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Leisurely 20 miles or so checking out some of the farms/villages just outside my city with a co-worker. Beautiful sunshine, and some cool scenery. Got a pinch flat but was nearly home so HTFU-ed. Would ride again.

^ story behind these?

must be troll

you may (or may not) be interested to know purely from a general interest standpoint that LFGSS has in the last fortnight or so become a casualty to the great firewall of China - no joy accessing it other than behind a VPN now, which is a shame.

edit. page behind. sorry folks.

talbot makes me feel funny things

designers whats ruining your day thread >>>>>>>

No crayons, but I envision grey rear triangle and ht, white top and downtube, with the insides of chain stays and fork neon yellow.

paint skills lacking:

As above. The text doesn't really read anywhere near as presumptively to me as I expected from your preamble either...

Probably my favourite yet.. chapeau sir.

It't not unreasonable to assume a battery that old can just give up the ghost without a song and dance by way of warning right? That was my only fear - the transition from fully functional, to dead.

SOS. My mid 2010 mbp gave up the ghost today. Was plugged in at work and showing 0% charge (although magsafe was lit up.) Clicked battery status in toolbar and it showed 'not Charging' so I unthinkingly flicked the charger in an out - usually solves whatever pickle it's in. Obviously the machine shut down. Now the battery pack is showing no power - Machine will boot to grey apple and progress bar but then clicks off from 0 power. plethora of magsafe adaptors constantly showing bright green for full charge - presumably why it won't boot. I've tried a PRAM reset and reseating the battery.

Is it likely just the battery gassed? It was well overdue replacing. Or could it be more sinister?

Just finished Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Smith Henderson's Fourth of July Creek. The former was last years Booker prize winner. Both thoroughly recommended.

ignore.

I went over by a few weeks last time I did it. Kicked only myself (because lets be fair, this is how these things almost always work - rightly or wrongly) and went to cancel. Got an automatic message saying that because I hadn't used Prime since I went from trial membership to paid, that I would be refunded automatically. 8/10 would cancel again.

OT @penguinspring but track near/in Shanghai? Just moved to Wuxi so I'm not a million miles away...

whats the groupset on the Cervelo?

Can someone help me get my brain straight please.

Currently have: Mid 2010 Core2Duo MBP. 256GB HD and want to switch out for SSD.
Since new (Snow leopard I think?) It has had OSs installed over the top of each other, so I imagine a clean install of Yosemite would be beneficial. Is it as simple as using a SATA -> USB cable to install Yosemite on a new SSD drive, swapping them over, and then using the cable to attach the old drive and dragging files etc that I want to keep back? What about apps/games? If I create a backup on an external HDD then restore from that will I get the benefit of the clean install or will it literally just duplicate my current drive? Also, I've read something about trim controllers (or something) and SSDs on Yosemite. Is this a pitfall I need to be aware of?

Essentially what I'm looking for is sage advice on the most effective/efficient way to make the swap. I currently don't have an external drive, so hoping to avoid springing for one of those as well as a new SSD.

Late pass, but have been playing a lot of Papers Please at the moment. Such a different mechanic to anything I've every experienced. Keep sitting down to 'play for ten minutes' then catching clock 2 hrs later.

confirmation bias.

this.

Hindsight is 20/20. Its easy to say it was a stupid play call after the ball has been picked off, but Lynch has been average at best on short and goal to go all year, and if he gets stuffed thats the last timeout burned or the clock running. I'm not saying it's the perfect call, but it's not ridiculous to ask your QB to try and surprise a defence with a pass and to throw the ball away if nothing is open, stopping the clock, and still giving your running back two chances to pound it in from the 1. (especially in this case with the added threat (excuse the pun) of a QB option.)

I'm not saying it was the perfect play call either, but in my mind it's perfectly logically defensible, in that there is "no" situation where what happened should happen. That ball should have been send straight out the back of the end zone.

Currently sat in my office at work is an "OTP" fixed gear bike, which I bought from Taobao (China's famous China's version of eBay). It wasn't [the] cheap[est] junk (by local prices) but it also is obviously far from high end. 1500RMB (just north of £150) seems to have got me a 4130 chromoly frame - novatech hubs and what appears to be for the most part no-name other components. Create/Unicack style junk goes for about 400RMB (£40ish) here as a point of reference.

Not sure how long I'll be out here, so resisted the urge to spend any more money - but will be interesting to see if it's made of complete cheese, or if it is of passable quality. It would never be cost effective to ship something like this to the UK in terms of what shipping would cost relative to the bikes price (and what you could buy used), but am intrigued to get at it from a purely academic standpoint regarding the cost/quality ratio of what China offers...

Didn't realise I'd stumbled into the OTP toaster thread either..