What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[onlinebiker]

Harley Panheads (1939-65) with sidecars had jockey shift ( hand shift, foot clutch) and a reverse gear with no safety gate.

A group of us were bar hopping - and Kenny Wilson (deceased) was riding his ratty 59 pan. ( without the sidecar).

We all fired up our bikes (all kick only) and sat at the curb revving engines and being annoying. Gears were grabbed and we all went to take off - Kenny in reverse - up over the curb, across the sidewalk and right into the brick wall of the bar.....

Big yucks were had for weeks as the story was repeated again and again.....

[Fireball]

One of my friends had that setup. Glass doorknob for the shift lever and all. One day, coming up to a red light he missed the foot clutch and went through the intersection with his foot up in the air. The LAPD was sitting there but missed the show.   At least he didn't get a ticket...or hit.

[The Grand Nudger]

I just learned that scott cunningham was an active author for my formative years but had in fact, died in '93, at the age of 36. Gave me a good idea for a thread...and for a business. Turns out, Llewellyns "Midnight Ink" fiction imprint hit hard times in 2018 after launching in 2005 - replicating the circumstances that saw llewellyn move from portland to st paul in the 70s. I bet it's for sale for a song.

Waaaaaay back in the day, I figured the crowning achievement of my life would be to someday make a quality sheaf of paper. It's been 40 years...and I have yet to make even one single leaf. My youngest daughter, otoh, has exceeded what she knows she can do with commercially available paper.

All of my ag grants run out this year...and IDK if I even still want to satisfy them. My eldest daughter wonders if maybe I should grown rivercane for the basketweavers in berea. The Wife wants me to plant spruce and pine along the border of our property and sell so we can move. I once told her that the future of humanity lay north of the 55th para - and now she wants me to grow rivercane for the weavers in berea....but from up there. It's very far from the south, from the place I draw my own strength. I guess, in short, I'm just afraid to go so far. This sets up a soft dilemma for me and The Wife, on account of how one of the reasons she very much wanted to have my children way back in the day - is because I'd gone so far from home.

[Foxaèr]

Of course, mom is still going strong...I am fully convinced that evil doesn't die.

[Foxaèr]

I just learned that scott cunningham was an active author for my formative years but had in fact, died in in '93, at the age of 36.  Gave me a good idea for a thread.

I purchased and read his book when I was younger. Did you ever create that thread?

[arewethereyet]

There are a few books and magazine articles that mention my grandfather.  

Here's an excerpt from an article in the 'Island Free Press' from 2012

1953 was a pivotal year, for in that spring two brand new charter boats arrived in Hatteras. Until that time the charter fleet consisted of boats built for the dual purposes of both sport and charter fishing. But both of these boats, the Albatross III and the Twins, began service exclusively as charter boats.
The arrival of the Twins is particularly notable for it marked the entrance of Capt. Edgar Styron into the charter fishing business of Hatteras, and he was to have a major impact. Capt. Edgar operated out of the Blue Marlin Restaurant and Docks, the present site of the Hatteras Marlin Club, and in 1954, he added the Twins II to his charter business. In adding the Twins II, he introduced the first diesel-powered charter boat to the Hatteras fleet.
Capt. Edgar was an outspoken man, given a bit to deering-do, and he was a great fisherman. He caught marlin, lots of marlin, and he caught some of them very quickly, maneuvering the boat in what was then considered to be a bit of a reckless manner, but what is now accepted as standard maneuvering technique for fighting big fish. He popularized fishing on “the rocks,” an area which is now known as the “230” rock. He caught bluefin tuna in March. And he developed both a national and international clientele.
Among his captains were Capt. Clam Stowe and Capt. Elmer Balance, and it was during the years that the Twins and Twins II ran charters that the pioneering days of charter fishing in Hatteras reached full bloom. (It is also worth noting that Capt. Edgar was a crew member on the Jersey Devil when she caught the only 1,000-pound marlin ever brought into Hatteras — a 1,028-pound fish that was the 80-pound line class record for a number of years.

****The boats were named for my aunt and uncle who are twins.  A rarity on the island.  Captain Edgar (or as he was known - Egger) was my grandfather.

[The Grand Nudger]

I just learned that scott cunningham was an active author for my formative years but had in fact, died in in '93, at the age of 36.  Gave me a good idea for a thread.

I purchased and read his book when I was younger. Did you ever create that thread?

Working on it, I have relatively few original threads* for being one of our most prolific posters. But fuck all that, what was that book for you?

*mostly because they go over like farts in a church

[Jackalope]

Talked with my sister yesterday...it appears that the generation before us is not in good shape.

Brother's mother-in-law passed away.

One of our uncles is on hospice.  His wife (our aunt) is going to an oncologist today as they found a mass in her abdomen.  Another uncle has now added heart issues to his prostate issues on top of all the issues he has suffered from a severe car accident when he was a teen.

Of course, mom is still going strong...I am fully convinced that evil doesn't die.

I see some grim times in the near future.  If the aunt and blood uncle don't make it...another aunt recently died...that will leave three siblings out of the seven on mom's side.  UGH

I'm sorry all of this is happening, that has to be a heavy load

[Angrboda]

I learned how to repair a Windows system with corrupt system files. Both my desktop and my testing system have been afflicted recently. There was a bad stick of memory in the desktop, but even after replacing there have been issues. The first symptom was that Alt-tab stopped working. After replacing the memory stick, reinstalling the video drivers fixed that. But even with good ram, Ctrl+A stopped working, requiring the same fix. I haven't tested the memory on the testing system, so that's a possibility. It isn't saving my changes to the power plan scheme, resulting in the screen turning off every 20 minutes, no matter how many times that I tell it not to do so.

[Angrboda]

A 12" pizza won't fit in a 10" handlebar basket. Of course, I could have taken it out of the thermal bag and shoved it in the panniers, but that would have made too much sense. As would removing the strap-on flasher that I had attached to the rear rack before entering the store. I returned 20 minutes later to find it still stuck to the rack, dutifully flashing red for nobody's benefit. I'm surprised it still had a charge given that it hasn't seen a charger in over a year. Which reminds me that I need to replace the batteries on the hub flashers. They're more for show than anything, but in for a penny, in for a pound.