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7/7 Bike route links: http://bicycling.511.org http://vader.abag.ca.gov:8080/BikeQuest http://pages.prodigy.net/hamachi/BikeRoute http://www.klimb.org/klimb.html \_ WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA? \_ RIDE TOM! -yermom \_ USE YERMOM! -linux \_ Why do you hate yermom? \_ I don't hate yermom, yermom is interested. \_ IF YOU AREN'T WITH YERMOM, YOU'RE WITH THE TERRORISTS \_ Did someone ask for bike route links? \_ I think this is tom's clumsy attempt at evangelizing. \_ wrong, twink. someone asked yesterday about bike route links. And I did not post the above. Presumably the OP from yesterday found some. -tom \_ where did "twink" come from originally? does it make you a better person everytime you use the word? \_ http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/t/twink.html http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Twink |
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bicycling.511.org pledge to try bicycling to work and be eligible to win prizes including a Timbuk2 messenger bag! Three cyclists Check back frequently for announcements of upcoming events and activities for bicyclists. ANNOUNCEMENTS: 511 User Survey Give us your opinion about the 511 telephone service! Call 511 to participate in a user survey and receive a free 511 mug or tote bag. Street Skills for Cyclists Courses Bicycle safety classes offered in the Bay Area teach you how to operate your bike smoothly in traffic. |
vader.abag.ca.gov:8080/BikeQuest -> vader.abag.ca.gov:8080/BikeQuest/ Go Coming Soon: origin/destination geocoding The 511 BikeQuest Map Tool will be updated soon to allow you to specify an origin and/or destination location for a bike trip by entering an address, intersection or landmark name. A symbol will be placed on the map at these locations to make the map more meaningful. |
pages.prodigy.net/hamachi/BikeRoute -> pages.prodigy.net/hamachi/BikeRoute/ Bike Route is a free bicycle route planning program for Mac OS X Use it before you ride, to select routes that challenge you or to stay comfortably within your capabilities for distance or total elevation gain. Measure routes after you have ridden them, to keep track of your accomplishments. Download Bike Route (15 megabytes) Some of Bike Route's major features are: * view high-resolution topographic maps at up to 5 zoom levels * automatically calculate route lengths and elevation changes * rapidly explore different route alternatives; think of it as a spreadsheet for your bicycle * find points of interest along your route * quickly locate road intersections by name * view and print maps, route sheets, and elevation profiles * edit maps to add your own roads and points of interest * exchange route files with other users. System Requirements You must have Mac OS X to run Bike Route. The application itself is 21 megabytes stripped, with the remaining space occupied by the map files. Most users can get by with a lot less, because how many California users need maps of Ohio? zone San Francisco Bay Area road maps 213 The Bike Route application uses lots of memory. It has run on systems with less, but your computer may freeze or crash if you have lots of maps or run low on swap space. |
www.klimb.org/klimb.html OVERVIEW KLIMB is program which allows you to plan bike routes interactively on topographical maps of the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Ohio and other areas. You create a route by clicking on nodes marking key intersections or on the roads between the nodes. As you are building the route, it will then tell you the total distance and climbing. At any time, with a press of the button, you can get a distance and altitude profile of the route or a detailed description of the route. San Francisco Bay Area Altitude/Distance Biking Graph displayed on top of USGS topographic maps. Originally, KLIMB was only available for the San Francisco Bay Area but with version 20 KLIMB also covers central Ohio, Mt Tamalpais and some other areas as well. |
info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/t/twink.html may derive from gay slang for a cute young thing with nothing upstairs (compare mainstream chick'). |
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Twink according to previous definitions, a twink is a low-level white homosexual who receives powerful "equipment" from a higher level homosexual in order to excel at role-playing some kind game. i was playing everquest, and i went into this dungeon where there was a bear, and he wanted to do this scene with me with all this equipment... referring to young or youthful, homosexual males, with little or no body hair, and semi-athletic or skinny build (think swimmers). have penchants for orgies, circuit parties, and vanilla sex. "Gurrl, I can't believe that twink Jonathan rejected that hot muscle mary at the club last night. click to vote A term often used to describe a youthful homosexual male, who is smooth-bodied, only slightly-muscular, with little or no body hair, and has a semi-athletic build. click to vote 1: n A person who plays tabletop RPGs and uses his mathematical skills to pick out imbalances in a game system to make a character that is more powerful while staying within the rules. Powergamers in that a twink seeks to manipulate the rules, while a powergamer generally seeks to have the most powerful character without regard to the rules. Honest to god, I look at the system and I see 'that stat is better than this one', and you expect me to spend points in a useless attribute? Furcadia, Twinks are powergamers, and god-modders who do not know how to RP. Often a word thrown around too often, and used quite too much. Twink kills everyone in the room without even thinking about it, but then cries for a flower he accidentally stepped on. click to vote When a higher level character buys high end gear for a low level character he created. I heard Warrior VonWarriorstein created a shaman twink with some uber gear. |