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BSAG » Sprocket Rocket

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But shes a girl. I had a cursed rear wheel. After 8 years, my old Fahrrad Manufaktur bike. Developed a rear wheel puncture problem that defied rational explanation. I had 3 catastrophic punctures in quick succession, with only two journeys (not even return journeys) between each of them, except the last which happened in front the bike mechanic, while the bike was just sitting on its stand in front of her. Pffft! To be single speed. Ride, but one that would be the perfect tool for. I looked that the size...

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But shes a girl. 183; Running on Linode.

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BSAG » Org mode and Pandoc

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But shes a girl. Org mode and Pandoc. In the intervening time since first setting up Spacemacs. I have been getting more familiar with. And becoming increasingly impressed by its power and flexibility. Consequently, I’ve started writing by default in. With Spacemacs, which is excellent and works with any source file format, but for some reason it stopped working for me. I tried everything I could to get it working again, but had no luck, so I was looking around for another alternative. As a lab notebook.

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But shes a girl. Falling down the Emacs rabbit hole. Making a Bunka-style sloper. Wrapping bars and dressing wounds. On keeping it together. Self-drafted shirt version 2.0. Replacing TextExpander with Keyboard Maestro. Mobile blogging with Working Copy. Song of the Sea. New New Street Station. The Duke of Burgundy. Org mode and Pandoc. Noodler's Konrad fountain pen. A second pair of jeans. Passing the Bechdel Test. A wheel at each corner. Secret history of our streets. Cloud Atlas the film. A summer wet ...

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BSAG » Candy 1 Pedals

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But shes a girl. I mentioned when I wrote about my new bike. That I fitted pedal straps — specifically, Restraps. With one gigantic leg and one weedy one. That’s an additional fitting issue I can do without when making clothes, frankly. I had used clipless. After a lot of research and dithering back and forth between different options, I decided to go for the Crank Brothers Candy 1 pedal. Anyway, so far — touch wood! Comments powered by Disqus. 183; Running on Linode.

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BSAG » Slipstream renewed

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But shes a girl. Last weekend I finally got around to doing something with my short-form blog, Slipstream. In its last incarnation, Slipstream was running on Kirby. Which is a very fine and flexible CMS driven by the filesystem rather than a database. It works well (and there’s a newer version 2 which has some great features), but I was struggling to make it do what I wanted it to do. Also get posted here. Reviews at Letterboxd. I actually prefer LibraryThing. As a service, but GoodReads has more feature...

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BSAG » Drafting patterns

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But shes a girl. On pattern drafting (the linked class is on drafting a skirt, but there are lots of others), and realised that it’s not as impossible as it seems. I actually started with the trouser sloper class (or ‘Pants Sloper’, since Suzy is American), as I need to make a pair or two of long shorts for the summer. I could easily find a pattern I liked and make that (indeed, I already have the Thurlow trouser pattern. Codpiece), which hauls the fabric to the back of the leg again, and somewhat out to...

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BSAG » About Me

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But shes a girl. I apparently do not have the gene for interest in make-up, clothes or celebrities. Believe me, I’ve tried to be interested. I’ve even bought so-called ‘Women’s magazines’, convinced that I can’t be. Psychologically different from the rest of female-kind. But eventually I realized that I just do not have any interest in them, and now I just head straight for the computer/hi-fi magazines aisle. This makes time spent in the hairdressers very dull. Had told an anecdote. During my sophomore y...

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BSAG » New bike

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But shes a girl. At long last (more than two months after ordering it), I've finally got my hands on the bike I bought using the Tax-Free Cycle scheme. Through work. It's a Fahrrad Manufaktur S200 Comfort. And it's absolutely wonderful. It has a suspended seat-post, but also very fat Schwalbe Big Apple. There's a strong spring which connects the back of the front mudguard to the frame of the bike, which automatically and passively centres the steering. I've never come across anything like it before, ...