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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Super cool thank you for making this! I just got a bike for the first time in over 20 years and I’m ready to explore my area. I have been trying out those other apps like all trails and trail forks, everything being so paywalled is frustrating.

    The bike I just got, it’s a beaut. A Clem Smith Jr. L from Rivendell Bike Works. I’m loving just scoping out parts and things but it’s a super great bike already.

    I look forward to trying this out and thanks again!





  • As another fan of top gear and the grand tour I’m sad to see them go. In any show where we grow to love the hosts as much as the material/subjects it’s hard to replace them, and it will just never be quite the same. I do however believe there is a great solution to ease the pain.

    Fasten your seatbelts folks and get ready to help the trio select the new hosts. A competition type show where the potential new grand tour hosts have to complete challenges . Things like driving miss daisy, contestants are given a buy and build budget for a 4 door vehicle that must make it through an off-road course. Here’s the kicker, “miss daisy” will be one of the trio in the back seat with a tray of tea and cookies. The object is to reach the end of the course while spilling the least of the tea on our backseat host. Easy shenanigans setup, good fun, just one example.

    Now let’s make this even better, viewers get to vote on the contestants they would like to see on the next hosts. These aren’t pass/ fail elimination challenges, they all stay beginning to end. We get to have a chance to see who these people are and in the end decide in a top 3 vote who will be the next top gear hosts.

    Ideally in this new version of grand tour the original trio becomes the dictators of subjects and missions for the new. It gets them out of the action while still keeping them in play. A passing of the baton.


  • I don’t think they would be considered unknown except the fact that jazz seems not to be a mainstream music genre, but my uncle has introduced me to quite a few artists.

    Stanley Clarke

    Pat Metheny

    Jaco Pastorius

    I think you would probably know those. Plenty of good stuff from them. The others that stood out to me were:

    Gabor Szabo

    Al Di Meola

    I tend to enjoy instrumental stuff in all genres and had not listened to much jazz before so it’s great to have a plethora of “new” music to explore.






  • I just went to a Round1 near the Sacramento area. Half of the available arcade space was taken up by claw machines. I guess this is what they mean by the imported games. Other selections of games included a racing game a little more Gran Turismo like in that you could progressively upgrade a vehicle. It seemed this had the ability to save profiles but as it was all in the native Japanese text I’m only guessing. I fumbled through the menu until it let me run a course. DDR, lightspeed challenge, and some other rhythm/beats type games were there but I wouldn’t call them anything out of a normal arcade. I went there hoping to find a vr headset type game, which they had, but every one was out of order. Then a handful of the old sit in a booth fixed gun turret shooters, and your basket shoot and see all type games.

    They use a charge tokens to a card system which is fine really but every game costs 6+ credits ($1.50). Blew through 20 bucks in about as many minutes. That was my experience, take from that what you will.