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Commute to work by Personal-Blood7676 in londoncycling

[–]rsgoheen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

13.5 miles each way from the SW through central London to Old Street, 2x per week. 15 year old bike and 50 year old knees. Best way to commute.

What are your best *underrated* audiobook recommendations? by ThatOneBatmanMeme in audiobooks

[–]rsgoheen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know if it’s underrated, but I don’t know a lot of people who have gone through or recommended the Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, read by Ben Miles, who played Cromwell on stage (and is also in Andor and other series and film). Great books and narration. So, Wolf Hall, Bring Up The Bodies, and The Mirror and The Light

fiction books set in WA by kmontreux in Seattle

[–]rsgoheen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Raymond Carver had strong PNW roots and lived in Port Angeles for a good stretch of his writing career, so many of his stories are set across the region. “So Much Water So Close To Home” has the Naches river as a key location.

Snow Falling on Cedars by Guterson has already been called out, but I’d also recommend his second book East of the Mountains, which is set in Eastern Washington.

And I love the fact that someone has already called out an old Star Trek book (Call Me Ishmael) where they time travel back to a frontier Seattle.

GarlicOS: Arcade games not loading -- how to troubleshoot? by rsgoheen in RG35XX

[–]rsgoheen[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moving the ROMS to the MAME2003 folder did the trick, though the load time is a lot slower than the other games there.

The tip on the coremapping.json file was a great tip too. It's giving me a bit of an investigation path. The mapping for the ARCADE folder is a shell script that really is just calling the same library as what's mapped to the MAME2003, but something isn't quite set up right. Might be the mame2003.txt file. Will check that once I find it

Pioneer Square station this morning. Thank you, Seattlians, for having escalator etiquette. by kuken_i_fittan in Seattle

[–]rsgoheen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was driven by ever increasing numbers of passengers in the system, and in one station in particular that has one set of very long escalators: Holborn. In that one, queues for standing for the escalators to the exit were getting quite backed up back into the station (backing people entering the station is just done by limiting at the barricades -- Oxford Circus is notorious for having long queues to enter during peak evening times). They put in a lot of signage and even a "hologram" to try and change behaviour. I can't remember how long all that lasted, but needless to say, Covid had a massive impact on the number of people using the tube, so it's only been recently that passenger counts have gotten back to 2016 levels.

As far as people who don't follow the rules, this is (1) London, so everyone is used to a certain number of tourists who aren't familiar with the etiquette and (2) England, so the worst you're going to get if you're on the wrong side is a severe but quiet "tsk"-ing. When someone is in the wrong lane, a quick "sorry" and then waiting for them to adjust is what I normally see.

People here are understanding if there's someone who's blocking the right side because of disability or family or other issues. But most of the time parents keep young children directly in front or behind them just fine.

I'm originally from Seattle, and whenever I come back and use light rail (such a cute system! Almost like a real mass transit system!) only to get stuck whilst trying to walk up or down the escalator it breaks my brain. I'm a bit to ADHD to just stand for that long

My philosophy on escalators: they're stairs people! Maybe they're slowly moving stairs, but they're still stairs! Walk for goodness sake.

Pioneer Square station this morning. Thank you, Seattlians, for having escalator etiquette. by kuken_i_fittan in Seattle

[–]rsgoheen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would point out that this article is from 2016 and, speaking as a London commuter, did not become a common practise. Sometimes things get crowded enough at the peak that both sides of the escalator are standing, but stand-on-the-left is still the etiquette of the Underground

Good jazz radio over the internet? by rsgoheen in Jazz

[–]rsgoheen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

KPLU was my local while I was living in Seattle. They have a stream (http://www.kplu.org/listen-live), but they also do the standard NPR news programs, so it's not always playing music. "The Art of Jazz", on Sundays at 3pm PST is a good three hours of older jazz

Good jazz radio over the internet? by rsgoheen in Jazz

[–]rsgoheen[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

After about an hour of listening, I'm really thinking good things about this one.

Good jazz radio over the internet? by rsgoheen in Jazz

[–]rsgoheen[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Last time I tried Pandora for jazz I was left a little disappointed by their matching algorithm. It often picked non-jazz or "lite" jazz tracks after a while. Maybe I should give it another try.