They were still fairly popular

more than fairly – at times round here it seems like every other car is one !

I’ve been out in the rain all day in the lake district without my gore paclites leaking…

my endura and pace event jackets have been satisfactory on the bike

if you sweat a lot then maybe get a decent waterproof that also has pit zips which will help

Terrible design phase Bimmer are going through.

they’ve been through a few…

surely the police will be interested as you will be able to give them a 1 hour window within which to wait for delivery and then a sure-fire collar ??

They can do the paperwork whilst they wait in the car eating donuts…

The Merrells are better with Speedfeet insoles in.

There’s a new grey color this year :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Merrell-Gore-Tex-Hiking-Boots-Black/dp/B07KM9Q9B8/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Merrell%2BMoab&qid=1571386784&sr=8-6&th=1&psc=1

they were a bit cheaper yesterday

A-grade people were probably delivering perfectly well anyway.

but if you are supplied a complete specification to deliver in one piece, with no access tot he business and no feedback loop, then you have a real danger of delivering exactly what the spec says, but that not being exactly what the business wants.

Anybody that thinks you can get the spec completely right at the start is deluded.

Same with software design, the end product is rarely what what was envisaged in the first place, especially when refactoring is employed along the way to keep entropy of the design/code base to a minimum.

It’s also problematic when B-grade agile consultants mistake themselves for A+ grade and overreach their expertise.

it is such a simple process that any company that feels that they need to employ consultants must be B grade as well.

If you accept that agile is aimed primarily at programming, and it is basically XP without the pair programming, then it is completely appropriate and any failings are people trying to apply too much process to it.

make a list of everything that is suppossed to be in the product with estimated costs.

prioritise the list to the things that people want to see first

pick items from the list to attempt to get done in the two week release cycle

people collaborate to ensure the best design and testing is identified

ensure everyting is covered by automated testing so there is not a huge testing effort at the end and therefore unknown levels of work resulting from problems found

merge work in to the release often so as not to encounter issues at the end of the release cycle when unknown levels of work could result

regularly meet briefly to check everything is on track and how to resolve any issues that have arisen

release

review what and how much was done to improve estimates of the amount of work that can be done in the next release cycle

review the released product to ensure everything is going the right way

review the priority of items on the outstanding list, allowing new items for amendment of the released product if required with the acceptance by the business of the costs involved

finally deliver a product that exactly meets what the business requires

Seems to make sense and the ideas are all based on a pragmatic review of past project failures and what works.

It realises that requirements change along he way as people get to see and play with what they thought they wanted.

It’s a JFDI type of process, any extra process and formalisation added is the result of ‘consultants’ trying to make money off of it.

A grade people will make the process work and deliver, B grade people will just sit back and moan about it…

Apparently police arrested 8 protestors who had stuck themselves together outside the Supreme Court. Tbh it seems counterproductive – surely better to just chase them around and see how much they enjoy being stuck together in daily life…

leave them in a cell glued together and wait until one of them has to go to the loo…

See how they manage that :-)

All this talk of actual extinction isn’t helping either – that’s not going to happen – we are mammels and adaptable.

Let’s be more realistic and graphic about what climate change will actually mean – loss of low lying land areas and huge numbers of deaths from sea level changes, wars over water supplies,
possible ice-age if the gulf stream moves/shuts down

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gulf-stream-ice-age-collapse-climate-change-amoc-global-warming-a8301511.html

As I say, there are some huge issues like those fires that governments need to cooperate together to solve first.

If developed countries need to pay taxes towards the engineering effort required to clean up after themselves, then so be it – that’s the price of their consumerism.

Ever increasing air capacity with no tax on aviation fuel just has to stop, excessive car usage has to be discouraged and alternates encouraged where possible.

Veganism didn’t suit Will Smiths son :

Will Smith and wife Jada stage intervention after son Jaden’s poor vegan diet ‘turns skin grey’

Greta Tunburg has the advantage of being 16 and not having a personal history of gratuitous environmental destruction.

plus she looks very scary when she gets going…

There are some very big issue affecting the world and climate that should be tackled first rather than trying to get individual habits to change, which will have a much less significant effect.

Such as the fires in Indonesia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Indonesia

in 2015 “The fires released enough greenhouse gasses for Indonesia to produce more daily emissions than the United States for 38 days.”

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/indonesia-forest-fires-haze-climate-impact-carbon-masagos-11946108

“Forest and land fires burning in Indonesia have released 360 million tonnes of carbon dioxide since August, said Singapore’s Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli on Thursday (Sep 26).

