Honor Play – Argos – £250 Inc ‘notch’

Fast CPU, IPS LCD, bigger than average battery. Tall so don’t be fooled by screen size doesn’t look like a phablet. Also light.

Recency moved to a ufo area purported 900mb. BBC Iplayer no longer struggles at weekends. Upgraded the router to dual band 600 and hardwired the desktop.

Obviously some sites are still faster than others and when downloading and I’ve noticed it can take time to wind up. You need a big file to hit top speeds but mostly because it is so quick.

Can’t see why you’d need more than chicken, fish and a variety of veg.

2k will get a full XT groupset some bling forks and lightweight wheels. Probably have change to pay someone to fit it all.

Find a bike that fits, find out the stack height, virtual top tube and head angle. Make a shortlist of bikes with the desired spec and those measurements.

Doesn’t matter what gender it’s marketed at?

How is this not dangerous? Even rice at room temp for 2 hourz can kill you, cos bacteria?

Buy second hand, strip, service and upgrade parts over time. Eventually get a new frame and swap parts over.

That’s how I’ve ‘financed’ my bikes over the years.

Museum Gardens is OK bit more educational and easily missed off peoples list. There is also a BFG exhibition at the art gallery. Although I don’t even remember seeing it and was only in there a couple of weeks ago.

Both worth a trip but I have local pass not sure I’d fork out a lot. And don’t forget to call into cycle heaven near the millennium bridge for lunch.

We did before we joined. But the way things are going Scandinavia will be banning Christmas.

Cover the frame in gaffer tape and use up the old rattle cans from the garage, preferably rust colour. Tis surprisingly quick and effective.

I still had my pannier pinched, fortunately it cost less than a £5er:

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/luggage/sjsc-rear-pannier-bag-black-right-hand-15-litre/

Those OnGuard Pitbull D locks are best value, good as the expensive ones. I leave one on the racks and attach a cable to go through the wheels too.

They do say two locks will make most thieves look at the next bike.

Some guy scraped BBC weather forecasts for a year and compared to actual. Even the day before predictions were barely 50% right on things like will rain. Turned out to be more likely right if you simply assume the weather will be the same as the day before.

Talking of the land of nope. Have we done Pine Gap yet?

The desert version of Fylingdales golf balls with drone strikes, chinese spies and subtle sexual tension.

Typical low budget made up for with good acting and Ozzy one liners. Binge watched most of it.

If you are right handed put it on the right, because you will invariably pull that side when you start off.

Discuss…

My son asked the same when about that age, true you will spend an arm and a leg for something that competes with a desktop. But Asus do some more reasonably priced gaming laptops (compared to Alienware etc) with GeForce cards and more RAM that separate them from your average laptop. He was quite happy with his.

Asus ROG Core i5-8300H 8GB 1TB + 128GB SSD GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB 15.6 Inch Windows 10 Gaming Laptop

My local Evans has no bike racks, I had to lock it to a street sign round the corner and walk 100 yards.

Months more than weeks unfortunately, maybe never.  The only thing that ever kept mine at bay was learning to cycle at a higher cadence, and that took a while too.

Have a look on Gumtree or Ebay secondhand commercial magnetic spin bike.

oppress disenfranchised and exploited members of society who have turned to crime or been forced into it

Some serious ‘False consensus effect’ projection going on here. You should get out more.

This has nothing to do with armed robberies and just as unlikely about criminals with guns.  It’s about police being too scared to patrol certain areas with just a truncheon for protection.  The recent spike in murders has put pressure on them to have a presence.  Driving around within the safety of a steel box isn’t working, fairly sure they will have tried that first.

This seems like a London only issue but there was a spike in similar cases in Glasgow a few years back.  How come they didn’t need to be armed to tackle it there?

Also do it all the time, will jump back on the road if there are walkers but like Ton says outside of school toddler runs there usually isn’t. Have had the Police kerb crawl me a couple of times and shout oi.  I’ll take more notice when they do something about cars parking on cycle lanes.

Most TVs have RCA audio outputs don’t they?

Then you’re bottle-necking sound quality through the TV’s built in DAC, probably designed primarily to support the TV’s own speakers.  Then again OP could have a high end TV.

There is also some debate about the margin of difference between ‘cheap’ and not so cheap DACs. Another thing is streamed content is usually compressed quite harshly anyway, so probably only noticeable if you were playing from disc.

From TV would indicate digital via the optical cable and through the Hifi DAC which the Alpha 10 has anyway?  Some older ones don’t, check the back for optical ports.

I use this one for TV, Turntable, CD & Chromecast streaming:

https://www.whathifi.com/yamaha/s501/review

It’s unfussy and more music biased, but at this price point best to pick one that does one job well IMO rather than a budget receiver.  I actually have TV in via the Coax and anything connected to the TV goes the same route.

I like the Yamaha sound but worth asking for a listen somewhere local.   Spend the change on better speakers, I use some Dali Zensor 3, but floor speakers would be great for games and movies. The Onkyo A-9010 gets good reviews too but sounds a bit clinical to me.

Genetics and age will play a part but your average training plan will give you an indication of how much for how long is necessary.  They are usually 8 to 12 weeks, 3 to 4 times a week.

