Recent content by ancient_mariner

As observed above, cycling develops very different skills, largely due to the fact that cyclists move around traffic instead of being part of it. They usually rely on others not to hit them, rather than being capable of effective evasive action themselves.

Lifesaver?

While that's true, as a cyclist it's different. On a motorcycle you're in the middle of the road travelling with the cars, but vulnerable. It builds a greater and different awareness, rather than just hoping the cars see you and don't knock you off.

Required basic training as suggested above, plus if everyone has ridden a bike before they should be more bike-aware and have fewer SMIDSY incidents. Sorry Mate I Didn't See You.

Requiring everyone wanting to drive to spend their first year on the road riding a motorcycle would teach a lot of road-craft skills than few can pick up driving a car.

Logging in to the government gateway. Had to call twice, once password reset, then a change of authentication method, Finally in! Then trying again just an hour or so later I can't log in with a similar set of problems as before. :mad:

Descartes was a drunken fart by the same token, but hopefully his aim was ok.

Thank you Stephen. I'm actually a little uncomfortable with it because it looks too unreal, like something AI might have created, although it isn't generated.

Possibly a touch smaller, but otherwise yes. It's lighter than the 55 because of the plastic body.

A bit of local mono (not local colour ;) )

Sony/Minolta 50 f1.4 in A mount - use with an adapter and it'll AF for you too. The rendering is lovely, although it suffers a bit of coma and isn't especially sharp.

I used my 50 f1.2 all the way between 1.2 and 16 on today's walk, though 16 isn't quite enough for sunstars.

I would be more than a little cautious about the legality of reverse engineering the software, even if you don't sell it afterwards.