The Comms Room

1:21 AM

I'm probably late to the party here but that made me chortle on my orange juice

Joel E Salas

@MarkHenderson If we ruined your fun every time you're late to the party we wouldn't have time to find original content

@JoelESalas I don't even know what that means

@MarkHenderson Don't worry. He only called you dim-witted, he didn't say anything about your Mother.

1:41 AM

yawn...

long day

@ewwhite Pooping is tiresome, no?

@WesleyDavid tore my ass to shreds.

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@ewwhite Now you're just star baiting us. =P

No, it really did.

aaaand I almost shot a Klondike bar out my nose.

1:45 AM

but I managed to get my server installed.

@ewwhite Yeah, I bunker busted my datacenter's toilet last time I was there. It was awesome. Felt like they earned that month's rent money for real.

@WesleyDavid Stay away from our work bathrooms please. There was a lawyer who used to work in the office around the corner who used to go in there holding a stack of books with both hands, somehow get his cock out, pissed hands-free (all over EVERYTHING), put his cock away and would just walk out. This was a lawyer. Maybe 50 years old. That was gross enough. So stay away from our bathrooms please. It's been really nice since he left.

2:04 AM

@MarkHenderson Oh I tidy up before I leave.

I just tend to stress the plumbing diameter.

@WesleyDavid Haha so no 1" pipes when you build a bathroom

Yay! First post from my new Lenovo E430...

@MarkHenderson No, not even close. I'm special.

(Yes, I know I sound like such a child.)

@KevinSoviero I only know an E430 as a Mercedes that people who are too poor to afford an E500 buy

And the E500 itself is the car that people who are too poor to afford an E55/E63 buy

2:09 AM

@MarkHenderson I know as much about cars as you do about... I don't know, what don't you know about?

@KevinSoviero Women

@MarkHenderson This is true

only old people buy Mercedes

@Jacob fwiw I'm too poor to even afford a 10 year old E430. But they were the butt ugly square things with buggy lights

and black girls named porsche

@Jacob I don't know about that. Friend of mine had an SLK55 which he traded in for a CLK63. They are both insane

2:11 AM

What's the most comfortable city car if price is irrelevant?

@KevinSoviero Audi R8 v8 Spyder GT

@KevinSoviero Define "city car". If I was after a comfortable car for going around the city I would choose a Rolls Royce Phamtom

@Jacob In what world is that comfortable?

It would probably break your spine

An awesome car though

@MarkHenderson I intend to buy/lease one at somepoint...

@MarkHenderson A car you're spending hours in at a time, while never going over 40 mph.

It will happen

2:12 AM

@MarkHenderson Mazda 3.

Almost bought one of those about 2-3 weeks before I got laid off.

@Adrian Mazda6

but Mazda in general

@Jacob Too big.

@Adrian Money no object you'd buy a Mazda 3 over a Rolls Royce with a driver?

@MarkHenderson Hell yeah

Fuck getting driven around

@MarkHenderson Yes. I happen to like driving.

I do, after all, own 3 motorcycles as well.

2:14 AM

@Jacob Fuck that. I like driving too, but driving around the city is mind numbing and hateful. My left leg hurts from too much heavy clutch work, I get frustrated at cunts who fall asleep at traffic lights that are only green for 3.2 seconds

To be perfectly honest, unless it's raining I'd rather be on my 200cc scooter than be in any car.

I would get a motorcycle, but I can't ride them

So if I were driving around, in the city, at 40, I want to just lie back and close my eyes and let someone else deal with it

@MarkHenderson You wouldn't be able to deal with Seattle. Comatose is the best word to describe these people.

@MarkHenderson Use an automatic for you day driver

2:15 AM

Maybe all you people live in places where the traffic is not hateful

@Jacob My "day" driver.... yeah right. most people can only afford 1 car buddy

@MarkHenderson You said "money no object"

@MarkHenderson I'd get a driver. Probably a Maybach though, if we're talking that kind of money. More back seat room.

@WesleyDavid With the fucking LCD windows?

@Jacob Dunno - haven't seen that.

@WesleyDavid Really? I find them distasteful. One of our clients had one.

2:18 AM

Oops, looks like Maybach is toast after this year. Oh wells.

@WesleyDavid You can tint them to almost black to block out all the people trying to get photos of you

@WesleyDavid huh?

