Every time I read these reports and see just the sheer scale of the runs, jumps, gaps and cliffs, my lizard brain just holds up the front claws and says “no way”.

Amazing, _all_ the competitors.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ckgnlj3g95mo

If a proven liar writes a book explaining that what he said was lies, then, in the interview says they are not lies, are they lies?

Honestly? No chance.

Even though I would want there to be a shot of success, I think the website T&Cs would probably exclude this. Also, would you bill the website, reCptcha/Google/Cloudflare…?

Damn! Absolutely shredding it! Awesome work from all of the riders and all of the teams and thank you so much for the reports; I’m off to watch it now!

Strange Days, although I am not sure why.

A lot of the slightly odd 80’s/90’s sci-fi has kind of gone and that saddens me.

@madhouse I think I need to find an equivalent here in Sweden. The food grade thing is important as, even though I know a lot of welders, I don’t think I can just get one of their cylinders. Hmmmmm. Paintballers use Co2…

I have two of the smaller PET 8l kegs. It seems to be the sweet sport for me when I brew as it is one fermenter’s-worth of beer into a keg and some bottle (for people). Then I can slap gas into the keg and enjoy with my own little tap setup. The only downside is having to tape the seals in the keg and disconnecting the gas so that it does not leak after a day or two.

I do need to get a bigger CO2 setup than the current Sodastream setup though. Bigger will be cheaper I think.

SJP is a problem that Private Eye or, more correctly, the Paul Foot awards have exposed in the past. I can’t add anything to this other than to think about what timba said and get on it ASAP.

Awesome report on the day, thank you!

A shame that Sami is out, but a concussion is not something to take likely and _is_ a safety thing. You can’t treat them lightly, not if you want to stay in the game for the long term. This is 100% the right decision (IMHO).

We share the kits we have around the people in my village as most of us have trees of some sort. There is also a community musteri (place that makes juice for you from your apples) in town if you want to go that way.

The biggest enemy is time and the pain that is trying to feed whole apples into the crush. If you have two people and a Grainfather & fermenters, you can get a decent process going where you half the apples, crush them, press them, fill the Grainfather for pasteurisation, then chill and thrown in a clean fermenter. Then it’s just a case of throwing yeast and nutrient at it and waiting.

Tbh, getting a simple keg system set up was the biggest win I have had recently. It cuts down on cleaning a lot and, as a solo brewer at home now, makes getting a beer or cider ready for serving much less of a hassle.

Spoke with my mate earlier. Apparently it’s predicted to be “only” Cat 1 when it goes over his house. He’s staying because his car has a blown engine and he can’t evac his mother. His internet still works. He’s sending me memes.

@walowiz That sounds like an excellent idea!

Just finished an hour up there and I really need to take the plastic sheet the bike sits on out and hose it off. I am soooo going to treat my bike to a service in spring.

This is not helped by people like Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates saying that, despite AI datacenter usage being a big source of greenhouse emissions (and only increasing), the planet should keep going on building new ones because AI is advancing so rapidly that it will be able to solve the problem it has caused.

Errr, WTF?

A friend of mine messaged me to say he’s expecting the eye to go directly over his house. He’s a bit fatalistic about it, but he’s looking at the brghtside and hoping that it brings down the crappy fence his neighbour has so he will fit a new one.

He also mentioed that there’s a new conspiracy theory going around about how it suddenly decided to turn and go the way it did. Apparently there was a P3 Orion track at the point it turned at the time it turned and the local nut-jobs have seized on this and a Castro-era weather control conspiracy to put two and two together to make 7.

Maybe it’s something designed to stop them being an easy fence for stolen parts. Interesting that the BBC articel does not quote eBay as saying that the change is specifically related to fire safety, only that people welcome the change,

And the CE mark… Dn’t a lot of the shonky goods have a CE mark that looks identical, but means “China Export”?

I have a cider (from the apples in the garden) than is taking gas now and getting ready for a party in a couple of weeks. I may also brew a beer (maybe some sort of stout given the other thread, maybe a sessionable pale ale) this weekend, but that depends on a) energy and b) time.

I’ll watch it (Prey 2) and I have a suspicion that there is more than a nod towards using it as some sort of springboard to a series like the Aliens vs. Predator graphic novels (not to be confused with the films that bear the same titles. That could be a good thing, or it could be formulaic garbage.

I need to buy a fan for the trainer. Despite the bike being in the unheated part of the house, I have no airflow and even 30 minutes on it at a moderate pace means I need a towel.

Wow. Excellent write-up of the day, thank you (despite the camera shenanigans)!

Can’t wait for the next day’s reporting.

I’m trying to keep motivated for this, or indeed any sort of exercise. Did an hour on the turbo last night, 30 minutes tonight. Will go back on for an hour tomorrow and repeat. The trouble is the job, the biscuits and the sitting around. And the coming winter. I have no drive to do anything and it is reflected in the 2kg I have gained since I last weighed myself.

