In the last two days a person going by the username Iunicycle has started posting. What’s weird is that Iunicycle is the name I use for my yahoo email address and the name I use in yahoo groups. Then two days ago I start seeing my alter-ego posing here on unicyclist.com.
My alter ego’s name is Tom Jackson
He’s from Seattle, WA (I’m from Bellevue, WA)
He’s a computer geek (I’m a computer geek)
Well there should be no confusion, because I am far from being an expert. I didn’t realize that you use the iunicycle user name in other forums.
I wouldn’t mind choosing another name, as this is the only place I have used it. Maybe I should just choose something easy like tom.jackson. Would that work as a user name?
Also, John, if you would like an email address in the iunicycle.com domain, let me know, I’m only using tom, so it is wide open.
Sorry for the surprise.
It’s not problem at all. I was just amused at seeing Iunicycle post here. You can continue using Iunicycle.
The only place I publicly use IUnicycle as my handle is in the yahoo groups. The only group I post to is the BBTCMembers group for the Backcountry Bicycle Trails Club (a Seattle area mountain bike club). If you decide to join the BBTC you might want to pick a different handle to avoid confusion.
On a side note, if I can manage to get aonther muni rider to join the BBTC it would be fun to post a muni ride in their ride calendar. That would be a kick to have a muni ride posted there and have someone actually sign up for the ride.
You know you are a dangerous person. Now I want to get a Muni for the winter months when doing tricks on slick pavement isn’t what I want to do. I really like the kind of leg strength and balance you get from off smooth riding.
I really appreciate your writeups of the fun rides during the National and UNICON 11 events. I have been hoping to find trails that were challenging but possible and fun. Now I need a beefed up tire for my 24". Thanks!
Get a firefox plugin called Answers 2.2.22, if you hold alt and click on any word it brings up a mini window with a definition:
automagically
Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn’t feel like explaining to you. See magic. “The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable.”
This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.
Is there a circumstance whereby the finding out of something is of more value than the actual knowing of it such that the technology that makes it easy for us to know something in the end transforms our knowing of it into a net negative?
