I'm a slob, and have had enough of it.

[half_pint]

No thats a lie you said 100 meter, or at least 100 was thedistance in
question.

Own up.

"David Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> half_pint wrote:
> > You said 100 meters.
>
> No *I* didn't. If you were reading a properly interleaved thread, or
> could read a thread in your newsreader properly, you will have seen that
> the original distance to be measured was estimated at 17km. Various
> calibration methods were suggested for the bike computer, including
> using the 100m posts on a major road. The measurement is not 100m, but
> many km.
>
> Oh, and when selective availability was turned off, my P-i-L went from
> being able to determine which end of the boat they were on, to which
> side they were on.
>
> ..d
>
> >
> > I beleive GPS is only accurate to within meters, yes it would
differenceiate
> > the ends of a narrow boat but it is not precise.
> >
> > "David Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> >
> >>half_pint wrote:
> >>
> >>>Well I can remember that from yesterday.
> >>>I don't think GPS is actually that accurate, infact rather to
> >>>inaccurate for measureing 100m, I believe the margin of
> >>>error is several meters.
> >>
> >>If you hadn't snipped what I was replying to, then you would have seen
> >>that the distance is of the order of ten to twenty kilometers. As my
> >>in-laws found the GPS sensitive enough to tell them which end of their
> >>narrow boat they were on (always useful to know which end should be
> >>going forwards), I think it should give a reasonable approximation on
> >>1000 times that distance.
> >>
> >>..d
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>"David Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >>>news:BDE85446.5EBA%[email protected]...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>It is quite an assumption to presume that the 100m markers are
actually
> >
> > at
> >
> >>>>100m. Better to use a GPS to monitor the exact distance.
> >>>>
> >>>>(And if you want to see what I was replying to you only have to
remember
> >>>
> >>>the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>thread, or click on the previous button)
> >>>>
> >>>>..d
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >

 

[Danny Colyer]

Michael MacClancy wrote:
> Having seen pictures of you I would have thought you were too old not to
> have used calories in school.

Tthhhrrrpppp!!!

I'm 31, educated during the 80's, and at school I was taught always to
use joules.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

 

[davek]

Paul Rudin wrote:
> A pint of beer is maybe 200 calories (depending on how strong it
> is). Vigorous cycling is probably going to burn something like 1000
> calories in an hour.

Mmmm, so I could get away with drinking five pints for every hour I
ride? Excellent!

d.

 

[davek]

Alex wrote:
> I have my computer set to 2075mm wheel
> circumference, which was as close as I could measure from 'number of a4
> sheets at 297mm each'.

Find a smooth, quiet stretch of tarmac then try the following:
'Draw' a line on the road in washing-up liquid, then go a little way
down the road (enough to get a bit of a run-up) and then ride in as
straight a line as possible through the washing-up liquid and continue
for a few metres further. Measure the distance from the line of
washing-up liquid to the point where your tyre has left a washing-up
liquid mark on the road. The distance between the two points is your
wheel circumference.

d.

 

[davek]

Carol Hague wrote:
> Then I suspect you'll eventually find that you're mostly talking to
> yourself.

Au contraire - evidence suggests he'll actually start a long and
involved discussion involving many contributors.

Extraordinary.

d.

 

[Dave Kahn]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:44:54 +0000, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>You display a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of Usenet.
>It is not IRC, it is not real-time, and it is not uncommon to go days
>between post and reply. It is also common to search the archives
>years later for specific references.
>
>You also display a fundamental ignorance of the way many (probably
>most) Usenet users approach a thread. Those who use a newsreader will
>normally read unread posts, not follow the entire thread each time,
>and Google users will tend to see the newest replies. That's why we
>have quoted text in the first place, after all.

You display a fundamental misunderstanding of half_pint. You seem to
think he is amenable to reasoned argument.