That’s more than Spain’s emissions for the whole year in 2018, he added.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/indonesia-forest-fires-haze-climate-impact-carbon-masagos-11946108″

“Greenpeace estimates that in the past 50 years, more than 74 million hectares of Indonesia’s biodiverse rainforests – an area twice the size of Germany – have been chopped down, degraded or burned.

They have often been destroyed to make way for plantations for the lucrative palm oil and pulpwood industries, particularly on Sumatra and Borneo islands, with fires often started illegally to clear land.”

and then there is the Amazon :

“The fires in Indonesia are far smaller than those in the Amazon, the world’s biggest rainforest.

Close to 2.5 million hectares of land was burnt in August, Greenpeace has said, citing data from INPE, Brazil’s national space research institute.

Wildfires in Bolivia have torched 2 million hectares of forest and grassland since August, while in Brazil, 88,816 fires were recorded from January to the end of August, over half of them in the rainforest.”

More developed countries need to take action – maybe pay higher taxes to pay these countries for the loss of not using one of their natural resources.

Plastic pollution needs an engineering solution to go clear the oceans – we can collect shed loads of fish from it, why not plastic?

possible use of car as weapon – 30 months :

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-cyclist-blasts-30month-sentence-for-motorist-who-used-car-as-weapon-a4261701.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M

what a sh1t presentation – gave up on it – aimed at self-congratulating geeks.

The UK is full of rascists. We’ve managed to broadly push it out of top tier football but it’s still there.

the proportion of rascists might have gone up now all those rascist eastern europeans have been allowed in unchecked :-)

sold my car to a muslim guy in east london who was desperate to move out because his whole block was now occupied by Romanians !

They have a lot more in common with Labour’s position on brexit than the Tory’s.

shame that that’s not the only issue of concern…

Pace 3×3 Event jacket – £99

Women's 3X3 Waterproof Jacket.

go see a mediation service to discuss how to split

if you are not argueing that is a waste of time – they won’t give you any advice that is worth anything legally – like what constitutes a fair split.

Better to both go the same solicitor for advice – keep it all transparent.

I went ot one to see what it was going to be like, but wasn’t impressed.

If you ar splitting up then go the whole hog and go for the divorce now with one of you admitting to adultery so it is quick – the adultery won’t affect the split anyway.

If you separate the 50/50 split is applicable at the time you become eligible for divorce, so any assets you or the wife build up in that time, like pensions, are subject to the 50/50 split, and one of you will get the hump with this, leading to a breakdown in amicability. Plus the financial uncertainty of not knowing what the situation will be is a kicker and adds a lot to the general depressive situation.

Plus if it is amicable finding enough reasons for unreasonable behaviour (that are ‘true’) is difficult.

(don’t think no-blame divorces are a thing yet…)

I used the legal services from wikivorce.com and kept it amicable and pretty cheap as well (although not as cheap as some of the tight-wads on here…), I’ve posted about this before so look it up in my history as they were lengthy posts, but it all worked out well.

I used a Sony SBH52 for a while and then changed to a Sony SBH56 as I needed AAC for iphones.

Although currently I am using one of these :

with one of these :

for a hard-wired experience as it is better with the DAC and I was finding the bluetooth link was giving more noise.

The camera adapter is the one that accepts power as well as apparently it is beter and keeps the phone/tablet charged up.

I used to use avid ultimate flat-bar levers with BB7s which was sweet as the ultimate levers were very adjustable and you could run a big gap and also brake well.

The bigger question is who is going to enforce this?

traffic warden on a bike – pretty easy to whizz round the town checking everywhere, stopping to check the odd suspect pavement clearance and issue a warning, or check if they have violated the 3-times-and-your-car-gets-crushed rule.

Can pull over traffic-light running cyclists in his spare time…

Turnerguy what about the elderly person that needs support? Or the blind person with a dog

I bet that they are not actually as wide as a double width buggy

Just mandate a minimum pavement width – not necessarily wide enough for a double width buggy though – they can use a buggy with the seat inline :-)

easy to police

And Patagonia is on trend these days, especially in silicon valley:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/patagonia-shifts-policy-on-co-branded-products-silicon-valley-loves.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/30/outdoor-industry-patagonia-rei-trump

I also think Lifa is excellent :-)

Feel like I’m the Ready-Brek man when I put it on

Bought some expensive merino IceBreaker tops for my wife to ski in, they didn’t work very well at all – big mistake – same effect as cotton t-shirts

You probably hold up merino as an example of why STW advice can’t be relied on – there’s been several (older now) threads that have just been a merino love-in

Doubt you’ll find much difference elsewhere though.

