So if I understand the formula. If you put a level on a road in the direction of travel and get the ° (we’ll call X), then take that with:
Grade = 100*TAN(X) and you get the number that typically is referred to as the “grade of a road.” (So A 45° angle would be a 100% grade) (100m rise for every 100m.)
Anyway… part of today’s ride was a 32.5% grade.
You bet your ass I had the ebike on POWER mode.
Look at me! Desert rat, riding in the jungle! #Hsinchu #Baoshan #Taiwan #BikeTooter
(Make sure you turn on the sound for full effect.)
Hit the #Hsinchu night market. Passed a stall that I almost couldn’t believe my eyes. Asked wife what the sign said. “Salt-water beef” she translated. Sounds terrible — looks like corned beef (which is brined beef brisket.)
It was indeed a place selling corned beef sandwiches.
Benjamin Perley Poore was an early American political journalist. Born in 1820, he was an active Washington correspondent from 1854 to 1887. Among other things he founded the Gridiron Club, a society of elite political reporters that still exists today.
Published the year before he died, the "Reminiscences" is basically him taking the chance to write down every wild story he'd ever heard.
It's a work in two volumes, and the best stories are all in the first one, covering stuff that happened when he was young. I don't know if that is a consequence of him not wanting to burn bridges with people he actually knew, or if Washington was just more fun in the antebellum days. But the stories in the first volume are great.
Let me tell you a few of them.
C’Mon, #Apple, stop dilly-dallying around! Announce and ship the damned new HomePod Minis! I need to equip a whole new home and I’m not about to buy the old ones now.
Another aspect of #QuirkyTaiwan — You follow many kilometers of decent to excellent bike paths only to inevitably run into some stairs.
At least these had a bike ramp down the middle.
Going back up, #WalkAssist mode is a wonderful thing. #Taiwan #BikeTooter #eBike
Ran down to #TofuRocks before continuing on my ride. #BikeTooter
#QuirkyTaiwan I love the commitment. The bike path markers, in the middle of nowhere, are inlaid tiles in the pavement.
Local personality? Artistic expression? Tile industry protectionism? Who knows?
In honour of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
The Enemy Within episode of Star Trek. Specifically, the scene where Good Kirk ill-advisedly releases Evil Kirk from his restraints in sickbay. I was so scared I ran out of the house into the street. Eventually I crept back indoors and watched the rest of the episode from behind the lounge door.
13 April 1970. I was seven.
@macosken “…a WIDENING (emphasis mine) range of third-party accessories…”
Ouch, and, *slow clap*
Also, it might just be scooter hour. #Hsinchu
Night mode completely makes them disappear, but the canal is absolutely swarming with bats. #Hsinchu
Text-ican standoff!
Of course, that does tell you something about me. I can’t stand not “collecting” (at least by watching) every episode of a TV show.
Classic Doctor Who remains an area of distress in my life.
I remember as a child watching a TV show called The New Zoo Revue, and it always bothered me that I never saw the original Zoo Revue, just this “new” version of it.
Randomly thought of the program this morning and suddenly realized, there probably was no old “Zoo Revue” and it was just named that for rhyme.
Every time I read a touchscreen MacBook rumor I hear, "...it turns out it doesn't work."
TIL they make “Asian fit” bicycle helmets.
Coasting down one of the hills I hit 55kph. It was smooth and stable, but I started to get the yips and eased on the brakes. #BikeTooter