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Recent content by Shevek

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    EVERYONE LOVES TRAINS,

    I like historic trains, but I detest their ongoing influence on design. Passenger trains don't even get to 10% payload. They made sense when the only engines available were steam, and one big one was the economical choice. This,, combined with primitive signalling, ensured that service would...
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    The last thing you bought?

    I can afford to buy things because I have a lifetime of experience at giving new life to things others throw away.
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    Hilariously silly internet slop

    For a while, I was getting a lot of ads for condominiums "in my town" showing buildings that definitely are not within 100 km of here.
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    Any fellow Linux users on here?

    How easy is it? Can you compare it to Mint? It is time for me to have another go at booting a bare-bone box, and MX was the recommendation about three years ago.
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    Share good puns and jokes.

    Actually, playing records backwards or back and forth is used as a novelty musical instrument. Direction does not matter to stylus and groove.
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    Do you believe there's extraterrestrial life out there?

    One thing I'm pretty sure about is that if extraterrestrials do contact us, it won't be with a landing party like those of European explorers. They would make radio contact first. We do seem to be getting treated similarly to the way we treat uncontacted tribes - study but don't interfere...
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    Post something Weird or Random

    My aspie mother was on a bus 200 miles from that test. Roads were poor, and nobody noticed a thing.
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    Post something Weird or Random

    Recently, I had two friends with cancer, one in Canada, and one in Japan. The Canadian died, and the American guy in Japan is in full recovery. His stories about the health care there are astounding in every respect.
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    Practical Cycling.

    Do you use a helmet mirror? I'm never surprised by passing traffic, and I can give extra room if necessary, or take the lane if nothing is coming.
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    Hello

    How the heck did you get that diagnosis thirty years before it was on the menu in the DSM?
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    Staying energized as we age: what really works?

    I have to accept that an adequate workout will leave me tired and stiff for a while. Also, stretching has become more important. Basically, anytime I groan, it is my body's way of saying I should do more repetitions of that, or not do it much longer. Getting plenty of water remains crucial...
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    I built a thing!

    Long, long ago I won a kit for a "speech synthesizer." It was supposed to be able to make ten vowel sounds, but no consonants. It was an easy breadboard assembly that provided three pairs of spring clips. I was supposed to use a special circular slide rule they provided to choose capacitors...
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    Scent defuser?

    There's a product called Nil-odour. You just use one or two drops per room, on some surface with good air circulation. I does nothing at all about the other stuff in the air, but it anesthetizes your nose perfectly.
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    Practical Cycling.

    Yes, if you clamp a frame's other extremities and hit the bottom bracket, it should act as a tuning fork. If it is returning slowly, you'll get a lower pitch. If it has internal friction, the sound fades quickly. If a frame has a lot of flex there, it takes a lot of skill to still use the...
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    Practical Cycling.

    So, your answer is no? There is no possible way to measure the difference between alive and dead? I'm reminded of the time that Bicycling ran an article on how to descend rapidly, with the advice to not move the handlebars at all, but just lean into the corners, apparently by sheer force of...
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