On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 1:12:35 PM UTC, AMuzi wrote:
On 3/23/2017 7:20 AM, John B. wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 01:52:19 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:31:03 +0700, John B.
wrote:

The 4D Maglite was all that I had available at the time. I would
probably have used a 6D Maglite, but all of mine need some work.
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/maglites.jpg
I'll probably end up donating these to a local thrift shop. There
were several large Maglites at their store available for sale for $6
and $8 that sat around without buyers for about 2 months. I got the
clue. Nobody wants them, even with the LED bulb conversion.

Not on a 3 or 4 thousand dollar, super light, carbon bicycle anyway
:-)

I was wondering if anyone made a carbon fiber (CF) bicycle light for
such machines:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=carbon+fiber+bicycle+light
Apparently, nobody does. So, I asked myself why not? My best
guess(tm) is that CF bicycle riders are into saving every milligram of
weight. The added weight of ANY bicycle light or similar accessory,
would be seen as heresy by those practicing the religion of building
and riding ultra-light bicycles.


You are getting into the realm of the Weight Weenies. The weight
everything and then drill holes in it crowd. Funny thing it was nearly
a religion and now they tell you that just because your wheels are
heavier then ever if they are streamlined they say they are better.

Drivel:
2AM and still waiting for my Samsung S6 phone to reload everything
from cloud after a failed update to 6.0.1. I can barely think, but
that won't stop me from writing.

I just bought a new phone, Samsung J2 with 6.0.1. I do not find the
latest Android to be that wonderful. they seem to have stream-lined it
to the point that you can't accomplish what you want to do.

I usually backup my "contacts" list to my gmail account. With 6.0 I
can't figure out how that is done and if you disable the Facebook App
the phone stops working :-( When you try to turn it on it pops up a
warning "Facebook has stopped" and goes no further.

It demonstrates the deterioration of modern America. Kids used to be
able to buy a "Chemistry Set" that contained enough stuff to make
nitro glycerin. Now you can't buy a telephone that you can control :-)


"they seem to have stream-lined it
to the point that you can't accomplish what you want to do."

Our common expression is, "They improved it until it didn't
work."


Nitro glycerin? You had some deluxe version I suppose. We
could only manage nitrogen triiodide.


--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

We didn't have a chemistry kit (remind you someday to tell you the heartbreaking story of how I walked the 300 miles to my first university to take up my scholarship, my boots around my neck to save the soles) but there were always sticks of dynamite lying around, left over from blowing holes in the mountain to hide the still from the revenuers. You take a frying pan and put it over the fire. Place the stick of dynamite in the pan. It's quite safe. Drops of jelly will sweat out of the dynamite. That's nitro. It's not safe. Brush the drops of jelly carefully into a bottle, holding the bottle sideways so the drops don't splash too hard. When you have enough in the bottle, stand well back and throw the bottle against a tree, then run like hell, because the top of that tree is coming for you. Or, if you're hungry, or alligators are bothering you, lower the bottle carefully into the water of a river or a lake or even a swamp, and from well back throw in a rock, then collect dead fish and alligators. -- AJ