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Corporations perfected the "first hit is free" marketing method.

Target fixation is definitely more pronounced on a bike. The trick is head position. The mantra is, "You go where you look." I started out by exaggerating my head position, to force myself to look through the corner, to the exit, and not at the corner.

Target fixation is also a hell of a thing. It took me a while (and treating Keith Code's "A twist of the Wrist" like a combination of Gospel and step-by-step guide) to get over the feeling of going in too fast and grabbing a handful of brakes, which is exactly the wrong response for reasons of...

I think that, for me, it's mostly a matter of not wanting to die. I don't think that I've ever ridden at more than 80% of my ability on the track, simply because my instinct for self preservation is too high. At track days I've followed kids who I could see had zero fear, but also zero skill...

I did actually get to follow a recent Canadian Superbike champion around the track, on my second to last class. From that I learned that i had been turning in literally 2 feet too soon, when going into a particular decreasing radius corner, which screwed up my drive onto the next two corners and...

20+ years around motorcycle racers as a photographer, 8 racing schools, and many track days taught me one thing: I'm not very good. At my first racing school I thought I was going flat out behind the head instructor, who was a retired Canadian pro racer. Not a top guy, but rather an also-ran...

Have a PhD and say that qualifies you in a field that you don't have a degree in? Must be a university professor ;)

Add Tesla to the mix. They lose their crap over that instant torque. I had a BMW motorcycle. Trust me, BMW riders are a much different breed from the car drivers.

"Logan Lucky." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5439796/

One of my neighbours kept taking carts from a local dollar store and then just leaving them at the side of our row of townhouses. It got up to 5 and I had started trying to get the store to collect them when it was at 2.

The rules against anything controversial, in spaces where that sort of thing isn't welcome, work against what we had in the days of Newsgroups; the race to the bottom.

Agreed. He's drawing his power from another source, not his lineage, which is definitely Warlock.

Yeah, that definitely caught my attention as well. Whoops! Failure of research.

I moved into this house in 1972 and we almost immediately had a Jerrold cable box installed. It was about 8" wide and had a row of push buttons, for 13 channels, with a rocker switch that allowed to select another 13 as a "lower" row of channels.

Sorcerer didn't show up as an actual class until 3e, in 2000. It was, however, the level title for 9th level Wizard in 1e.

Given that her heart rate spikes to 140+, in seconds, I'm wondering if "escape" for Max means death. They did seem to screw up the display when the portal closed in that it looks like it was showing 60BPM again, instead of 140. Either that or 600 and she's not a Hummingbird.

The things that you miss by having a 10 year passport :ROFLMAO:

Discord is pretty much what you make of it, I find. I'm on a few fan Discords, but also have a couple that are essentially like a private Facebook for just friends. The same was true of Slack, a few years back.

Both Signal and WhatsApp can be used for group messaging and if people don't like either, then that will be reflected in the responses.

"Well 'goose' is a nasty word in Minnesota, donchaknow. Oh my!"