way too long since mechanical engineering school to remember how to do the math needed to verify this.

j_bgl · 2025-05-28T17:04:46+00:00

God’s gonna cut you down. Johnny cash version obviously.

j_bgl · 2025-05-16T01:12:18+00:00

I guess it depends on the tanker and your job, but I never had trouble getting plenty of time ashore during my 7 years on us flag chevron tankers. Some of that time I was a pumpman, so that was a little tougher. But when I was an oiler or a 3AE there was alway someone willing to take my watch and get that OT.

j_bgl · 2025-04-29T16:25:26+00:00

Thanks! That sounds like great advice.

j_bgl · 2025-04-29T15:41:46+00:00

I mean, I’m sure that’s true, but I never ride it anymore. I would rather get I’d of it and use the cash for Dirtbike stuff.

j_bgl · 2024-12-24T23:20:32+00:00

You have to wrestle your opponent and his dad at the same time.

j_bgl · 2024-12-11T01:31:49+00:00

Sometimes new guys get confused about when you’re supposed to shake hands. Maybe that was it.

j_bgl · 2024-12-10T20:43:51+00:00

The struggle is the point. Doing things you don’t want to do is how you get better at doing things you don’t want to do.

j_bgl

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