In my twenties I did triahlons, so I’ve got some miles under me. And I understand the biomechanics. FWIW, I still have that seat - it no longer works for me. Things change.

And that’s my real problem. At $60-200 for a new saddle, and the need to really spend 100 or so miles on each one to determine if it’s right, I’m looking at $1000 and several months to get the “right” saddle. I have a $300 bike and , on the best weeks I might ride 10-20 miles.

And that’s where the whole pillow / sit bone analogy breaks down.

Thanks for the rundown. I’m off iOS, but the rest of the family uses it and at least 3 are upgrading hardware in the next couple of months so this will be useful to pass on to them.

I pity those with “perfect” pitch. Aside from the likelihood that they’re “perfect” to equal temperment, it can make things a bear for a key center than shifts or in transposition.

My problem is that I’m good at it naturally. Well, not entirely - I played piano for 5-6 years, horn for almost a dozen, and I sang on and off for 20 before getting into it for real and creating a contemporary a cappella ensemble - so I’ve had a lot of practice, but I never really had to work on pitch or interval…

Based on the example, and physics, you want the largest seat you can get, you want it contoured to your ass, and you want it soft but with a high enough compression modulus to spread the load out over more of your flesh.

I wish they had one for tuning - helping people determine when an interval is in tune, and or determining which note is out of tune in a chord. I’ve never been able to teach how to tune except to give examples, and that’s not very effective.

Thanks for the link. I’ve read enough fluff over the years - the bookstore shelves are filled with it - that I’m always more than a bit skeptical.

What I have to ask is was she “naturally” charismatic before writing the book, or was she a bottom-of-the-heap wall flower who consciously choose to change her mannerisms and powers of observation at a later stage in her life to affect her charisma.

That not all that people recorded on VHS. If you want that homemade to look authentic...here’s you’re app!

And, scene.

http://www.eddiebauer.com/product/travex…

That’s brilliant.

Pet peeve: things stuck to a refrigerator.

That’s a good idea. I’d go as far as to recommend getting a small tool kit in a blow molded case, like this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IBL1W2/ Someone (in-laws?) got one for my wife a while back after she complained about not having stuff to hang a picture. That tool kit has been indispensable for little fixes…

Not just any toaster oven (though technically any one will do) - you want a Panasonic Flash Xpress toaster oven (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008C9UFDI/). It will halve the time for toasted things. As a bonus, it’s fairly compact but will still hold four slices of bread.

Have you ever owned and used a really good one, like a higher end Zojirushi? My wife looked at me like I had two heads when I bought one on sale about 6-8 years ago. Today she wouldn’t go without it.

I’ve been baffled by the apps which are consuming 60-70% of processor usage for minutes on end. Dropbox is probably the worst offender, making my old laptop grind to a halt for extended periods of time until I set the task to idle or simply kill the process altogether and then restart it up when I’m done working.

That probably means I’d need to keep the yubikey around, though. I might try it in my wallet, as that’s the only thing I’m almost certain to have (or I’d need a couple - one for each keyring, since I don’t always carry the same one). Thanks for the tip!