And then there's that one special snowflake I saw once completely ignoring the vacant bike lane and taking the center of the street.That's pretty much every bike rider in Syracuse. Which, admittedly, isn't many, but around the university during the school year they can seem like locusts. Locusts on fixie bikes.
What is wrong with these bike lanes that they go unused by so many? Double lining it is an option for showoffs, but even experts know that can be dangerous.
They're often poorly located, too small/narrow, too near stronger traffic, traffic ignores the lines, they're located along the edge of the road which is in poor upkeep (something more noticeable to a small transport like a bike than to a larger, faster true vehicle) or otherwise just inconvenient and/or dangerous to use. Hence my overwhelming preference/recommendation of bike trails and/or sidewalks.
Day three of diet. I've been buying Clear American brand flavored water, so that I have something with actual flavor to it to drink all day but am avoiding guzzling a liter of soda a day like I usually do. Haven't thrown the soda out though, I need the caffeine too much in the mornings, but I've limited myself to a maximum of two glasses. After that, it's water (or tea) for the rest of the day.
Alright, that's enough stalling about. Time to get to work. Later FAWTLfolk.
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I thought some of the operatic/theatrical FAWTLies might enjoy this.
But I've DONE La Traviata. I know what rehearsals for that opera look like! ;)
(Looks like a nifty documentary, though. I'll have to check it out. And I like Natalie Dessay; she always displays such personality.)
I cried a river do to hay fever.
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...a liter of soda ...That's right, Euro-FAWTLies: Americans measure soda in liters. Will you get off our backs about the whole metric thing now?
;)
Ok... Only for large bottles. Smaller portions are in ounces. I guess it's f#!!ed up after all.
In before liter vs litre.
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It's a girl! Falcon, that is. :)
Just under 1kg in weight.
...a liter of soda ...That's right, Euro-FAWTLies: Americans measure soda in liters. Will you get off our backs about the whole metric thing now?
;)
Ok... Only for large bottles. Smaller portions are in ounces. I guess it's f++&ed up after all.
Which ounces?
Stupid tree trimmers can't they trim trees when I am not on campus.
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Az, you okay? I heard there was a building collapse in your city.
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Welp, rain is preventing a walk, so today up until work time will be spent completely and utterly destroying the latter half of CoT.
hi everyone
Hi, aeglos.
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Which ounces?...a liter of soda ...That's right, Euro-FAWTLies: Americans measure soda in liters. Will you get off our backs about the whole metric thing now?
;)
Ok... Only for large bottles. Smaller portions are in ounces. I guess it's f++&ed up after all.
Fluid ounces!
(It so happens that 1 fluid ounce of water, when measured at 62*F, weighs 1 imperial ounce. So it's kind of like 1 mL of water weighs 1 g, only we made it more confusing by using the same name.)
...a liter of soda ...That's right, Euro-FAWTLies: Americans measure soda in liters. Will you get off our backs about the whole metric thing now?
;)
Ok... Only for large bottles. Smaller portions are in ounces. I guess it's f~!$ed up after all.
:-)
it's a start :-)
we write it Liter in Germany, by the way
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Which ounces?...a liter of soda ...That's right, Euro-FAWTLies: Americans measure soda in liters. Will you get off our backs about the whole metric thing now?
;)
Ok... Only for large bottles. Smaller portions are in ounces. I guess it's f++&ed up after all.
Fluid ounces!
(It so happens that 1 fluid ounce of water, when measured at 62*F, weighs 1 imperial ounce. So it's kind of like 1 mL of water weighs 1 g, only we made it more confusing by using the same name.)
The empirical system is not the only guilty party to lack of vocabulary.
Which ounces?...a liter of soda ...That's right, Euro-FAWTLies: Americans measure soda in liters. Will you get off our backs about the whole metric thing now?
;)
Ok... Only for large bottles. Smaller portions are in ounces. I guess it's f++&ed up after all.
Fluid ounces!
(It so happens that 1 fluid ounce of water, when measured at 62*F, weighs 1 imperial ounce. So it's kind of like 1 mL of water weighs 1 g, only we made it more confusing by using the same name.)
O.O
O.o
wait, what ?
O.O
Subway with bacon. That hit the spot. Feels like I can slay 10,000 orcs.
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Which ounces?...a liter of soda ...That's right, Euro-FAWTLies: Americans measure soda in liters. Will you get off our backs about the whole metric thing now?
;)
Ok... Only for large bottles. Smaller portions are in ounces. I guess it's f++&ed up after all.
Fluid ounces!
(It so happens that 1 fluid ounce of water, when measured at 62*F, weighs 1 imperial ounce. So it's kind of like 1 mL of water weighs 1 g, only we made it more confusing by using the same name.)
O.O
O.o
wait, what ?
O.O
Are you taken aback by the imperial system, or is the observation that 1 mL of water weighs 1 g a revelation? (1 L of water weighs 1 kg and so on...)
Are you taken aback by the imperial system, or is the observation that 1 mL of water weighs 1 g a revelation? (1 L of water weighs 1 kg and so on...)Which ounces?...a liter of soda ...That's right, Euro-FAWTLies: Americans measure soda in liters. Will you get off our backs about the whole metric thing now?
;)
Ok... Only for large bottles. Smaller portions are in ounces. I guess it's f++&ed up after all.
Fluid ounces!
(It so happens that 1 fluid ounce of water, when measured at 62*F, weighs 1 imperial ounce. So it's kind of like 1 mL of water weighs 1 g, only we made it more confusing by using the same name.)
O.O
O.o
wait, what ?
