Two things Google reader does wrong (in my opinion): If two of your friends have shared the same post, it appears twice in your shared items. If you follow a blog that one of your friends has shared a post from, you see both the blog post and the shared post. I can see why […]
Category Archives: Personal
PSU/PBOT Traffic and Transportation Class: Reflection
What I come back to most whenever the subject of my class last fall comes up is how amazing it is that I was able to learn so much information and meet so many significant figures in the Portland transportation scene in just ten short weeks (Oct 1 – Dec 3). Getting into the class […]
Someone’s ones
I noticed this morning that in a conversation yesterday I used the phrase “some ones that” when I could just as easily have some “some that” (or “ones that”): I bought new gloves some ones from REI that are lobster-claw I was curious to see if this is common. It’s at least common enough that […]
Vehicles for their contents
Before making this post, I searched my archives to find out if I’d ever said anything about the fact that I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Apparently not. I don’t, in fact, make New Year’s resolutions. Maybe I read too many books as a child, but they have always seemed to me to be something […]
A week of excellent transportation conversations
Last night I went to Plan B (SE 8th and Main) for “An Evening with Roger Geller”, an interview of Roger Geller, PBOT’s Bicycle Coordinator, by Jonathan Maus of BikePortland. The main subject was the draft 2030 Bike Plan, which is likely to be adopted by City Council in January. It was a good conversation […]
Dear social networks
Dear Facebook, You know all those people with whom I have mutual friends? The ones you like to suggest I befriend? Did you ever wonder if there might be a reason why I am not friends with those people? Please stop telling me who you think I should be friends with, or suggesting that my […]
High-mileage week
I don’t think I’ve had a week with this much mileage since I moved to Portland, since so many of my rides now are in-city rides and I usually only ride a few days a week. This week, after taking Monday off (horrid weather and luckily I didn’t need the bike), I rode about 10 […]
Post posted
The password-protected post, for those who are curious, is no longer protected. Thanks to those who gave me feedback on the initial version; it’s a better post because of you.
Out of the darkness
This is a post that I’ve been allowing to incubate for a long time, to the point where its title almost has an extra meaning! I usually don’t write about personal, potentially controversial subjects on this blog, but I think it’s time for this post to exist. About two and a half years ago, I […]
More adventurous than anticipated
This morning I went on the Portland ByCycle Autumn Adventure to Vancouver and back via the two I-Bridges. In a previous entry I described the ByCycle rides thus: These rides are awesome. They start after work and end before dark, are hosted by incredibly friendly and knowledgeable city staff, and explore Portland’s bicycle infrastructure and […]