ChickenLadyLovesLife

You leave Pete Townsend alone!

I prefer the youtube channels where the person somehow talks about a single tweet for ten minutes. And gets twenty million views.

Well OK, but it will take awhile ...

I’m learning metal working including welding

I learned metal working and got myself a welding machine and riveter as part of my skoolie project (converting a used school bus into a motorhome). It's a great skillset to have, in case I ever build a second skoolie -- which would require me getting Alzheimer's first.

I bought a used school bus for $3600 on eBay to turn into a motorhome ("skoolie"). Best $50,000 I ever spent.

You don't have to tell me -- my main rider is a hybrid from 1998 that I bought on Craigslist for $50.

I can hardly think of a more wholesome hobby!

I would agree except for the $15,000 bicycle. It's just comedy how much these things cost these days.

Planets Fitness

I walked into a Subway one time after a ride wearing my lycra bike shorts and jersey. Some little boys saw me, hiked their shorts up to give themselves wedgies, and started dancing around me like the dwarfs in This is Spinal Tap during the "Stonehenge" scene. Everybody in the place was laughing. I laughed as well and never went into a store again wearing my bike shorts. Kink-shaming can be a force for good.

He's a New York sculptor, which means it was $100,000 of his parents' money.

I was part of a stable of about 50 programmers working for a company that manufactured lubricants circa 2000. For about a month at one point, the entire roomful of programmers spent the entire day calling into Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to try and get on the show. Absolutely nothing happened to the company -- lubricants kept getting manufactured and sent to customers on schedule. The entire operation ran on mainframe applications that dated to the 1970s. I'm not even sure what any of these programmers did other than myself, and all I did was write IE6-based web frontends that sat on top of the mainframe apps (and they're still running to this day lol, which means the mainframe apps are still in use).

I got as far as Calculus III and Linear Algebra in college. Nowadays I'm sure I could not do a derivation or an integration to save my fucking life and when I see a matrix my brain thinks "wow, numbers in a grid!"