--
Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

 

[Carol Hague]

davek <[email protected]> wrote:

> Carol Hague wrote:
> > Then I suspect you'll eventually find that you're mostly talking to
> > yourself.
>
> Au contraire - evidence suggests he'll actually start a long and
> involved discussion involving many contributors.

In the short term, yes - hence "eventually". I don't have the patience
or the eloquence though, so I've just consigned him to the killfile.

> Extraordinary.

Typical Usenet though.
--
Carol
"Mmmmooooowooooff!" - the Moobark, "The Treacle People"

 

[Dave Kahn]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:08:16 -0000, "half_pint" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>No thats a lie you said 100 meter, or at least 100 was thedistance in
>question.

****! He said:

:It is quite an assumption to presume that the 100m markers are actually
:at 100m. Better to use a GPS to monitor the exact distance.

The distance in question is the entire ride. What a complete and utter
pillock you are!

--
Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

 

[Dave Kahn]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:39:59 +0000, Michael MacClancy
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 16 Dec 2004 09:25:28 -0800, dkahn400 wrote:

>> You mean the saddles on the exercise bikes? They are absolutely
>> appalling. They are made for people with great fat arses who need a
>> sofa to sit on
>
>Just the right thing for the OP, then.

Not really, because they're still only good for short distances.
Unless they're set really low, which is a bad thing in itself, the
extra padding starts to interfere with the circulation just below the
buttocks.

--
Dave...

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

 

[soup]

Danny Colyer popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on
and said

> I bet you suffered when you got to university and were told you had to
> start using calories, rather than the joules that you were taught to
> use at school but that don't really have any meaning in biological
> systems.

I didn't, used Joules at school and Joules at university
(though it was a college of technology in those days
was Dundee college of technology [bell street NOT the
Kingsway] now it's Abertay university).
42 now was at school till '79 was doing my degree '79~'84.

Mind you I didn't do any biochemistry
(well we did do filtering of boiler feed water
(not a subject to grab you by the short and curlies)
we had to get a guest lecturer from the chemistry
department as none of the engineering lecturers seemed
to have a clue about organisms living in feed water).

--
yours S

Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>, Danny Colyer
('[email protected]') wrote:

> Michael MacClancy wrote:
>> Having seen pictures of you I would have thought you were too old not
>> to have used calories in school.
>
> Tthhhrrrpppp!!!
>
> I'm 31, educated during the 80's, and at school I was taught always to
> use joules.

I'm 49, educated in the sixties and seventies, and at school I was also
taught to use joules.

--
[email protected] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; Usenet: like distance learning without the learning.

 

[half_pint]

My nose is perfectlty straight and I have all my own teeth.
I imaging your face looks like a bag of spanners.


"Jon Senior" <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> half_pint wrote:
> > And me.
>
> ?
>
> > That you value the style of posting more than the content says something
> > about how shallow, selfish and narrow minded some people are.
>
> And when you start posting some content "some people" might start
> commenting on that too. Sadly your rapidly earned misnomer of half-wit
> suits you so well that most will probably play along for a while with
> your latest barrage of gibberish before becoming bored and kill-filing
> you. This is not bullying, this is applying priorities.
>
> Do you display this level of misplaced arrogance in real life? How often
> do you have your nose straightened back out?
>
> Jon

 

[Michael MacClancy]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:17:52 +0000, Danny Colyer wrote:

> Michael MacClancy wrote:
>> Having seen pictures of you I would have thought you were too old not to
>> have used calories in school.
>
> Tthhhrrrpppp!!!
>
> I'm 31, educated during the 80's, and at school I was taught always to
> use joules.

Sorry, I thought you were at least 44.
--
Michael MacClancy

www.macclancy.demon.co.uk
www.macclancy.co.uk

 

[half_pint]

THe distance was to calibrate his mileometer.
You are so thick.

