General life questions / observations / random whatever thread

[El Diablo]

lippy,

It's pretty damn good. Nine at the Palms was also great. Delmonico Steakhouse is maybe a little more on the traditional, fancy dining side, whereas Nine is maybe a little bit more modern, hip feel. I dunno, I love them both, they each have a different vibe to them but both are great.

[ClarkNasty]

Apparently San Francisco has awesome roast beef.

[Mat Sklansky]

Has anyone here been in a motorcycle accident they truly believe they could not have prevented?

[adsman]

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Has anyone here been in a motorcycle accident they truly believe they could not have prevented?

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I've been in two that I could not have prevented. The first I was riding slowly down a wet street at night, doing maybe 30. It hadn't rained for a long while and the roads was greasy. My handlebars began girating wildly without warning and the next thing I knew I was sliding down the street on my hands without any gloves on. I had been riding in a straight line at the time. Got up without a scratch.

Second time I was on a dirt road with a passenger. Coming around a blind corner I met a car that was going way too fast in the middle of the road. I took the bike straight off the road at the corner and slid down a small ravine. Once again not a scratch to either of us but the bike was not happy. Neither was I.

[Neko]

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Has anyone here been in a motorcycle accident they truly believe they could not have prevented?

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Depends on how nitty about the definition of prevented is. I was riding an older motorcyle ('72 Honda CB 350 ftw) 6 years ago when, unbeknownst to me, a gasket on one of the cases went coating my back tire in engine oil. The first corner I attempted to make the rear tire just washed out and I went down at 35 MPH.

I guess the accident could have been prevented by replacing the gasket prior to riding, but I had no idea it was in bad shape.

[keikiwai]

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Has anyone here been in a motorcycle accident they truly believe they could not have prevented?

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Depends on how nitty about the definition of prevented is. I was riding an older motorcyle ('72 Honda CB 350 ftw) 6 years ago when, unbeknownst to me, a gasket on one of the cases went coating my back tire in engine oil. The first corner I attempted to make the rear tire just washed out and I went down at 35 MPH.

I guess the accident could have been prevented by replacing the gasket prior to riding, but I had no idea it was in bad shape.

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my scuba instructor was sitting stopped at a red light, a car rear ended him and he broke his arm

i guess he could have gunned it into the intersection and played frogger? but it seems like it was pretty hard to prevent

[mbillie1]

Anyone have any good book recommendations? I've read 15 books the last 15 days at "work" and now I need to go buy some more. What I've read: (I've enjoyed them all)

Jose Saramago - Blindness
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Gino Segre - Faust in Copenhagen
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Jose Saramago - Seeing
Goethe - Faust

anyone have anything along those lines?

[bobhalford]

I enjoyed "A Moveable Feast" by Hemingway. I believe it was published posthumously. It's a sort of autobiography. Much of it was written when he was in love, or so a former teacher told me.

For those with Fresh Direct accounts, make sure to get in on the President's Special this week: Stone Crabs. I just got 3 pounds today and can't express my joy in eating these. I just put in another order to be delivered on Sunday, for 3 more pounds. I think they are on sale for $15.99/lb. They are cooked and ready to eat. Delicious.

[mbillie1]

I had to pay to get rid of my stone crabs [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
<font color="white">can bad jokes be in this thread too?</font>

[keikiwai]

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Anyone have any good book recommendations? I've read 15 books the last 15 days at "work" and now I need to go buy some more. What I've read: (I've enjoyed them all)

Jose Saramago - Blindness
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Gino Segre - Faust in Copenhagen
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway - In Our Time
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Jose Saramago - Seeing
Goethe - Faust

anyone have anything along those lines?

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Steinbeck - Log of the Sea of Cortez, Cannery Row, anything else

Jack London - Seawolf

Graham Greene - anything - The Heart of the Matter for example

random: Now and on Earth by Jim Thompson

short stories by JD Salinger
Franny and Zooey
Raise High the Roof Beam
Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction