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  1. wait. NowThis was a Cheeseweasel sock?
  2. well, I'm definitely looking forward to some film of long, big sky, downhill cruises with all that rushing wind.
  3. you're a better man than I am if you clean that gap, Mom. did a fun 2hr rain ride, this afternoon. some slick roots, but kept the rubber side down, mostly. we skipped the big downhill line, mostly because we didn't want to climb all the way up there after all the other climbs we did, but did hit what I call STARFlight and some other fun drops. probly 20 years ago, I had my first real face plant on that section. loosened a couple teeth. but atleast no one had to call in the chopper. someone else earned it that nickname, years later.
  4. honestly, Braf, I dig both. they each make you appreciate the other. if there's a pref, it's whatever I'm in the mood for, that day. today's ride is one I've been wanting to do for a while, but with all the off-camber roots and rocks, it's just too much to try to ride in the wet. finally got a dry Sunday. KuRdt, the oak is the worst. cedar doesn't hit me hardly at all. up until this week, a dose of Flonase in the morning is all I've needed since the buds started up. I forgot even that on Wednesday, and did a quick lunch ride at St Eds. came home covered with little yellow oak pollen meteor traces. an hour after I got home, I felt like I had the flu. body aches, fatigue, etc. shit didn't respond to Flonase and Allegra for two days (Zyrtec makes me jumpy). ran out of Flonase, yesterday, so not quite armored up for today's onslaught. 2x, if you're seeing the saddle at all, I'm descending. on climbs and pedalling moves, the handlebar will disappear off the bottom of the screen, except when lunging it forward. I never drop the saddle on climbs. I find it a huge disadvantage in those instances where I fail to extend it back after a drop and I've got to do some technical ups. but it does bring up an interesting thing about these slower, techy videos. unless you've ridden them, you really can't tell what's going on. I suppose if there's an extra point in favor of the big flowy Enduro stuff is that the videos are easier to interpret for strangers.
  5. sweet! if you're gonna be a bear, be a fucking Grizzly. little lung lacquer ride today, mostly to test 2.7k resolution (spoiler: no better on my ipad, than 1080p), but also because this place is getting smaller, and I gotta ride it while I can. I never used to have allergies, but they've really started coming on in the last few years, or so. a wheezin geezer, right about now.
  6. it's just a hobby. I'm sure she does ok at The Ministry of Information
  7. that's a bold statement. I mean, it'll take a lot to tear me away from these Barney Miller episodes on youtube.
  8. oh hay, look at that. my gopro6 does betther than 1080p?
  9. fixed for Billy Gibbons and OB1's wife
  10. I guess anal's off the table at casa Hank, tonight.
  11. I do most of the grocery shopping. it's the only way we can have enough ingredients in the house to piece together any kind of meal. in this regard, there are modes of communication that are time-sensitive. the rules are: email: not urgent, maybe planning dinner for the weekend. she likes sending random recipes to my work email (knowing I will forward it home before I read it, but whatever). text: kinda urgent. I may be on the way to the store, or about to leave, and I'm not waiting around for her to intermittently search for the recipe between fb sessions and whatever else grabs her attention. voice: I'm at the fucking store. I am not browsing, I am buying. get in, get out is my MO. a single text buzz in my pocket may go unnoticed, so you better make the most noise possible if you need something before I leave. simple, right? apparently not.
  12. probably a ROFL post oh hai!
