Just for fun...

[Jeremy McCreary]

Well, just found my next bike, and the missus said go for it!!

Skip to 15:22 for an overview of this large, roughly 1:2.5 LEGO scale model of a single-speed (but not fixie) road bike with modern frame and wheels.

Sariel, the reviewer, is a world-renown designer/builder of working LEGO vehicles and other machines, using primarily parts from LEGO's engineering-oriented Technic line. He also literally wrote the bible on advanced Technic building. He knows whereof he speaks.

Most Technic models are sturdy enough for serious play once built, but this one's too flimsy for anything but display. LEGO faced some tough engineering trade-offs here, as LEGO joinery doesn't lend itself to frame angles that are both realistic and strong at this scale.

Sariel found the model most remarkable for some very innovative new parts and building techniques — including the 1-way spur gear in the freewheeling rear hub.

Definitely buying this set for the parts if nothing else. As usual, will build it once by the book, modify to taste, display it for a while (where I don't know), then part it out. Those wheels have futures as somewhat aero high-inertia spinning tops.

 

[Chargeride]

I need to see that Lego freehub.

 

[Chargeride]

16 years old, hows that village doing.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I need to see that Lego freehub.

He shows it in the new parts and maybe the functions sections See video description. Unfortunately, there's no iconic freewheeling sound.

 

[stompandgo]

A throwback to flexy frames.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Well, just found my next bike, and the missus said go for it!!

Skip to 15:22 for an overview of this large, roughly 1:2.5 LEGO scale model of a single-speed (but not fixie) road bike with modern frame and wheels.

Sariel, the reviewer, is a world-renown designer/builder of working LEGO vehicles and other machines, using primarily parts from LEGO's engineering-oriented Technic line. He also literally wrote the bible on advanced Technic building. He knows whereof he speaks.

Most Technic models are sturdy enough for serious play once built, but this one's too flimsy for anything but display. LEGO faced some tough engineering trade-offs here, as LEGO joinery doesn't lend itself to frame angles that are both realistic and strong at this scale.

Sariel found the model most remarkable for some very innovative new parts and building techniques — including the 1-way spur gear in the freewheeling rear hub.

Definitely buying this set for the parts if nothing else. As usual, will build it once by the book, modify to taste, display it for a while (where I don't know), then part it out. Those wheels have futures as somewhat aero high-inertia spinning tops.

Cool!
Remind me when I get home hopefully end of week from hospital, to snap a few pics of a couple of lovely scale models of bikes.
Nice!

 

[PedalUma]

Cool!
Remind me when I get home hopefully end of week from hospital, to snap a few pics of a couple of lovely scale models of bikes.
Nice!

I wish you well. Sorry to hear that you are hospitalized. I am almost fully recovered from ocular shingles. That was scary. I could have gone blind. The GP said that riding bikes everyday has aided my resiliency.

 

[DaveMatthews]

I wish you well. Sorry to hear that you are hospitalized. I am almost fully recovered from ocular shingles. That was scary. I could have gone blind. The GP said that riding bikes everyday has aided my resiliency.

Glad to hear you're on the road back mate. Nurse told me on the first night that in 8 years she'd never seen anyone with a blood count so low. I asked what she'd be looking at had it gone a step further and she said they'd be looking at revival techniques.
Thankfully between my logic and testosterone arguing with each other, logic won out and called an ambulance.
Stupid testosterone...
Ocular shingles sounds insane. Was there pain involved?

 

[PedalUma]

Glad to hear you're on the road back mate. Nurse told me on the first night that in 8 years she'd never seen anyone with a blood count so low. I asked what she'd be looking at had it gone a step further and she said they'd be looking at revival techniques.
Thankfully between my logic and testosterone arguing with each other, logic won out and called an ambulance.
Stupid testosterone...
Ocular shingles sounds insane. Was there pain involved?

A remnant of my childhood chicken pox virus was hiding in the nerve of a tooth under my cheek bone. The tooth nerve was all itchy and irritable last Tuesday night. I awoke Wednesday to swollen shut eye and a raging rash on my left forehead. I thought I had an abscess tooth bacterial infection and might be getting septicemia, blood poisoning. It really throbbed in the cheek bone. As for testosterone, I have not wanted any help of any kind for about 14-years. This thing was motivational. It is what it took for me to seek assistance. That is good. They gave me antivirals, ibuprofene, and for testosterone, steroids! So, now I can legitimately wear a sawed-off sleeveless Harley shirt. For 'blood count' is that red blood cell count or blood oxygen? Sounds serious. I wish the best.

 

[DaveMatthews]

A remnant of my childhood chicken pox virus was hiding in the nerve of a tooth under my cheek bone. The tooth nerve was all itchy and irritable last Tuesday night. I awoke Wednesday to swollen shut eye and a raging rash on my left forehead. I thought I had an abscess tooth bacterial infection and might be getting septicemia, blood poisoning. It really throbbed in the cheek bone. As for testosterone, I have not wanted any help of any kind for about 14-years. This thing was motivational. It is what it took for me to seek assistance. That is good. They gave me antivirals, ibuprofene, and for testosterone, steroids! So, now I can legitimately wear a sawed-off sleeveless Harley shirt. For 'blood count' is that red blood cell count or blood oxygen? Sounds serious. I wish the best.

