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Red Ring of Death makes the baby jesus cry. Here's G after finding out that our RMA'ed unit would not be arriving that day (after it's been gone for a month)
Just watched this 90 minute panel from Slow Food Nation in SF last summer. Phenomenal. If you don't have time for the whole thing, at least click through to the original page and check out the panelists' answers to the last question: What is local food going to be like in 20 years? Michael Pollan is (as always) on point here about public policy prescriptions that are needed to escape the poisonous trap of industrialized farming.
Here's my Patrick Nagel bike. A neighbor was cleaning out his garage and gave it to me a few weeks ago. I was going to convert it to a (freewheel) single speed but when i cut off the old black bar tape, I saw the original hot pink tape underneath it... and a plan was born. I would just bring it back as close to its original rigging as possible. New chain, new brake cables and housing, new pink bar tape and matching water bottle cage set me back about $30 and some Performance points. I had to do some hack work on the front brake which had lost the original QR mechanism somewhere along the way; fortunately I had some Dia Compe Gran Compe 500 brakes from another rescue project -- they are copies of these Ultegra 600 and the mechanism was compatible, so that was lucky.
Man, this is outrageous. Crossposted from this bikeforums thread, check out this google video, poor SOB got arrested for arguing with the conductor about riding the train with his bike.
2. The bombardier cars are a nightmare for bikes on board. Caltrain need to admit they f'd up on them and rip out the rest of the seats on the bottom level of the bom bike cars , so they get up to parity with the gallery cars' capacity.
3. All summer the conductors have been getting surlier and the bikers more frustrated..it's escalated to the point where I've seen the engineer storm out of the cab car to yell at a cyclist, and now somebody got arrested through no real fault of his own. (Other than trying to argue with the cops, which never works -- it's not the time, guy, just take the ticket and tell it to the judge) Could fights in the queues be far off? How about some hothead assaults a conductor -- which is a Federal crime BTW -- and they use it as pretext to just stop bike service entirely? It's not unthinkable.
I have a Go pass from my employer and ride tamien or diridon to cal ave. I used to be in the bike car five times a week but except for rare one-offs., nowadays I either bike the whole way, get a ride in the car, or take the train as a ped. Someone else can have my bike slot. It's just not worth the stress.
One of my favorite stops in Left Blogistan is BagNewsNotes. Michael Shaw, the site's proprietor, is a clinical psychologist and a keen observer of the visual media. I've been commenting there on and off for years and recently tuned back in for his take on the big national conventions, because I didn't think I could trust my own take on the imagery I was seeing.
The margin of difference between being a good manager and a mediocre one might lie in one's willingness to broach unpleasant subjects with coworkers and one's ability to do so in a respectful, professional way.
My kid is a total ham.