Mar. 6th, 2012

johnridley: (Calvin vs bike)
It's quite warm this evening so it was a good time to do minimal maintenance on the bike. I've been riding it with several things in poor adjustment because I don't like to work on it when it's cold out unless absolutely necessary.

Both front (disc) and rear (caliper) brakes were very nearly out of travel on the grips, and the discs were completely caked up with mud so it was impossible to adjust them. I sprayed them down with automotive brake cleaner and managed to free them up. I was going to put on a new set of pads but I couldn't find the last new pair I know are around here somewhere, so I put the old pair back on and ordered a couple more from eBay (China). The pair on there now is from China, paid about $6 (same as I just paid for the new pairs) and they've worked perfectly for 2 years now, and will probably last the summer at least which I think would take them to 3 years, I'll have to check the records.

Also swapped the platforms back to the SPDs. I was getting somewhat bugged by the platforms, my feet slip off under power sometimes. I really didn't need the platforms this winter anyway.

I came very close to taking the studs off, but I think it's premature. At 6AM there's still ice on the roads in places, even on days when it gets up to 50 in the afternoon.
johnridley: (Bookworm)
Scattered Suns by Kevin J. Anderson

Saga of Seven Suns book 4
Once the universe is built and the story really gets rolling, this is a heck of a story. Be warned, the entire series is essentially indivisible, you can't just read one book.

Publisher: WordFire / Brilliance Audio
Reader: David Colacci

I ripped this from library CDs which was a pain in the butt because each CD was broken into 99 chapters. So, 1684 MP3 files. I could have joined them I guess but I was too lazy. RockBox didn't like trying to index 1700 files in one directory so I broke it into 6 separate directories and had to manually select the next directory every 3 CDs.

I was able to play it at 140% normal speed with no problems at all. The reader was a bit slow and deliberate to start with. This production was a single reader, with some post-production (audio effects for radio transmission, robotic voices, etc) which I think were effective.

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