Jan 30, 2015
This one was in the rear tire of the born-again Trek – I found it this afternoon when I was going over the machine adjusting it in hopes out going out at 0dark30 tomorrow morning for a quick 100k. I’m not sure just when it got stuck into the tire – Highway 30 (Cuthbert Binns to Sauvie Island) is pretty littered with tire-eating debris, but Marine Drive (Nicolas Flamel, Hills to the Yeah!) is a traditional winter place for me to grind to a stop with debris porcupining one tire or another – but it was sitting there happily holding up under pressure until I plucked it out and let all the air escape while sitting at home with my bottles of tire goo & floor pumps.
I ❤ tubeless tires; I wasn’t going for speed records on my 100k yesterday (I had to combine it with some shopping) but it was chilly enough that I would have been unhappy if I’d had to stop and change a flat.
—orc Fri Jan 30 15:47:58 2015
Jan 29, 2015
I suspect they’re not feral, but it’s still nice that there’s a small flock of red junglefowl along the Springwater Trail.
—orc Thu Jan 29 19:37:24 2015
Jan 28, 2015
Trying to take pictures of a northbound P&W freight.
—orc Wed Jan 28 19:56:00 2015
Jan 25, 2015
There is snow, but it stops at about 2500 feet.
—orc Sun Jan 25 21:13:53 2015
Jan 24, 2015
Discount has been shoved up to version 2.1.8 with a year and a half’s worth of bugfixes and (minor) feature tweaks.
Here’s what I (and other contributors) changed:
- FINALLY address the bug where markdown extra footnotes lose numbering when
they show up in nested element; I was not carrying the m-e reference#
inside the footnotes structure, but was instead carrying it in the
parent structure and not updating it. So I changed the footnotes structure
to include the reference + the list of footnotes, which made the misnumbering
go away on my tests.
- Fix makefile distclean to cleanup all the generated files and corrected the names of the installed sample program man pages to end in .1 (Mark Pizzolato mark@infocomm.com)
- Change the mail demangler to a debian-specific ‘always mangle one way’ hack.
(enabled with the configure.sh option –debian-glitch)
- Add –with-unmangled-email compile-time flag to disable mailto: mangling
- Allow the magic output filename
-, which means send output to
stdout instead of to a file.
- Fix a bug where autolink + github flavored markdown absorbs the ^C eoln
character into a link at the end of a line.
- Tweak install.samples so that the user can supply a SAMPLE_PFX on the
command line
SAMPLE_PFX=discount- make install.samples to install the
sample programs with a package-specific prefix.
- Emit pages in utf-8 instead of us-ascii (simply a change to the Content-Type meta) (Nathan Phillip Brink binki@gentoo.org)
- Patch the horrible list handler to support long numeric list items (George Hartzell hartzell@alerce.com)
- Bugfixes (Masayoshi Sekimura sekimura@gmail.com)
- Fix support for
CFLAGS=-m32 ./configure.sh by using CFLAGS for all build invokations of CC. (Nathan Phillip Brink binki@gentoo.org)
- Github-style language attributes on fenced code blocks (Loren Segal lsegal@amazon.com)
- When defining WORD & DWORD, check first for the MS Windows WinDef.h file;
if found, include it instead of defining WORD & DWORD ourselves.
- support url-encoded anchor links with –with-urlencoded-anchor option (Daisuke Murase typester@cpan.org)
All of these defects were brought to my attention by other people using discount – it’s stable enough for me so I never noticed any of them. (And I don’t use some of the features, so things like markdown extra footnotes blowing up never crossed my radar.)
—orc Sat Jan 24 20:39:57 2015
Finished a front pannier rack (the one that I intended to be low-riding but, ahem, it didn’t work out that way) and now it’s getting rattlecanned for that professional touch.
—orc Sat Jan 24 16:35:58 2015
Jan 23, 2015
Jan 21, 2015
I intended this to be a lowrider rack, but, alas, it didn’t turn out quite as planned.
—orc Wed Jan 21 16:13:19 2015
Jan 18, 2015
I’m making a lowrider front rack. Hopefully it will work!
—orc Sun Jan 18 17:52:45 2015
Jan 16, 2015
Jan 13, 2015
Um, thanks, but I didn’t need another nail.
—orc Tue Jan 13 16:57:13 2015
Jan 10, 2015
Jan 09, 2015
A non-rainy non-foggy day? Just the day for a quickish 100k!
—orc Fri Jan 9 15:48:36 2015
Jan 07, 2015
I’m building a new wheelset for the midlifecrisismobile from the wheels (well, actually just rims) that were on the Trek when I bought it in the 1980s. It will be interesting to see how flexy these rims will be compared to the (heavy and stiff) Swobo rims that are on the mlcm’s existing wheelset.
—orc Wed Jan 7 22:32:52 2015
Jan 06, 2015
A F69phi pulls a northbound Cascades out of Portland Union Station.
—orc Tue Jan 6 19:22:27 2015
Jan 05, 2015
I had some pink leopard-print spandex lying around, so I used it (and some cordura remnants) to make up 4 tool rolls. One (not pictured) with spandex inside and out for me, two as late presents, and one that I sold.
Toolrolls are a lot less pain than rando bags because I don’t have to manipulate bias tape around the perimeter of a box. These three took me just a little over 2 hours to cut and sew together, which is a nice change from the long slog that is a conventional rando bag.
—orc Mon Jan 5 21:17:58 2015
Jan 04, 2015
Carrying close to an xtracycle load
—orc Sun Jan 4 19:10:00 2015
Jan 03, 2015
The born-again Trek sits in Newberg halfway through riding Volcanoes vs. Farmland today. Note that it has no fenders. Note that the ground is wet. It was foggy for the first 6 hours of the loop, and the fog was extra damp, so a lot of that damp got picked up by the wheels and flung into the bicycle and its driver.
Sigh. At least it wasn’t freezing out, so I could stay damp-but-warm most of the time.
—orc Sat Jan 3 20:09:24 2015
Jan 02, 2015
Jan 01, 2015
The born-again Trek at the Shell station in Boring.
—orc Thu Jan 1 18:03:50 2015
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