@WesleyDavid I thoguht Maybach were gone years ago

@MarkHenderson Nope, they're hosed as of the end of 2012. =/

Gonna be rolled into parent Daimler's Mercedes S class apparently.

I always thought of Mercedes as being the not-quite-rich person's means of feeling like he was rich.

Could have just been the right-hand drive markets they stopped then. This guy, wanker, a orthodontist, reckoned he got the last one delivered to Australia before they cut them off

@WesleyDavid Some of their models are

If you're going to get a Merc you have to go hard or go home. I.E. Get an AMG or don't bother

@MarkHenderson This x5 million

"My parents have a Mercedes" Me: "Is it AMG?" Them "no" Me Worthless car

2:23 AM

I think if money was no object, I would get a Ferrari 458 spider.

@WesleyDavid But then everyone can see how ugly you are and how you're listening to a horrible 90's megamix CD

I don't like driving big cars.

@WesleyDavid ... have you seen a Ferrari? They're gigantic

@MarkHenderson NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 149!!

@MarkHenderson Yeah, parked next to the 458 a little while ago. Wasn't so big to me? Maybe that's because I'm used to mini vans. =P

@Jacob AMG = Always Mucking about in the Garage

2:25 AM

I'd have to toss up between a ferrari or a lambo though. A ferrari is a very pure choice, and you won't regret it. But a lambo - they're rude and aggressive and a bit like punching someone in the face for no good reason. And you can get them in jet black with bright orange seats, or lime green with jet black seats

Here's the 458 Spider:

Friend of mine has had several. Every single one has had some kind of horrible issue with the drivetrain, braking, or suspension.

@MarkHenderson I'd take an Audi anyday

@Jacob As a pure sleeper I'd go an RS6 Avant

@Jacob They're almost as common as Volkswagens in Seattle.

2:26 AM

@Adrian an R8?

doubt?

Kid friendly estate that packs a V10 Twin Turbo

@MarkHenderson It's a GODDAM YACHT

@Jacob No. There's 15 days a year you could drive that. And there's saltwater here that's upwind.

@Adrian then not the Audi I would buy

It's interesting living on the outskirts of Scottsdale. If you travel just a few miles East into north Scottsdale proper, you will always, always see at least one Bentley, several Ferraris, maybe a Lambo, always Maseratis. Quite the heady crowd.

2:27 AM

@Jacob This is not the kind of town that you drive around in your nice cars.

I recall laughing as I watched a swanky lady heaving 40 pound bags of dog food into the back of her Bentley coup.

@WesleyDavid I'd buy a Maserati

That's a goal that might be achievable

@WesleyDavid Maseratis devalue really fast, like 1/3 every 2 years

@WesleyDavid You can do the same if you head toward the ocean here.

@MarkHenderson A guy I know of worked at a luxury dealer in the shop, typically replacing the front grills of lease turn-ins so that the next owner wouldn't have micro chips and baked-on bug guts to look at. His assessment of the quality and value of Maseratis after having driven many of them was rather surprising. Not particularly worth the dollar amount. He voted for Aston Martin or even a nice Jag.

@MarkHenderson But yes, I wouldn't turn one down. =)

@Jacob So do all really expensive cars

2:30 AM

@MarkHenderson It's the insurance that kills you.

@WesleyDavid Thankfully I have a very clean record

I also have a protected no claim 65% discount for life, thanks to a mistake they made when transfering the car from my dad to me - normally you have to be 40 and not had a claim for 15 years to get that discount

@MarkHenderson I saw one of these at the street light down from my house the other day:

That color too.

@WesleyDavid (my) Dad damn near bought an XJR.

@Jacob pretty

@WesleyDavid The biggest issue I have with RR is their horrible wheels

That and their pretentious snobbery of their owners. "It has hand made, and the pinstripes have been painted by the same man at RR for 30 years", wank wank wank

2:34 AM

@MarkHenderson That's anybody that buys a car for more than $100k. =P

You know, for the longest time I had a hankering for a Porsche GT2. I think the 458 Spider overtook it though.

But for a vehicle that can actually carry more than one passenger plus a bag of groceries... I'm partial to Range Rovers.

