I have new flat bars and grips. What's the easiest way to slide the grips onto the bars?
I just spent the last 10 minutes trying to put a new set of grips on to my mountain bike handlebars..  The old ones came off fairly agreeably and I've got the new ones 80-90% of the way on, however, at this point both my hands are stinging from the aggressive twisting and pushing - I have tried gloves, but I feel it's best left till my hands don't hurt anymore.  Is there a tried and tested way of doing this? Or is there a knack to this that I am missing?
How does the Girl-Genius web-comic relate to the Agatha H. books? After spending some time reading  I was convinced to buy the book.  I've ordered what I think is the  in my local bookstore (yay local) and it seems to relate to the first one or two years of of web content, but I can't be sure.  My question is: "how does the book series line up with the Web comic?"  Does it contain specific episodes/adventures, relate to strips from a specific time-span or is it simply an assortment of episodes?  UPDATE: They are amazing.  It is interplanetary war in the introduction!!!!  Yes! How can the Next Generation's unfamiliarity with the Borg be explained after Archer's encounter? In  Starfleet learns about a culture that we (as audience) know as The Borg. According to TNG, the Federation doesn't seem to know anything about these beings when . Although Archer's crew doesn't learn the name of the Borg, it would be reasonable that the Federation would inherit the information about such a menacing enemy and it would also be reasonable to assume the crew of the Enterprise-D to be able to match their encounter with their databases' information.  Obviously, out-of-universe the explanation is that the scripts weren't written in chronological order, but how can the apparent obliviousness about the Borg be explained in-universe? What does size of a directory mean in output of 'ls -l' command? Why do corn flakes clump together in milk when stirred? The Cheerios Effect is the name the scientific community has given to this phenomenon. When cornflakes or oats are mixed with milk and stirred, they tend to clump together. Why does this happen? Can physics explain this? Why are differential equations for fields in physics of order two? What is the reason for the observation that across the board fields in physics are generally governed by second order (partial) differential equations?    If someone on the street would flat out ask me that question, then I'd probably mumble something about physicists wanting to be able to use the Lagrangian approach. And to allow a positive rotation and translation invariant energy term, which allows for local propagation, you need something like $-\phi\Delta\phi$.  I assume the answer goes in this direction, but I can't really justify why more complex terms in the Lagrangian are not allowed or why higher orders are a physical problem. Even if these require more initial data, I don't see the a priori problem.  Furthermore you could come up with quantities in the spirit of $F\wedge F$ and $F \wedge *F$ and okay yes... maybe any made up scalar just doesn't describe physics or misses valuable symmetries. On there other hand in the whole renormalization business, they seem to be allowed to use lots and lots of terms in their Lagrangians. And if I understand correctly, supersymmetry theory is basically a method of introducing new Lagrangian densities too.   Do we know the limit for making up these objects? What is the fundamental justification for order two? Proof of orthogonal matrix In the following question we regard vectors in $\Bbb R^n$ as columns and define the dot product in the usual way which means that $x · y$ = $x^{t}y$  a) If A is an n × n matrix show that $A_{ij}$ = $e_i \cdot A e_j$ where $e_i$, $i =1, \dots , n$ are the standard basis vectors in $\Bbb R^n$  b) Show that a matrix $P$ is orthogonal if and only if ($Px$) · ($Py$) =$x · y$ for all $x, y$ ∈ $\Bbb R^n$  Working -   I got part (a) alright but have no idea of where to start with part (b) except to use the information that an n x n matrix $P$ is orthogonal if $P^{-1}$= $P^{t}$ and that $P^{t}$$P$=$I$, $P$$P^{t}$=$I$, where $I$ is the identity matrix. Any suggests are gracefully appreciated. Feel free to edit my question for clarity. Thank you Is it true that $A^A\simeq P(A)$? Let $A$ be an infinite set and $$A^A=\{f | f:A\to A\,\,\, \text{is a function}\}.