In my Mr. Fixit days (computer repair, etc.), I carried a Victorinox swiss army knife—the lieutenant model, I think. I still have it, but an Opinel carbon steel is my current tool of preference. The blade can be locked open or closed, and carbon steel is much easier to sharpen than stainless.

My pocket wallet (tiny) contains a driver’s license and a personal credit card, a couple of coffee cards, and a few dollars. It’s also a nice place to put receipts, which I need for my business.

Pretty sure that’s what joey-taps meant. That you can’t (generally) retrieve meaningful data from a drive, even though you can certainly pop it into another device and read data from it. In order to get meaningful data from that drive, you’d need (at a minimum) the decryption key.

Since device encryption and BitLocker are not available on Windows Home editions, most Windows users will need a third-party encryption app to protect their PCs and local hard drives .

Consider a continuous glucose monitor (CGM).  It will make your life much easier.  Take it from a 50-year T1.

This will be a challenge for some PCs (especially laptops) and impossible on certain tablets and hybrid devices like the Microsoft Surface.

By ‘make one,’ I meant the sissy bar, not the saddle. If you can find a saddle like that, you can surely find or bend a sissy bar to fit.

That’s a banana seat, alright, just of a more specialized type.  I don’t know of any that are being made, but that doesn’t mean a whole lot.  You’d just need to find a sissy bar of appropriate height (or make one or have one made) to support the rear section of the seat.

You mean a banana seat? You might be able to fit one to a modern bike, but they’re not without their problems. See:

I’ve never owned an aluminum or CF bike—I am the man of steel, largely for economic reasons—but I’ve heard stories. All I can say is that the Flyer was comfortable out of the box and looks pretty good on the bike.

You may not need the split--some people really like them, others hate them--but a hard saddle is likely to help.

Generally good advice here—though I’d argue a little with the balance suggestion. Depending on your riding, you are likely not to have a 33/33/33 balance between hands, feet, and butt. My recent experience is illustrative:

I had the great good fortune to meet the Carters very briefly a couple of years ago. Although President Carter was still strong of speech and conviction, he did not carry himself at his full height. Combine that with camera effects and this photo isn’t all that surprising.

I’m not going to read all the comments below to see whether it’s mentioned or not, but how could this list not start (and end) with The West Wing?

I have to say nice price for personal reasons. I learned to drive in an Opel, a ‘74 if I remember correctly, one of a number that were provided by a dealer to the summer driver’s ed program that my school ran. TBH, I’d rather have my current Honda Fit car in a second, but there’s some nostalgia here...

Pluga is good. I like to start potentially difficult mediations by literally breaking bread, and Pluga is the butter I take along on such occasions.

Oh god!  Cornbread!  You MUST Have butter on cornbread!

Any sandwich with jelly or honey, butter is absolutely mandatory, else you will have something simultaneously soggy, crunchy, and unpleasant come lunch time.

When I was a little tyke, butter sandwiches with the innards sprinkled with brown sugar...

I have no beef with short-throw keys. I use notebooks exclusively these days, and love the keyboards on Lenovo Thinkpads, the Microsoft Surface Pro, and even my cheap HP Envy. I grew up on mechanical keyboards, but it was the Thinkpad that changed my mind. But I tried a Macbook and the feel was just...off. It may be…