Wouldn't mind a nice one

@WesleyDavid Ferrari is way more expensive, but nobody would really recognise a GT2 (if you got one without massive orange stickers)

So sometimes it's nice to be incognito

It's funny, people will disdain those who spend lots of money on a luxury car, but then you get a good ol' boy that has a 2012 F350 with an 18" lift, knob tires, smoke stacks and a 10 cylinder cummins in it... everyone just chuckles and says "boys and toys."

@WesleyDavid They're very good, but soooo expensive

Meanwhile, the truck was close to $100 grand to mod, burns fuel at 5 MPG and has a $800 a month insurance bill.

@WesleyDavid Those "things" are a disgrace, and everyone else in the world laughs at America every time someone buys one

2:38 AM

This is very, very common to see in the three major metro areas I've lived in (Salem / Portland, Cincinnati, Phoenix)

@WesleyDavid I just threw up a little bit

That is a very, very expensive setup. Both in outright purchase cost and ongoing maintenance.

@MarkHenderson Now, I admit, I'd like one... but that's because I like to go way out and camp in the hard to reach places.

(secretly wants an H1 hummer)

@WesleyDavid But could you go out and camp in the bush with, I dunno, a Toyota Kluger?

Or a Land Rover?

There is just no reason for a vehicle like that to exist

@MarkHenderson Yeah, with some mods, sure.

@MarkHenderson You mean Hilander

2:40 AM

@MarkHenderson is a sexycat.

If I'm going camping, it had better fit in a roll on the back of a fscking DR350.

@Jacob No, I mean a Toyota Kluger. The mummymobile that takes kids to and from school. They're actually OK for basic bush stuff (if you get the actual 4WD model, not the FWD)

@WesleyDavid REVOKED

D'aww. =(

@Magellan amazon.com/Brother-DR350-Drum-Unit-Packaging/dp/B0007KI6P4

2:41 AM

@Jacob Nope.

Suzuki DR350

The Suzuki DR350 is a 350cc single cylinder, dual-sport motorcycle introduced in 1990. The DR350 S and DR350 R were kick start motorcycles until 1994 when the DR350SE was introduced adding an electric start. It has a single cylinder overhead cam (OHC), with the Suzuki Advanced Cooling System (SACS), dry sump lubrication, 6-speed transmission, 21-inch front wheel and 18-inch rear wheel.

@MarkHenderson So is it bad that I have a choice between 2 new vehicles to drive day-to-day?

@MarkHenderson

@Jacob No, it's not bad. You just need to remember that most people are not in that position

2:43 AM

@WesleyDavid GTFO

There's a place that makes those out of f650s

@WesleyDavid Oh god...

f650pickups.com

oops, chat picked up the image out of the footer

I would buy this truck:

2:44 AM

@Andrew That's hilarious considering that the pictured motorcycle is a Honda racebike for an article about a Suzuki dirtbike.

It's fuel rating is in ESPM (Extinct Species Per Mile)

@WesleyDavid If you owned that you would be on ignore, find your SF account on a 10 year ban and I will come for you in the middle of the night to remove your penis

We've got an F-350, but it's not fscking stupid like above

@WesleyDavid I don't see the point in a truck unless I can get a 12' bed on it.

Thank you for the advice, but suggesting I leave work later than I already do doesn't really answer my question. :) FWIW, if I need to leave my computer on overnight or unattended, I do explicitly log out of my sessions, but I'm okay with a disconnect due to timeout (sleeping the computer) if I need to leave in a hurry. — jimp 10 hours ago

2:45 AM

@MarkHenderson Is that any more egregious than a muscle car though? I mean, I've kicked around buying a '70 Chevelle with a small block in it.

What is this guy DOING?

@Adrian yeah, need to talk to whoever wrote the wikipedia parsing code for SE chat

@WesleyDavid ITS HUGE and distasteful

I've got a friend with a '67 pickup that I could drop a 442 in... I'd love to own a 60's airline with a V8, supercharged and a nitrous trigger. =P

@MarkHenderson So's your face.

@Andrew Good Luck with that. Their HTTPS code is broken, so I doubt Wikipedia parsing is a priority.

2:46 AM

Yes, I probably do. :-/ But I meant when I'm already late, there's often no time left to spare for closing browser tabs, emails, whatever. I'm really not meaning to be argumentative--just explaining it's not always practical (for me, at least) to avoid the situation although I'd like to. — jimp 4 mins ago

Wat?

