My dad is quoted and pictured in The New York Times today! He registers a complaint that his first quotation was incorrectly reproduced by the reporter, because he never would have said that someone “inferred that she believed”; rather he said that he “inferred from her comments that she believed”.
101 in 1001: feeling stalled
I’ve been keeping a list of my 101 with all the completed goals removed on my wall over my desk to remind me of what to try next. Today I put up a picture using the same thumbtack that I wanted to look at for a while, of Candace Wiggins (Stanford star basketball player). It […]
Speechless
Not sure there’s anything to say about this except, what the fucking fuck? This is worse than the Orange County Register article where an SFPD officer described letting other officers (and any other confidential plate holders, some of whom are things like museum staff) run red lights without penalty as a “professional courtesy” — and […]
Nashbar crappity crap
I got my second order from Bike Nashbar today and most of it looks fine, but I must say I’m extremely disappointed with the capri-length bike pants I ordered and will definitely be returning them. They’re Nashbar brand and were cheaper than I’m used to (my experience is that good tights run $70-90 unless on […]
Mine now
The day I would have had to contact Terry to return Meg passed quietly on Saturday without me doing anything of the sort, so I’m now the happy owner of three bikes. And I need to start outfitting Meg appropriately, because today when the trains were late I opted for Maia instead because she has […]
When More is Less
Back at the beginning of this blog’s existence I wrote some about Barry Schwarz’s book The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. Recently I’ve thought that maybe he should have written a bit more about when more is less. He does devote some space to the subject of how meaningless some of our choices […]
Judging Reader
There’s been some kerfuffle around lately after an NYT article on “literary deal-breakers” — that is, what books, or lack of, would make you run away from a date or relationship? Two of the websites I read have a thread devoted to this. Some of the conversation has inspired interesting thoughts about people’s attitude to […]
2wg bag
After getting some info from the 2WG guys I decided to go with ordering that bag. I hope it’ll work well; I did see some mixed reviews on the good old Internet, mainly that it was not durable enough, especially zippers. We’ll see. I’m pretty good to my equipment. They’ll take it back after 30 […]
The baby goes to work
Today was the first ‘true’ test-ride for Meg, to work and back (19.5 mi round-trip). I’m feeling pretty comfortable about this being the bike that I ride most of the time for the next 5+ years, but I’m positive now that I need to change the handlebars and I think I may need to change […]
The positive side
I’ve written a lot of posts, over time, about the most negative parts of cycling — altercations with motorists and poor design or condition of road facilities. But thankfully there are mornings like the one last week when I got off the train in Sunnyvale, walked my bike off the main part of the platform, […]