+1 on the jobs thing. My only jobs working through school were restaurant stuff so my resume looks stupid and I've had nothing but offers for more kitchen work and dead silence from applications related to my scholastic field.

Yep. My degree in linguistics is really paying off. Got an interview at a restaurant tomorrow. Beats picking cotton and waiting to be forgotten.


Also, the ads of BF are really getting annoying. They start playing every time I mouse over them.

Ads? Lol.

NoScript + Ghostery

What ads?

I didn't even know bf had ads.

I only see them on my phone.

Today I'm riding home brakeless SS. Right shoe already getting shredded quick after trip from work to coffee shop.

On the bright side trained new girl for 4 hours and didn't fart at all.

Today I got chewed out because a dude I work with ****ed up somebody's left-hand shifter yesterday (my one day off). After work I made tacos. This was nice. Then I tried seating two new gatorskins on my roadie. This was the opposite of nice. Never had problems with seating customers' used ones before (...right? Hoping it's just the rim combo) but these ones left me raw.

Maybe my hands are just le derp tonight.

Now I beer and later I dream of working in a shop where everyone knows what they're doing, or at least leaves **** they dont understand alone until they do.

I was selling helmets to some Italian family after my lunch break the other day (which consisted of three beef, bean and cheese tacos...) and let one rip completely out of nowhere, mid-sentence. Probably the most awkward moment of my life.

They bought four Giro helmets though.

The trick to thumbs of steel is to pinch and massage the tire bead into the divet of the rim. Work it all the way around, both sides simultaneously, and you will have a bit of slack in the remaining bead that needs to be pushed over into the rim. Getting that last bit on takes some pinching of the tire and rolling the bead up and over.

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Today I rode a Pugsley! We didn't end up going anywhere crazy but I rode it around the neighborhood. Let me tell you: potholes? I didn't give a ****. Speed bumps? I didn't give a ****. Crazy torn up alley? I didn't give a ****.

I'm not sure if it was the bike or the ****-eating grin on my face the whole time, but I felt like a superstar riding around my neighborhood. Little girls in headscarves (I live in a primarily Indian, Pakistani, and Middle Eastern neighborhood) on department store mountain bikes were all wide-eyed and yelling, "I LIKE YOUR BIKE!"

It's actually a bit too big for me - getting on and off is a challenge. But with the seat slammed, once I'm on it I can ride it no problem.

https://p.twimg.com/Ayxe8HqCEAEKqKN.jpg:large

E'erybody loves a girl on a Pugs.

I would find the worst road in the city and ride down it sipping a cup of coffee

Does it feel sluggish with such large tires?

I wouldn't describe it as sluggish, surprisingly. I mean it's not speedy but it's so FUN that you don't care. It's bouncy.

So. Jelly.

Think the post goes high enough that I could test ride?

SUPER JEALOUS.
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I rode a few of those bikes before, once you get moving you feel like you could run over compact cars and small children.

I want a pugs now D:

^^ there's a local shop where of the 12 employees, 10 have pugs. I want one so bad, but I can't get the cash in one place at the same time.

Took an old wheel I had from a Lemond I'd long since flipped to the coop for a replacement spoke. Found a box of NOS wheelsmith straight gauge spokes and nipples in the same size so I proceeded to dismantle the wheel and re-lace it with new spokes. Had to finish at home on my new [to me] Park stand, but it's done- dead straight and round. I'm getting a lot better at building wheels, this took about 3 hours even with taking the old wheel apart and rethreading the old nipples on the old spokes.

The guy I bought the bike from was a gorilla, the spokes were all WAY overtightened and he'd had issues with the limit screws on the RD tossing the chain over and chewing up the drive side spokes, so it's nice to know that I won't be worrying about broken spokes on my commuter for a while. The old ones were black and the new spokes are stainless, but hey, the price was right.

ive wanted one ever since i saw sixtyfiver's, seeing another one isnt helping me any lol

QFMFT :thumb:

I wish I had a pugsley.

Installed a SSD in my laptop. I don't really see what all the fuss is about, then again I haven't done anything but install windows and wait while it updates. Chrome opens quickly, I guess.

Have you rebooted or shutdown the computer? My SSD-equipped work laptop does it near INSTANTLY.

Best part is 12 second reboots. And Photoshop/Illustrator opening in single digit seconds.

+1

It really helps with bulky apps such as adobe's creative suite & photoshop & the like as well. Games are great too.
It's even better in a mac. My sqrl's has one inside and it boots up and shuts down as if it was on and off switch for a light.

Shutdown is certainly fast, startup doesn't seem appreciably faster. Updates JUST finished though, and I haven't applied any tweaks. We'll see.