Sep 24, 2013 at 06:23 PM
Yacks, Yang and I (the back of the alphabet crew, B.A.C. for short) discovered this weekend that not everyone knows what is a flux capacitor.
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Sep 24, 2013 at 06:51 PM
What?!?Craig Zolan said:Yacks, Yang and I (the back of the alphabet crew, B.A.C. for short) discovered this weekend that not everyone knows what is a flux capacitor.
Sep 24, 2013 at 07:27 PM
I stopped making references to "This Is Spinal Tap" about 18 months ago...I couldn't handle the blank stares from my younger, prettier colleagues.Jules said:What?!?Craig Zolan said:Yacks, Yang and I (the back of the alphabet crew, B.A.C. for short) discovered this weekend that not everyone knows what is a flux capacitor.
Sep 24, 2013 at 07:42 PM
yet so apropos now that Campy, Shimano and SRAM all go to 11.Marc Bertucco said:I stopped making references to "This Is Spinal Tap" about 18 months ago...I couldn't handle the blank stares from my younger, prettier colleagues.Jules said:What?!?Craig Zolan said:Yacks, Yang and I (the back of the alphabet crew, B.A.C. for short) discovered this weekend that not everyone knows what is a flux capacitor.
Sep 24, 2013 at 07:44 PM
Is there a "groan" button on this forum?Craig Zolan said:yet so apropos now that Campy, Shimano and SRAM all go to 11.
Sep 24, 2013 at 08:01 PM
And thus the "Spinal Tap" badge was created. Nice one @Craig.
Sep 24, 2013 at 08:12 PM
Sep 24, 2013 at 08:53 PM
Kissena photo-bombing at Zipp's press event.
Sep 24, 2013 at 08:54 PM
Love it!mugwump said:Kissena photo-bombing at Zipp's press event.
Sep 24, 2013 at 09:00 PM
Jules,
A photographer got extensive footage of me carving up the pump track on the Van Dessel Aloominator. I'm guessing that didn't make the cut.
Sep 24, 2013 at 09:38 PM
I want to know what that blob of FORTRAN @stokes left here does.
I don't really know FORTRAN all that well, but let's take a look:
102 format(39h TILT ANGLE PROGRAM - PETER SHAW 3.5.81)
Well, first we see at date - 3.5.81. Google tells me that Christian Knees (of Team Sky) was born on that day :
 Christian Knees (GER) | 5 March 1981 (age 32) | |
So CLEARLY this code is about bikes. So who's Peter?
Maybe this guy? http://www.usacycling.org/results/?compid=299804
The rest is something about TILT and ANGLE. What's going on here? Is this a bike fitting?
Ok, I think I've figured this out. This is the code that @stokes uses to adjust his saddle. This piece of code carefully adjusts the "ANGLE FROM TILT AXIS TO ASTAR" . At 15.5 degrees, we see that @stokes can hold for 46h without discomfort? Seems steep, but I guess that makes sense. Maybe it's a tri bike.> 111 format(46h ANGLE FROM TILT AXIS TO ASTAR, AND TILT ANGLE,2f 15.5)
I'll leave it to the reader to figure out what the word ASTAR refers to. I HAVE MY GUESS.
Ok, let's look a little further down:
201 format(28h DISCRIMINANT LESS THAN ZERO)
@stokes, there's no need to bring race into all this.
Towards the bottom, I think we start getting into the error correction code:
Yeah, "two negative roots" is bad. I think that's a sign that your seatpost has snapped. See a doctor about the damage to your ASTAR.211 format(37h TWO NEGATIVE ROOTS - SOMETHING WRONG)
stop
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PS, GOTO labels don't have to be in order? I did not know that.
Sep 25, 2013 at 12:22 AM
Did you get the Photog's name?mugwump said:Jules,A photographer got extensive footage of me carving up the pump track on the Van Dessel Aloominator. I'm guessing that didn't make the cut.
Sep 25, 2013 at 01:40 AM
As a technologist by trade, I feel physical revulsion at the idea that our scientists rely upon Fortran code from 1981. (That's right, "Fortran," Alex, they dropped the all-caps decades ago.)
I weep for science.
Sep 25, 2013 at 01:52 AM
Riiight. Like *this* isn't what really happens in the lab... MEEP!
Sep 25, 2013 at 01:12 PM
Anyone watching worlds? Do you have a link?
Sep 25, 2013 at 01:19 PM
Sep 25, 2013 at 01:23 PM
Shout out for FORTRAN:
Voyager 1 has become — thrillingly — the first probe to exit the solar system, a breathtaking achievement that NASA could only fantasize about back when Voyager was launched in 1977, the same year “Star Wars” was released.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/science/in-a-breathtaking-first-nasa-craft-exits-the-solar-system.html?ref=space
Voyager 1 has become — thrillingly — the first probe to exit the solar system, a breathtaking achievement that NASA could only fantasize about back when Voyager was launched in 1977, the same year “Star Wars” was released.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/science/in-a-breathtaking-first-nasa-craft-exits-the-solar-system.html?ref=space
Sep 25, 2013 at 01:34 PM
Sep 25, 2013 at 02:28 PM
It's all in Italian, I was hoping for an english version. I should have been more specific.Jules said:
Sep 25, 2013 at 02:37 PM
I would have loved to watch in Italian. As it was I couldn't get any of them to work.josephmueller said:It's all in Italian, I was hoping for an english version. I should have been more specific.Jules said:
#sadpanda
Sep 27, 2013 at 07:41 PM
http://dirtwire.tv/2013/09/nega-coachs-bizarre-but-effective-tubular-tire-removal-technique/
Watching this video, makes me want to switch to tubulars just so I can remove some tires!
Sep 27, 2013 at 11:07 PM
'Mix of heptane, toluene and ethyl acetate . . . but seriously, what's the big deal'
Yikes, don't post this on the family man's thread!
Yikes, don't post this on the family man's thread!
Sep 30, 2013 at 05:51 PM
Well they're kinda like bicycles. Where were these guys when I got run over?
http://jalopnik.com/watch-nyc-bikers-attack-range-rover-after-driver-runs-o-1427168165/@tcraggs22
http://jalopnik.com/watch-nyc-bikers-attack-range-rover-after-driver-runs-o-1427168165/@tcraggs22
Oct 01, 2013 at 11:10 PM
I think Ryan would look really good in this:
http://www.sugoi.com/usa/king-of-the-road-signature-jersey.html
http://www.sugoi.com/usa/king-of-the-road-signature-jersey.html
Oct 01, 2013 at 11:11 PM
Large white area above pic builds suspense.
Oct 02, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Some kid at Gloucester wore one of those.
Oct 07, 2013 at 07:38 PM
Oct 07, 2013 at 07:52 PM
@Eloy-Amazing shot. Looks like he's in freefall.
Oct 07, 2013 at 08:19 PM
@Eloy, I'm just glad I was in the big ring for what appears to have been one of the roller coaster down bits at Gloucester when you took this shot! I totally missed you on the course - would have loved to say hi. (And loved it even more if you were lining up with us - please tell me you're coming out to another race soon!)
Oct 07, 2013 at 08:47 PM
Great shot Eloy, I sent the photo to Ian , so he could see how fast the bike is supposed to go !