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Seat cleaning advice

Never clean your seat with Armor All; you will slip around all over on your seat. I spent 5 hours experiencing this, and after 3 hours (ridden away from home of course) it started getting painful. The guys on concourstech suggested 303 or F21 instead.

A New Bra

A couple of weeks ago I “installed” the Targa 1/2 tank bra. It installs easily; you just hook the edges around the bottom of the gas tank.

Racket on Racket?

There is a precedent for hosting other languages on top of Racket by compiling their syntax down to Racket. What got me thinking other languages on Racket was Shriram’s P4P article, and also to some degree a discussion surrounding Gambit’s SIX. It got me wondering… Would PLT have anything to gain from providing a non-parenthesized [...]

Its really more of a sportbike…

Lately I’ve begun to notice that the seating position on the Connie really leans more towards an aggressive crouch than laid-back sitting-up-high relaxed. Coincidentally Stephen posted this on an unrelated topic: Balance and adjustment are important on the Connie, she is after all more of a sport bike than a touring machine. Point taken! (via [...]

American Motorcyclist Association

A few weeks ago I joined the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA). Heard that their towing package is great, so I signed up for it, though I wish never to use it ;).

What is leaking here?

Tonight I noticed a little puddle under the tip of the front cowling on my Connie:

Microsoft AntiVirus is Free for Windows XP

Microsoft AntiVirus is free and it works for Windows XP: Yes. You can install Microsoft Security Essentials on XP and Win 7. —RickImAPC Awesome.

ImgBurn for Windows is Excellent

Here is a great disc-burning application for MS Windows called ImgBurn. Works great “out of the box” and is free, which doesn’t reflect its utility or value at all. I will only share additionally that I’ve tried two free and two commercial application, which I won’t name for fear of any publicity that it would [...]

How to Solve It

Last week I picked up Polya’s How to Solve It for half-price. Awesome!

Chris’s advice on how to read The Books of History Chronicles

The Circle Series (takes place in our world and in Other Earth) Green (Book Zero, sequel to Book 3 and prequel to Book 1. Best to read this last as it closes a lot of story loops.) Black (Book One) probably the best place to start with the BoHC world. Red (Book Two) White (Book [...]