@WesleyDavid Mmm. Oldsmobile 442.

@MarkHenderson What about:

@Jacob off-topic, close it

@Adrian Who made the 450? Wasn't that also Olds? Man, they were seriously trying to deplete the world oil reserves. =)

Maybe I'm thinking something else. Ford made the 427...

You're creating a massive security concern for your sheer laziness. It should only take you 30 seconds to close out your term sessions nevermind the fact you should close them as you finish with them. — Jacob 12 secs ago

2:48 AM

I had a huge obsession with the BOSS 302 Mustang, but they also made a 4-somthing. 429?

@WesleyDavid Yes

@MarkHenderson I found your commuter!!

Mark doesn't like me anymore. =(

@WesleyDavid Sorry busy

With you know, work

And aruging with people on SU

@MarkHenderson It's 8PM and I'm doing retarded work for radio dude.

Man I'm miserable with this.

No creativity, no thinking.

@WesleyDavid Haha welcome to real life

I'm reversing some MYOB invoice postings and need to finish off SMS integration into this tool for a client

It's not exactly riveting

3:15 AM

I was going to attempt to be productive tonight... where was I.

Sigh

@WesleyDavid I'm trying to pace myself. Had a run this morning, work for 9 hours, then home for an hour or so and then have a meeting tonight that will go till about 9.30, then I'm going to crawl around in a roof to run cabling for these Ubiquiti AP's

3:35 AM

@MarkHenderson Diligently living live with optimal chances of not having to worry about another rugrat. =P

Technet subscription renewed. More unlimited trials for me ;)

Seriously how did people pirate Microsoft software before Technet?

@MarkHenderson Dunno - I'm happy with being an OEM partner and having legit usage rights for internal systems.

Can't have any customer data touch the systems though, which I think even covers using a couple of DCs as SSO for any system that a client might log into.

But yeah.

@MarkHenderson Activation cracks? Actually before 2000 there was no real activation to speak of.

Alright - off to walk.

Since 2008 or so I think it's been mostly stolen VL keys.

Though I really don't know.. since about that time I've gotten all my keys directly from MS.

3:40 AM

@MichaelHampton Even just getting your hands on it though

I remember pirating 2000 workstation - 8 days straight on a 56k modem and FTP

56K modem? I remember the last time I saw one of those. I don't remember the last time I used one.

And I had to hunt high and low to find just that

@MichaelHampton yeah thats cos you don't live in a technological wasteland

I had 56k until 2003

I got my first cable modem in 1996 or so.

@MichaelHampton Yeah yeah yeah rub it in

'96 I think we got our first 14.4kbps

@MarkHenderson Eh, I was just lucky to have lived in one of the first cities anywhere to get them.

3:45 AM

Could have been '97 - i don't remember

And I just realised what I wrote. Goodbye messages.

@MichaelHampton Yep

They made it after their company name of course, but really? That's just dumb

I don't think they thought that one through

I was wrong. People ARE that stupid.

@MichaelHampton Haha I have a heap of passwords that are 123456 - but they're for free shit that I registered with a throwaway email address

Ok so I was just googling for a real-life encrypted notebook called "the keeper" and.. I found... this

@MarkHenderson I may have to firebomb our squid cache now :(

Turbojet train

A turbojet train is a train powered by turbojet engines. Like a jet aircraft, but unlike a gas turbine locomotive, the train is propelled by the jet thrust of the engines, rather than by its wheels. Only a handful of jet-powered trains have been built, for experimental research in high-speed rail. Gas turbine engines are small and light, compared to previous locomotive engines, turbojet trains, as well as most gas turbine trains, have been built as railcars (combining propulsion and passenger accommodation) rather than as separate locomotives and accommodation. M-497 The first attempt...

@Andrew Hah

4:00 AM

@MarkHenderson Never seen one of those before?

@Hyppy systemcomic.com/comics/2013-01-14-coffeeline.gif

@MichaelHampton Nope

@MarkHenderson My gf has one. When she doesn't need it, it sits prominently on the bathroom sink. Which is also useful information right before ... bed.

anyone have a decent explanation of PHP APC and why it's ops, not dev?

@MichaelHampton I... I don't even know what to say to that

4:07 AM

the tag wiki is a bit minimal: serverfault.com/tags/php-apc/info

@MichaelHampton Right until 15 seconds ago I thought you were asking if I'd never seen a Password Book before...

