Everything posted by wd40
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Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
Neptune's Inferno is good. this guy does a pretty good summary of the Battle of Samar.
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Dominique's Sweater Tonight
c'mon. you're battah than that. ISMO, TTV
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
the der was actually the root cause. the spring had gone soft, so the chain had a ton of slack and jumped off going over the chunk. I think I mentioned a buddy and I cleaned out Jenson of their 10sp X-9's on closeout years ago, so had one in my garage to swap it out, along with a new chain. the drop I was talking about is the second-to-last one, just above the cedar stick thing at the end. kind of a sketchy, blind approach, and a very narrow take-off spot (at least to me).
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
I would agree w/r to changing POV. I get a lot more positive responses, esp from non-riders, on vids where I take the camera off for a 3rd person. the chesty actually makes a decent tripod. and you can use the strap to hold it in a tree. it's just kind of a hassle. setting it up, hiking back to a starting point where you can get your speed back up to normal, then hiking back to get it. I very rarely do any of that messing around on a group ride. a follow drone would kick ass, esp on wide open terrain like what you have, but they are crazy expensive (or were, last I checked). that wide-open terrain is a disadvantage to convey speed with a pov camera. the tight, twisty stuff around here helps increase apparent speed. the frame of reference just can't change as fast if it's far away. don't think I shared this one. a God's run, that turned into a shitshow. but I did at least finally hit a 3-footer below the Skeletor drop. got all the bugs worked out, went back and did the creek gap jump, the next day. anyway, I know you were going faster on that straight line decent. I think most riders know that, plus the risk of snagging a pedal or washing out at that speed. still a rush to watch. don't sweat it. as KuRdt said, keep at it.
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
back in the day on my old XP desktop I held onto til Windows 8 or something, video processing and upload took hours. so yeah, I feel ya, on that. I think for what you were trying to communicate, you made good choices. speeding it up like that, with that music and some interesting text remarks mixed in in creative ways, it all fit really well together. I also liked the way you ended it, sucking wind after the music. I would just say, from general comments my friends have made is that most people don't have the attention span for anything longer than 3-5 minutes. so if you're committed to a particular song like that one, you might look for segues in the music to fade it out or cut it off to shorten it up. again, speaking in the general case. the other thing to realize is that anyone that hasn't ridden those trails (and even some that have) may not appreciate the more subtle features and sections you like. you rode it. you know what it feels like, so the video is much more visceral for you. for most others, especially those who don't ride, it's just a line of dirt moving around on the screen. not sure what you can do with that, except lower your expectations of others' responses. I make my videos for me. sometimes people who were on that ride may get some of the inside jokes, but usually not. I just don't worry about it, anymore. lastly, I would have liked to have seen some of the downhills and bobsled runs at only 1x speed, being a mtb nerd. but that would have thrown off timing to the song and you would have to make cuts elsewhere.
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Sell me a shower head
this one will take your skin off on full blast.
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
so you're saying the portal was closed up tight? same, though. Seth is a bonafide badass. if he's walking stuff, I'm for sure walking it, and probably most of the stuff leading up to it and after it, especially on a first time through. "sight-reading" trail is not my strong suit, to put it mildly. I rode around the Fr512 stuff at the church Pescado mentioned above, a couple weeks ago. the ladder drops were no biggie, but the jump line just baffled me. I'd hit the first one then be all like, "now what do I do?" when faced with the multiple-choice of ramps after it. @Your Mom apparently, I'm getting a NSA chip implanted today (wife made me an appt), so even if I could spare the time for a run out to Burnet tomorrow, my understanding is my shot arm will be a wet noodle.
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
have a great trip, Mom! wish I could go. don't Braff your camera rig, bro! funny story: I gave the dude who made the last p0rno in your post a bunch of wood for his cat, just last week. can't wait to see what he does with it. wait... BZ: I like the vid. shitload of pedaling, for sure. I think you posted a run down that Death Valley section before, yeah? anyway, climbing is underrated. most of the action is in regulating your breathing and cadence, which is it's own art. the sense of accomplishment when you top out on a long grind can be pretty powerful. cool song, too. as it turned out, I never made it to rpr, last week. I forgot we were going to Methland to visit my MIL and her 94yo dad. very much not Uncle Slaton. dude has some stories, so it's always good to see him, but that drive.... anyway, gonna try again, this week.
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Austin Homeless Free for All Ordinance
I'm not here to tell you the model isn't fucked up. just not in the way you think it is. oh well. back to the unsolvable homeless problem.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
as long as you got a quick jerk in while she was gone, call it a win and move on.
