MattPie

No, you're our rando on the internet. 💙

The Sabres/NHL aren't even getting YouTube highlights revenue from me this year for 90% of the games.

I was asked about my accent shortly after moving from Buffalo to Binghamton, lol.

November 14th, I presume?

Nice @Doohicksie! I did my first metric a few weeks ago. It was... an experience, lol. I'd do it again, although probably on a bit less gravel, and not having done a climby ride the night before.

Come on, you have "Squabbling Sabres" sitting right there!

The guy is making a career out of 1-2 year deals. Definitely good for him, I'm glad to see him moderately successful.

Not really, bicycles, ebikes, and motorcycles are normal road users and can use the entire lane if they need to.

The guy that won was apparently a pro for awhile, but I'm not sure what level.

Cyclocross is freaking hard. Not my video, but somewhere in it you'll see me get lapped. EDIT: ~26:05, I'm in orange and navy kit.

If only they could have put the stadium somewhere that was more convenient to people coming over the border. Heck, find the right place and you could have run a ferry so people didn't have to drive. If only that place existed. Sigh.

I kinda agree. At a cap-hit of like $4.5M, that's something that I bet a lot of teams are carrying around with a bad contract or two. You could even trade him and retain some and I bet there'd be takers.

I can't believe the state of this franchise; they can't even get PTO players to sign here! (Did I do that right?)

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series is a really good read; sci-fi distant future stuff A Half-built Garden by Ruthanna Emyrs is a good near-future sci-fi book where people work together rather than have corporations dictate tastes NK Jemisin The City We Became and The World We Make is a fun comic-book-ish horror series centered around NYC Currently reading The Ray Nayler The Mountain in the Sea, more near-future but dystopian sci-fi that I'm really digging

Most people recommend to carry a tube just in case you get something that you can't plug. We had this happen on a recent gravel ride; oddly enough, it was a guy on MTB. Unfortunately, he ended up walking for awhile until one of us got back and picked him up with the car. If you get a really bad hole, you can also use a wrapper or dollar inside the tire to cover the hole and it'll hold until you get home. FWIW, my gravel bike didn't like getting set up tubeless, so I'm still running tubes there. Speaking of bikes, I might be in Ft Worth in October; my tradition for work trips is to bring my bike and ride a couple days after the trip is done. Are there some good places to ride out there?

I mean, easy in hindsight but there *were* some big question marks at the time.

Oh jeez, we were staying right where you worked. AC Hotel on Nash and Maple a block or two south of LAX. I didn't ride Ballona Creek path (although that was on my radar), I was going to ride along Playa Del Beach, but instead went to Venice beach and then rode from there up to the end of the path past Santa Monica pier and back. I rode a bit of that section of Imperial Highway and I found it uninspiring, other than airplane-fan me looking over at LAX.

Some more LA photos. Turns out, you can ride a bike up to the top of Mt Lee behind the Hollywood sign. Also some Santa Monica beach pics in there. https://photos.app.goo.gl/moQwMPBHnAyPgLuG9

That's such a sweet ride, congrats. I don't have a carbon bike, but I love all the other things you mentioned; brifters, disc, and clipless. And gravel bikes rock, almost as fast as a road bike, but go anywhere. I do a Thursday night ride that ends up on gravel roads, state forest roads, and some state forest trails. I'm doing a minivacation in LA right now, and managed to do a decent climb in the Santa Monica mountains last night. 2000ft up over a little under 8 miles. Never thought I'd enjoy riding bikes up hills this much. https://photos.app.goo.gl/BfGWHw4JdywMQB8B7 Latigo Canyon Road, near Malibu. It's cloudy, but the ocean is in the distance there. Life goals.

Userfriendly was a hit when it stopped creating new content too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly

How could you have possibly figured that out?!!?

FWIW, I work for a large company. There are at least 50 employees with "Colton" as a first name. Based on scanning the profile pictures, they're not all NHL-player aged. Does seem like a lot of them work in southern states, so it might not be as common in the Northern states.

I suspect teams in the finals *could* make a trade, but the incoming player wouldn't be eligible to play so there's zero benefit. Interesting question though: if you play a game in the finals or enough during the season, but get traded before the end of the series, do you still get your name on the cup?

Rando New Pink info in the comments: