David C B

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David C B@tzed250· 29d

In case you missed it, on the right side there

David C B@tzed250· 29d

My wife got this video of the hummingbirds playing in the sprinkler today. We get just one every year except during a brief time now when she’s either training her baby, or mating, or fighting, we have no idea.

David C B@tzed250· 29d

Is it worth the weight trade-off to get rims with no spoke bed holes to never have to f*ck with rim tape again? Dreaming about custom Berd spoked MTB wheels. Again.

Screen shot from Berd’s web-site showing one of their spokes, it’s white woven stranded dynema with a metal threaded tip on the rim end, and a closed loop on the hub end. 2.5 g/spoke

David C B@tzed250· Jul 12

Booom

Two pieces of French toast on a well-seasoned cast iron griddle, pre-flip.

David C B@tzed250· Jul 10

Skip lunch, lay 600 bricks, get dinner and a beer!

Smoked poblano tequila with hibiscus salt rim, Japas brewery’s Oishii Belgian-style white ale with ginger, orange peel, and coriander.

David C B@tzed250· Jul 10

And… done!

I used the Pano camera setting to fit the entire brick greenhouse floor in a single shot, it is distorted into a sort of bell shape wide and curved at the bottom.

David C B@tzed250· Jul 10

The greenhouse is getting a brick floor today

My feet on 3/8” crushed stone, a red brick floor has been started, laud dry and tight, will be sanded after tamping down. I’m in mostly shade.

David C B@tzed250· Jul 9

I have very poorly added Mitch McConnel’s face to an image of Marina Abramović sitting with folded hands in a long red dress in a gallery at MoMA across a table from someone during her 2009 piece The Artist is Present. Every day for 3 months she sat all day and gazed into the eyes of people who sat across from her.

David C B@tzed250· Jul 9

😂 worth a shot

Dark mode Word Bee game DOOMVIBE has been given the Not in word list pop-up

David C B@tzed250· Jul 8

Some kinda ‘new math’ Don’t use any nat gas, owe $30

A bill for gas at my wood shop which I only use for heat in the winter. 0ccf used, yet I owe $29.50

David C B@tzed250· Jul 7

Shooting brake?

A royal blue 1975 Reliant Scimitar GTE from the right side. A long-ish hood is balanced by a hatchback rear, with 2 doors the style is known as a shooting brake (versus a station-wagon (or estate) that has 4 doors).

David C B@tzed250· Jul 7

I’d want one of these tho

a 5-panel race car rear view mirror mounted inside a car

David C B@tzed250· Jul 6

Martini Porsche pilot heart throb in red fire suit wears white, yellow, and red Swatch watches in Saks Fifth Avenue print ad circe 1980s
SWITCH TO SWATCH THE CRAZY NEW WAVE IN SWISS WATCHES

David C B@tzed250· Jul 5

Montjuïc Park in Barcelona used to host a public-roads motorcycle race, giving its name to a race-shop Ducati

The right side of a gorgeous red and silver Ducati 750 F1 Montjuich homologation special, one of 200 produced in 1985/6
Equipped with a solo seat, allow wheels, an aluminum gas tank, cylinder heads with big valves and hot cams, a dry clutch, etc.

David C B@tzed250· Jul 5

The irony of the Barbara Kruger piece on the side of the MOCA building behind this scene…

David C B@tzed250· Jul 4

LET’S GOOOOOO #VismaLeaseAbike #tourdefrance2026 (Sorry Wout)

David C B@tzed250· Jul 3

Fuck Amtrak

David C B@tzed250· Jul 2

Had to go down to NYC for a few days before I could get my front tire to seal (new tubeless set-up), what’s the odds it’ll seal up when I get back late Friday night for Saturday morning death ride 😂 Also, and possibly related, trying these new 3g valves because I am a sucker

Next to a carbon bicycle wheel, I’m holding Absolute Black’s new Aether carbon-fiber valve stems with big green gaskets