$$ Is there any natural bijection between $A^A$ and $P(A)$? CPU on Ubuntu running high In the terminal I used "top" to check the processes and how much of the CPU was being used as I thought max was 100%, so I restored 292,000 photos with recoverjpeg on my sda1 HDD, I opened the folder and the Nautalis is  fluctuating between 130% and 170% , should I close the program and am I at risk of my gpu locking up ? Group cohomology intuition Group cohomology is one thing I don't seem to get my head around.  I understand $H^0$ as being the "fixed points" but when it comes to anything higher I have no idea what the notions are meant to be capturing...if anything.  For example I can see that 1-cocycles are homomorphisms with a specific property but that property doesn't seem to mean anything to me...and I think it should!  Is there an intuition or example that explains the meaning or is it just something that "stuck" and seems to work in lots of places? Why doesn't the UK ask for travel bookings for a tourist visitor visa? Correct usage of "lest" Which of the followings is/are the correct usage of the word "lest"? How are these different from each other?   ...hesitant to speak out lest he be fired. ...hesitant to speak out lest he'd be fired. ...hesitant to speak out lest he would/will be fired.   P.S. I took point number 1 as the reference for this question from the definition of lest from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Linear transformation $T:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{n}$ such that $T^{2}=\lambda T.$ Let $T$ be a linear transformation $T:\mathbb{R}^{n}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{n}$ such that $T^{2}=\lambda T$ for some $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}.$ Then which of the following is/are true?  $1.\|T(x)\|=|\lambda|\|x\|$ for all $x\in\mathbb{R}^n.$  $2.$ If $\|T(x)\|=\|x\|$ for some non-zero $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}$, then $\lambda=\pm 1.$  $3.T=\lambda I$ where $I$ is the identity transformation on $\mathbb{R}^{n}.$  $4.$ If $\|T(x)\|&gt;\|x\|$ for a nonzero vector $x\in\mathbb{R}^{n},$ then $T$ is singular.  According to me since $T^{2}=\lambda T$ we have $T$ satisfies the polynomial $x^{2}-\lambda x.$ So choices for its minimal polynomial are $x,x-\lambda,x(x-\lambda).$ So $3$rd option is clearly incorrect and $4$th option is not satisfied if $T=I$ and hence correct one. I am confused in first two options . Please help me. Thanks in advance. Find the limit: $\displaystyle\lim_{x\to \infty} (\sqrt{x^2+x}-\sqrt{x^2-x})$. When light waves enter a medium of higher refractive index than the previous, why is it that:  Its wavelength decreases? The frequency of it has to stay the same? Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows How can I find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows?  For instance, when trying to delete a folder, Windows reports this:     The action can't be completed because the folder is open in another program   Happens the same with a file, but how do I find out what program or application is currently using it and preventing me from deleting the file or folder? Problem with PDO MySQL Sharepoint 2010 - Deploy webpart as Feature scope = web I want to create and deploy a web part as web-scoped feature.  In Visual Studio 2010, when I make the feature scope=web, I cannot add the webpart to that feature as I am able to do when scope=site. Which word to use when we ask for help?  Some conditions:     We know that the person asked is able to do it. We don't know if the person asked is able to do it. Fantasy book where a young prince becomes a mage When I was younger (11-12 years old, so the early 2000s) I once read a story where a young boy, who may have been either a young prince or a squire of some sort, is recruited by a wizard and taken to a city to train as a mage.  I seem to remember him living in dorms with the other children at this school, until he gets into difficulty with another of the boys in the dorm. He is kicked out of the dorms and ends up living above a blacksmith shop (I think).  I remember it being the first book in a series of books of which there were about 3 out at the time. I think one of the stories was about the boy going to a tower to do something or other.  Does anyone have any idea what this book series is? I haven't been able to find it for years now but it was a story I really loved. Expressing Gain in Decibels?