Deity returns missing gloves!

"Bill Baka" wrote: Maybe new batteries will enable longer distance
reception and you will get those missed messages.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wouldn't the Diety be smart enough to know you can't send electronic
messages about dead batteries to someone with dead batteries?

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Leo Lichtman said:

"Bill Baka" wrote: Maybe new batteries will enable longer distance
reception and you will get those missed messages.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wouldn't the Diety be smart enough to know you can't send electronic
messages about dead batteries to someone with dead batteries?

He's got His own speed-of-light postal service. Who needs
electronics? Besides, it might be like those smoke alarms that
annoy ya when the battery's low. I think smoke alarms should
only annoy their owners, but the Deity is unfigureoutable. I
don't listen to Him anymore, 'cuz he just bawls me out.
I've gotta not die.

Maybe blinkies should have some sort of low-battery warning, too.
Deity knows, there's sure a lot of faded ones on the streets lately.

cheers,
Tom

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"Tom Keats" wrote
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Quoted message said:

...but the Deity is unfigureoutable. I
don't listen to Him anymore, 'cuz he just bawls me out.
I've gotta not die.

Funny stuff.

Have to remember "the Deity is unfigureoutable". Makes a lot of sense.

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Leo Lichtman said:

"Bill Baka" wrote: Maybe new batteries will enable longer distance
reception and you will get those missed messages.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wouldn't the Diety be smart enough to know you can't send electronic
messages about dead batteries to someone with dead batteries?

He's got His own speed-of-light postal service. Who needs
electronics? Besides, it might be like those smoke alarms that
annoy ya when the battery's low. I think smoke alarms should
only annoy their owners, but the Deity is unfigureoutable. I
don't listen to Him anymore, 'cuz he just bawls me out.
I've gotta not die.

Maybe blinkies should have some sort of low-battery warning, too.
Deity knows, there's sure a lot of faded ones on the streets lately.

cheers,
Tom

It looks like a slow night if people are picking this up to play with.

--
Bill (?) Ba__ka

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bill Baka said:

It looks like a slow night if people are picking this up to play with.

Well, I'm seeing a lot of dim, low-battery'd blinkies
lately. I suspect a lot of cheapskate riders use 'em
not to be safe, but to (try to) be legal. A lot of the
units on the market proclaim they have 100 hrs of runtime.
That just means the LEDs light up at all. We can pretty
well cut that spec in half for /effective/ lighting.

cheers,

Tom

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[email hidden] (Tom Keats) wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bill Baka said:

It looks like a slow night if people are picking this up to play
with.

Well, I'm seeing a lot of dim, low-battery'd blinkies
lately. I suspect a lot of cheapskate riders use 'em
not to be safe, but to (try to) be legal. A lot of the
units on the market proclaim they have 100 hrs of runtime.
That just means the LEDs light up at all. We can pretty
well cut that spec in half for /effective/ lighting.

I have seen them too, lots along the 7th Ave UBC route. I suspect the
excuse is poor students can't affort new batteries but one
car/cyclist accident will surely get widely reported and concentrate
minds.

Mike Latondresse mikelat@no_spam_shaw.ca said:

[email hidden] (Tom Keats) wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bill Baka said:

It looks like a slow night if people are picking this up to play
with.

Well, I'm seeing a lot of dim, low-battery'd blinkies
lately. I suspect a lot of cheapskate riders use 'em
not to be safe, but to (try to) be legal. A lot of the
units on the market proclaim they have 100 hrs of runtime.
That just means the LEDs light up at all. We can pretty
well cut that spec in half for /effective/ lighting.

I have seen them too, lots along the 7th Ave UBC route. I suspect the
excuse is poor students can't affort new batteries but one
car/cyclist accident will surely get widely reported and concentrate
minds.

Worse yet, a lot of 'em clip the blinkies on their backpack - probably
works fine walking down the road, but unless you're flying over them
in a helicopter, the things are darn near invisible from behind.

I ride through the Arizona State University campus in the dark quite
often and am amazed at how suicidal many of them are when it comes to
riding a bike at night (try dark clothing, dark bike, no lights).
Luckily there are enough riders doing that that most of the drivers
tend to try to avoid helping the invisible cyclists depart earth
early.

Mark Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $695 ti frame

In article <[email hidden]>,

Mike Latondresse mikelat@no_spam_shaw.ca said:

I have seen them too, lots along the 7th Ave UBC route. I suspect the
excuse is poor students can't affort new batteries but one
car/cyclist accident will surely get widely reported and concentrate
minds.

I hope it wouldn't have to come to that.

Maybe TransLink and bike shops could get together to
provide a discount for batteries, to possessors of
student transit passes.

Heh. I guess I've got a love/hate relationship with
the Off-Broadway route. I'd bet I'm not the only one,
and I'd furthermore bet others feel the same way for
the same reasons.

cheers,
Tom

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Quoted message said:

[email hidden] (Tom Keats)

wrote in part:

Quoted message said:

Mike Latondresse mikelat@no_spam_shaw.ca said:

I have seen them too, lots along the 7th Ave UBC route. I suspect the
excuse is poor students can't affort new batteries but one
car/cyclist accident will surely get widely reported and concentrate
minds.

I hope it wouldn't have to come to that.

Maybe TransLink and bike shops could get together to
provide a discount for batteries, to possessors of
student transit passes.

Failing that, maybe the "poor students" in question could save some money by
purchasing one less six pack of beer and use that savings to buy a battery.

Regards,
Bob Hunt

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Hunrobe) said:

Quoted message said:

[email hidden] (Tom Keats)

wrote in part:

Quoted message said:

Mike Latondresse mikelat@no_spam_shaw.ca said:

I have seen them too, lots along the 7th Ave UBC route. I suspect the
excuse is poor students can't affort new batteries but one
car/cyclist accident will surely get widely reported and concentrate
minds.

I hope it wouldn't have to come to that.

Maybe TransLink and bike shops could get together to
provide a discount for batteries, to possessors of
student transit passes.

Failing that, maybe the "poor students" in question could save some money by
purchasing one less six pack of beer and use that savings to buy a battery.

The comp-sci students absolutely /need/ those brewskies.
But the Liberal Artsie-fartsies could probably do without.

cheers,
Tom

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Above address is just a spam midden.
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"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I talked to Him today. He said to tell you that you're welcome and

mentioned

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that you need new batteries.

In my conversation, I was reminded to dismount at the top of the bridge

and

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watch the ducks swimming in the slough below, rather than just ride up and
over and on home. I didn't get any message regarding batteries.

--

i had a voice mail, something about grovelling. dont think they need me to
call back...

I usually have something on my rear rack, so the seat-post mounts do me
no good. But the only other 'mount' was the clip.

So I removed the lens, removed the circuit board (one tiny phillips
screw), and drilled a hole through the back and the clip. Then I
epoxied in a short hex-head bolt, put tape over the head, and
reassembled. It now goes on a reflector mounting, and is nice and
rearmost and level and very visible, even with the rack loaded.

I usually have something on my rear rack, so the seat-post mounts do me
no good. But the only other 'mount' was the clip.

So I removed the lens, removed the circuit board (one tiny phillips
screw), and drilled a hole through the back and the clip. Then I
epoxied in a short hex-head bolt, put tape over the head, and
reassembled. It now goes on a reflector mounting, and is nice and
rearmost and level and very visible, even with the rack loaded.