I need to stop eating biscuits. And exercise until I can’t do it any more,

In that case, I’ll blow your mind… He’s also a very accomplished photographer and photojounalist.

https://www.camerapress.com/photographers/studio/bryan-adams

My step-dad kept putting off having his out after it started causing trouble until one morning, as he was walking to get the paper, it burst on him and he ended up needing emergency surgery and a bunch of drugs.

Yes, he was a doctor and should have known better.

My lawnmower. It stalled the other day and would not restart. Thought it was air filter, cleaned it, not that. Checked oil, checked fuel. Then took the air filter assembly apart and found _another_ air filter that was blocked with grass particles and leaf mulch. Cleaned it, lawnmower works again now!

This reminded me that I needed to check my winter tyres now that (as October 1st is “can have”) autumn is here and snow may be coming at some point soon. I need to switch out two of the four my van has for new studded tyres, so those are going to be fitted today. Apparently there are new rules for non-studded winter tyres now, but as I have studded, it’s not a huge issue.

December 1st is when people here “must” have winter tyres on and, honestly, if you drive here without winter tyres on, you deserve to be arrested.

Can you get them to record the commuting by public transport or bike and convert the miles saved into some sort of league table? Maybe miles x2 for buss, x3 for bike, something like that, then have a weekly winner?

Is “Boris stole my homework” the new “Dog ate…”? Actually no, don’t answer that, it gives the lying sack o’shite more airtime and oxygen and the less of that he has the better.

You’d be amazed at the large number of old Volvos and Saabs that are still on the roads. I nearly bought an XC70 Ocean Race when I was looking for a car (the trim level is really nice and having AWD is a positive in winter) and, because of the age of them (20+ years old) they are usually a bargain. like this one:

https://www.blocket.se/annons/1001898228

As long as people have taken care of it and the winter driving is away from salty roads, you can get some cracking cars. This 244 looks amazing:

https://www.blocket.se/annons/1401317037

Depending on your location, ferry from Harwich to Hook of Holland and then a two day trip through the Netherlands, Germany & Denmark will get you to either Helsingborg (ferry) or Malmö (bridge). After that, pick a direction that involves “North”.

North and West gets you Gothenberg and up towards Norway. North and East gets you Skåne, Västmanland and then Stockholm and the east coast towards Finland.

This happens a lot. When I visit the office in ‘town, I’m up way earlier than normal, have breakfast way earlier than normal and then eat lunch at about 11. This is actually quite normal in Sweden, so the restaurant opens up then and is normally packed out.

At home means a normal time for lunch is “whenever I can find time between 11 an 13”. Some people assume I have no life and so will see that free time in my diary as, well, free time and just book meetings.

Also: VED not tax.

I thought January was dry? Is it two months of the year now? Dammit.

I’ll need to find some scales, but potentially in

Three, but one only ge used for skydiving (the 5:10 flatties).

I have a pair of Scott disco slippers for the road bike and a very aging pair of Specialized BG shoes for normal SPDs. Two winters commuting through town in Stockholm were not kind to them. I want a new pair, but they don’t make them any more.

One of the reasons for my recent breakup (and subsequent breakdown) was trying to square the circle between doing things just for myself and being selfish.

Despite now being single, I still have problems with this, mainly because defining “doing things for myself” is so difficult. Is reading Private Eye doing something for myself when there are other jobs to do? Why am I talking to people on the internet when I could be moving firewood from the outside store to the inside, or painting the parts of the house that need it still? Why am I not trying to find time in my day to look after the garden?

The biggest, most selfish thing I do is skydive. It is intensely personal, but even then most of my jumping is coaching new starters, jumping with other people to improve them or filming teams. I think the only truly selfish jumps I have done this season have been my wingsuiting ones. That benefits no one but me, so yes, for me, but also selfish.

Massive Attack – Mezzanine – This has been a go to since I discovered the album in 1999 or something
Elder – The Gold & Silver Sessions – A new (well, two years ago) find and one that I can never regret. It’s awesome

Superfast Matt is funny in a dry way. However, I am very much in his camp for “good enough” when it comes to most projects. He’s also good for finding out how you should probably not doing things.

If you like cars as art, Larry Chen’s channel is pretty good. He gets to see a lot of very nice cars around the world.

Meh, I’m happy with the dispatch/jumpy. In another few years I’ll think about a newer one, but that means losing the headroom of the version I have.

I’d take an EV if I knew I could re-do the electrics as a camper like I have done with the Jumpy

Many unconfirmed reports about what caued this, so speculation is not going to really help explain what happened. Yes, there were reports of a new batch of pagers coming in, but… Yes, there were also reports that the server was compromised then used to send a script that overloaded the pagers, but…

Israel saying nothing, Lebanon just saying they had a lot of people coming in with injuries.

Also, Twitter for news? Really?

Are you a divorce lawyer? I think she needs a divorce lawyer

Any season is stout season, but autumn just means you can spend a bit more time with it warming up in front of a bonfire.

I was in town this week and went through Stigbergets collection of stouts at their bar on Söder and, if I am honest, they were really nice. So nice, I may actually brew a stout this weekend. I did just bottle the cider, so the fermenter is free…

For those that may visit Stockholm: https://stigbergetsfot.se/

Try the burger, it’s good.