Posts by Sam F
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Definitely a low baseline comparison, but Garth George is somewhat closer to making sense than normal.
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Cycle-related thread bump, because it's sure to get somebody's ire up, and I can't believe it wasn't at least an easy gag on the Daily Show last night: Fox News writer rams cyclist in Central Park, carrying him on the bonnet for about 60 metres.
Dooda was riding his bicycle in the left lane, maintaining a steady pace of 25 mph, when a grey SUV with New York Press plates cut him off within inches of his front tire. At a stop light, Dooda caught up to the driver, and, positioning himself and his bicycle in front of the SUV, explained (according to his account of the incident) that "what (the driver) just did almost cost (Dooda's) life, the speed limit is 25mph in the park and if he doesn't like it to stay out of Central Park."
The driver responded by accelerating, knocking Dooda and his bicycle to the ground. To prevent him from leaving the scene of a collision, the cyclist once again got in front of the car and alerted passersby to call the police. The driver continued forward, propelling Dooda onto the hood of the vehicle, for approximately 200 feet while he screamed, "You could have killed me. Stop, Please stop. This is my life," according to one witness.
The vehicle stopped, wherein Dooda fell off the hood, and the SUV drove away. Witnesses approached him with the plate number, and Dooda filed a police report. Gawker tracked down the motorist as Don Broderick first denied knowledge of the incident, then later claimed a "vigilante" bicyclist punched him, though it contradicted witness reports.
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(please take with all due unseriousness!)
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Help.
I can't screw my iPhone to my tripod.
?Trick question! Normal people don't do that sort of crap.
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It's being grey and soggy in Wellington, but warm.
Isn't that nice? So good to have little comforts in trying times, like warmth on a wet day, or the hope of an incoming permanent IP ban.
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive; A Manual of Step-By-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot.
Step 1: Buy a Toyota.
Step 2: Convert Volkswagen into quirky bar/gazebo/chicken coop.If you call that living ... :)
Probably says a lot that I loved the book and idolised the cars, then proceeded to buy a Corolla once I actually got my license.
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WTFs a torque wrench and when should it be used?
It's a wrench with a dial/gauge on it that lets you know how much force you're applying when you're tightening a bolt. Useful for work on engines, I'm told, where you don't want to over- or under-tighten.
John Muir of How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive fame thought these were a waste of time, and told you just to watch until the tendon in your wrist stood out from the twisting. Mind you, he also thought that a spare tyre on the front was "all the protection you need" from crashes in a VW Kombi, so I'm not so sure...
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Re-wiring a ceramic fuse a couple of month ago did give me a tiny, passing (non-electrical) spark of DIY pride. But that's as far as it goes.
I note that no food-gathering, gardening, cultivation or other agricultural-type skills are included to get the manly through a potential apocalypse...
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As much as I'd like to pretend I detested those ads all along, at the time I noticed them but was pretty much totally indifferent. When you expect at least 45 minutes of insult to your intelligence every commercial hour, two seconds of it barely registers.
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Can I utter the words "terrorists win" without starting the whole spiral all over again?