Are we going to have this exact same discussion every week at this time?

The act of letting go opens up endless possibilities. If you can’t let go. You can’t move forward.

Au contraire – if I let go of my bike, it will fall over, and I will end up on the floor, not going anywhere at all.

I use a Garmin Edge 200, use it mainly for navigating on the road, just following the line on the screen, nothing fancy, no maps on it. It saves a lot of time, allows me to get on and ride, I very rarely look at the speed etc. till I get home. I think it’s the best road bike riding thing I’ve bought. Not really used it for navigating off road, but I’m interested to try it.

“analogs of” – you mean similar to or inspired by

Surely the problem is not using the word analogue correctly, it’s spelling it incorrectly.

Anything spelled with a zee

The obsession with removing the letter “z” from words which should, by their etymology, contain one is a peculiar trait of poorly educated English people – if anything, the so called “American” spellings are the more traditional, with the “s” spellings being the upstart interlopers. A quick look through the OED will tell you that the -ize spellings are often the older, for example, the earliest record of “organize” is 1425 – before America was even discovered and “realise” dates back to 1611, with “realise” not appearing until over a century later in 1755.

There are a small number of words where the -ize ending is not used, because that section of the word comes from a different root word, rather than being a verb ending – e.g. always promise, because it comes from “mise” meaning sending – but these are the exception, not the rule – the idea that the rule should be one way or another (i.e. all z’s or no z’s) is seriously misinformed.

Just bought a new jersey for road riding in – £20 from on-one/planet X, still riding in my shorts from Funkier – £18 (chain reaction) which have been good for the last 1000miles.

Off road, I wear the same shorts with some grotty old shorts over the top, t-shirt wise, hi-gear regulate t-shirt from go out doors (£6). If it’s windier, then I have a Montane featherlite (£25) and a thermal from M&S (£15).

That’s all of my kit for less than the price of the shorts you’re looking at.

Report to police – he was trespassing.

Trespass is a civil matter, the police won’t do anything. Given the building was unlocked, there is little you can do after the event, and even if the person is squatting, then you still need a court order to evict.

My kids school is closed, but even if it was closed then they would still be at home, important lesson to never cross a picket line.

I wonder if these same teachers who decry the taking of holidays in term time see a little hypocrisy here..?

Teachers don’t support the crack down on taking of holidays in term time, and in my experience were happy with the historic arrangements prior to the changes brought in by Gove, I’d suggest that on this score, you have a common enemy in the Education Secretary, rather than being on opposing sides.

direct impact on teachers pay and conditions

Low pay and being overworked has a direct impact on the quality of education delivered, pay and conditions are an education issue.

How can you judge if it is a damp squib when it’s not yet actually happened?

You already know that there is some significant disruption, as such, it’s already had some success, and hasn’t yet started – so judging by the current state of play, it’s been successful so far.

Fixed

I bought a kit the other day and noted that there was chalk not soapstone in there. Not that I needed it, but it was cheaper to buy the whole kit than the vulcanising solution and patches on their own.

WRT in May, then some sort of roadbikepacking adventure between that and July – a couple of nights out on the road bike, home to wales, something in wales then home probably) and then another July attempt at a solo lakes 200 after my failure to complete it last year. I’m starting from a better set of base miles this year, so should be a lot fitter and more able to cover the distances at speed.

I’d want it to be 29er specific for that kind of money.

Page 9 of the actions, – linking Langsett with Upper Derwent – the long term actions map has it on.

It implies that there currently is no link between Upper Derwent and Langsett, when there is a Bridleway right across the route they are describing – the upshot being that they want to some how make this more “accessible” read – flatter and easier (although it’s always going to be a ruddy great hill!)

is that easy to grow? I love pakchoi.

It’s quite easy to grow a lot of “oriental greens” – your actual fairly chunky pan choi is a little harder, but doable, but don’t underestimate some of the other greens (Komatsuna, Mizuna, Mibuna, Tatsoi etc.) – great in salads etc. and grown a bit bigger can be cooked in stir try too.

It looks like one of the proposals is the (further) sanitisation of Cut Gate…

The garden isn’t my domain, my wife does whatever she wants in it, which generally involves short lived things with flowers on.

I have an allotment, which I have hops, gooseberries, strawberries, black currants, white currants and raspberries on a permanent basis, and currently have growing 2 types of broads (early and main crop) purple sprouting broccoli and the tail end of some Kale from last year, just lifted the last parsnips, first sowing of turnips, carrots and radish went in at the weekend, with 2 week sowings from now on. Planning for more parsnips, more carrots, bean and peas and some cabbage, planning to add a brassica cage to fight of the birds next winter.

Handbrake will do it, you need to point the application towards the “libdvdcss” library, which you will need to download and acquire separately. Instructions are available online.

