Month: January 2019

Every one of us at some time in our life bought one of these ‘torchiere’ lamps. Stands on the floor, about the same height as a person. They cost about $20 when I bought mine. They came with a 300W halogen bulb in a tube-style packaged called a ‘T3’ (tubular 3). Most (all?) are 118mm…

So I’m coming up on a conference in San Francisco. And the hotels are crazy expensive. Like more than my first car, per night expensive. I shopped around, and flophouses that have shared bathrooms and are featured in documentaries on Netflix about heroin injection are $300/night. Normally I stay at the airport and take the…

Many years ago there were a small enough machines on the Internet that everybody remembered their names and IP address. Later, this became a single file (hosts.txt) that was shared around. Life was good, shag carpet was considered in-style, and bell-bottoms pretty-neat. Disco ruled. Fast forward to the early 80’s. DNS was invented. It scaled…

So yes I rode in this am. No it was not warm. The main issues were: The snow in the park was about 15-20cm deep and frozen. My wheels sunk in and then i was full stopped! Revert to the road. No amount of power was going to go through that The battery provides negligible…

So it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to corelate that colder weather means less juice in the batteries of your e-bike. This manifests itself in range for sure, but more obviously in torque. There’s just a lot less assist available. Unlike electric cars, e-bikes don’t have battery conditioning (like an air-conditioner/heater for the batteries). In…