I’m past that – it was the lack of revalidation at amendment time that was their problem.

So if they had limits on the number of paracetomol you could buy, or the size of the kitchen knife, or the number of them, then you could get around it by placing a smaller order and then amending it. I would have to test to see if that was the case, or just certain fields like the date get missed.

I always think it is funny that I get age checked if I buy something like lemsip, or immodium.

Killing yourself with an overdose of either of those would be a difficult way to go…

Imagine all those pictures with mk2 Escorts for the cars – there would be so much more room…

part park on the pavement

which is fine as long as there is a minium width for pedestrians.

Maybe car tax for these areas needs to go up to encourage people to use city sized cars ? Rent a bigger car when they need it.

not all roads can be one way and you still have the issue of too many surplus cars to park elsewhere.

do cul-de-sacs represent a large percentage of roads in sheffield ?

The car is the problem not the soliton here. It takes just one car on the pavement to trap someone in a wheel chair in their house.

precisely. Or someone partially sighted/blind who now has to venture into the road.

And cars are getting ever bigger – look at all the 4×4 SUVs around in cities where they will never go off road and there are other smaller cars around with more actual internal space but they just won’t impress the neighbours so much.

make sure you keep that ‘lordosis’ angle in the small of your back and a straight back.

then just think about your thighs going up and down like a ‘motor’, with the rest of your leg just attached and following around moving the pedals.

that will avoid that position where people push down into their knees and their back rounds out like a question mark.

Cycling one legged seems easy to me, I always use it to set the saddle height – too high and your hips rock on the saddle and too low and you can’t keep a smooth rotation with one leg.

I think you need to be careful with pushing the saddle forward too much – you can feel the power, but I have had knee problems which the root of seems to be bicep femoris, and that is apparently aggrevated if the saddle is too far forward.

Pushed mine back now and used a plumb line to check the relationship of my kneecap to the pedal axle, old-school-like, and things seem better.

Using the trainer exclusively probably exagerated the problem.

are you recovering because the leather is knackered ?

I rejuvenated a Selle Italia SLR Kit Carbanio that was pretty dried out and worn on the nose/rear edges using shed loads of boot polish and a teaspoon (with wrapping around the handle), in the same manner you might smooth out the toecap of a pair of boots as an army cadet.

Put loads of boot polish onto the saddle, heat up the spoon over the gas, then work the polish into the leather, and repeat.

Obviously did for the transfers.

As the saddle was not new I didn’t have to pee on it first to remove the grease, and now it is smooth I will use running water, some cotton wool and some kiwi boot polish to really bring up the ‘bull’ so I can see my face in it :-) (not really)

will [hopefully] make [people] think differently about [how they treat others]

this looks good :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00B5AP6UI/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&th=1

n some residential areas, particularly the streets of Victorian terraced housing where there can be 100 houses on a short narrow road there is literally nowhere else to park.

hard to see how they weren’t aware of that when they bought the property.

fact remains that the pavement is there for pedestrians, particularly vulnerable pedestrians.

and driving up on to the pavement is also illegal.

fine at 46!

go for half-marathons first, see how that goes.

I think the training for a marathon is just too much for longevity.

Couple of colleagues that have dene several marathons, and one is a big runner from a family with a long running history and whose mum still holds records for certain scottish runs, think that too.

So let me get this straight;

no

the shop is a few minutes walk away

they were out of stock of the capsules I use, although they had plenty of the other strengths/flavours.

hence why I ordered online for collection at the shop – I also get anything I buy from John Lewis delivered there. Makes it easier to supoprt a chain whose business model is better than the norm.

Phoned customer services with the issue, couldn’t rectify the price properly so went to the store

was going to the store to cancel the order, manager was standing by the customer service desk anyway so explained the error – listened why he explained that it was all normal and implied it was my fault, even though I mentioned having to amend the date forward at their request and receiving no warning, so went ahead with the cancellation ‘cos I was p1ssed off by then.

He eventually offered to honour the price but it felt like ‘you made a mistake but we’ll do you this favour’

So £15m in deeelopment grants was never going to score the UK the next mini or tesla…

their new hairdryer took £50 million to develop :

The new Dyson Supersonic hair dryer, which cost £50 million to develop

and £40 million on just the update to the cool fan :

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/06/dyson-silent-fan

You get instances in London where the council have marked out parking bays on residential streets – half on the road, half on the pavement

that is because otherwise it is illegal to park on the pavement.

Apparently Lndon is getting traffic lights that will favor pedestrains and even cyclists over cars. Was in the standard last night, can’t remember what they are called.