adamrice

Burner. Cyclist. Japanese-English translator. Mosquito rancher.

Website: https://8stars.org/
Side project: https://wildcard.bike/
Burn After Meeting: http://burnaftermeeting.org/

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2026-07-20 12:26:25 GMT

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Same in Austin, pretty much. I would always try to see a movie at the Alamo before I would look anywhere else (so would lots of other people—they’d frequently be sold out when other theaters were ghost towns). I have decided to treat them as just another movie theater.

2026-06-19 00:29:01 GMT

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I’m on my way.

2026-05-05 20:33:36 GMT

I have been trying to get a local install of Jekyll to build correctly, and it won’t do so with anything other than the default theme. I’m a total noob at this stuff, but it shouldn’t be that hard. Build doesn't work with remote themes. With locally installed gem themes, I get a complaint on build that the gem is not installed when it clearly is, and the path is in my $PATH.
#jekyll

2026-02-28 03:07:41 GMT

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A lot of people apply 3-second averaging.

2026-02-14 01:13:04 GMT

Man, the difference between 95% FTP and 105% FTP feels like way more than 10%.
Relatedly, I think I go through all of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ stages of grief when I’m riding intervals.
#cycling

2026-02-14 01:11:04 GMT

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This cracked me up.
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2026-01-11 16:43:24 GMT

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They seem to have an ad-blocker-blocker on their website so I can’t be bothered to read the article. But I’ve switched to Clik valves and they’re pretty nice. I can seat tubeless tires with just my floor pump rather than using a blaster.

2026-01-09 14:09:19 GMT

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It’s definitely more efficient, although I can’t quantify the difference. No junk miles riding through town, no coasting, etc.
There’s a more subtle benefit: when I’m riding on the road, whatever zone I’m trying to stay in, there will be a lot of excursions from that zone, so I’m not getting the ideal training effect from that ride (to be clear, I’m fine with that). Also, riding at fixed power on the stationary has made me a lot better at holding steady power on the road in situations where I might tend to waver.
But I think the biggest benefit for me is that the stationary is always right there. It takes me 3 minutes to get ready for an erg ride. Bad weather isn’t an excuse. So I use it more.

2025-12-17 18:21:27 GMT

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Not sure nitrous works that way in cycling.

2025-12-10 03:30:24 GMT

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That VO2 number is crazy.

2025-11-08 18:53:04 GMT

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What do you think of Sched? I’ve thought about using them for a conference.

2025-10-02 00:00:49 GMT

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Oh man. The Asylum Street Spankers. Back in the late 90s, they had a regular Wednesday-night gig, ironically (because they eschewed amplification) at a bar called the Electric Lounge. I saw them every chance I got.

2025-08-16 21:37:31 GMT

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I recently read about another “e-bike” that’s really a low-power motorcycle called the Beachman. It has pedals, technically, but you can fold them out of the way, and it has an “off-road” mode that lets it go faster than any e-bike should. Saw one on the road today. Looks like fun.

2025-07-09 00:14:03 GMT

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That might work better with running than cycling, and you could recalibrate to meters/beat or whatever.
The problem with distance/beat in cycling is that the power required to overcome aerodynamic drag scales with the third power of your speed, so the relationship between effort and speed is very nonlinear, making it difficult to compare numbers. Also, winds, grades, road surface, etc become confounding factors.

2025-07-09 00:05:45 GMT

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Interesting. There is a metric called “cardiac drift” or “aerobic decoupling,: which measures the change in HR between the first half and last half of your workout, but that’s when comparing like with like, which you can really only get in a structured workout.
I think normally when people talk about “efficiency”, they’re talking about aerobic efficiency, expressed as W/BPM.

2025-06-28 22:21:01 GMT

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I don’t ride in road shoes anymore, but when I did, the first thing I’d do with a new pair is cover the bottom in helicopter tape.

2025-06-05 12:57:39 GMT

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Looking at that Q’Auto system, that power cable looks delicate, and looks like it will be at risk of getting caught by the small sprocket or chain. I’m sure Shimano has figured it out.

2025-06-05 12:42:13 GMT

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Yeah, I don’t think this is intended for people who know how to shift. There are a lot of people who don’t. https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/autobike_smartshift_2000_derailleur.html

2025-06-05 12:38:53 GMT

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I think SRAM has a patent for a derailleur that has a tiny dyno built into one of the pulleys.

2025-01-29 18:18:45 GMT

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Not a printer, but I had a sheetfed scanner (not even 20 years old!) where the rollers just…gelatinized not too long ago. Leading to unfixable jams.

2025-01-22 16:56:53 GMT

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Hmm. They appear correctly when I view my post in Chrome on my work Windows machine, but when I copy and paste the text into Sublime Text, the flags turn into 2-letter country codes.

