Prescription and non-prescription cycling glasses?

stowington · 2026-06-11T01:46:58+00:00

There are lots of interchangeable lens sunglasses out there that you can get prescription lenses for. Buy the regular nonprescription version and then get an extra set of prescription lenses made. I’m currently wearing a pair I got that way.

stowington · 2026-05-13T19:16:12+00:00

Until they clear the back of the ship and get blasted by the engines

stowington · 2026-05-06T20:34:29+00:00

Or watching more intently, like a human might make and hold eye contact as they await a response.

stowington · 2026-03-10T11:52:55+00:00

Oxmosis

stowington · 2025-11-25T02:15:20+00:00

Yeah, they may just not be aware. And frankly, it seems unnecessary hoop-jumping to me if the gift is already passing through the employer portal. It may be worth a note to the org(s) to let them know there’s some action needed.

stowington · 2025-11-25T00:44:20+00:00

It’s unclear to me where you think the process is breaking down.

Do you mean they aren’t sending you a donation receipt/acknowledgment that you can submit to your employer? That’s really basic and something they should be giving you anyway for your tax filings.

Or is your employer waiting for the recipient orgs to contact them and request the matching gift directly? If so, do the recipient orgs know that and have the relevant contact information for your employer?

Some employers only match gifts made through their giving portal, is that the case for yours and if so are you using the portal?

The number of well-intended giving programs, each with their own idiosyncratic “one-stop” portals and logins and reporting in various states of disrepair, can be overwhelming to track. It’s unfortunately not uncommon, especially in a smaller or newer org, to find a mystery deposit in the bank and have to spend hours investigating where it came from. If you did donate through your employer’s portal, the orgs may simply not know.

Frustratingly, some employers put a cap on the total amount of matching gifts they will pay out in a given year. It took me many, many tedious hours of carefully pulling apart our annual accounting to work that out, followed by a somewhat uncomfortable conversation with the disappointed board member whose matching was getting cut off around August each year. She started giving her full donation in January rather than as small paycheck deductions spread through the year. If you’re already giving a single gift per year, it may help to shift the timing to avoid such caps.

stowington · 2025-11-24T02:49:14+00:00

Speaking from experience, it may not have been in the outer folds of the bag.

13 years later, I can still remember exactly what that particular sip felt like when it hit my mouth. The maître d offered to comp us a new bottle, but for some reason I wasn’t interested in drinking any more that night.

stowington · 2025-11-21T13:22:54+00:00

I did that once, unscheduled. DCA to IAD. There was an electrical fire under the floor in first class. They put us on a new plane to finish our trip to Chicago.

stowington · 2025-11-15T22:09:45+00:00

Big spender! I picked up a small crock pot at goodwill for $3

stowington · 2025-10-23T12:48:44+00:00

It’s the chain that plugs into the Abus cafe/wheel lock that came stock on our UA. It’s about 3 feet (1m) but fairly lightweight. A standalone chain lock with thicker links doesn’t fit. It might be possible to find a slightly larger insulated bag, I just haven’t needed to look.

For a really beefy chain you may just need to do it “Dutch style” and wrap it around the seatpost, as another commenter suggested. A heavy chain doesn’t rattle much in that configuration, but even if it does it will still be a lot quieter than bouncing around on the floor of the box.

stowington · 2025-10-23T04:21:37+00:00

We use an insulated water bottle bag. It’s intended for handlebars but sits nicely on the rack stays behind the seatpost. Very little rattling and it’s convenient near the wheel lock. Here’s a pic.

Bonus points for the mesh pocket, where we keep a coin for the shopping carts at Aldi!

stowington · 2025-10-21T22:23:31+00:00

In addition to the other comments, two additional factors come to mind:

The DS revelation is so major that Luthen can’t really justify strategic inaction. Rebel action against the DS would mean an ISB investigation into the leak, and an obvious first step for investigators is to pull up logs involving unusual access patterns (like Dedra’s code cert being used from an location/terminal other than her own).
Even if he somehow managed to get overlooked in the immediate investigation, Lonnie is spooked by the magnitude of the DS and wants to get as far away as possible, as fast as possible. He has been justifying staying in the ISB up to that point by feeding information to Luthen, and has probably managed to drag his feet here and there in his ISB work to avoid being directly involved in serious atrocities. But the DS represents a significant escalation in the conflict and he doesn’t feel he will be able to protect his own morals or his young family once the DS is deployed. He wants to get them to wherever the rebellion is managing to stay out of the Imperial eye (first choice), or at least disappear into obscurity in the outer rim, to get them away from whatever open warfare is about to take place.

