No longer will I lay my bike down in the dirt like a savage.

I bought a Click-Stand. My Max-5 model weighs 3.4 oz, including the fat foot for soft ground. I tried it out on a picnic ride today and it worked great.

Click-Stand Picnic

Click-Stand Picnic

Link Log 2023-01-19

Repairs While Riding

Upward Falling Payloads

Light Cassette Removal Tools

Bye Bye, Blackbird (Chet Baker, 1964)

Leatherman and Topeak working together

“Opportunity Is Always Out There” With Simon Mann

Venice by Canaletto

2023 is off to a strong start in the sanctum sanctorum.

Living the dream.

Coltrane, Miller, Pu-erh

Link Log 2022-12-26

How to prepare an MSR-type stove for cold-weather expeditioning

Why a cool camera will make you a better photographer.

A collection of Soviet control rooms

Cemetery of Soviet computers

Soviet Icebreakers

Ferry Plaza

Link Log 2022-12-10

Rear Rack Lock Mount

How To Develop Good Taste, Pt. 1

Deceased Do Not Contact Registration

Inside the factory that only builds white Toyotas

Cultural observations: The skinfade + northface jacket combo

Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

Thus, this current outbreak of MSMI [Mass Social Media-induced Illness] represents not only the “modern” form of MSI [Mass Sociogenic Illness] motor variant, but can also be viewed as the 21st century expression of a “culture-bound stress reaction” of our post-modern society emphasizing the uniqueness of individuals and valuing their alleged exceptionality, thus promoting attention-seeking behaviours, and aggravating the permanent identity crisis of modern man.

Port

I insulate the handles of my titanium kitchenware with silicon aquarium airline tubing.

I use the tubing recommended in a thread on the Backpacking Light Forum. It isn’t necessary, and adds a couple grams, but it is a nice luxury that allows the mug or pot to be plucked from the stove without additional precaution.

Titanium Handle Insulation

Make sure to use silicon tubing, not vinyl. Application takes some finger strength. Spraying a little soapy water into the tubing first makes it slide a bit easier. The stuff I use has an outer diameter of about 5.8mm and an inner diameter of about 4.2mm. It has been the appropriate size for the handles on mugs from Snow Peak and Boundless Voyage.

I watched a few episodes of Dark Angel for the first time since puberty.

In the pilot episode of the show, the titular hero teams up with a pirate television journalist in the cyberpunk dystopia of Seattle. They broadcast the dirt about a Rich Bad Guy™, and protect a witness from being silenced before she can give her testimony in court. The implication being that facts are meaningful, and that the criminal justice system is functioning.

From the vantage of 2022, the show’s dystopia is looking pretty optimistic.

Link Log 2022-11-23

Special Investigative Report for The Museum of Capitalism: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Watch

If you wish to make a toaster from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

“Just a bunch of idiots having fun” – a photo history of the LAN party

Between Chaos and the Man: How not to become an anarchist

States Mull Limits on Foreign Ownership of Farmland

Love On A Reail Train (Tangerine Dream, 2018)

San Francisco from Rathbone