Yikes!
Always entertaining how interconnected everything is inside us. Quite the machine indeed. Great you had access to good care mate.
Red blood cell count here. I was told today that at a company dinner meeting last week I looked white as a ghost. One of those things that you just kind of overlook on a daily basis, but others notice. Can't even believe I allowed myself to play 9 holes previous. Morons R Us...

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I was told today that at a company dinner meeting last week I looked white as a ghost. One of those things that you just kind of overlook on a daily basis, but others notice. Can't even believe I allowed myself to play 9 holes previous. Morons R Us...

So did severe anemia help or hurt your swing?
;^}

 

[DaveMatthews]

So did severe anemia help or hurt your swing?
;^}

Turns "more iron in your diet" has more than one interpretation...

 

[PedalUma]

Yikes!
Always entertaining how interconnected everything is inside us. Quite the machine indeed. Great you had access to good care mate.
Red blood cell count here. I was told today that at a company dinner meeting last week I looked white as a ghost. One of those things that you just kind of overlook on a daily basis, but others notice. Can't even believe I allowed myself to play 9 holes previous. Morons R Us...

As a small kid I had an accident and lost a lot of blood and my spleen. I looked like a starving refugee. I craved molasses. My mom asked the Dr. about it with some concern. Turns out molasses is full of iron. A book I am reading has witches and vampires and little twins who are half and half. It is the fifth in the A Discovery of Witches series. Maybe you could use some fresh blood. The optometrist today was impressed with the progress and my vision is better than 25 years ago.

 

[DaveMatthews]

As a small kid I had an accident and lost a lot of blood and my spleen. I looked like a starving refugee. I craved molasses. My mom asked the Dr. about it with some concern. Turns out molasses is full of iron. A book I am reading has witches and vampires and little twins who are half and half. It is the fifth in the A Discovery of Witches series. Maybe you could use some fresh blood. The optometrist today was impressed with the progress and my vision is better than 25 years ago.

Lost count of the blood they've pumped into me. Might have been 4 or 5 bags. Don't try this at home kids...
Now for some reason I feel like crypt shopping... Somebody shut those blinds!!!

 

[Chargeride]

Thats why truckers dont see you in their mirrors

 

[PedalUma]

I also craved ginger snaps made with molasses. Instead of a medium burger or steak my mom wanted to feed me gray overcooked liver at was full of stringy veins. You could buy a cow and like the Maasai drink directly from it neck.

 

[Chargeride]

Mmmm, stringy veins full of bodily waste.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Mmmm, stringy veins full of bodily waste.

How much?

 

[PedalUma]

Gray, meally, and chewy all at the sametime! Did I say granularly mealy. Yes. With stringy pink veins and served with under temp steemed onions. Ideal for a growing and recovering boy.
I'll bet @DaveMatthews could eat a whole plate of chicken hearts. They are packed with vitamins and iron with tons of protein. Stir fry at high-temp in under 5 min.

A Discovery of Witches is the first book in Deborah Harkness's All Souls trilogy, following historian and witch Diana Bishop, who discovers a magical manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library, drawing her into a supernatural world and a forbidden romance with vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont. The novel blends fantasy, romance, and history, exploring a world where witches, vampires, and daemons coexist, and the book's popularity led to a television adaptation. It has advanced science and takes place mostly in libraries and castles. It is like Harry Potter for adults. There are also ghosts. She is a very young strawberry blond Phd tenured Professor at Yale. In the next book she becomes a full on redhead as she timewalks to Elizabethan 1590 so enemies cannot find her or Matthew. And she meets his father in France and is adopted into the ancient wealthy vampire family and wed. She produces a magical companion that is dragon-like. The sensual descriptions are so detailed that it allows for the total suspension of disbelief at the macro-level. The she is knocked-up pregos with girl and boy fraternal magical twins. In the final book of five she must hide the children from a malicious counsel in Venice.

Key aspects of the novel:

• Plot:
  Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches, reluctantly uses her powers to research an enchanted alchemical manuscript (Ashmole 782), which brings her into conflict with other supernatural creatures and into a deep relationship with Matthew Clairmont.
  
  
• Genre:
  A mix of fantasy, romance, and historical fiction, featuring a "forbidden love" story between a witch and a vampire.
  
  
• Characters:
  Features a strong heroine in Diana Bishop and her vampire love interest, Matthew Clairmont, who is also a geneticist.
  
  
• World-building:
  Creates a believable world where supernatural beings live alongside humans, with complex rules and history.
  
  
• Series:
  It is the first book in the All Souls trilogy, followed by Shadow of Night and The Book of Life.

 

[6zfshdb]

Cowboy Chili:

A young cowboy walks into a seedy old café in Wyoming. He sits at the counter and notices an old cowboy with his arms folded staring blankly at a full bowl of meaty chili.
After a few minutes of just watching him staring at the chili, the young cowboy bravely asks the old cowpoke, "If you ain't gonna eat that, mind if I do?"
The older cowboy slowly turns his head toward the young wrangler and in his best cowboy manner says, "Nah, you go ahead."

Eagerly, the young cowboy reaches over and slides the bowl over to his place and starts spooning it in with delight. He gets nearly down to the bottom and notices a dead mouse in the chili. The sight was very shocking and he immediately barfs up the chili back into the bowl.

The old cowboy quietly says, "Yep, that's as far as I got too!”