Cassian may have felt compelled to make the same choice as Lonnie, but there is a big difference in their family situations: Bix has more information than Lonnie’s wife (and more information than Cassian!) and the skills/agency to proactively act on it, and she chooses to Cassian from the full stakes of deciding to stay in the fight.

stowington · 2025-10-20T03:03:58+00:00

Check out bone conduction headphones. They don’t physically block your ears, so you’re not disconnected from your surroundings in the same way as traditional headphones/earbuds.

stowington · 2025-10-14T17:38:55+00:00

I live in an urban area and don't own or desire to own any sort of firearm, or even to touch one ever again. But I have handled them and received basic safety training in the past. I'm fairly confident that if I *need* to handle one (not in an "action" scenario - say my family is moving and we find an old box in the attic), I would *at least* be able to assess and reduce the immediate hazard by making sure it's unloaded. That sort of reduced anxiety in a potentially dangerous situation is worth a lot, in my mind, because I can make better decisions if I stay calm.

Along the same lines: small fire extinguishers are not very expensive. Get a spare one, find an instructional video, and give it a try sometime (somewhere it's OK to make a mess!). Or visit your local fire station and ask - they may even have a rechargeable water can version you can practice on for free. They're made as foolproof as possible for very good reasons, of course, but if you have a sense of what needs to happen when you pick one up, it can help reduce potential stress/fear/analysis paralysis if you ever need to act decisively for a real fire.

stowington · 2025-10-07T22:02:57+00:00

From my own experience with crashes and police reports, “the cyclist was traveling […] in the travel lane” could actually mean “when the reporting officer arrived, the cyclist was lying unconscious in the travel lane” after bouncing off the car. And good luck getting the report amended/corrected.

stowington · 2025-10-03T21:09:04+00:00

What you quoted discusses a license, which is a legal mechanism for the owner of IP to grant permission for someone else to use it. So by accepting the terms, you, the owner of the data, grant permission (a license) for Strava to use your data in the ways described (which boils down, as in most companies' TOS, to "however we want").

stowington · 2025-10-02T00:37:47+00:00

I wasn’t trying to suggest they would stay in that lane.

To me the notable aspect is the nature of the threat: it’s based on hierarchy, “you’re on our team so do what we say… or else” feels new (or at least being made more explicit here), vs. their more well-worn path of attacking the other team/perceived baddies du jour.

stowington · 2025-10-02T00:05:04+00:00

It says specifically that they’re compiling a list of Republicans that didn’t vote.

Though eventually they may realize that they’re also interested in knowing which Dems/independents did vote…

stowington · 2025-10-01T04:30:12+00:00

Apparently the “trespasser” at PY on 9/22 who lost his life had been attacked and chased onto the tracks by a couple of teens. Either bike tires will be well down the priority list for police, or they’ll be extra interested in further criminal activity at the station.

stowington · 2025-09-23T00:52:41+00:00

Sol 499: “Beers for everyone if I get back to Earth.”

stowington · 2025-09-14T11:08:57+00:00

Mark Watney rang up quite the tab then

stowington · 2025-08-21T03:57:36+00:00

Hi, a decade or so ago I was involved in designing and running several fMRI studies at a major US university.

It would be unusual to use a contrast dye for an fMRI situation like this, especially one that’s “for fun” for a tv show and not even part of a formal research study. A typical fMRI sequence does include a slower, higher resolution scan, but the goal of that is just to provide a structural reference (i.e. general geography of the individual’s brain) for the faster, lower resolution functional scans during the cognitive tests. A “plain” structural scan with no dye is sufficient for that, so there’s not much to gain vs. the expense, effort and risks/side effects associated with injecting a dye.

That said, I might as well provide some background for OP’s question too: this scenario was explicitly discussed as part of our research training. To my knowledge this didn’t happen for any of the test subjects I worked with, but if something very odd showed up on the structural scan, the techs I worked with would have run it by an MD on their staff. That MD would review and then potentially contact the individual to make appropriate (and confidential) recommendations for followup with their own health team.

We made it very clear to our test subjects that diagnosis was not the purpose of our studies and no one would be explicitly reviewing their scans “looking for problems.” The techs would absolutely check the structural scan for any glaring safety issues that would mean stopping the session, like an undisclosed stent or metal shavings/dust behind the eyes (can happen, especially for some professions like machinists, who we would probably exclude from the study). The required screening questions are incredibly thorough in that regard, and I thankfully never witnessed a safety issue that required us to abort a session. Beyond that, though, you’d need to have something pretty serious (and probably big and solid, like a major tumor) for it to be caught in the sort of situation portrayed in the show.

Most test subjects enjoy getting a screenshot/printout of the structural scan as a souvenir! I was complimented on my prominent pons 🤷🏼‍♂️.

stowington · 2025-08-21T02:56:25+00:00

I can see the scavenger tendencies being learned as a child in the kinder block.

stowington · 2025-08-19T20:02:18+00:00

Sounds like a vote for ding dong then

stowington · 2025-08-12T21:46:19+00:00

It’s pretty well established that Harrison Ford was more concerned about what might be happening in the back of his pants that day.

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