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Two more days to enter the Secret Santa!
Entries must be in by midnight on November 29th. We're kicking off the 2024 Secret Santa! Exchange gifts with other monkeys - from beer and snacks, to bike gear, to custom machined holiday decorations and tools by our more talented members, there's something for everyone.
LG G3 all mounted up via Handy. They arrived on time (after the rescheduling due to their unavailability last week), took about 30 minutes from boxed TV + boxed mount to being all done, and the extendable mount seems to be just how I'd envisioned it.
Minor vertical banding on test patterns but no visible on real content. The AI picture wizard added sharpening, which I axed immediately upon switching to the computer as an input as it created aliasing and odd artifacts. Filmmaker mode, -1 G white balance, -1 G tint, 85 brightness, 50 color depth, 10/10 max brightness under energy saver. With those settings first impressions are good. The demo Dolby Vision video on YouTube with the cat and all above looked quite fantastic in how things pop and render.
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The e-bike is just a great way to get around town. Mid day errands, UPS Store then Shake Shack downtown. Went out via MLK since I was down south already, and did not enjoy the painted on bike lane between traffic lane and parked cars experience. Returned via the Platte River Trail + Sand Creek Greenway longer route, because e-bike.
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993 4S, 68k miles, black over cashmere or whatever their terms are. very nice /borat
1997 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S 6-Speed
Bid for the chance to own a 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S 6-Speed at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #105,223.
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993 4S, 68k miles, black over cashmere or whatever their terms are. very nice /borat
Random guess of at least $200k
"We are chipping away on your home - Brooke [assistant to the designer lady] will be out there on Tuesday with some of the subs to get pricing."
wife and I came to the conclusion that if we have to drop something due to budget we'd rather keep the odd marble flooring as-is (instead of laminate over the top of it--it's glued down to the radiant elements so would have to go over the top realistically), with preference being to have a real framed and drywalled in basement bedroom added for that same theoretical pot of money.
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kinda getting the urge to see if anyone in the bookface groups would trade me my DH bike for an equivalent bicycle blue book value non-DH acoustic FS mountain bike
after breaking my hand last year I think most (all?) of my DH time will be easy days with Mariko, who will be very slow. and going on an occasional acoustic mountain bike ride might be fun. actually, scratch that, but it would let me ride legally everywhere.
thoughts from the peanut gallery? @6thElement
after breaking my hand last year I think most (all?) of my DH time will be easy days with Mariko, who will be very slow. and going on an occasional acoustic mountain bike ride might be fun. actually, scratch that, but it would let me ride legally everywhere.
thoughts from the peanut gallery? @6thElement
I think we should have regular DH Friday's with @Nickkinda getting the urge to see if anyone in the bookface groups would trade me my DH bike for an equivalent bicycle blue book value non-DH acoustic FS mountain bike
after breaking my hand last year I think most (all?) of my DH time will be easy days with Mariko, who will be very slow. and going on an occasional acoustic mountain bike ride might be fun. actually, scratch that, but it would let me ride legally everywhere.
thoughts from the peanut gallery? @6thElement
I haven't "worked" a Friday afternoon in weeks, so can easily swap that to full every other Friday.
Marker Free 7 half-kid bindings on both skis now. Mariko will be on the left 152 cm Black Pearl 98s next season. Yuna will be on the 140 cm Rustler Pros the season after next. 120s for her next season probably—got those in my shed.
Mariko’s are set up as 2.75 DIN and Yuna’s at 2.25! Hopefully they can step into them ok since I’ve done all I can equipment wise.
12/14/15/18? No Cast?@Toshi - you'll be glad to know I'm getting a pair of those rasta Pivots mounted on my new skis.
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you're never getting those plans.
get any/all contractors to adhere to a written schedule. All designs, all procurement, all labor, all subs. Once payments start, have them face damages for unexcused delays. If they don't agree, you probably don't want to use them.
get any/all contractors to adhere to a written schedule. All designs, all procurement, all labor, all subs. Once payments start, have them face damages for unexcused delays. If they don't agree, you probably don't want to use them.
to be fair, I haven't paid him up front for said nonexistent plans, either. payment upon receipt.
An update on my medial meniscus tear:
- cortisone injection in December got me through ski season but wore off ~3 mo
- functionally 99.9% there (had just a handful of unexpected sharp twinges, once while getting off a lift!)
- low level 1/10 discomfort/unease from it now
- went to see my orthopedic surgeon re it today
- she recommends arthroscopy and an attempt to fix it, gives 85% odds of a successful fix (probably higher--I doubt I have friable tissue). if repair not possible then she'd do a meniscectomy and carve away the torn bits, which is not the preferred option but probably would have the same prognosis as doing nothing, not worse than that
- but the recovery... didn't expect this. sounds like 4-6 wks toe touch weight bearing on crutches
- starting light spinning at 4-6 weeks. jogging by 6 mo or so, back full force in action by ski season
- her recommendation for arthroscopy/attempted repair despite me being functional and w/very low level discomfort is because I'm 41 and she thinks my tear (posterior horn, full thickness) will only get worse w/time
This is a tough one as I feel pretty good (but know something's not right with my knee) as it is, but per the professional opinion should have this done.
