highway-dan.bsky.social
Civil Engineer with just lots of general interest. IndyCars, Sciency-stuff, other sports, and I just like listening to what people say.
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Yeah, I thought that one was great too.
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I just skipped disc golf league tonight, it's just too hot.
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Thinking that they recorded it ahead of time :)
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We are not. He has definitely leveled up and is crushing the Am side of LMP2. I think he's the first Am / Gentleman Driver to really start to get to the level of Ben Keating.
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One thing that I'm a bit more worried about is coral bleaching, but that might be tied to just overall warming.
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Matrix Meow
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By far my favorite Discworld book. Thanks for the reminder.
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This is the first picture I've seen from the area of the grandstands. I have no idea, if they knew they were going to do this, why didn't they have a drone over at the grandstands to get a beautiful wide video and stills of the cars all along the backstretch with this great fireworks plume?
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It might work if you couldn't see that soft top that makes it look like a creamsicle float or something.
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They press knew that Obama wouldn't target them for reporting about the Tea Party protests. But with Trump they're too chicken that he might kick them out of press briefings and they'd lose their place of privilege.
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yes it is.
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I finally realized I could put MotorTrend TV on, and then switch to MAX during commercials...
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I'll go with Titanic, even though I have a bunch of these (don't watch a whole lot of movies).
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ISWYDT...
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A lot of people just don't wait for their light to turn green to go. They anticipate that they can go by the cross street turning red. And then get in trouble / an accident because oops it wasn't green and a conflict happened. People should just chill on the roads.
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Koi no Esper by Silent Siren stops on the word stop at 3:33.
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Have they made missteps in social media? Sure, but at least someone's watching to see that they made them, as opposed to almost everyone else in racing having no actual mindshare.
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I feel like a lot of that dislike of AO is from assumed parasocial relationships, too. "You made this cool thing, and we like it, and therefore we like you, and therefore you have to do only things we like, and when you don't we'll whine."
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We were big fans of the Baltimore Stallions in their Grey Cup winning year. It was really a shame that bringing a (at the time) really bad NFL team to Baltimore killed the CFL US experiment.
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I can see the biz idea of "IndyCar series should stand on its own", and I can see that there are some steps toward doing that. But I also think it's extraordinarily unfair of him to take the biggest money maker for the series, say "No, now this money doesn't count", and complain about being in red.
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There was complaining for Long Beach that "there was plenty of action, they just didn't show it!" So this time they showed the other action and it's "But Palou just ran away with the win, it's still boring!" People just want to complain.
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I thought they only needed to use new Alternates in the race, not new Primaries.
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My lasting memory of bad play by play was NBC doing like 3 races in the 1993 and Jim Lampley saying "niGEL manSELL" every time, emphasizing the last syllable. Grated on my ears so bad...
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I'd have to say that if there are rumors about a 'shakeup', that means that someone in the know has probably been saying "we might be exploring more options" rather than "We're really happy with the job that these guys are doing."
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Do we think NXT will be scheduled to be at Arlington next year? That would cut that gap.
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You gave up your seat so that they could show others how awesome it is. :) Good job growing the sport!
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I was thinking last 2 years that CGR just couldn't get the performance out of the Cadillac, but seeing how much WTR is struggling with them, I have to revise my thinking about that.
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Red Red Wine
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So why is Lochner getting a re-run if he punched a hole in his own sled?
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Yeah, similar. When I was paying more attention to tracking it, my car's mpg would go from just under 50 mpg in spring and fall to about 36 mpg in mid-winter. Over a whole tank in mixed driving, but pretty much only commuting.
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I really haven't seen the range recover in the years I've been using them, although my driving patterns are different than they used to be, and my vehicle's mpg is *extremely* sensitive to both temperature and trip profile.
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Michelin CrossClimate2's are great, I love mine. But I did note that I lost about 3-5 MPG on my Accord Hybrid when I switched from OEM Michelin Primacy to CrossClimate2s. (noted over long term trends, not just different times of year).
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"Yeah, how you like that, face? See how you do with no nose!"
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I've got a huge amount of respect for Tom Kristensen as a driver, but he's not a good interview and he just doesn't add anything interesting to the broadcast.
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Best wishes to you and may you have the strength to do the things you feel you need to do. You can do it!
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I saw Living Colour play for Time's Up in a terrible arena at the University of Maryland while I was a student there , and it was such a good show. And I loved both Vivid and Time's Up, but it was harder for me to get into Stain. Those first two are just albums you can listen all the way through.
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Interesting thing: In the late 90s/early 2000s when I was looking for a nice Hi-Fi system (receiver and speakers), Kickstart My Heart was considered one of the best rock recordings to test systems with. Good dynamic range, well recorded, good soundstaging.
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Thanks for your threads on these sliding sports, Ken! Definitely got me to watch something I hadn't really been aware of before.
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He did say he liked it on Off Track a while back.
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I know Hysteria was their huge album, but I just didn't like it as much as Pyromania. It just felt so overproduced, and maybe the popularity was part of the problem for me, cause they were EVERYWHERE.
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It's like they went to Home Depot for some paint swatches, and decided that they were going to just go with Ryobi tools colors.
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If it's me, it's probably something like 3:00.
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And as others have noted, some people think that everything has to be solved before any change can even be attempted.
A much better idea to follow is "Incremental improvement is better than delayed perfection."
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Too many people want to just be roadblocks. It makes them feel important to tear down other people's ideas, to solely try to stop other people from thinking about things that could possibly be different from the current. And never take that next step: "ok, this might be a problem, how do we fix it?"
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One of my favorite things about Duran Duran songs is that the lyrics are all just nonsensical, and yet you understand exactly what's going on in the vibe.