Today’s mail brought a letter from the Sleep & Neurophysiology Research Laboratory at the University of Rochester Medical Center. I’d applied for a study there last winter, but was rejected because I was on meds for depression. I’ve been off the meds for about nine months now, saw their ad in the paper [...]
Between my shorter gifting list last year and this, and deciding not to frazzle myself with guesswork about gift recipients’ needs and desires, I’ve escaped the Christmas shopping season without once setting foot inside a retail store (except Parkleigh) and without once ordering anything online. Granted, cards with checks inside aren’t quite as much [...]
Quarter to nine, my eyes fly open. Morning already? And what’s that noise?
Alarm clock, and not mine.
Padding around the apartment, near as I can figure, it belongs to the guy downstairs. Which means, he’s not home. (Or, I suppose, drugged unconscious or dead, both of which can also be described as [...]
A phone call interrupted my nap this afternoon. It was Mark, calling to say he was on his way to Homo Depot. Did I want to ride out?
So now the other six tracklights in the kitchen have new bulbs. And at the store, you can get them in three-packs, which worked-out to [...]
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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