Bikes are ace.

It would be a pointless thing to include – just fill out the application twice with the answers pre-prepared on a separate page for the ‘proper’ second go if there is any inkling that it is the case.

I wonder if many of the “people who draft are lazy scroungers” crowd also vote tory.

I agree with the above that it could be anything or nothing, and the test does’t really tell you much, but (before giving up milk) I had issues with lung capacity related to intolerance to milk and having bloated insides, so there is literally anything that might cause it, and many of them are nothing to worry about.

We have a trail angel, which is a barely disguised copy of a trailgator, works really well for the boy, have taken it off road on simple fire road type stuff no problems.

I would like to see better rail links, more rail links and am happy seeing infrastructure being built in my back yard (but then, I only live a 350m from the West Coast mainline and 2km from the M6) but i’m completely opposed to HS2 as it’s a development that really only exist to benefit that London. Better links coast to coast would be more useful or Birmingham to Manchester as well as Leeds -> Liverpool via Manchester are what is needed, not more London centricity.

Embrace it instead of fighting. If you fight you won’t win.

If you don’t fight, you will definitely lose – the question is what you fight and how you do it.

virgin media channel?

Iplayer, Virgin do not carry the regional variations.

The Beatles are a bit shit, really.

This is absolutely true, but I had always considered it a commonly held belief, not popular or a majority, but a sizeable number of people.

Out and back on the Ullswater lakeside is a low level classic.

Lots of information around the scheme is vague, because to a certain extent, employers can make choices for themselves, and in other areas, it’s best just to keep quiet – a good example being the usage – I ride my C2W bike to work every day, but this is only something like a quarter of my average weekly milage – but it’s 10 out of the 11 rides a week I do on average – so is my main use for it cycling to work (which it is if you count the number of trips I make) or is it not (which is the case if you do it solely on milage) I did ask this question as was effectively told not to ask to many questions…

I just put mine in my office, problem solved.

It’s about death.

I thought it was an allegory about late capitalism, just like toy story.

I think you used to be able to get a pair of mackie’s like yours, or Adams, for a grand back then.

I have no idea how much they cost, other people equip the studios, I just use them.

You’re not really doing this for the music are you?

Me personally, at home I listen to music on this or this my interest in audio technology is professional, so the specifics of it matter to me – in the same way that things about your job probably matter to you.

Adam, Mackie or JBL monitors are very accurate

All of them use reflex cabinet designs which are inherently poor at “accurately” reproducing the bottom end simply due to the design – you can do a lot to design out serious problems, but using a ported design is always going to incur at least some time based obfuscation in the bottom end as the signal from the port mixes with the direct signal from the driver.

Don’t get me wrong, I use HR824’s all the time and they do a great job, but they suffer – like essentially all speakers – from inherent compromises to the sound.

that being the reason why there are such recording outfits as Linn Records…

Who release content at 24/192 which, for a number of reasons, is slightly inferior and certainly not better than 16/44.1 – they sit on the “snake oil salesperson” side of the audio divide as far as I’m concerned.

they seem to manage it with reference monitors

Monitors aren’t accurate, and their not designed to be either – if anything, a good pair of monitors for studio recording will punish the sound in the worst ways imaginable, showing up the worst aspects of a recording or a mixing the post production stage, so that consumers don’t get it later on – because audio engineers are not there to make it sound good, they are there to stop it sounding crap. If you can make it sound good on the most popular monitors around, then it will sound good on anything.

This is the fundamental problem with HiFi types – they are chasing something that doesn’t exist – the recordings they start with are flawed from the start because they have been specifically designed not to sound good per se, but to sound good on any old playback system – from a big expensive one to a crap cheapy car stereo. If the intention was ultimate audio quality from the start, then the process would be very different.

University lecturers are routinely expected to guess if students are attending university in order to access the country or in order to turn up. It’s quite difficult to know if a student is not attending because they are working, or if they are just lazy – it’s generally safer to assume the latter, but the UKBA really want to know about the former. My feeling is they should probably work it out for themselves.

I’ve never ice climbed – is it one of those situations where he’s committed to something, it’s steadily going pear-shaped and he can’t back out? He seems exhausted, like he needs to park up and take a breather, but I guess the ice is too poor to let that happen?

Absolutely – when you are climbing ice/snow then there comes a point when you can’t put protection in – compact* rock, poor ice, steepening up and generally getting a bit scary all mean it becomes less and less likely. You often get into a situation where stopping to put protection in means your calves are screaming and your arms hurt, but just carrying on is ok – despite the fact this puts you further and further off the deck. You tend to only take a breather where there is some kind of reasonable belay, or at least something flat to stand on, no matter how small.

*this is the euphemism guide books use for rock with no cracks and very little to use for protection.