@Andrew Yeah, that tag wiki sucks.

Does it like, sit inside your pants like a ballsack? Or does it go all the way in like a butt plug? Or on second thoughts I don't even want to fucking know

@MarkHenderson It goes all the way in.

I could have happily gone my entire life not knowing that some women collect it in a cup

I also don't need a cup to know whether or not I'm going to get any, because the it's like this: No

Also she turns into a total bitch

4:13 AM

For reasons I have yet to understand, I have noticed that many women get very horny when on their period.

@MichaelHampton so it's an opcode cache for PHP... the builtin one doesn't work? the OS isn't intelligent? the CPU isn't intelligent?

@Andrew PHP doesn't have a built in opcode cache, just an API for a third party opcode cache (and there are at least four that I know of offhand).

@MichaelHampton hormones I presume

@MichaelHampton Geezus why couldn't I have married one of them

I don't mind riding the red waves

Just not interested in a dolmio grin

@MichaelHampton so... is that dev or ops?

4:16 AM

@Andrew Ops. I wouldn't let a dev anywhere near that. Not if I wanted the server to stay up, anyway.

Gawd, next somebody will suggest giving devs the root password.

@MichaelHampton we only have 1 dev and he does ops, too. from what I hear it's kinda unusual for the sector I work in to even have devs

hence most software in this sector is... awful.

"Community services"? Is that like.. outpatient mental health services for the poor?

to quote a comment on Jeff's blog: "Software used for specific unsexy applications in fields where there is little resources, and ICT is a peripheral concern, is shit house."

@MichaelHampton it's very broad. social work stuff.

@Andrew Right. I thought you'd mentioned that before.

As I recall from hearing @Adrian talk, it's no better with devs.

@MichaelHampton we have some internally developed stuff which (hopefully) makes it less painful for staff

case note management etc.

4:26 AM

Anyone knows what happens if you chew a Benadryl? I was taking it, and accidentally bit down on it, and it shattered... Side note: Benadryl is really fragile.

@KevinSoviero you mean you're not supposed to just chew or swallow them?

it's an antihistamine, I don't think it'll kill you very quickly

@Andrew Swallow, yes. Chew, IDK... I feel like chewing it may cause it to hit your system faster that it was designed to...

@KevinSoviero Yeah, your nose might stop running REALLY QUICKLY.

@KevinSoviero Dude, you worry too much.

@WesleyDavid Better too much than too little. ;)

Stack Exchange

4:34 AM

Einstein was WRONG when he said that provisional patent #39561 represented a novel gravel-sorting technique and should be approved by the Patent Office.

Since when does Stack Exchange automatically post XKCD?

@KevinSoviero Years

@KevinSoviero BRB, chewing on Benadryl and washing them down with Nyquil.

@KevinSoviero Too long.

@WesleyDavid Hey, be sure the let us know what an overdose of Diphenhydramine feels like step-by-step.

@KevinSoviero Starts floaty, gets heavy on your chest. Hard to talk. You wake up 24 hours later with a metallic taste in your mouth and nose, and your eyes may hurt.

4:41 AM

@WesleyDavid So, just business as usual then, huh?

I've found that Docky/Cinnamon look nearly identical to Unity, only I can actually get real work done in the former...

Ugh - spent for the day. Barely got through a pitiful squat routine and some stairs. Think I'll go to bed early and try to start fresh early.

@WesleyDavid remember, every time you masturbate a kitten dies. So keep keep fapping furiously and rid the world of a pest

@MarkHenderson Shuttup and squat, marshmallow.

@MarkHenderson Get on Fitocracy.

@MarkHenderson When I show up in Australia, we'll have a flex-off and see who's more ripped.

Winner gets a shopping cart of TimTams from the loser.

@WesleyDavid I found an 11-year old pack of Tim Tams "Original" in my pantry last night.

@Andrew You want to join the flex-off?

4:53 AM

@WesleyDavid I'm not ripped. I'm just doing running at the moment, that's all

@Andrew Did you eat them?

@MarkHenderson thinking about sending them to a museum

My wife wants me to start doing situps but I don't think I'm capable yet

@Andrew What a waste. They're probably still good.

also: long-life (UHT) milk does eventually go off. Actually, it goes solid.

