I just sent Amazon a feedback comment asking if they have either of two features: 1) Notification when an item on your wishlist becomes unavailable, and/or 2) The ability to easily switch from an unavailable edition of something to an available one. I had quite a few items on my wishlist that had become unavailable. […]
More bikey
Yes, it’s possible to get sunburned in the small strip of skin between your bike glove and your watch. (Best option: sunscreen, then watch.) I rode all the way in to work today and it took me 46 minutes total (including stopping time). I am getting faster. (I think I had a partial tailwind too, […]
Inspiring words
New favorite word: argh-inspiring. And the blog it’s noted in (Wordlustitude), is also my new favorite blog. Courtesy of the wonderful Sars.
A matter of course
Today was an interesting bike day. In the morning, I had a bike-car contact moment when a guy stopped suddenly in front of me (someone had stopped suddenly in front of him). I had a moment to think “Huh. My brakes aren’t going to stop me in time. Whoops, I just hit him.” Fortunately it […]
Nightfall doesn’t come abruptly
I was just rereading Nightfall, the novel-length expansion of a 1941 Asimov short story. I liked the book moderately well when I first read it, but on this reading, the story failed to distract me enough to suspend disbelief and two points started bothering me. First of all, they ignore all possible positions other than […]
101 in 1001 #49: Bike advocacy volunteering: BTWD 2008
So Thursday was Bike to Work Day, for which I was determined to do something more than just biking to work. After all, every day is already bike to work day in that sense. So I decided to volunteer to help out as an Outreach Host for SVBC at an Energizer Station, to provide information […]
Disposing local
The single paragraph in Garbage Land: On the Trail of Trash that most annoyed me was this one: According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, which made exhaustive studies of consumers’ environmental impacts, the things that make the biggest differenc to planetary health are transportation, housing, and meat eating. It isn’t worth it, they said, […]
Chocolate vanilla
My new lotion (Alaffia Shea Butter Lotion) smells like Tofutti Cuties. The official scent is Vanilla Mocha, so it fits, but it’s a little odd for lotion to smell like a vegan dessert. I preferred my previous Tangerine Ginger, though what I’d really like is the Lavender Mint. Hmm, maybe I should mix the Dr. […]
I’m a self-propelled person!
I picked up a copy of Momentum magazine (“The magazine for self-propelled people”) out of a box they brought us at Maker Faire to take to SFBC. It turns out it’s an awesome magazine, and it’s incredibly cool that the ads are all for things I might actually want, or want to know about — […]
What makes us believe we can do it
I took a road bike class at REI today. The class was interesting because it was a mix of levels, from people (like me) who commute and do a good amount of recreational cycling, to people with experience mountain biking or light recreational cycling, to people who hadn’t been on a bike in years. The […]