Sparc IPX @sparcipx@mastodon.sdf.org
fortysomething, Canadian 🇨🇦, cycling enthusiast, blogger/phlogger, SDFer. Brews lousy coffee. Rediscovering Urbanism, leans heavily to the left-of-centre.
I spent the morning of the last official day of my holiday playing Viewpoint on my Sega Genesis.
I like the game in spite of the horrible slowdown, but can't help thinking how much better the game would have been if it had been released on the Sega 32X add-on instead.
Kudos to the Boston Pizza near us for making our daughter's fifth birthday party fun!
A new mastodon instance for the (english speaking) #OpenStreetMap community! It's under construction, but might be a nice place for #OSM people!
A mirror of the OSM twitter account: @openstreetmap
"don't forget to like and subscribe" spiel but it's the four essential freedoms Show more
Hey folks, please refresh my memory. Is there a FOSS workalike to Evernote?
Cripes, is amiga.org STILL down?! It's been a month already!
Ok, cycling gods, I can take a hint. I'll put the folding bike on hold for now. Dragging the road bike out tomorrow.
Calling it a day. Patched Felix’s rear tube, pulled a piece of metal out of the tire and ensured tire was clean of debris, reinstalled everything, and went for a ride.
Two blocks away, the back end wobbled... and the tire was flat again. Walked home. Front wheel flopped and the bike fell over, landing on my Bar-Ista cup holder and bending it to shit.
Don’t have the patience to do any further work.
While dragging Felix out of my bike shed to install his new headlight, I discovered two things:
1: The front brake calipers are too long, and the front brakes don’t even touch the rim.
2: There’s at least one wasp nest inside my shed. Took care of one but they’re still coming and going. Am waiting til dark when they’re all dormant.
Rooting for Belgium!
Oh yeah! Snagged the last copy of the final issue of Boneshaker magazine at Chapters!
As it turned out, the laptop bike pannier I bought is too small for each of my three main laptops (Presario 2100, Gateway 450SX4, and Powerbook Lombard).
However, it's PERFECT for my older Powerbooks (5300, 1400, and Duo 280c). I've been looking for an excuse to use these more often...
Oh sweet, Canada Post just dropped off some bike goodies for me: my laptop pannier and headlight for my folding bike!
No one knows my sadness.
For the coming drone invasion!
Had my first run-in with a drone yesterday (the consumer variety, not military, thank fuck). The Missus and I were with our daughter at the nearby tot-lot when we heard what sounded like a large insect.
It stopped, hovered and "watched" us for a second, then took off and did a circuit of the neighbourhood.
If it had lingered at the park, spying on the kids playing at the park, I'd have run home to grab my crossbow and shot it down.
I'm not ready to use social media as a discussion platform, not when there are memes to share!
Look what finally arrived, several months late... a set of cheap folding pedals for my folding bike! They don't spin freely and sort of grind as I turn the pedal. I'll give them a chance and see if there's a way to grease them.
Well, if I accomplish nothing else on my week of holidays, I can at least say I finally beat Undeadline on the MSX2.
As my wife watches Friends:
Mrs. IPX: You look like you want to die...
Me: Nooooo, I want THEM to die.