I would hate to see an MRI of my knees 
I got my right knee MRI'd a month or so back as I've had issues with it for 10+ years. Prognosis was pes bursitis, not the tear I thought I had and zero signs of arthritis thankfully.
Meanwhile my left knee has subsequently been hurting me and I've never had issues with it before
Meanwhile my left knee has subsequently been hurting me and I've never had issues with it before
as an update, one of my twitter buddy orthopedic surgeons mentions he allows for full weight bearing immediately after meniscal repair, and sure enough the literature seems to support this being equivalent:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
this would make my life much better in the recovery period: no crutches (no twisting motions, though!), maybe restricting range of motion to 90 degrees flexion or maybe not even that. and it's something that I can just do on my own, by using it.
Weightbearing Versus Nonweightbearing After Meniscus Repair
Optimal rehabilitation after meniscal repair remains controversial.To review the current literature on weightbearing status after meniscal repairs and to provide evidence-based recommendations for postoperative rehabilitation.MEDLINE (January 1, 1993 ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
this would make my life much better in the recovery period: no crutches (no twisting motions, though!), maybe restricting range of motion to 90 degrees flexion or maybe not even that. and it's something that I can just do on my own, by using it.
Turns Pivot 15/18 into touring bindings.
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Freetour Tech
Tech Freedom. Alpine Performance. We’ve created the world’s first pin-tech touring system with the full reliability, safety and bomber performance of an alpine binding. CAST’s patented and fully integrated quick-release mechanism allows you go uphill on super-light pin-tech touring toes, and...
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Turns Pivot 15/18 into touring bindings.
Freetour Tech
Tech Freedom. Alpine Performance. We’ve created the world’s first pin-tech touring system with the full reliability, safety and bomber performance of an alpine binding. CAST’s patented and fully integrated quick-release mechanism allows you go uphill on super-light pin-tech touring toes, and...
For what I was after it was perfect. Weight wasn’t a concern, I like my Pivots and they are 100% Pivots (ok stack height is changed a few mm, sue me) on the way down.
scheduled arthroscopy for May 23 (assuming that date works with my section's work schedule). down by Ikea. even if I advance myself on my own to full weight bearing and motion, as I plan to, driving back is not a good plan. perhaps I will take transit and make an adventure-day out of it. 
Haven't you got one of your offspring trained to ride the e-cargo bike yet so they can bungee you to the back for the ride home?
the physics of 201 lb me being bungeed to the cargo bike with 68 lb Mariko at the helm would result in her dropping the bike immediately and squashing her legHaven't you got one of your offspring trained to ride the e-cargo bike yet so they can bungee you to the back for the ride home?
/true story were it to happen, bro
yup, slowly de-fatteningYou're down to 201? Good job... Tubby.
I look positively svelte, really
Passes acquired for next season:
Loveland midweek for me
Ikon for me + wife
WP for Baby Aya (last year of glorious $30 pass!)
Shall get WP passes for the elder two kids through the comp center when I sign them up for Devo in the fall.
Loveland midweek for me
Ikon for me + wife
WP for Baby Aya (last year of glorious $30 pass!)
Shall get WP passes for the elder two kids through the comp center when I sign them up for Devo in the fall.
in which Mr. Money Mustache goes to great lengths to rationalize getting something that he wanted and has been able to afford for many years
yet he has been penny pinching for so long it's hard for him
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yet he has been penny pinching for so long it's hard for him
Frugal Man Buys $52,000 Car – Why??
Here’s the new car, on its first real camping trip shortly after taking delivery. As I type this, I’m jumping through the various hoops involved in buying a 2023 Tesla Model Y, a rather expen…
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Mr. Money Mustache: "Blah blah blah money money money"in which Mr. Money Mustache goes to great lengths to rationalize getting something that he wanted and has been able to afford for many years
yet he has been penny pinching for so long it's hard for him
Frugal Man Buys $52,000 Car – Why??
Here’s the new car, on its first real camping trip shortly after taking delivery. As I type this, I’m jumping through the various hoops involved in buying a 2023 Tesla Model Y, a rather expen…
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I feel attacked.in which Mr. Money Mustache goes to great lengths to rationalize getting something that he wanted and has been able to afford for many years
yet he has been penny pinching for so long it's hard for him
Frugal Man Buys $52,000 Car – Why??
Here’s the new car, on its first real camping trip shortly after taking delivery. As I type this, I’m jumping through the various hoops involved in buying a 2023 Tesla Model Y, a rather expen…
At least I would never spend $52K on a fucking cross over SUV.