Recent Comments

1. about 10 hours ago on Herb and Jamaal

   Like the joke about the itemized bill for repairing a gadget:   “Tapping with hammer: $1.     Knowing where to tap, $1000.”

2. about 12 hours ago on Agnes

   “I didn’t know carbon rims were an option.” Neither did I. Well, I think they’ve been mentioned on Rec.Bicycles.Tech, but I didn’t pay attention.

3. 1 day ago on Agnes

   I never started — and they don’t make carbon rims to fit my Fuji Gran Tourer.

4. 2 days ago on Dogs of C-Kennel

   Except for hopping, kangaroos are exactly like deer: leave deer pellets, eat your garden, run in front of your car and get killed . . .

   But I hear that they are tastier than venison.

5. 2 days ago on Agnes

   “i would’ve spent the extra yen for a bike that self-sews…”   No need now.   It’s possible to buy clinchers almost as light as olde-time tubulars.

   Wikipedia claims that tubulars are making a comeback on carbon-fiber rims.

6. 2 days ago on Frazz

   When something stops working, one stops using it.   That change has never changed.

   I think I know of a place on the non-Web internet where I can get data on section houses (which had half-mile lanes).

7. 3 days ago on Pickles

   Listen to them grumble, they mutter and they roar, because the Wabash Cannonball don’t stop here any more.

   I rode it from Tecumseh to Lafayette shortly before it died.

8. 3 days ago on B.C.

   That’s “Cute Chick”.

9. 3 days ago on Frazz

   When I first got on the Web (calling it the Internet is like calling a steamboat the Mississippi), I could plug a few keywords into a search engine, find a word in the first hit that was unlikely to occur on the page I wanted, add it to the search list with “-” in front, and quickly drill down to the desired information.

   That doesn’t work any more.

   And if you want information on an obscure topic that has the same name as a popular topic, forget it.

   Data is not information.

10. 4 days ago on Back to B.C.

    XIX was a mistake.   We should have insisted that “persons” in XIV included female persons.