biking yay
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solarbirdI have a new bike helmet. Yay! So I biked down to the shops with Anna, who walked, so I was mostly going past, then either waiting or doubling back, and stuff. So it wasn't anything like a real ride, but for me that's kind of good - I wanted to get comfortable with a tiny run up and down the hill first.
The new gearset needs to be broken in a bit. It's slow to shift to higher-ratio gears, so I need to figure out whether that's a breaking-in thing or a derailleur-adjustment thing, because I don't know. The strangest thing by far is that the hills were easier than I remember them being, and I expected to be in much worse biking condition, so I have to assume the new gearset runs at lower power ratios than the old one.
Of course, I was usually taking those hills after more miles of biking than I did today - but not always, and I have those experiences to compare against. And some of the hillclimb stuff is right out of the gate from the house (well - a few blocks away, it's downhill for a few blocks then sharply up again) and that was easier, too.
So, anyway, that was fun, the new chain isn't being jerky, I think I need to adjust some cables, I had lots of glide, and I didn't have handling problems even with all the rock/sand anti-snow stuff still hanging about in the roads.
Oh, and it's seven-ish miles' riding back from Shoreline campus, and that's kind of the long way down Ballinger, but Ballinger has a path off to the side, so it doesn't feel suicidal, except for the area I need to figure out where it crosses I-5. If I can manage that, I'll be able to bike back from class this week. At very least, I could bike from campus to the Aurora Transit Centre. I-5 really is a scar - it's just incredibly difficult to get across. I hate that.
Anyway, yay, bike! ^_^
Sunday's miles: 2.6
Monday's miles: 2.0
Tuesday's miles: .7
Wednesday's miles: 1.6
Thursday's miles: 1.7
Friday's miles: 1.6
Saturday token: 0.2
Sunday biking's miles: 2.6 Yay!
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1492.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 1035.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 580.3
Miles past Rauros Falls: 162.4
Miles to Isengard: 304.3
We've also stopped at the pet supply shop, and Anna thanked them for their help in finding food Polly would eat, which became tricker and trickier the last year or so. That was also kind of sad.
I have a midterm in bio tomorrow. I've got a CWU started, but studying comes first. There will be an edition this weekend, but it might not be tonight. I should stop adding to this and post it and get back to studying and stuff. So here, have a picture:
Leaf of Meat
And here, have some links:
John Dean on the Alberto Gonzalez assertion that Habeas Corpus is not actually a right.
Diebold demonstrates that they continue to be GENIUS - at making trivially hackable voting machines, anyway. (Link courtesy![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat.)
Comet McNaught as seen in South America. Holy crap. Okay, so that's what those are supposed to look like in the sky when they look really fucking cool.
This is kind of neat; an artificial sapphire knife. I've done some cosplay that called for transparent blades, so seeing a real one is pretty cool. ^_^ (Link courtesystickmaker.)
The new gearset needs to be broken in a bit. It's slow to shift to higher-ratio gears, so I need to figure out whether that's a breaking-in thing or a derailleur-adjustment thing, because I don't know. The strangest thing by far is that the hills were easier than I remember them being, and I expected to be in much worse biking condition, so I have to assume the new gearset runs at lower power ratios than the old one.
Of course, I was usually taking those hills after more miles of biking than I did today - but not always, and I have those experiences to compare against. And some of the hillclimb stuff is right out of the gate from the house (well - a few blocks away, it's downhill for a few blocks then sharply up again) and that was easier, too.
So, anyway, that was fun, the new chain isn't being jerky, I think I need to adjust some cables, I had lots of glide, and I didn't have handling problems even with all the rock/sand anti-snow stuff still hanging about in the roads.
Oh, and it's seven-ish miles' riding back from Shoreline campus, and that's kind of the long way down Ballinger, but Ballinger has a path off to the side, so it doesn't feel suicidal, except for the area I need to figure out where it crosses I-5. If I can manage that, I'll be able to bike back from class this week. At very least, I could bike from campus to the Aurora Transit Centre. I-5 really is a scar - it's just incredibly difficult to get across. I hate that.
Anyway, yay, bike! ^_^
Sunday's miles: 2.6
Monday's miles: 2.0
Tuesday's miles: .7
Wednesday's miles: 1.6
Thursday's miles: 1.7
Friday's miles: 1.6
Saturday token: 0.2
Sunday biking's miles: 2.6 Yay!
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1492.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 1035.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 580.3
Miles past Rauros Falls: 162.4
Miles to Isengard: 304.3
We've also stopped at the pet supply shop, and Anna thanked them for their help in finding food Polly would eat, which became tricker and trickier the last year or so. That was also kind of sad.
I have a midterm in bio tomorrow. I've got a CWU started, but studying comes first. There will be an edition this weekend, but it might not be tonight. I should stop adding to this and post it and get back to studying and stuff. So here, have a picture:
Leaf of Meat
And here, have some links:
John Dean on the Alberto Gonzalez assertion that Habeas Corpus is not actually a right.
Diebold demonstrates that they continue to be GENIUS - at making trivially hackable voting machines, anyway. (Link courtesy
spazzkat.)Comet McNaught as seen in South America. Holy crap. Okay, so that's what those are supposed to look like in the sky when they look really fucking cool.
This is kind of neat; an artificial sapphire knife. I've done some cosplay that called for transparent blades, so seeing a real one is pretty cool. ^_^ (Link courtesy
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Date: 2007-01-29 04:14 pm (UTC)Saw something on (IIRC) Nova, about a group which claimed the Diebold machines could be cracked by simply reprogramming the memory card. Diebold adamantly refused to accept this was possible because "there's no software on the memory card." They were so certain this couldn't happen they set up a test where votes were cast in a fake election and the claimants were allowed access only to the memory card. Guess who won the election?
Diebold is still trying to figure out how this happened, since "There's no software on the memory card."