Notices by Jason Molenda (jasonmolenda@mastodon.social)

@mario a little surprised the derailleur needed replacing but not surprised by the rest, riding in UK weather is rough on the drivetrain. I usually only get max 10000km on my 11 speed chains and if you keep riding on a chain as it elongates/stretches, it wears down all the cogs on the cassette and the chainrings on the front. And that’s not taking exposure to water into account.

@mario I kind of hate it because every time I see it I think, “how much co2 was emitted for the food I ate”. I doubt that once you calculate it all-in for farming, harvesting, processing, shipping, and preparing, my food powered bicycling is more energy efficient than gas in a car… i say this as someone who commutes to the office nearly every day on a bike, wouldn't give it up, rides like 10,000km/year most years. but this still seems unhelpful to me.

@mario It's one of my favorites of his. I haven't watched it in probably fifteen years but I can remember entire scenes and lines of dialogue perfectly. The scene where Yumiko encounters the funeral procession, I couldn't breathe it was so beautiful. Somehow this film and After Life (ワンダフルライフ) never made it to any streaming/VOD in the US. Criterion released After Life on Bluray/DVD, so you can still get it on physical media, but Maboroshi is real tough to find here. :(