We ate at the Fullers Bar adjacent to the Crossways Caerphilly which was without exception the worst meal I’ve ever had out in my entire lifetime. Complaining was futile, efforts at meal modification were beyond the skills of the surly staff, one of whom actually rolled her eyes. The roas...
I attended packet pickup but skipped the pasta dinner and settled in at the hotel with my usual race-eve light dinner and 2 beers. I had plenty of energy chews and bottled water on hand so I got all my gear together and readied myself for the next morning’s competition. The usual n...
At our first 50 mile race, Rocky Raccoon, near the end after it got dark we ran into 3 people who were barely moving because it was pitch black and none of them had expected to be out in the dark. They joined up with us for the final stretches to make it to the finish line. I...
At our first 50 mile race, Rocky Raccoon, near the end after it got dark we ran into 3 people who were barely moving because it was pitch black and none of them had expected to be out in the dark. They joined up with us for the final stretches to make it to the finish line. I...
otherwise distracted. But I knew the moment I started up those basement steps that whatever hid down there would come after me and pull me backwards unless I ran up those steps at the speed of light. Luckily, I always made a successful escape, emerging from the basement in one piece, but...
A Twitter paywall would at least be a way for Musk to back out of an extremely expensive personal hell before it costs him his title of richest man in the world.The economics killed Twitter,Musk could shrug,not me. We'd know the truth of it: rich guy breaks shiny toy. But perhaps,...
In the foot, we implemented a rubber hemisphere at the end of each toe for point grounding. In addition, the developed leg was implemented with a pelvis mechanism (see Figure 7a). We used 150-W DC motors, timing belts and harmonic drives to actuate the pelvis roll joint and hip joints....