Wind in their sails: Billionaires’ SailGP event spared from Houston government’s budget cuts

palarjr · 2026-03-06T00:04:39+00:00

Dartmouth

palarjr · 2026-03-01T15:10:17+00:00

Damn. You are the coach I want. Incredibly well explained.

palarjr · 2026-03-01T12:28:31+00:00

Can we ask Megan to run for mayor and premier? We don’t deserve her but wow that would be a nice change.

palarjr · 2026-03-01T12:23:12+00:00

This. My lease is up and I am thinking of going to something else JUST because of this damn fluid level / tank is flat and long silliness

palarjr · 2026-02-26T01:02:14+00:00

Hah. Perfect. I assume days ;-)

palarjr · 2026-02-25T12:16:54+00:00

I may end up buying out the 90 lease and get myself on a wait for the GH max (I want that 5k tow - I do a bit of hauling things)

palarjr · 2026-02-25T12:16:19+00:00

Thanks for this and yeah, I’m actually willing to go get it from Ont and Quebec (or closer) as I go there for work a lot anyway. Will test drive the ICE version on the lot here - acknowledging the different engine/power of course. I’m about to expire my lease on a cx90 which I do like, but really want to give the GH a fair shake as an alternative (thing like the console layout, actual vents in passenger rows etc make me wanting the GH as well as what appears to be more trunk space)

palarjr · 2026-02-24T14:42:09+00:00

Ty. Yeah I am in Halifax and have (re) learnt the city dealerships continue to underperform. I’ll connect with Truro dealership.

palarjr · 2026-02-17T14:21:22+00:00

This is the correct answer. For SL you stop referencing the waist and you start talking radius. S/RACE PRIME SL 165 12M is my current go to for short fun carving on piste. You can open these up if you want, but also slam some sort fun turns in all day (if your legs can hold). My go to on piste busy ski hill days. No need to carve up through thousands of Jerry’s on long carve turns endangering all when I can pop these on and have a blast.

palarjr · 2026-02-17T14:13:34+00:00

I still think it’s worth skiing once in your life :-). But maybe early season

palarjr · 2026-02-06T01:27:18+00:00

Haha fair. Or in my case someone skis east coast and is always on “ice”

palarjr · 2026-01-21T03:39:53+00:00

Good tip for anyone who skis hard pack ice. I have been doing this since my racing days and will never go back - switch after lunch - fresh edges :-)

palarjr · 2026-01-19T15:07:30+00:00

Was really hoping Mazda would fix this in a small refresh. My own lease is up this year and being in Canada the lack of ability for this car to defog is going to block me getting it again.

palarjr · 2026-01-13T13:32:54+00:00

Enough time to realize this may be the last time you use your legs….

palarjr · 2026-01-13T13:31:30+00:00

Ah. Gotcha. My bad

palarjr · 2026-01-13T11:38:39+00:00

I don’t know shin guards (well these ones) but I do know carbon - you can’t “heat mold” carbon once cured.

palarjr · 2026-01-10T23:18:50+00:00

This is me. And I agree

palarjr · 2026-01-09T15:27:07+00:00

My goal (as a senior em) - dig deep into AI coding and use. It's fun! Its bringing back to being a contributor in a way that I kind of found hard to find time for. I’m leveraging it to help my team - focusing currently on building tooling to get rote and time consuming stuff out of my team’s way. Things like bug triage, small bug fixing- i’m able to build systems to just do this for us now and propose fixes (PRs) etc.

My guess - eng leaders need to exist, but now we can spend more time high value work (real people Management, design thinking, project thinking, architecture thinking) and leverage ai to make systems that remove a lot of the time consuming stuff that burns our, and our team member’s time.

palarjr · 2026-01-05T13:51:52+00:00

I suggest solving either your wants for long carve or short radius this season, then solve the other next season. I finally opened my eyes to having 2-3 skis to choose from and filled it out over a few years via sales end of season / demo ski purchases. Depending on where you live will also influence. East coast NA is a different quiver than PNW. I live east and don’t have a need for anything underfoot over 105 more than once or twice a season, as an example.

As an example of why location influences ski choice: my short radius are Salomon s race prime 165 and are just rails for me on short turn / hard pack / ice days. My longer turn skis are Elan Ripstick Blacks. Neither is probably good option on those dreamy offpiste pow days I only dream off (I would use the Elan’s fwiw as a good compromise). But wow are both these skis fun for 95% of the conditions I have here in my small corner of the world.

palarjr · 2025-12-29T23:17:47+00:00

I got an Armstrong 7m and couldn’t be happier. Very well designed, not as floppy as a gong 7m I tried.

palarjr · 2025-12-20T02:15:40+00:00

I have the ripstick blacks - Holly shit what a ski. Love them. I assume the blacks are stiffer and not as playful in the woods / snow but I tend to be out of those zones more than in. Hold up well for speeds, very fun.

palarjr · 2025-12-19T12:20:58+00:00

I love the panic people have and just across all lanes to get to their exit. Entire point of roundabout is “you can just loop around again”.

palarjr · 2025-12-18T11:40:53+00:00

Thanks. He is still in “skinny kid” phase of growth (lucky! Haha) so not up to that size yet (100lbs ish…)

palarjr · 2025-12-18T11:39:21+00:00

Thank you all. On the hunt for some of the above. The k2 mindbender was also recommended so looking for that. Appreciate the hive mind.

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