Author: Tony Dalmyn
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Elevations
Endless This is an endless post. I will modify it. Devices and Technological Garmin Edge 130 elevations My Garmin Edge 130 is an “entry level” GPS device with a barometric altimeter. That model is no longer on the market. A small head unit with a barometer is at and entry level price is a bargain.…
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Distances from CRD 3
Endless This is posted as an endless post. It will be updated. I moved to the house I refer to as location CRD3 in NW Esquimalt in late June, 2023. I started to check distances on the routes I ride often. As there are many ways of adding to a ride, I am concentrating on…
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Vic West, CRD 2
I moved to Victoria West in 2020, part of the City of Victoria on the Esquimalt side of the Gorge, west of urban Victoria. As of November 2020, I was north (or west) of the Bay Street Bridge, north of the Johnson Street Bridge, near the Selkirk Trestle. I was few hundred m. west of…
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Covid-19 #3: 2023, Omicron
Continuity This Post This post has been updated or republished periodically since January 3, 2023. It was concluded May 6, 2023, when the World Health Organization declared the end of its formal determination that Covid-19 had become a world-wide emergency (Pandemic). It follows earlier posts: Omicron evolved Omicron, Pango lineage B.1.1.529, was discovered in South…
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Escape Collective
Cycling Tips Magazine CyclingTips started as an online magazine (web publication in 2008; commercial web publication in 2013). In my view, CyclingTips was the leading source of information on maintaining and repairing bicyles in 2020, 2021 and 2022. The Nerd Alert podcast was informative. Mergers and Acquisitions Pocket Outdoor Media, the corporate owner of Beta,…
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American Republics
American Republics by Alan Taylor is an accessible book for a broad audience by a professional historian. It addresses the period after the Revolution when the U.S.A. expanded to occupy the midwest, the Great Plains, the Southwest and the Pacific Northwest. The book discusses the issues on which many Americans shared the same attitudes. Americans…
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Woke?
Introduction Language The argument about what woke means is part the American polical “culture war” in the early 21st century. The conservative writer Ross Douthat suggested in an article in the liberal New York Times, that “woke” marks a change to left wing “progressive” or modern values in American politics, and the understanding of liberalism:…
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Hypertension
Resources Wikipedia Science and Medical: Salt and sodium: Governments USA – re Salt USA – Re Nutrients, Food Components The US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service’s FoodData Central (“USDA FDC”) can search 5 data sets called It may be necessary to repeat searches in each set. The American government collect or tests samples for…
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Covid-19 #2: 2022, Omicron
Continuity This Post This post was written over a few months from late August 2022 to December 2022, was first published in October, and revised. It follows an earlier post, Covid-19 #1: Covid-19 wanes, Omicron Rises. Omicron evolved Omicron, Pango lineage B.1.1.529, was recognized as a variant of concern of Covid-19 by the WHO in…
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2022 Rides
My spreadsheet for 2022 is published as a Google Sheet on my Google Drive account. Good year. I rode my Cannondale Topstone. I rode 6095.1 Km. I rode with a hernia. Medical care was slow. I made more notes of maintenance. I started lubricating the drive train with paraffin. The weather in November and December…