[Orestes Munn]

I am definitely outta here for good. Nice meeting some of you.

[Orestes Munn]

@baiskeli 104311 wrote:

But it refers to fellatio performed on donkeys, which is different, unless you are a donkey.

I’ve heard object of the action specified as “dead bears” too, but that doesn’t make it OK.

[Orestes Munn]

Can’t we give up “sucks” as a pejorative? It implies contempt for people who perform fellatio.

[Orestes Munn]

Milloy’s maunderings aside, I thought the really bad cycling news in today’s WaPo was this, on heads-up displays for cars: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/heads-up-technology-puts-data-on-car-windshields-at-ces/2015/01/06/036afdf6-95e5-11e4-927a-4fa2638cd1b0_story.html

[Orestes Munn]

Oh, the Post is pretty bad, but even the Times has published some egregious shite about cycling in the last few years.

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@cyclingfool 103878 wrote:

So does the metric system. That doesn’t seem to have derailed us from archaic measurements yet.

Knowing what little I do about human behavior, I don’t think rational systems lend themselves to human adoption any better, ipso facto, than seemingly arbitrary ones, even though they may be easier to understand or notate. After all, our brains and bodies were not developed prospectively according to a sensible, data-driven, plan, but, rather, shaped by arbitrary circumstances and random events.

[Orestes Munn]

Military does dates year/month/day on documents, but does day/month/year in less formal places. Never month/day/year.

[Orestes Munn]

@ShawnoftheDread 103701 wrote:

I could use some help there. Whatchoo got for me?

Too late for some of us.

Punch line of the potcake pack story is that daughter walked us to our hotel one afternoon, with the dogs platooned around her. She sat down with us at the bar for a Bambara & tonic and the dogs all jumped into the pool. We may have been the only guests that month, but this was not popular with management.

[Orestes Munn]

@DismalScientist 103618 wrote:

My name derives from an appellation aptly applied to my profession by Thomas Carlyle in the nineteenth century.

…and he hadn’t even heard what behavioral economics has to say about human stupidity.

[Orestes Munn]

No expert, but I used to do a fair amount of riding and running in times and places where dogs lived outside, unrestrained, and chased things to break up the monotony. i only encountered really aggressive and persistent dogs a few times on foot or where I wasn’t going fast enough to get away. If I was riding, I dismounted and kept the bike between me and the dog and tried to back away slowly. On foot, if shouting NO! etc. failed, I found that a feint with a rock or stick was often effective in convincing the dog that I was better left alone, with throwing or charging as a rarely needed next step. As a rule, only trained attack dogs will attack from the front and, thankfully, I never met one of those. All the others want to circle and attack from behind. I saw my father try to run away from a farm dog once and lose a pants leg.

The distinction between guard and attack dogs is crucial, but I think there is a much larger category of pain in the ass-idiot dogs, mostly, I assume, because their owners tolerate that behavior. What scares me more than anything is those 20′, invisible leashes.

Not relevant to anything, but my daughter befriended a pack of semi-domesticated “pot cake” dogs on the poor Caribbean island where she lived last year. Those dogs loved her, but gave me and mom the whim-whams.

[Orestes Munn]

That’s some crazy shit and one guess where would he have gone if a car had approached in the other lane. Bikes acting like “real” vehicles just doesn’t compute for some people.

[Orestes Munn]

Lovely, quiet morning. I hardly ever feel the cold in the a.m. and I’m always freezing in the evening. Took the racing bike and as soon as I get my little clinical crisis settled here, I’m going to get me a brisk little tempo workout on the park roads, hit the climb to Ft. Reno medium-hard, and coast home to a hot shower and a martini.

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@zandereast 103332 wrote:

These are great facts! Self-discipline is the main key to an accident free road. However, the fiscal cliff is rapidly nearing as Republicans and Democrats slug it out on Capitol Hill.

Nah, just robots.

[Orestes Munn]

@GuyContinental 103007 wrote:

Guy Continental = my “porn name” (in 1992 kid parlance, at least in Arizona, your porn name was your middle name + the street you grew up on)

Mine is Al Dente, but I didn’t grow up in AZ.

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@americancyclo 102932 wrote:

And here I thought there was a connection to Olivia.

I had to look her up. I wish.

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