@MarkHenderson Remember, situps wastes energy and gets more hip flexors than anything. Have you ever complimented someone on their hip flexors? No. Crunches, not situps.

And if your wife is already nagging you to do situps... you've lost. =(

@WesleyDavid I don't even know what a crunch is

@WesleyDavid She's not nagging. She just implied that I would get heaps more sex if I had a flat stomach

4:55 AM

@MarkHenderson At least she gives you warning.

@WesleyDavid Yeah, she's honest

Sometimes too honest

@MarkHenderson On your back, fingertips touching your scalp, not supporting your neck. Use your stomach muscles to contract, keeping your face aimed at the ceiling. A proper crunch will have less than 12 inches of space between the back of your head and the floor.

Nothing like your (almost 3 year old) coming up to you and saying "Daddy, Mummy can't play with me because she's on her period. C'mon let's go play trains!"

I use a 30 pound dumbell held over my head to crunch with for extra suffering.

@MarkHenderson Yeahhh,,, for living in a really conservative and sheltered house, I knew way more about my parents anatomy than I needed to. I know how that goes.

But I guess it could be worse - I think if given the choice of too little info or too much, I'd take too much.

@WesleyDavid Conservative? Or liberal?

4:58 AM

@MarkHenderson Conservative - at least by the American definition. Not sure what that means on your rock.

@WesleyDavid I can't imagine conservatives telling their children about their menstrul cycles

@MarkHenderson No, that was the paradox. Normally extremely sheltered and uptight. But then some real gems would fly out like that.

But now that I think about it, if you lived sheltered and your parents educated you, then maybe

@WesleyDavid conservative means roughly the same, Liberal is the opposite of liberal though (they're conservative)

Personally I'm not a fan of teaching young kids too much about the opposite sex's intimate differences until they're about 10 or 12

i.e. boys don't need to know what a period is

4:59 AM

makes total sense that the meaning is case-sensitive

@MarkHenderson I can give you three tips that will plunge your weight / bodyfat into what it used to be and maybe less. Nothing to do with exercising either.

@MarkHenderson interesting scribble scribble

@WesleyDavid Eat less sugar

@MarkHenderson Yeah, it's delicate. But then you know something is happening, and then it's hushed up so you think it's bad or wrong, and you ask friends and before you know it BANG DOUBLE PENETRATION HARDCORE, THANKS LARRY FLYNT!!

1) Most important, never ever drink calories. Ever. Like Orange juice? eat an orange. Apple juice? Eat an apple. Only ever drink water.
2) Set a drop dead time where you do not eat any calories after a certain time, preferrably several hours before bed. Say three.
3) Eat six to seven times a day. Batch cook something simple on the weekend and chunk it up into capsule meals. Eat every 3 hours. Instant skyrocketing metabolism.

The only exception to drinking calories is if you're lifting hard and need some protein supplementation.

Some people say "Oh but a healthy diet takes care of that." Yes... unless you're lifting hard. And by "healthy diet" they'd better mean two chickens a day spread out over 16 hours.

So for my hypoglycemic tendencies I had to switch to a high protein diet, and also eat more frequently.

When I was 27 or so, I moved to six small meals a day. I was already okay in the weight department, about 175, but when I did that I could not eat enough to maintain my weight. No matter how much I ate, in two months I dropped about 7 or 8 pounds.

The idea is that metabolism increases when you eat, but slows down about 2.5 to 3 hours later. So if you're gnoshing through the day (on healthy meals, not just snacking on crap), then you will keep the metabolism running higher.

@WesleyDavid The one pic of you I've seen, you looked more like a celery-munching emo than Gregor Clegane (The Mountain that Rides)

5:06 AM

Now, for my hypoclycemia, the higher protein and more frequent meals really perked me up, made me stop falling asleep in the mid afternoon, and also as a consequence increased my gains from lifting.

@Ward Yeah, I'm a bit slender by nature, but I always did have a problem before my 20s with baby fat. Just eating too much dairy and sugar. I would drink almost a gallon of milk a day... I Was weird. No idea why my parents put up with that amount of expense when I was a total loser and not putting any funds back into the household.

My heaviest was about 190. I've been in the 120s.

@Ward What are your vitals?

5'11" 210lbs I love Sour Cream and Onion Chips

And very old.

