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My very standard bicycle is not a standard bicycle to the city
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havehad a nice BASIL basket on the back of my bike:
With that, it has hadall three of Syd’s requirements. But there’s a problem; with the basket on, it doesn’t fit into my bike locker:
These Cycle-Safe lockers taper down to a narrow point, so basically anything other than a stripped-down bike won’t fit. The city says of the lockers:“Most standard bicycles will fit insideâ€? Grah. If there’s something more standard that a Dutch bike with a basket on the back, I don’t know what it is. I have to go back to my makeshift solution — a too-tall basket lashed on with bungees — and deal with it biting my bum as I ride. Sigh.
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wind and solar … with heavy tree cover
As seen in Birkdale Ravine: wind and solar powered LED lighting in an area with heavy tree shading. Not just any wind turbines, VAWTs, no less. In the words of Modern Toss’s Drive by Abuser, “How’s that working out for you, yeah?”
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A not-very-good golf joke
Mike Mike Weir Mike Weir Still (image nicked from Canadian Family magazine)
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TCA is online
Radio Amateurs of Canada may seem a bit slow at times, but they’ve quietly gone and put their magazine The Canadian Amateur online. It has a decent interface, definitely up there with Exact Editions‘ work:
The files are downloadable as PDF, too. They look pretty decent on my e-reader:
(and yes, that is really an article about making a contact over 121km using a 5mW laser)I don’t think any of the editions before 2012 will be going online. It would be nice, but RAC is severely limited in resources. The almost total lack of fanfare is a contrast to the ARRL’s digital QST, which is much announced but not actually available yet …
