Michael Giberson Robin Goldstein tried buying a used bike in Portland, Oregon, found them to be pricey, and it led him to do a little data collecting. He tells the story in a post at Blind Taste, but just to jump forward to his numbers: From each of these cities I collected an extremely basic …
Michael Giberson Danny Morris at Common Tragedies explains and advocates for wider adoption of the Idaho Stop Law: The law, named after the clever state that instituted it in 1982, says that cyclists may treat stop signs as yield signs (they must stop for those w/ the right of way, but can proceed w/o stopping …
Lynne Kiesling Just taking a little break this week, spending a big chunk of time watching the Tour (my Garmin-Slipstream guys are doing great!), doing my own training for an upcoming race, reading David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, and trying to re-establish a more healthy, balanced relationship with my computer. Hope you all have …
Michael Giberson Five Guys Burgers and Fries opened today in Lubbock. For over 10 years I lived a few miles up the road from the original store in Arlington, Virginia. It was out of the way for me, too small, almost always crowded and peanut shells littered the floor. It was always worth the trip …
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Michael Giberson Robert Rapier asks what is likely the least frequently asked question ever: “What if I’m wrong?” Rapier explores that question with respect to his beliefs on peak oil and global warming, but it is good, all-around, general purpose question that should be put to more frequent use.
Lynne Kiesling The Museum of Modern Art is hosting an exhibition of James Ensor’s work. Ensor was a late 19th-early 20th century Belgian painter, and the best word I can think of to describe his work is … eclectic. From the NYT review of the exhibition: He was an aggrieved traditionalist with a pop-culture itch, …
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Michael Giberson From David Byrne’s review in the New York Times of Jeff Mapes book, Pedaling Revolution: [Mapes] argues that cycling promotion can raise society’s level of general fitness, since people exercise more when it seems less like exercise and more like something mostly enjoyable that also performs a function, like getting to work. “Bike …
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Michael Giberson I bike to work almost every day, but contrarian that I am*, I kicked off Bike-to-Work Week** by walking to work on Monday. * Actually, my bike was in the shop over the weekend, I had no idea it was ‘Bike-to-Work Week’, and I’m not really that contrarian.*** ** For less hearty souls, …
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Michael Giberson Reading and writing about Jeremy Rifkind’s distributed energy proposal has been made much easier for me this morning because I’ve had Pandora running music in the background. More specifically, Pandora has been playing my “A message to you Rudy” station, and by clicking here you can listen, too. It has been a beautiful …
Michael Giberson Rick Bush explains how one manager prevents “risk amnesia” in a Transmission & Distribution World column. (Reg. required.) Risk amnesia is a condition that can spring up when an investment decision turns out badly, and suddenly no one can recall being part of the decision. Bush wrote: Donnelly cracked me up when he …
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