Always expect a train ... yet again

[kinzel]

Hey gang, let's outrun a train ... on our bike!
http://www.metrowestfyi.com/story_display.php?sid=10537

Meanwhile, we finally found a video card that should boost Rolanni's old "media center" box to modern Second Life standards ... the problem is that that 250 watt power supply is rather tiny for today's graphic cards...
we shall see: it is on the way.

The more that didn't get to yesterday's post was about visiting a potential office space. I did. Decision pending. Where the heck is that flipping coin?

Comments

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Forty miles an hour? Surprising he wasn't killed.

[adamek.livejournal.com]

When my Dad was in high school he and some friends decided to hike through the Hoosic Tunnel. They'd studied the schedule and thought they were safe from any trains, but partway in they were surprised by a special. Yes, the light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train. Fastest they ever ran in their life. The last kid made it out by seconds.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I think Heinlein covered that in one of his books ... was it Starman Jones where the kid just misses being blasted away by a magnetic or whatever flying "train" ... ?

[topayz4.livejournal.com]

Out here in Durango there's actually a bike race that sort of does that, but in a safe manner, called the Iron Horse. (http://www.ironhorsebicycleclassic.com/) When the Durango-Silverton train (http://www.durangotrain.com/) leaves Durango the bikers start up the road to Silverton and try to beat it there. While the train stays in the Animas River valley the bikers climb up two mountain passes (Coal Bank at 10,640' and Molas at 10,910') Looks exhausting to me.

[baggette.livejournal.com]

these people
should NOT
be allowed
to breed
or walk away......

......
...THEY SHOULD
be REQUIRED
to wear a SIGN
for the rest of
their unnaturally long lives

stooooppid peeeeeeople

JMO