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Joker Corzo Cr25
I have been looking for some good-looking knife that I can bring on my camping tour. I often travel in my beloved Mazda Miata (MX-5) with my beloved Hannah (female cat). To save money, I stay at camping sites as much as possible and I don't eat out.

A handy knife is needed to cut open some packages (containing salamis or others).

I recently bought a small (but heavy) knife that I found on Amazon. It is a nice knife but I could not help keep looking for another.

I kept watching YouTube videos about bushcraft (or hunting) knives. I learned about the grinds and some materials. Now I found this one.

A Joker Corzo from Spain. Luckily I live in EU and getting it is easy and the shipping charge is almost nothing. Should I get it?

This one is not too expensive. The blade material is not a high class alloy metal. It is small. And most importantly I will never hew some logs with it.

In English: 続きをどうぞ [Joker knives, are they good?]の続きを読む

テーマ:アウトドア - ジャンル:スポーツ

1. 2025/01/13(月) 23:45:48|
2. Camping in Europe
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AliExpress shopping
What have I ordered from AliExpress this time? Mostly bike parts, I think.

1. 2 bearings
2. 1 RISK bike cable set
3. 1 set (10 pieces) of RISK plastic cable ends
4. 1 bike stand
5. 50 pieces of rubber O rings (1 x 20 x 22)
6. 10 pieces of rubber O rings (2.5 x 55 x 60)
7. 1 Chainring 56 teeth
8. 1 Chainring 36 teeth
9. 1 Chainring 38 teeth
10. 1 set (of 2 brake/2 shift) wires
11. 2 bottle cages
12. 1 set (10 pieces) of RISK silicon frame protectors
13. 1 portable foldable pet enclosure
14. 1 set titanium cutlery

Wow! I ordered a lot of things.

1. 2 bearings
These bearings are for the front fork of my Cervélo bike.

2. 1 RISK bike cable set
I bought two of them a while ago. I just wanted one more.

3. 1 set (10 pieces) of RISK plastic cable ends
Plastic cable ends might be useful than the aliminum ones that came in the kit above.

4. 1 bike stand
It a mini acrylic piece that goes under the pedal.

5. 50 pieces of rubber O rings (1 x 20 x 22)
They could (if my measurement is correct) be used on the bottom cap of my Streamlight Stinger flashlights.
(1 mm width, inner diameter 20 mm and outer 22 mm)

6. 10 pieces of rubber O rings (2.5 x 55 x 60)
They could (ditto) be used on the race humber holder on the seat post.

7. 1 Chainring 56 teeth
8. 1 Chainring 36 teeth
9. 1 Chainring 38 teeth
They will be used on my Birdy. (110 BCD)

10. 1 set (of 2 brake/2 shift wires)
They will be used on my Cervélo bike.

11. 2 bottle cages
(ditto) Of carbon composite material

12. 1 set (10 pieces) of RISK silicon frame protectors
(ditto)

13. 1 portable folding pet enclosure
My Hannah will stretch herself inside during some bike race events beside me (outdoor use).

14. 1 set titanium cutlery
For my camping tour. (knife, spoon, fork, chopsticks)

EV share in European countries

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In English: 続きをどうぞ [EV (BEV / PHEV) share in European countries]の続きを読む

テーマ:日記 - ジャンル:日記

1. 2025/01/13(月) 21:06:31|
2. Bike Races
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Enough is enough!: Ragnarok 2013 a Norwegian film
I was watching it with an English subtitle on the screen, of course. There was a brief line where a man said "Enough is enough" in Norwegian. It sounded like "knock knock to me. It got me curious. So I had to ask Google translate to translate (this is what it does the best) enough is enough into Norwegian.

It came out as "nok er nok." It made sense to me. As I had known the German word for enough "genug" pronounced like "ge(t)-gnu-k" (please treat (t) as silent as g before nu is).

This GE- prefix existed in old English (and it seems that still exist in Dutch) but was at some point of time in English language history "systematically dropped".