O.O
it is the combination of different ounces (I had never heard of not fluid ounces) and Farenheit and the difficulties of all this sYstems
It makes perfect sense. =)
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They're often poorly located, too small/narrow, too near stronger traffic, traffic ignores the lines, they're located along the edge of the road which is in poor upkeep (something more noticeable to a small transport like a bike than to a larger, faster true vehicle) or otherwise just inconvenient and/or dangerous to use.
Pretty much. Around here, there are only bike lanes around the university neighborhood and in a few areas downtown. However, the bike lane also doubles as on-street parking, which means that it's only usable in certain areas. And in a lot of places in the city, there are no sidewalks.
It makes perfect sense. =)
As do burning witches. Which does not mean that it should be done.
I agree on the latter part at least....
Fluid ounce? Like if somebody wanted liquid gold or what?
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It makes perfect sense. =)As do burning witches. Which does not mean that it should be done.
Hey now. Anyone who trys to burn my wife gets an imperial gallon of 'Merican whoopass splashed all over their conversion table
Of course, I got it from a clown.....
"I think there was something in that hippie I ate."
positive waves BP, and luck
+1
Welcome to a new day started with a headache!
Don't mind me if I sound a bit sour. It should pass.
I hope you feel better soon.
Day three of diet. I've been buying Clear American brand flavored water, so that I have something with actual flavor to it to drink all day but am avoiding guzzling a liter of soda a day like I usually do. Haven't thrown the soda out though, I need the caffeine too much in the mornings, but I've limited myself to a maximum of two glasses. After that, it's water (or tea) for the rest of the day.
Cool.
Good luck!
I'm done with the Corpus Christi project, and I'm in College Station now. I'm driving my sister down to somewhere near Houston tomorrow to start her vacation. She really needs a break from looking after Dad so I'm up. After she gets back I need to head back to the Springs to to see if I can help out with some extremely bad medical news in the extended family back there.
Good night all.
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Well, I don't think I can possibly cram any more XP into that chapter without flirting with TPK. Time to raid modules!
Me - "Hey, I got more money than usual this month, why not get some more of those old Pathfinder pdfs I've been catching up with."
Paizo store - "Bug that stops you from purchasing pdfs in product lines you subscribe to."
Me - *Lots of swearing in Swedish*
The bug could at least have had the decency to show up when Gary and crew can be expected to be at work.
Meh. Anyone for breakfast?
In other news, today is Sweden's "National Day"; and other than it being a day off work since about 5 years ago, I still don't give a fig's fuzz about it.
National Day? I never heard of it O:
Dreams of flying, dreams of cats, dreams of i-forgot-what...
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Heh, looks like I'm not the only one who had bizarre dreams.
Help me out if you can, FAWTL. I really need to know where I got this. I'm 90% sure this is pulled from the ending of some animated move, but every time I start getting close to the answer, my memory goes NOPE and yoinks it away.
The dream begins near the story/movie's end, in a massive house or mansion where the main characters have lived. The children have gone missing, as have the villains - a brother/sister (or possibly husband/wife... the animation style in my dream was very Don Bluth so I'm fairly certain the answer was not "both") team who are either kidnappers, conmen, or thieves, I can't remember which. After searching the house for quite some time for them, the parents/adults head to the deepest, most obscure part of the house - either a basement or an attic, I can't remember which - and activate something that opens an entrance to a massive underground river, complete with a large boat for them to use.
After riding down the river for some time and tackling some of the hazards of the underground waterway, the group of adults notes that they've been going in circles for a while after passing something familiar in the water repeatedly. (A wrecked ship, I think?) One of the characters, overcome with despondency, begins crying; this activates some kind of code or magical password - I recall the phrase "True sorrow only can open the gate" or some such - that reveals another waterway path, allowing the family's ship to escape the loop. Unfortunately, this portal was trapped by the villains somehow and pulls their ship in on violent rapids, sending them rushing down a dangerous current.
They manage to negate the rapids safely enough, though, and when the water calms they find the children in a much smaller boat or raft. However, moments after arriving - and before they can get the children onto their ship - a big computer screen/TV display thing pops up in the air above them, revealing ASCII-style digital representations of the two villains. Something's happened to them to make them horribly warped and inhuman, and that's easily recognizable even from the simplistic characters on the screen. After communicating through the screen for a while, the pair finally make their physical appearance, scrambling along the roof of the tunnel. The man is a hulking ogreish brute, while the woman is a three-armed centipede-like monstrosity wearing a hooded cloak that completely conceals her face except for a pair of jutting mandibles that don't move when she talks. (Never in the dream did I get a glimpse of what she looks like underneath, and I got the impression that earlier in the story she was extremely vain.)
I don't recall how they escaped the two, or what happened after that, but the adults finally got the children aboard their ship, made it out of the villains' cavern, and escaped back to the "normal" world and returned to their house/mansion. After that I woke up, and spent about a half hour lying in bed snatching at fragments of remembered text or dialogue trying to recall what the name of the thing that inspired the dream was, with no luck. I got up and googled a little for what vague hints I did remember, with equally little luck.
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On the other hand, the wife and I may have finally found a place to rent down in Houston. It's been tough. By the time we'd hear of something and have a chance to look it over via the wonders of the internet, it'd already be off the market.
But yesterday evening, as the sister in law was leaving to pick up my nephew at school, she noticed a house that had gone up for lease just that day. So my brother met the agent, gave it a once over, and we decided to go for it. They were able to scan in the appropriate forms to get things kickstarted, and we wasted no time getting them filled out and sent back down.
Now it's a bit of wait and see.