I’ve found in training 3 times a week for an hour that week 6 feels like you are over the hump.

Are we all finally agreed on 1/3 now? If not here is why I changed from thinking 1/2:

Forget coin tosses, imagine 100 wives and baths (ahem). One dog is assigned to each bath randomly = 50M, 50F.

Second random dog gets wet, so now = 25MM, 25MF and 25FM, 25FF (100M, 100F)

Phone call confirms it isn’t one of the last 25 baths, so must be one of the remaining 75 baths.

Only a third of these are both dog dogs.

The end.

Sonos is old hat.  A decent amp and better speakers with optical input from a chrome cast.  Plug the TV in to a second optical or coaxial input too,  livingroom sorted.

You’ll struggle to get much better quality wireless than optical to amp DAC as long as the bitrate is decent i.e. Google play list @320 as opposed to Apple 256 and most streaming half that.

For the rest of the house some wireles speakers:

https://www.whathifi.com/jbl/playlist/review

Plenty have chromecast built in now.  Chrome cast is really reliable no connection issues. You can set up multiroom and control by voice. Job done.

Been thinking about an Amazfit Bip to replace my ageing fitbit blaze 1.  Gorilla glass, GPS and allegedly a 45 day battery life <£70:

Amazfit Bip smart watch review. What do you get for £50 or $70? Quite a lot in fact …

Check out the Honor Play or Honor 8x. Makes my old Motorola look like brick.

There is no reason you cant use those wireless speed and cadence sensors and a HRM on a spin bike, in theory…  In practice they just don’t seem to work very well, poor connection Bluetooth or Ant+.  Could be because I bought the cheapo Hong Kong ones.  But if you manage it let us know.

There’s a YouTube vid about pedal power meters but they cost a fortune.

Some sort of pulley system to a cheap tacx trainer?  They work well.

Yes that pesky ‘science’ with its evidence and facts. 😉

 Plus All make up? All men? All women?

That’s quite a high acceptance criteria.  Including all men and women in a study may push the budget.  But there have been plenty of studies done and the criteria for each is quite clear.  Just Google for them.

some women women who’re sexually attracted to a man might chose food or just conversation instead.

What’s this food thing, am I missing a trick?

Monogamy reduces major social problems of polygamist cultures

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120124093142.htm

In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the intra-sexual competition that occurs causes greater levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality than in societies that institutionalize and practice monogamous marriage. That is a key finding of a new study that explores the global rise of monogamous marriage as a dominant cultural institution. The study suggests that institutionalized monogamous marriage is rapidly replacing polygamy because it has lower levels of inherent social problems.

Well the make up at work thing for example. It is a fact that it’s a sexual trigger for men isn’t it?

As already hinted at not sure he actually has much of a narrative of his own, he just jumps on inconsitancies in other people’s. Which makes him a difficult target.

Jordan Peterson has an annoying habit of winning arguments with facts.  It inflames extremists left and right no end.  On having bubbles burst they resort to falsely labeling him, misquoting and calling for him to be censored.

Bought his book after stumbling on to the Cathy Newman interview based purely on how he handled himself.

TBO the book is a little hard going, none of the sensationalism he is apparently famous for.  Would rate Sapiens as a better read so far.

Owl Hotel is basic but cheap and good location, friendly staff.

Short walk to the museum quarter.   Walk or tram to the center.  Shops, resturants, park,  bike hire, canal boat trips all nearby.

Small though, may be booked up.

Am happy enough with my Roccat Kova.  Special offer at Game if you are OK with white.

Our last Victorian terrace flagged damp when bought and sold.  Was never a problem when occupied and heating on.  As mentioned would be more worried about the roof and guttering and get that checked.

The only other issues were rear access.  There are some weird laws on back alleys that are not always council owned, especially if sewers complicate it.  But the solicitors will pick up on it and the reality of the situation can be gleaned from a conversation with neighbours.

The other thing is more ‘recent’ extensions those are often where the problems lie.  The back bedroom was always 5 degrees colder than the rest of the house and attracted mould.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews

Would choose Scarborough over Pickering.

They are optimistic if they think the average fapper can work out how to acquire and send bitcoin in 24hrs.

Have seen people doing c2cs on some right heaps, alot depends who you are riding with.  Would not try to talk them into a road bike unless everyone else has one. Hybrids are better for beginners, especially for long spells in the saddle.

IME newbies don’t get the second hand value thing or not being able to try before they buy, and like local shops.

The women’s Voodoo Marasa is on sale for just over 300 at Halifords.  No cheap and heavy fork to contend with, reasonably robust and best spec you’ll get for that budget. Disc brakes.

Synology are reliable Nas drives and on WiFi and will back up too.  Can play content on mine with via the wifi DVD or Humax TV box, music or Movies.  Optical cable from tv to stereo.  Also phone obviously to the stereo with an app and Chromecast.  Maybe even to a firestick?.

If you really want to avoid the phone then the best way would be to Google play.  Upload to the cloud do play lists via Google home.

These days for music I usually  just say “Hey Google play my my Binaural Beats playlist on the stereo”.  A Google pebble thing and a chomecast audio would be cheaper than a Nas?