I guess it dawned upon the English speaking people that this systematic ge- prefix (attached to verb's past participle) had no effect what's so ever as it was just systematically attached even though almost all verb's past participle had different ending forms (like -ed, -en or something similar) from its present or infinitive ending forms to help the speaker distinguish the difference.

Do you consider it difficult to know the difference between 'smoked' and 'smoke' and also between　'smoke' and 'gesmoked' (I'm just saying this for argumentation's sake and I don't know if in any time past gesmoked ever existed). They are different enough.

Something systematic can be dropped all together when you deem it redundant and they (such things) are not missed. The wisdom of the day!

If you need an example, in old days people (like you see in movies and dramas of, say, Sherlock Homes or Al Capone) had a hat on their head whenever they went out systematically. Today, almost nobody does so systematically but some do so for reasons of their own. This social system (a.k.a. practice) has been dropped all together.

Today, I learned a Norwegian phrase, nok er nok and I'm happy.

In English: 続きをどうぞ [Enough is enough in Norwegian]の続きを読む

テーマ:洋画 - ジャンル:映画

1. 2025/01/12(日) 23:43:32|
2. Diary
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I don't know how long I can shop at aliexpress
Chinese real estate bubble has already burst, right? You may not notice any significant events in your respective countries just because those legacy media don't tell you about those horrific events that are taking place in China.

The bubble has burst just like the subprime loan (real estate) problem surfaced. In normal or advanced democratic countries one thing leads to another like the domino tile falls and triggers a chain reaction sending a tripple of waves around.

This is healthy. If your employer skips your salary for one month, you complain and if it does not work, you step up and take legal measures. If your company can't find enough resources to pay its employees, it faces bankruptcy (chapter 9) and so on.

In China, any sign of a domino tile gets suppressed by the local government and by the big government (the Chinese Communist Party). Some workers don't get paid for months but they have no where to sue your company. The legal system doe not work because the C/C/P is simply above everything and anything.

This kind of suppression applies to anything. Huge companies can not file bankruptcies because the government won't accept them. The government forces banks to lend enough load to survive.

If a local government has a huge debt, the central government make it like a 100-year bond and the first payment begins in ten years. This makes both the local government and creditors survive like zombies.

By now so many tiles have in reality already fallen but we don't really recognize that them have because authorities won't let them. It is like this so-called Zen proposition, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, has the tree really made a sound?"

I don't know how long we can pretend that nothing has happened there and continue as before.

What they (top rulers) are doing is like sending time bombs in the future. If the future like described in "Tenet (2020)" existed, they (the future people) would definitely send them different kinds of bombs back to them. Since I haven't seen any, the inversion technology won't be invented in China. Somewhere else maybe.

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [If a tree falls ]の続きを読む

テーマ:日記 - ジャンル:日記

1. 2025/01/12(日) 01:43:41|
2. Diary
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It's time I start repairing my Birdy (2003 model)
At least I bought it as new way back in spring of 2003. It came with Shimano Caprio component set.

I haven't ridden it more than two years as the shifter began to slip (ratchet gears worn out?). I knew I had to swap them. I knew I would swap the shifter, cables, rear hub, sprocket, deraileur and some others. I bought Shimano Deore XT parts.

Shimano has discontinued its Caprio component line since long time ago. The Caprio rear hub has special measurements (smallest cog 9 teeth).

I have already accumulated enough material to revive it but I have been too lazy.

I'm also planning to renew the front wheel. I'm thinking of making a wheel with the Shimano dynamo-hub using the old rim. I need properly cut spokes.

Making the rear wheel is easier as the hub measurements, as long as the wheel making is concerned, are exactly the same whether it is a Caprio rear hub or almost any other Shimano mountain bike rear hub. I can recycle the spokes without any problems.

Let's start, shall we?

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [Birdy 2003 to be resurrected]の続きを読む

テーマ:自転車（スポーツ用） - ジャンル:スポーツ

1. 2025/01/10(金) 21:22:29|
2. Bikes and related things
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