What is new in your little world?

[Κracus]

I passed the state required motorcycle endorsement course today.

Cool man, I did the same thing even though I already knew how to ride. What bike do you have your eye on, or do you already own a bike?

[xer0s]

Read the thread...

[YourGrandpa]

So I finally broke down and bought a bike. I decided this would be a good starter. Big enough to comfortably ride and inexpensive enough to get rid of if I don't enjoy it.
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2005 Honda VTX1300C

[Κracus]

Nice dude, be careful out there. Lots of idiots more than willing to kill you to get home 2 minutes faster.

Better to give way even though you're in the right than to be dead right.

[YourGrandpa]

Nice dude, be careful out there. Lots of idiots more than willing to kill you to get home 2 minutes faster.

Better to give way even though you're in the right than to be dead right.

I ride like everyone isn't paying attention. Extended following distances, no unnecessary passing, no more than 10 mph over the posted speed, flash brake light when breaking, constantly checking mirrors, escape route planning at every stop, etc. I live in Florida where there are lot of really old people who have no business driving. You've got to ride on the razor's edge at all times.

[YourGrandpa]

where d'ya put the wide load sign?

On your woman's fat ass (if you had a woman).

[Whiskey 7]

I ride like everyone isn't paying attention. Extended following distances, no unnecessary passing, no more than 10 mph over the posted speed, flash brake light when breaking, constantly checking mirrors, escape route planning at every stop, etc. I live in Florida where there are lot of really old people who have no business driving. You've got to ride on the razor's edge at all times.

I drive everyday like that because it is a madhouse out on the road.

[YourGrandpa]

Going from home to office, job to job and back home again, I dive around 60K miles per year. I'm WAY more comfortable in my truck. For one, it's easier to be seen. I'm also surrounded by metal and not so worried about getting run over while stopped. I'm not saying you should be less careful in a car/truck. But you are certainly more aware/nervous while riding a motorcycle. At least I am anyway.

[ToxicBug]

Bought a Blendtec. Anyone else have one? What do you make in it?

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[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

does any blender count or just a blendtec?

[ToxicBug]

does any blender count or just a blendtec?

Any high-powered blender, I guess. Blendtec, Vitamix, Ninja, etc.

I made hot soup with it today, that was pretty cool.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

nope i dont have anything like that. i do enjoy a good soup though.

i had an asian knockoff once, a brenteck.

[Captain]

I have a Nutri Ninja Pro 900 and use it to make the most amazing protein fruit smoothies. My girlfriend has a serious food processor for delicious soups.

[Whiskey 7]

Going from home to office, job to job and back home again, I dive around 60K miles per year. I'm WAY more comfortable in my truck. For one, it's easier to be seen. I'm also surrounded by metal and not so worried about getting run over while stopped. I'm not saying you should be less careful in a car/truck. But you are certainly more aware/nervous while riding a motorcycle. At least I am anyway.

I'd feel better in a big F350 too of course
FYI I am on old motorcycle rider and currently a pushbike rider (recreational) and street wise.

[Whiskey 7]

Have you ever placed a can of soft drink in the freezer and forgetting it, later find it has exploded?


I put a bottle of wine in the freezer to cool down last night and forgot all about it until this morning when I expected to find a broken or at least cracked bottle and/or pieces of frozen wine ice-blocks littering the freezer drawer.

Well I am astonished! To my complete amazement the bottle was undamaged and the contents, still firmly capped were frozen solid.

I treated the situation as I would an unexploded bomb and carefully placed a towel over the bottle in situ before attempting to move it. I gingerly removed and carefully carried it the the laundry was tub half expecting it to 'go off' or at least fall apart in my hands.

It has thawed now and I am about to test the contents

Has this ever happened to you and did you get away with it like I have apparently done?

[xer0s]

Yeah, it's usually alright to keep booze in the freezer. The alcohol won't freeze, so the chance of a burst is minimal...

[obsidian]

Liquids (such as alcohol) contract in volume when frozen, with the special exception of water.

[phantasmagoria]

Yeah, the properties of water are pretty unique, but because of its ubiquity we think they're the norm for all liquids.

Water, for example, is almost one of the only liquids that floats on itself when solid!

[Whiskey 7]

Marvelous, so interesting and this stuff we (I) never think about.
Here I was thinking all liquids expand somewhat when frozen.

[Eraser]

Isn't water actually one of the few substances that's liquid at room temperature and atmospheric pressure?

[Whiskey 7]

Isn't water actually one of the few substances that's liquid at room temperature and atmospheric pressure?

Substances?

There's only two elements that are liquid at room temperature.
Mercury is the one I remember...... googles... Ah yes,the other is Bromine (Br), an reddish brown liquid with a suffocating odor...

[Whiskey 7]

............... has thawed now and I am about to test the contents

Yep, tastes like normal

[mrd]

Pretty sure that water expands when frozen due to the crystal lattice structure that is formed upon freezing, which basically introduces "pockets" of space in between the crystals, which then manifest as a greater over volume for the same mass, and less density. Also, buoyancy is a function of displaced liquid mass and displacing object mass. If the displaced liquid mass is greater than the object that displaces it, the object floats. So, larger ice crystals displace their volume in water, which is necessarily heavier because we've already established that ice is less dense than water, so ice floats on water.

This is why boats are wide. They displace a fuckton of water, and that volume of water weighs far more than the boat does, so the boat floats.

Isn't this like grade 6 physics?

[Eraser]

Isn't water actually one of the few substances that's liquid at room temperature and atmospheric pressure?

Substances?

There's only two elements that are liquid at room temperature.
Mercury is the one I remember...... googles... Ah yes,the other is Bromine (Br), an reddish brown liquid with a suffocating odor...

Water isn't an element.
H is an element, O is an element and combined they form... H2O!

[Whiskey 7]

I know water is a substance as is petrol and oil, blood even... There must thousands of substances liquid at STP (standard temperature & pressure).

Isn't water actually one of the few substances that's liquid at room temperature and atmospheric pressure?