My First Kinja Century

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck) 07/09/2018 at 16:07 • Filed to: None

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In cycling, a century is 100 miles in one day. For the less, umm, at h letic, a metric century is 100 kilometers.

Using the same logic, a Kinja Century is 100 stars on one comment/article. After years of kicking around this place, I finally made it.

benjrblant > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:13

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In America, 16 buses is a standard unit of measure.

Wacko > benjrblant 07/09/2018 at 16:15

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just like mustangs are a standard unit of currency .  

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:18

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H ow many chains is that?

Chariotoflove > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:19

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I would have starred it too had I seen it.  I was wondering about that.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:20

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congrats :)

one day i’ll get there too

probably when i stop posting stupid shit (or go full retard:p)

Mercedes Streeter > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:20

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I think I got my first “Century” when I made this Answer of the Day winning comment:

https://jalopnik.com/ten-car-trends-that-need-to-die-1702535593

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:23

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Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:27

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Not my highest starred comment, but still my crowning jewel:

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/oppoen-enrollment-978602058

AfromanGTO > Mercedes Streeter 07/09/2018 at 16:28

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I hate high belt lines so much. Plus the pedestrian crash safety laws. Which makes the front ends even higher.....

TheRealBicycleBuck > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/09/2018 at 16:30

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Since I know what a chain is, I can look up the conversions!

Gunter’s: 2.90909091

Metric: 2.92608

Ramsden’s (aka Engineer’s) : 1.92

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:33

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I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten a ludicrous number of recommends on an FP article (at least north of 80?) but I’m equally sure that it was for something really juvenile.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 16:35

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They used chains extensively to measure out the western united states, I saw one in person at a surveying museum in Lansing MI, I was the only one in there totally geeking out.

http://www.mspsinstitute.org

Takuro Spirit > Chariotoflove 07/09/2018 at 16:41

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I found it by accident looking for a different comment.... I think the authors bury the comments that call out their shitty narratives.

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > Wacko 07/09/2018 at 16:46

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I thought that was only in Florida?

Wacko > Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy 07/09/2018 at 16:53

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no you are mistaking blow and mustangs again.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Takuro Spirit 07/09/2018 at 16:56

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Except they were using the graphics given to them by history channel. They didn't create those graphics themselves

TheRealBicycleBuck > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/09/2018 at 17:22

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I didn’t know anything about chains until I had to learn a little bit about surveying. If you want some really gut-wrenching reading, take a look at the situation in Colorado, outlined in two articles: A Misguided General Land Office Policy ; and The Sanctity of Monuments .

In short, a Colorado GLO policy held that the sanctity of  patents was greater than the sanctity of monuments. This wouldn’t be much of an issue except that there was a lot of shoddy surveying work done in Colorado and many patents don’t properly describe the locations of undisturbed monuments. Fun times being a surveyor in Colorado.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 07/09/2018 at 17:28

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How does the saying go? Garbage in, garbage out.

Responsible reporting would have meant not using the graphics or updating the graphics.

As a rule, I taught students that every map they create should be a standalone product. If the map can’t be read without supporting information, then it is incomplete.

Gizmodo and Jalopnik are notorious for taking graphics out of context and not providing enough supporting information to understand the graphics. They just say, “Oooooo, pretty!” and then throw it into their article.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2018 at 17:43

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But they did provide supporting info in the article itself. In the article itself it lists all the jump lengths

TheRealBicycleBuck > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 07/10/2018 at 08:17

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It appears you missed my point. If you are going to create a graphic, it should be self-supporting, self-sufficient, or go one step further and provide MORE information than is available in the article. Graphics should make the article easier to understand. They shouldn’t require the reader to dig around in the article to pick up missing information, especially when that information is the whole point of the article!

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > Wacko 07/10/2018 at 08:52

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Damnit.  So easy to mix those up though...