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On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:57:51 -0700, Tom Keats wrote:
there's only so much of this Araya and Alex crap one can put up with. I've had great luck with Alex rims, my last set needed truing something like every 5.000 miles, and that was with rough city commuting. I'm sure the 36 well tensioned DT spokes and 32c wide tires had something to do with it... |
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John Thompson wrote:
On 2004-10-04, Chris Zacho "The Wheelman" wrote: "Frobnicator"? is that a word??? Define, please. :-3) Derived from "frob" and "frobnicate" "Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001)" frobnicate /frob'ni-kayt/ vt. Poss. derived from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but `frobnicate' is recognized as the official full form. To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction `to frob a frob'. See tweak and twiddle. Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. `Frob' connotes aimless manipulation; `twiddle' connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; `tweak' connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant `frobnosticate' has been recently reported. Frobozz Electric, makers of the Frobozz Electric Totemizer: We bring bad things to light. *smirk* -km |
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