David C B@tzed250· Jul 1

Alright, back in the closet errybody.

cover of Gay Comix #1 by Rand Holmes, 1980
A man in a literal closet he is carrying around has stopped on the sidewalk to gawp through two eye holes in the door at a shirtless skateboarder about to eat a hot dog GASP! ..OH MY GHOD! ….CHOKE… he says

David C B@tzed250· Jun 30

Today’s gonna be a good day

Dark mode NYTimes crossword
A white star on a two-toned gold background:
Congratulations!
You finished a Tuesday puzzle in
8:25

David C B@tzed250· Jun 30

Framing done

David C B@tzed250· Jun 29

Coming along nicely

The side walls and the front and rear walls are all up including the front and rear roof ‘trusses’, 5 more need to be installed and then some miscellaneous bits and bobs. And a door. And a jalousie vent, etc. an orange fiberglass ladder and a white 10x10 canopy complete the scene.

David C B@tzed250· Jun 29

Assembling a free used greenhouse = putting together a Sal’s army jigsaw puzzle with no box

A white 10x10 pop-up canopy protects a greenhouse reassembling project. The front wall with doorway is well begin, piles of weathered aluminum extrusions litter the ground…

David C B@tzed250· Jun 28

Guess I’ll always wax my chain the night before

Arms up! 2nd place ppdium for me today in the Sport 60+ race (I never saw that guy, not at the start and not on the course…)

David C B@tzed250· Jun 28

Speaking of luck, only 13 is run upside down, right?

My branded number plate for today’s Carolina MTB Classic is #113, installed right side up on my turquoise Yeti ASR-C

David C B@tzed250· Jun 25

I’d prefer a progressive tax that approaches 100% asymptotically as next worth nears $1B and then exceeds 100% approaching 200% as net worth nears $1T... a

A Statista graph showing the marginal tax rate in the US from 1913 to 2020 along the X axis, and percentage tax rate from 0% to 100% along the (vertical) Y axis. “ * marginal tax rate is the highest tax rate paid on someone’s income and only applies to income over a certain level. - e.g. earnings above $200k in 1960 were taxed at 90%.” highlights of the graph are a swift rise from 8% in ’13 to 78% in ’18, a peak at 94% at the end of WWII, a plateau from ’65 to ’81 at 69.13% that ended with Reagan in two steps down to 28% with a rise to 40% in the early ‘90s where it has remained until now, give or take.

David C B@tzed250· Jun 25

Still thinking about my experience at the Cooper-Hewitt in the OJAS room… the way the sound was big without being loud. Crazy. I really want to build a room like that. #cantwinlottosoonenough

An ornate room in the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper-Hewitt museum has been turned into a recorded-music listening room with a very large pair of 3-way speakers backed by a large subwoofer with two drivers.
Miles Davis live at the Fillmore East (1970) was playing the day I was there.
From the Cooper-Hewitt web-site:
Posted by Laurie Bohlk on December 10, 2025
HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3 features a large-scale, handmade audio system by multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull. Known under his creative pseudonym OJAS, Turnbull handcrafts high-fidelity audio systems designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion.

Upon entering, visitors will experience realistic, natural sound from Turnbull’s sculptures and a chance to slow down and engage deeply with sound.

The listening room is part of the exhibition Art of Noise.

David C B@tzed250· Jun 24

About a gajillion 1/2-lap joints today, at least I have shade to work in. #greenhouse

A row of pressure-treated 4x4s on a sawhorse. I’ve made a series of parallel cuts to remove most of the waste, a nice sharp 1” chisel waits to clean up the rest. Below, a blue 5-gallon bucket full of slices, bits, sawdust, and shavings.

David C B@tzed250· Jun 23

Trying again, with a thermometer this time

An Ooni portable pizza oven sits on a piece of granite on top of a table outside in the rain. A thermometer reads 397 F

David C B@tzed250· Jun 23