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Austin Homeless Free for All Ordinance
too much wiggle room. I fully trust the city to fuck this up.
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Austin Homeless Free for All Ordinance
hmmmyeahno. how about the city stipulate that if ol' Elon wants to move here, he gets to house and feed...2k homeless on his factory campus. any overage picked up around town he can put on busses to SF or Seattle where they think the homeless are wonderful. Apple, too, and any other corporate giants who want to come here and further destroy everything that made Austin a great place to live, a while back. fuck Corporate Welfare. real hard. also, Prop B fine print reads to me like it's still ok to camp, pan-handle, harass, process stolen bikes, etc. under 183 at Oak Knoll, Braker, Lamar, and down around Ben White. It doesn't say 'within the city limit'. it specifically says Downtown and UT. looks like it only protects the same expensively-greasy-haired, bespectacled, bad-at-math motherfuckers that created this city-wide mess in the first place.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
pretty sure, yeah. as we always understood it, Deception was everything on that side of the paved path between the barn you used to ride through, not far from Mulligan, and the jeep road which had a drop-in on the far side of it to get to the Rim Loop/Dave's Ditch area. there is one minor reroute that I don't understand; but if anything, it made the way between the two points it connects a lot easier. the stretch between where the trail map is posted and that flattish intersection with the end of PicnicX where it comes out from under the footbridge has always been the toughest. I think erosion has made some of the step-ups bigger, for sure. I don't ride it often, but I do always remember several of the rock gardens when they begin their punishment. on the brakes: I was a little slow to move. Jenson is my go-to, but they've been dry every time I checked, as was Amazon. think I'm gonna hit RPR, this weekend.
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Hey Steel Shank!
deglaze...is that like when she washes her face, afterwards?
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
it's a fucking show dog, with fucking papers.
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
nice work, KuRdt. a buddy and I were out there today and wondered the same thing w/r to Deception. I guess that's what it's about: being deceptive. not sure why they split it at what I think once was Swag Rock and where the map is posted now into 1/4 Notch and Double Down. did you hit all those new lines on Snail with the ladder drops and whatnot? or in the far opposite direction to Candyland and Gnargasm? I rarely go over that way unless I'm just dying for mileage. the feature itself is far scarier looking than it actually is. btw, I ended up ordering some spare pads from a bike shop in Canada. Dunbar. should be here next week. iirc, the had 8 on the shelf when I ordered. no one else I could find had 2 wheels worth. prettymuch the same price as anywhere else.
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If you live in Leander, drive 183 SB, get a flat or 4 in the next few weeks, this is why
good thing I keep one of these in my glovebox
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Instacart shopper & police thwart mass shooting at an Atlanta grocery store(?)
buncha article-not-readin' mother fuckers in here. Instacart guy never saw him before raising the alarm. to Dahobbs point, Instacart guy was probably also smart in leaving the AR since he is black, himself. I suppose you could call it a victory for equality that the guy made it to the bathroom with all that gear, in the first place.
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Instacart shopper & police thwart mass shooting at an Atlanta grocery store(?)
must be a shitload of drive-bys going on, if hit rate is the only criteria that moves the needle, here. meanwhile, there's an interesting ongoing debate (elsewhere) about what constitutes a mass shooting/murder event. but whatever. you're right (again), of course. let's limit the discussion to the radicalized or Just Plain Nuts, since what we also like to do is get on our high horse about legislating cures for shit like insanity. but, eh. nobody cares, because nobody died. for all we know, he was just tooling up to head out back and blow up some milk jugs and cans, and where else was he going to get those but at a grocery store? a perfectly reasonable explanation.
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Instacart shopper & police thwart mass shooting at an Atlanta grocery store(?)
*not counting drive-bys.
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Miami Spring Break ‘21 Shenanigans
- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
my wife's extra laptop power supply she leaves at home has a bright white lit ring around the jack. stays lit even after unplugging it from the wall. have to tuck the jack end in a drawer on her desk when I crash on the futon in the office.- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
you married Big Brother?- The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
we need the same pads, then. my brakes are SLX, which is the same as the XT but without the mysterious Free Stroke adjustment screw. I only rode RHR one time, years ago, before the fires out there. always kinda had the 24hr race there on my bucket list, but have never gotten around to it. my understanding is the fr512 area is accessible from outside RHR. - Trivial Things That Make You Surly
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