I hand-delivered this note to my landlord’s office a few moments ago: July 29, 2004 ***** Properties ATTN: **** *** *** Goodman St N Rochester, NY 14607-**** Dear ****: I called 911 this morning around 5:55 after the domestic dispute in apartment 21 escalated and I heard the female yell, Give me the God damned [...]
Just a quick check-in. I’m not updating for a bit here because I’m trs busy. I’m delivering one web site on Thursday, have another in the works and picked up two today. Fortunately, (or unfortunately depending) these are all “make me a design (read: set of templates) and I’ll maintain it myself” sites. Which is [...]
It looks like we’re in for another record-setting month of rain. Yesterday we got nearly 1 inches of it in a single storm. It’s rained nearly continuously since then and it’s forecast right through the weekend. Fortunately, April-like temperatures have not returned. It’s been early May-like with highs in the 60s. Yee hah! Of course, [...]
It was 13 years ago this month that my father had his first heart attacks. He had an athrectomy to clear the blockage. I had a look at my life and took the first tentative steps into recovery. Last week my dad gave in to reality and went to the hospital again. He had an [...]
I went with a friend for coffee this morning to Spin Caffe [sic] on Park Ave. Not counting the two of us, there were six people there. Five of them had laptops out in some degree of real or feigned usage, the sixth left his in the bag. I just don’t get it. Don’t these [...]
I completed a project today for a client. I’m delivering the work tomorrow. Actually, it’s up already on the server. it’s just not tied in to the rest of their site. That’s just a matter uploaded two changed menu files. The test is going to be seeing what becomes of my mental state afterwards. Will [...]
A while back I learned that this building was trouble. It wasn’t so much a crtack house as it was a crack mall, what with 20 units and all. Five or six years ago the current landlord bought it. I’m guessing the goals was to clean up the neighborhood since he owns Village Gate Square [...]
I’m keeping up my .500 average at Auburn. I was “randomly” selected again today for the drug screening. Sgt P., who appears to do the seletion, doesn’t seem to remember me from one time to the next, but the CO who administers the scan remembers me now. I promised to see him again in September. [...]
This week on COPS: After midnight on a Fourth of July weekend Saturday, Officers Lyons and Costello respond to calls complaining of a loud television and barking dog at an otherwise quiet and orderly apartment building. They arrive at apartment four to find the door unlocked, no one home, all the lights on, all the [...]
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Someday we’ll all look back on this, and plow right into a parked car.
Just as man evolved from four feet to two, some have evolved from four wheels to two.
Tourers and commuters are a lot alike. Both breeds usually choose a sturdy, yet no-nonsense bike, and both usually have to carry more than your usual OCP roadie. We take tips, tricks, and underground secret information from almost every other type of cyclist, chew it up, and spit out a form of cycling science that manifests itself as a fusion of both basic transportation and recreational riding all at once.—ax0n
You shouldn’t anthropomorphize bikes. They don’t like it when you do that—JustBrowsing
Somewhere on gayforums.net there’s a thread that goes “I just shaved my legs and got some tight lycra shorts. Do you think it would make look like a cyclist or not?”—From yet another “Does wearing lycra make me look gay?” thread on bikeforums.net
I don’t hate cars per se, but the lifestyle they encourage is as lethal and self-destructive as any drug.—Cosmoline
I guess for me it boiled down to a realization that a bike was the right tool for the job. Using a 3,000 pound vehicle move me and my briefcase 2.5 miles to work everyday was like using a steamroller to press my shirts—they'd be wrinkle free, but an iron would be a better choice.—chocula
Starve a terrorist—ride a bike to work. It’s not just good for the environment, it’s good for civilization.—NotAsFat
When all the gasoline runs out, the Priuses are going to be dead on the side of the road right beside the Hummers.
Who is more patriotic, the person who commutes to work on a bike, or the guy who slaps a US flag decal on his SUV that gets 12 miles per gallon?—Jim Caple (ESPN)
I’m on the odd side of now but the right side of history.—Woodog
What’s the point of a bike if you can only ride it on weekends and you can’t even carry anything with you?—madfiNch
I don’t ride to save the environment, auto fuel, money or even to get exercise. I ride because I enjoy it and as a consequence, I get the benefit of the other things.—Charles Vail
What I need is a tandem, a squash racquet and a daring & ruthless accomplice. Is anyone in?—Chris L
My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.—Peter Golkin
If one is going to be hedonistic and NOT actually in Jamaica, well bicycles ain’t such a bad way to go.—PansyPalmetto
Skilled city cyclists move through traffic like gazelles through a field of fat cows.—JoeyBike
Biking isn’t a sport because anybody can do it. I can bike, you can bike. For goodness sakes, my mother can bike! You don’t see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated, do you?—jack002
Bicycles move with the flow of the Earth—Nikki Giovanni
Let’s have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle—US Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Putting slicks on a mountain bike is like putting a dress on your best friend Bob. He still won’t look like a woman, and he won’t ride like one either.—Platypius
They’re just bikes. Ride ’em in the rain, salt, snow and crap to fully appreciate them.—Mike Zanconato
One of the best things about bicycle commuting is that it can mitigate the displeasure of having to go to work.—BikeSnobNYC
When you approach an intersection think of the cars as affectionate cats that are going to try to rub themselves against you.—BikeSnobNYC
It’s like bikes. Give yourself a budget. Then double it.—grscha
Rule 9: If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.—The Rules