This is deeply, profoundly ontological.

 

Naaah....Nothing profound...

but I'm just sayin'


Maybe we're putting Descartes before the Horace.

 

Dear Ron:

What do TV weather forecasters mean when they say that "Today we are can expect a 90% chance of thunderstorm activity"? What after all is "thunderstorm activity"? Is it the foreplay to a major storm event or is it the real thing itself, the big one as it were? It's obvious to me that, within the broadcast range of the news program, at some place in space and at a certain point in time, given the probability estimated by the weather forecaster, that there will be a "thunderstorm". Shouldn't it be sufficient just to say, "Today there is a 90% chance of a thunderstorm"?

Thanks,

Trying to stay dry in Orlando

 

Dear Ron:

Since Triman54 kept raving about Fried Bologna sandwiches during DBR9....



Should we put this restaurant on the "must go to" list of restaurants for the upcoming WTD?

Signed,
Fried in Cincy

 

^I could afford to eat them now. I had a bike accident on Saturday and haven't been able to run for a week...can barely walk really.

 

Yikes...get well quick, triman. I can see that vintage poundage accumulating quickly in the absence of exercise. Ask me how I know this. No, don't.

 

Dear Ron,

If I use a hole saw with an inside diameter of one inch to cut a wooden dowl with a diameter of one inch in two, what is the volume of the piece that is cut out of the dowl material? (ignoring the material that might be removed by the centering bit in the hole saw)

-Just Wondering

 

Get a lawyer and sue the other party!!

Hope nothing bad has happened.... just a minor injury?

 

I did a run-off. It's a way of quickly dismounting a bicycle during a triathlon while going into transition from the bike portion of the race to the run portion. Here are some photos from a race I did which demonstrate the technique.







Technically, you leave your bike shoes in the pedals and slip out of your shoes while on the bike. You pedal with your feet on the top of the shoes. At the transition approach, you slide one leg over the frame while breaking, and when you get to the correct speed you run off the bike into the transition area. The above photos from a race show how you actually can gain time and places using a runoff. See the bike next to my bike and how much longer it takes that racer to dismount.

By not wearing socks, you can even save more time in transition. Well, to make a long story short, I cooked the bike and did a run-off at 13.5 mph. To put that in perspective, my flying mile time on a mile run is a 6 minute mile or 10 mph. I have done run-offs for years. But during this particular run-off, I don't know what I was thinking but ended up breaking my toes on my left foot and tearing the tips off--all because of excessive speed. To compound my adrenalin induced idiocy I didn't quit my tri and went on to run the 10K portion of the race.

 

All I can say is OUCH!