  13. 30fps (actually 29 and change) is the frame rate for US tv broadcast, so I use that. seems ok, to me. the only time I've ever had to go to the spare battery is when I was on a week-long raft trip in the Grand Canyon. but I sort of micro-manage my power. I have it set to auto-shutdown after a minute of nothing. I don't like having long clips because it's harder to find the good stuff, later. a 4-hour day would kill it, though. a sunday for me these days is 2, maybe 3 hours. as soon as I get home, I download then scan through the clips and update the file names with a meaningful 'suffix' (I keep the gopro numbered filename to help preserve the sequence, and tack a blurb onto that like "jump 30sec"). once that's done while fresh in my mind, I can come back to it later and it's not as time consuming. a lot of that probably has to do with how my editor (Video Pad) works. btw, I'm not gonna say VP is great, but I've been using it for years after a req on mtbr, so it's what I'm comfortable with. last couple three videos took me no more than a couple hours to piece together. VP was cheap, and it does what I want it to do. plus, they don't force-update it every five fucking minutes like seemingly every other piece of software I use, changing the interface and making me have to relearn it. all that being said, Mom and KuRdt seem to have managed just fine with what they're using. hell. some kid at work put together a video all on his phone. the music was awful, not much of a narrative, but it was very watchable. dude's an excellent rider. I think the chesty is the best pov. I tried a chinmount on my fullface, and it put the camera too far forward, taking the handlebars out of the frame which I think is important for understanding what's going on with the bike. bird flight videos are boring to me.
  14. my wife and kids had taken over the kitchen, making themselves breakfast for dinner, while I was at HEB (watching my spacing) to get beer and other essentials after fixing the mower. so here I am.
  15. username checks out
  16. Braff: I'm currently running a gopro6. most of the clips I've posted here were done on a gopro5. the first videos I published here with a 6 was the Bentonville stuff. the jump from 5 to 6 is significant. in terms of pixels, I reckon not much. physically, the removal of the enclosure for making the camera itself waterproof is hit-or-miss. opening the various panels to access the SD card, battery, and charging port is a lot more difficult on the 6, especially on th trail. on the plus side, not having the constant rattling of the plastic outer enclosure means you get nice stereo sound quality. for example, on the BCGB video, towards the end, you can hear my heartbeat, as well as the wind coming from different directions when I turn to cross the creek. the game changer is the internal stabilization. user interface is different (I won't say better), but with the 6, they finally got some MEMS tech to auto-flip the camera. however the 6 is more buggy than the 5. that auto-flip could be more reliable; but any halfway-decent editing software should allow you to flip the video in case it is recorded upside down. also, the one-touch feature (hit only the shutter to power on and start recording, vs pressing the power button first) has a tendancy to lock up the camera, requiring a hard reboot (popping it open and pulling the battery). all in all, I'm very happy with the 6. the stab is just amazing. not having to spend extra the money on a gimbal for about the same price as the whole camera, and not having that extra chunk of hardware hanging off my chest makes it totally worth it. with the 5, I had to tie a knot in the chesty to get the elastic tight enough to not bounce the video into unwatchability. WARNING: if you get a 6 and want extra batteries, get the gopro brand. the Fuel spare battery I got at Best Buy (had the coupons, so fuckit) fits, but just barely. closing the door is VERY difficult. I think @KuЯdt has a 7 or 8. I can't speak to whether the bugs in the 6 that I mentioned above have been addressed in either of those models. I got the 6 because I read the res and stab were reportedly not noticeably better in the 7. none of the additional features present in the 7 were anything I cared about.
  17. badass, Mom! your son's a shredder! I got all geeked on that huck where I could see him point his toes down and press back to grip the pedals. that's a split-second move I just can't execute reliably. which is why I run clipless (and why I'm totally the opposite w/r to your approach to the subject---but whatever works for you). so many questions: what music is that? those creekbed ledges look familiar...airport loop stuff, west of Lajitas, or is that in BBRSP? I know your son's an advanced runner, but no camelbak? how much water were you carrying? finally, when'd you get that bike, and what is it? I don't remember you mentioning it, and I don't recognize it. great job.
  18. triggered by fudge-striped cookies reference
  19. according to duckduckgo, since there's no fucking way Lobo is black, the answer is obviously Bell Biv Devoe. meanwhile, I vote predator drones with mini-guns. or just wall off Miami from the rest of the country. I'm good with that, too. sinking, anyway.
  20. Sets Cards Against Humanity any Rummy
  21. Haiku? for St Pat's? Do you even Limerick? Éirinn go Brách, bitch!
  22. whatever you do, don't eat the sandwich in the fridge. or drink the milk, for that matter.
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