I like its range--a "scaffolding" solution might be dragging an existing dining chair into a closet to reach a high shelf

Or a huge (but still temporary!) multi-story pipe structure

Trying to use one in place of the other can be a surprising mistake😅

I often think of this sort of work as literal scaffolding--like temp structures that help you reach a high point with enough stability to even get up there at all

And then, yeah, you can more clearly from up high too!

The trick is it does have to be stable enough to hold (just eough) weight...

I still have this shirt! (Took that photo yesterday, bumped into it while packing for a trip)

You lub to see it

Like spaghetti--straight until everything gets hot and wet

The "all messages have a subject" seems so minor, but it's incredible--you can actually find and resume conversations

Open source and can freely move between their paid service and self-hosting

For larger teams, the Slack moat is real, sadly (integrations, guests in both directions, etc)

Zulip, by a large margin: zulip.com

Makes sense that re-listening to a Floating Points album gets a slightly different result each time 😅

It's one of these: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLP1G22T

Bunch of cheaper and varied options on AliExpress too

It's kind of a hack, because people I do know get my attention if they spot me for a lovely catch-up conversation

Downside: blisters

Photo from two days later and then two *months* later after an MRI finally confirmed two fractures and two tears

Ended up with a rigid cast for 8 weeks. It was an expensive misadventure and my hand is still not great (I'm riding left-handed)

But I've been unicycling 31 years! Seems a fair price

When mountain unicycling, you want to exit your balance envelope backwards by slowing down. *Maybe* a side exit, if the trail can accomodate that

The crux of mountain unicycling is that momentum is a currency you can spend to manipulate the inertia markets. You need some speed

I guess I should mention that the reason this account hasn't been posting unicycle photos nonstop--or really much of anything--is that:

On October 19th, the first ride after summer weather finally calmed down, I crashed by falling forward during a fast downhill