2025-01-22 15:57:38 GMT

Let's play a game with emoji and flags Let's call it flag math. Unicode has emoji for pretty much all the national flags (though if you are in the PRC, you won't see the flag for Taiwan). Because of a limited number of colors and designs, you can often perform simple transformations on flags to change one country's flag into another. So:
🇮🇪+⤵️+⤵️=🇨🇮
🇧🇪+⤵️+🔀=🇩🇪
🇮🇹+🦅=🇲🇽
🇯🇵+🟩= 🇧🇩
#flags #vexillology #FlagMath

2025-01-22 00:38:03 GMT

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I'm giving myself a rest day, but that's basically what my garage was like for yesterday's erg session. I started off with an old sweater on, and once I warmed up, it was too warm with the sweater, but not quite warm enough without it.

2024-12-28 22:09:44 GMT

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I’m intrigued.

2024-12-24 02:42:02 GMT

@npub1prs…eh8y what was that about very early color photographs? https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/113702335742093836

2024-12-17 16:06:07 GMT

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Not saying you're wrong, but color photography considerably predates that, and it seems plausible that the president would be the subject of a newfangled photographic method. The page below shows a couple color photos that were mostly likely shot in the USA before Wilson was president
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumière

2024-12-10 01:57:21 GMT

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I got one just about 2 years ago and it's been a good investment.

2024-12-04 15:24:23 GMT

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It sounds like these races already require a secondary source of power-meter data, which is how the discrepancies were discovered. I'm not sure how much more they can do. In theory you could have three sources (pedals/cranks/smart trainer).

2024-12-04 15:17:20 GMT

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Sounds like in this case it's not cheating, it's hardware defects.

2024-11-30 23:40:35 GMT

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Brevets are organized events in the discipline called randonneuring. It's somewhere between a tour and a race: they don't keep track of who finishes first, but you do need to finish before a certain cutoff time (and also hit certain intermediate checkpoints on a certain schedule). Sort of like a rally in motorsports, if that's helpful. If you've ever heard of Paris-Brest-Paris, that's the granddaddy of all brevets. Distances and cutoff times are standardized; for 1000K, it's 75 hours. Which doesn't leave a lot of time for sleep. Every chapter that organizes brevets will have its own routes; my local chapter has a "cloverleaf" pattern, where you ride a long loop the first day, a (comparatively) short loop the second, and an in-between loop the third. All three loops starts and ends at the same place, a motel that is the de-facto HQ.

2024-11-30 22:54:55 GMT

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I really want to complete a 1000 K brevet in ‘25.

2024-11-11 18:12:12 GMT

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Seems like they should have given her special recognition for putting one over on them.

2024-10-12 12:50:01 GMT

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If I’m riding, say 4x8@105 on the trainer, my heart rate just doesn’t come up to cruising altitude on the first interval.

2024-10-11 12:58:35 GMT

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I’ve never used it, but apparently ceramic coating is pretty good. For the frame, at least.

2024-10-10 20:19:13 GMT

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“Rivera later said to authorities that Liam Shields ‘came out of nowhere’.”
Where have I heard that before?

2024-09-25 18:08:28 GMT

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I love ruminating on this kind of thing. My impression is that every tiny bit of friction involved in being more organized makes it less likely you’ll be more organized.
For example, I used to depend on a piece of software for manually categorizing the e-mail that my filters could not; changes to MacOS caused the author to abandon it, so now I’m using different software that kinda-sorta lets me do some of the same things. What used to be one keystroke is now two or three. And I find I just fall behind on categorizing as mail comes in, and then about once a week need to do it in batch more.

2024-09-19 17:56:01 GMT

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A line must be drawn, and it must be drawn *here*!

2024-09-04 20:25:19 GMT

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None of the batteries with me on a ride can be replaced. Not easily, anyhow.
- Taillight (sometimes 2)
- Phone (does double duty as bike computer)
- Watch
- HRM band
Headlight is charged by the dyno hub, although I bring a backup on ultra rides.

2024-08-08 22:20:29 GMT

I visited the Oriental Institute (now known as the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) today. They have a lot of cuneiform tablets. Here, the small ones record individual transactions, and the big one summarizes them in a logbook (if that’s the right word).
And I’m wondering “how did their filing system work?”
#Chicago #Sumerian
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2024-08-02 15:16:21 GMT

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The story is probably apocryphal, but I heard that when the DC Metro was being built, they hired Arthur Anderson to figure out the fare they should charge. Arthur Anderson came back and said “pay everyone 25¢ every time they board.” Obviously DC did not go with that plan.
I visited Portugal a couple years back and noticed that in Porto and Lisbon, they had tap-in pillars for fare cards scattered around the platforms, but there was no mechanism to enforce payment.

2022-12-22 15:25:55 GMT

Here's my #introduction for this instance.
Interested in #bikes #cycling , especially #RoadCycling & #UltraCycling , also #BurngingMan but more than that #RegionalBurns especially #BurningFlipside . I read a lot of #sf and spend too much time on #metafilter . I'm a #japanese #translator for my day job. Longtime resident of #AustinTX .