A few thoughts about my return to playing after distal radius and ulnar styloid fracture and Colles’ Fracture surgery. A few years ago, I experienced a broken wrist in a high-speed cycling crash. I had surgery on the wrist and… Read More »Guitar after a broken wrist
If a dog spends over a year at a shelter, watching patiently as the dogs around her come in and out every few weeks, you can be pretty sure the dog has some medical or behavioral challenge that requires that… Read More »It’s not easy being a pit bull
Making sense of all of the pop-up and overlay displays on the Zwift screen. The first in a series of posts.
NASCAR is moving from the time-honored 15″ steel wheels to 18″ aluminum, I guess because the ride of a NASCAR race car wasn’t harsh enough.
If you’re a Zwifter, chances are that you’re running (or wish you were running) the Wahoo Kickr smart trainer. The Kickr, which is now in its fifth generation, may not be the absolute best trainer out there, but it is… Read More »Wahoo Kickr AXIS Action Feet review
Suffering through the Star Trek: Discovery two part Terra Firma episode, I was reminded of something I read many, many years ago, and it struck me how long this particular anecdote has stayed in my mind. I haven’t been able… Read More »On the perfectibility of man
Well, after reading more about the psychology of free-to-play games, I’ve finally given up Sim City BuildIt once and for all (… but probably not for long). (For the record, SCB wasn’t by any means the worst offender in the… Read More »A walled garden — with zombies
There is a game called Homescapes whose ads subject you to an endless loop of an animated hand attempting —and failing— over and over, to solve a simple logic problem. There are tons of games like this out there, each… Read More »Possibly proving you’re an idiot
When I started this blog, I had only one over-arching goal, and that was to give myself an opportunity to practice writing. I write a lot of emails in my day-to-day life, and I write some code and instructions on… Read More »On losing focus
Which is harder, a 100-mile century ride on the road or a 100-mile century ride in Zwift? Is zwift harder than riding outside? Riding 100 miles isn’t particularly easy even under the best circumstances, and involve many hours of cycling,… Read More »Zwift Century vs. Actual Outdoor Century Ride