Archive for May, 2008
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Blog Design Update
I turned off the calendar that usually appears at the top of the sidebar. All it did was mock me with no-post days and visitors rarely used it for navigation so bye bye. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before, it seems so simple now that I’ve turned it off. Oh well, [...]
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
A Bike Riding Fool, Emphasis on Fool
I’m totally pooped as I write this due to too much biking. I rode the Five Boro Bike Tour last Sunday which is 42 miles plus another 10-12 getting to the start and back. I then bike commuted twice this week for another 44 miles, half of that in the rain I might add. Now [...]
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Bike Commuting in the Rain
Today marks a first for my bike commuting. I woke up, looked the radar pictured below, and said “I’m riding anyway.”
I learned a few lessons riding in the rain that I’d like to document in hopes that I can help others who might be considering a similar challenge. Let me start off by setting the [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The FBBT Honeymoon is Over
The bump in blog traffic due to the Five Boro Bike Tour posts has pretty much run its course. Oh well, I still enjoy getting visits from friends and family.
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
A Recycling Tidbit
Here’s a little something. New York City has an extensive curbside recycling program for all manner of stuff that would otherwise end up in a landfill. The city even sent out a nice sticker to help us figure out what recycling goes into what container. It’s a great program and I’m happy to live in [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Mr. Smirky on the Queensboro Bridge
Yours truly shot by Joshua’s camera phone during the Five Boro Bike Tour ‘08. I’m Twitter’ing with my cellphone while we were stopped on the Queensboro Bridge. Some cyclists had been involved in an accident on the bridge so we were held up while medical attention was administered.
UPDATE: I just found out what happened on [...]
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Five Boro Bike Tour ‘08
My friend Joshua and I joined 30,000 other cyclists on the Five Boro Bike Tour today, a first for both of us. The tour, closed to auto traffic, covers 42 miles and passes through all five boroughs of New York City. It crosses two major bridges, the Queensboro or 59th Street Bridge and the Verrazano-Narrows [...]
