Let’s talk tires for a moment.
The used 2008 DRZ-400-S I bought several months ago came fitted with brand new front and back Pirelli MT21 Rallycross tires. They’re a terrific tire for off-road riding. They’re also a very soft tire. Rule of thumb, soft means better performance, but shorter longevity. While they’ve been a perfect off-road training tire (likely overkill for my skill level), they’re going to fall short for my ride along the Great Continental Divide. (more…)
Yesterday I became a little more Californian. I’ve had a motorcycle license for over 20 years. I come from where lane splitting is illegal. There is no law for or against it in California, which apparently makes it legal. There are a lot of cars here, and a lot of intersections. I’ve been riding out here for several months, all the while not lane splitting. The air quality at intersections is similar to being enclosed in a box filled with fresh hot vehicle exhaust. Splitting the lanes to the front of each intersection was a breath of fresh air.
I crashed yesterday, but have nothing to show for it. Though it was a hard fall at slow speed on a very steep (almost vertical) hillside in rocky terrain, nothing was broken. Barely a few scratches. This is exactly the crash and results I’d been hoping for. (more…)
Daniel Rapp has written a blog post about using the doppler effect to sense motion. In his experiments he’s used hand gestures in free space to generate the scroll, tap, and double-tap gestures on his laptop. He’s produced a library which allows a computer to transmit a tone from its speaker while at the same time receiving through its microphone. As the hand moves in specific directions near the microphone it creates subtle nuances in the sound being received. These nuances are then translated into specific commands. (more…)
“You take a bunch of really skilled, passionate, talented people who don’t have their heads shoved so far up their own asses that they can take the time to learn new things.”
Occasionally I’m fortunate enough to run face first into the Internet. One simply cannot achieve the impossible when one’s head is up their own ass.
Quote is from this, DevOps is bs, blog post.
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