Blahg - Grant's Blog

  I like the lead photo for this story, but it makes me uncomfortable, and no, it's not the short skirt. My youngest daughter took it in Sweden when we were sitting in a cafe eating stuff, and she was shooting out the window and got this picture. I wanted the negative to make a print, she sent it to...

  That's part of what might be a final new derailer. It's working fine. More later. ====== LA Times link: Ring Theory (what not to say and to whom) === Platypus was an animal before it was a bicycle, and we donate $50 of each Platypus sale (bike or frame) to these guys. It's a good group, they do remarkable...

This is not real, I'd never do that, I wouldn't come within a light year of this cheesy hokey gross stuff. It was an advertisement in NYT online. Pirates and AI, I don't know, but my publisher had no hand in it, and that's jus the way things go. No no no. ======== My wife was organizing some stuff and...

Charles ("Charlie" to his friends) H. Gallup with a U not an O, was a photographer for most of his adult life until he died in 1934. More of his work: https://collections.eastman.org/people/23080/ch-gallup/objects Gallup is related to galop, a French word that for the most part means gallop. This is a French fact. ===== Carbon and cars in the ol' UK....

It's a photo I took of my granddaughter, soon to star in an Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman, or Edgar Bergen film. One percent will wonder, so: Olympus OM-1, 50mm, HP-5. I was sitting down on a beach and she was walking toward me. This whatchoo lookin' at? look is uncharacteristic of her ======== News from the high-tech end of the...

I put this up a few years ago, but I am sure that 90 percent of you weren't around then, and I just remembered it, so here. It's a music thing. Eben Weiss is the writer I wish I was. This is so good. ===== So's this. ======= ====   ===== We sold this for $1.00/tube for decades. Then $2.00/tube...

  ========== To enlarge, click on it while typing COMMAND +. Tech tip from a master. I'm as pro-Sierra Club as the next guy; I HAVE been but am not currently a card-carrying member. But this is ... out of touch with the kind of subject that gets people to open it. It reads like an example of something not...

========= On the surface, it's meh, but I like the woman's expression and her use of "afore." It's not super hilarious, but I liked it at the time. ====== Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne, were staying in Ralph ("Waldo") Emerson's mansion for three years. Contrary to earlier rumors, it was in Concord, not Boston. (There are...

On the same bikenhike, we found this: It's a nice way to memorialize somebody. I'm not saying don't buy a headstone, but this has its own charm, and what if the person is cremated? Perfect. The Painted Rockstone could easily get out of hand, with sizes escalating, then hikers or bicycle riders who resent the visual intrusion throwing them away...

  Not so sure this'll work, but what a link it is: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/business/elon-musk-children-compound.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZU4.PnF3.URgRa0-qeY-1&smid=em-share  ================= Three similarly interesting quotes: Without contraries there is no progression. (Wlliam Blake, 1790-93) Without eccentricity there is no progression. (Joseph Andrews, 1930s?) Nothing was ever done which someone was not the first to do. (John Stuart Mill, 1859) The dates weren't the lifetimes of the authors,...

Trump won, which is depressing beyond words. I just deleted a long thing, Forget it. Here we had a chance. Closet racists and misogynists let Trump do their talking for them. Everything is the internet and talk radio. Over and out on that. ------  You can buy these wholesale, presumably if you have a resale license. The biycle relevance follows:...

UP: Post WWII SunTour derailer, prob 1947 or so. This is a long one, but I missed last month. Skim quick! Sorry, thanks.  Grant ======== Kids bikes are a problem FOR ME, not for you. We made (had made for us) three prototypes. It was the original plan for "Rosco Bubbe."  \   CrMo frame and fork, 20-inch wheels Coaster...

      Chairmaker Dewey, 22 minute video.  It's a really neat video of an old guy making a chair.   On the other end of the spectrum: "...superb comfort with optimized foot security for efficient pedaling performance when it matters most." Is this what it's come to? I ride in Teva sandles, fake crocs, Altra running shoes, that's all....

        The verdict is in, and reminded me of Trump and this song:    It's a true story, too.   Try the song that comes on after. ====== Bill Walton, the red-haired basketball player died on May 27 or 28, and this link has a pretty neat quote of is about bikes. I generally am not a fan...

FROM TIME TO TIME we've had anagram contests, either for fun or, in the case of the Gus Bootls-Wilson, to come up with another name for basically the same bike. That's how we got both Susie W. Longbolts and Wolbis Slugstone. Here are some entries for an upcoming model, the Charlie H. Gallop. Notes to the right. There are about...

 I just read this finished Blahg and I don't love the tone of it. It's too rat-a-tat-tat confident and laying-it-down critically about other stuff. It's kind of an extreme version of how I feel, but...the core sentiment is right. Sorry.   We got this note from the country's biggest helmet lab.  I'm not trying to horn in on their sheen....

. I know what you're thinking, if what you're thinking is what I used to think: Thumbtacks are the originals, pushpins happened maybe during the Nixon administration. And yet:    I don't know how the humble thumtack performed as a drawing aid, but maybe because they're kind of flat, so when making a line of some sort, they didn't entirely block the...

This will be a short Blahg. I wrote that in early Feb, and it's not true anymore.  Excuse the goofs, typos, grammaticals, bad organization. Skip around, bail out, whatever it takes. Thanks! ============ To Start, I read this today, Leap Day. It's FANTASTIC: "Time-and-Date-Industrial-Complex" is genuinely hilarious. I have already added two other uses for "T&D IC" to my breakfast-table...