On a slight tangent…
(it’s a half-decent beer)
On a wider tangent… the finest reinterpretation of a Bloody Mary I’ve ever had substituted bourbon for vodka, added some horseradish, and had a naughty slice (er, rasher) of bacon. It was both filthy and delicious. Best of all - the bacon doubled up nicely as a stirrer and a snack.
You are no fun!
You want to try kumis? Fermented alcoholic mare’s milk?
Strictly speaking, kumis is in its own category of alcoholic drinks because it is made neither from fruit nor from grain. Technically, it is closer to wine than to beer because the fermentation occurs directly from sugars, as in wine (usually from fruit), as opposed to from starches (usually from grain) converted to sugars by mashing, as in beer. But in terms of experience and traditional manner of consumption, it is much more comparable to beer. It is even milder in alcoholic content than beer. It is arguably the region’s beer equivalent.
Production process:
Yep , who believes anything on the media. Its like waking in a field of land mines. LOL
Actually a good veggie burger taste pretty good.
Perhaps some Bhang, if my friends in India get over the pandemic 
Wanted to put out a request for help to India - particularly calling on those of us who can afford audio things that tend to come with a comma in the price tag.
Please consider donating. Things are really, really bad there, right now.
Sewa International is a very legit charity with a good network in India working on getting things like ventilators and oxygen concentrators to places where people are literally running out of air.
A choice quote from the above article:
“At the bottom end of the free market, a bribe to sneak a last look at your loved one, bagged and stacked in a hospital mortuary. A surcharge for a priest who agrees to say the final prayers. Online medical consultancies in which desperate families are fleeced by ruthless doctors. At the top end, you might need to sell your land and home and use up every last rupee for treatment at a private hospital. Just the deposit alone, before they even agree to admit you, could set your family back a couple of generations.”
@andris is not kidding. word from a classmate of mine whose parents are still in India is that it is worse than the reporting is indicating. I also reached out to him for more opportunities to donate.
I too have friends in India - colleagues I used to work with. Some of them have gone silent. A very few have had a single dose of vaccine. Many are in a very severe lockdown, and pretty much afraid to leave their houses.
It seems that India was hit by a double whammy - or perhaps a 2.5 whammy. They had made great progress in limiting covid, and relaxed rules right before the holiday of Holi. That is a brash festival of colors with partying. Think Mardi Gras, but with colored chalk and paint balls instead of beads.
Also about this time a couple of new variants showed up, at least one a “double mutation” that appears not only to spread more readily and be somewhat more lethal, but those who had Covid 19 were at least somewhat susceptible to the new variant and could get Covid again. This seems to have made the Holi festival a mass superspreader event.
Finally, as in other parts of the world (Here’s lookin’ at YOU, Mirror) there are politics, where some are apparently anti-vaxxers. The vaccines do seem to offer reasonable protection from the new variants. Plus, India produces much of the world’s vaccines. It is a destabilizing fact that they are exporting millions of doses in the midst of their crisis.
happy cake day David! @pennstac
Happy cake day @pennstac
Happy cake day @pennstac , are we having another party?
Thank you all for wishing me a happy cake day. Seems like only yesterday that I began posting on what was a tiny but promising forum. Now the oasis of civility in the online headphone world has become a full-fledged pond. Nay, I say an actual lake!
Happy sailing everyone.
Oh my am I behind here. Have been trying to wrap my head around getting my ebike electronics set up how I want them to be set up. I love my GIANT ebike. I despise the developers of the GIANT RideControl app. In fact, if I were a developer of that app, I’d do the world a favor and just drink hemlock or something similar.
Further, my bike is sort of a somewhat 2021 version of the 2020 electronics, and there are changes in the two model years. The newest one uses not only Bluetooth but ANT+, a technology that connects multiple sensors. This is a good thing.
My goal was to have (Ideally an app) on my iPhone that does GPS, tracks my heartbeat, cycling cadence, speed, distance, and possibly other data like battery use or what level of assist I dial in. The horrendously buggy GIANT app is supposed to do most of that. But it is very iffy in picking up cadence - even though I see the cadence display on the bike display. And it sometimes drops the bluetooth connection. This makes it freeze - you have to tell it to continue with a PLAY triangle and it is supposed to then connect two segments of your ride. But there is no real warning, you just have to notice it’s frozen.
And the GPS is somehow far worse than the Apple Maps that are native to the iPhone. Somewhere I read that it would pick up heartbeat reading from an paired Apple Watch, so I got one. It doesn’t. GIANT stopped paying the developer back in September (they tell me) and the app stopped working. The masses cried out, and they paid them again. However the VERSION 2 (Maybe that’s the one that will work with my watch) has been promised for almost a year. We’re on 1.5
So I’ve been haunting the ebike forum (lurk lurk) and the Facebook Giant Ebike Group (Not lurking) but it’s hard to find anyone who really understands this. Looks like my best bet is to either (or both) get the bike shop to update my GIANT electronics to 2021, and get a Wahoo bike computer and possibly an ANT+ heart rate sensor.
I don’t mind spending a little money to do something right. I hate spending money to do it wrong.
You could check out Strava on your iPhone and see how you like that first, if doesn’t meet your needs the Wahoo is likely the way.
I used to have a Wahoo ELEMNT BOLT and it was fantastic. I’ve since sold it and use Strava on my Apple watch as I can track cycling and runs (so a bit more flexible) but for purely biking the Wahoo was better.
I’d been dismissing STRAVA as more of a social thing. Yes, I know it does some tracking, but I don’t want to share my f-ing “workouts” with my friends… Will STRAVA connect with my bike and watch using bluetooth and read the sensors my bike already has? And will it read heartbeat from the watch? That might make it worthwhile for that part of the app.
I’m really disappointed by the GPS features of the GIANT “RideControl” app. It only seems to know the main roads by name, and while it shows me riding down a road, it doesn’t provide a good 2D map view that’s useful. I like to see more than one or two blocks ahead. And I haven’t figured out any way to give it a route or destination.
Yup it’ll pair up with all that stuff via Bluetooth. If you have anything that’s only ANT+ then you need a little device but sounds like everything you have is dual.
You can just not add any friends on the platform and make sure your privacy settings are set strict (can even set it to blur your route when near your home). Some of the features like heat map to see where other cyclists are going is really neat and has helped me discover areas I didn’t know about.
Try it out, if it does what you’re looking for then great. If not then you’ll probably want to look at a bike computer like the Wahoo.
ROTFL - but I shouldn’t. I suspect there are STRAVA trolls that watch the routes to see where to appropriate nice bikes.
Yup. Sad but true if you set your privacy to open (and don’t have it set to blur near your home) it’s an easy way for thief’s to know which garages to take a look in.
I only share my routes with a few close friends, thankfully it has lots of privacy options.
Happy cake day @SenyorC. I wish you a nice day mate.
Thanks @monochromios & @prfallon69 !
Piling on late, happy cake day too!