I eat not-terrible-but certainly not super-healthy. I'm counting on biking to the new(ish) job to do something positive for me.

Joel E Salas

@Ward I'm also going to take a stab at that

but I don't want to be That Guy who always comes in with bike gear and goes to change

@JoelESalas One of our clients build a new office with showers and changing rooms for their bikers

This place is awesome... super-super-bike friendly. 30 people, maybe 6 cars in the lot. My tandem, a guy w/ a recumbent, 2 fixies, an ex-racer, 8 or 9 people who don't own cars...

I change out of my bike shorts because they're not all super-comfortable for wearing all day. No-one gets too sweaty coming too work because from almost anywhere it's downhill to get in.

Going home, there's the 6km 320-foot climb I keep mentioning.

Q: Where can I search and buy obscure TLD domains?

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What are some websites that either search or sell domain names using unusual TLDs? Is there any site that either searches or sells ALL of them? (I think there are 280 in total; please correct me!)

tld

GO SHOPPING SOMEWHERE ELSE.

5:18 AM

I've got a long way to go to catch up to this woman:

blayleys.blogspot.ca/search/label/2012%20in%20Review

@Ward You mean... you mean people ride bikes?

Burn the witches!

@WesleyDavid It's not as much fun as looking at ads for bikes, but not everyone can do that all the time.

Hmmmmm....

Is Scott a good brand? I've never heard of them until I went to a store here in town called REI and they said that was one of their main brands.

This is a bit spendy though.

@WesleyDavid I'm not a moron... everyone knows REI

@Ward Everyone except @WesleyDavid

5:25 AM

@MichaelHampton I think his claim to be from Oregon might be an implanted memory...

REI originated in Seattle, how could a supposed west-coaster not know that?

Read an article about Jim Whittaker today, he looks damn good for 84

Jim Whittaker

:This article is about the mountaineer. For the politician, see Jim Whitaker. James W. Whittaker, also known as Jim Whittaker (born in Seattle, Washington on February 10, 1929 ) is an American mountaineer. As a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition 1963 led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, he was the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He summited on May 1, 1963 with the Sherpa Nawang Gombu (a nephew of Tenzing Norgay). They ran out of oxygen but managed to reach the summit. Once there, Whittaker planted a US flag at the top. He is the twin brother of Lou Whittaker...

Not to be confused with the other climbing Jim from Seattle who kept having people die when they were climbing with him:

Jim Wickwire

Jim Wickwire (born June 8, 1940) was the first American to summit K2, the second highest mountain in the world (8,611 m - 28,251 feet). K2 is notable for its steep pyramidal relief, dropping quickly in almost all directions, and the inherent danger in climbing it. Wickwire is also known for surviving an overnight solo bivouac on K2 at an elevation above ; considered "one of the most notorious bivouacs in mountaineering history". Between 1977 and 1982, Wickwire lost four climbing partners to fatal accidents on three separate mountains. Early life Wickwire was raised in a small town call...

Just fucking get:

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or

phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/bik/3776342835.html

or

phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/bik/3739264153.html

Any "name" brand, older mountain bike should do you just fine. Skip the heavy, crappy dept. store bikes, but get a nice, simple one.

e.g.

phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/bik/3748168342.html

So, ahoy cyclists! I have an old mountain bike that hasn't been ridden for quite a few years (and I haven't ridden anything for a few years); what's the best way to get back into cycling? I live on a hill so "easy flat rides" don't exist anywhere close, and I don't have a bike rack on my car.

exercise bike? cross-trainer?

phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/bik/3770962492.html

@Andrew What's a few years? I took about an 8 year break...

5:41 AM

@Ward yeah, at least that. probably more.

Get a bumper rack.

@Ward I hadn't heard of it until a year or two ago.

Now I live about 1000 feet from one.

You can fit pretty much any bike onto any car w/ a bumper rack...

5:43 AM

@Ward I was a GI Joe person myself. Bi-Mart if the budget was low.

fisher, specialized, canonndale, brodie... build up your own list of decent mfgs and just search for those. Get one for a couple hundred bucks.

Forget the $1800 carbon whatevers with components that aren't compatible with anything more than 2 years old...

@Ward so, I should just build one?

I'd generally give the same advice for someone starting out: an older, simple mountain bike (but with skinny tires) is a good all-round choice. Couple hundred bucks on craigslist.