"Dave Kahn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:08:16 -0000, "half_pint" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >No thats a lie you said 100 meter, or at least 100 was thedistance in
> >question.
>
> ****! He said:
>
> :It is quite an assumption to presume that the 100m markers are actually
> :at 100m. Better to use a GPS to monitor the exact distance.
>
> The distance in question is the entire ride. What a complete and utter
> pillock you are!
>
> --
> Dave...
>
> Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain

 

[half_pint]

"davek" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Paul Rudin wrote:
> > A pint of beer is maybe 200 calories (depending on how strong it
> > is). Vigorous cycling is probably going to burn something like 1000
> > calories in an hour.
>
> Mmmm, so I could get away with drinking five pints for every hour I

Yes you would be a slim guy when your liver packed in.
Ever tried the Tour de Fracne?

> ride? Excellent!
>
> d.

 

[Mark McN]

Response to :
> I used to reckon on a life time of 6 months for a windows installation
> (After which it usually needed re-installing). From my experience (And a
> friend's), I would say that XP extends that to a little over a year.
>

I used to reinstall my Win95 system every couple of years, only when it
was well overdue a cleanout; continuing my usual policy of staying well
out of danger of the cutting edge, I've progressed to the mighty Win98
for day-to-day stuff, and Linux for playing with and learning on when I
have time.


Reminds me of my mate Nige, who used to work on a Unix network in a
development environment: he told me the company would *reboot* at least
once a year, whether they needed to or not. ;-)

--
Mark, UK.
We hope to hear him swear, we love to hear him squeak,
We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.

 

[Mike Causer]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:17:36 +0000, Chris Bardell wrote:

> Pogue mahone :-|

There's a van driving around locally (East Cambs) that has this painted in
very large letters on the sides and back. Owned by an outboard-boat
racer. Possibly the only expression in Irish that's well known in the area.

Oh yes, we _do_ know what it means.....


Mike

 

[Chris Bardell]

Mike Causer <[email protected]> wrote in
news[email protected]:

> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:17:36 +0000, Chris Bardell wrote:
>
>> Pogue mahone :-|
>
> There's a van driving around locally (East Cambs) that has this
> painted in very large letters on the sides and back. Owned by an
> outboard-boat racer. Possibly the only expression in Irish that's well
> known in the area.
>
> Oh yes, we _do_ know what it means.....
>

I saw a racing-type power boat on a trailer in Lyme Regis a few years ago,
called 'Les Couilles du Chien', i.e. 'The Dog's B0110cks'.

'Pogue Mahone' was the original name of The Pogues, until someone twigged &
made 'em change it. Look on any of their original albums & you'll still see
it as the name of their own record label.

Aside: most of the Pogues were in fact Brits, just like half_pint.

--
Chris Bardell
[Remove favourite mode of transport from email address]

 

[JLB]

Chris Bardell wrote:
[snip]
> 'Pogue Mahone' was the original name of The Pogues, until someone twigged &
> made 'em change it. Look on any of their original albums & you'll still see
> it as the name of their own record label.
>
> Aside: most of the Pogues were in fact Brits, just like half_pint.
>
"Pogue Mahone" was not Shane McGowan's first offence, either. His
previous band started off as "The Nipple Erectors". After a while for
the sake of a quiet life the name changed to "The Nips".

--
Joe * If I cannot be free I'll be cheap

 

[Patrick Herring]

Mark McN <[email protected]> wrote:
....
| I used to reinstall my Win95 system every couple of years, only when it
| was well overdue a cleanout; continuing my usual policy of staying well
| out of danger of the cutting edge, I've progressed to the mighty Win98
| for day-to-day stuff, and Linux for playing with and learning on when I
| have time.

Me2 excpet Mandrake/RedHat/another one all sniffed at my screen (19"
Hansol) and trackball (generic serial) so I never got to play.

| Reminds me of my mate Nige, who used to work on a Unix network in a
| development environment: he told me the company would *reboot* at least
| once a year, whether they needed to or not. ;-)

I've heard the same about IBM Big Iron, but a production Unix network
tends to have various servers offline for various patches much more
often than once a year.

--
Patrick Herring, http://www.anweald.co.uk/ph.html