Archive for April, 2008
The novel is still in the outlining/gestating period of things. Last week, while driving to work in the rain, I wish some evil upon the more tentative (“wussy”) drivers out there. Those wishes were not fulfilled, but they did lead to the idea of an interesting environment. I filed it under “Neat Place to Set [...]
Over at Roughly Drafted, Daniel Dillinger muses on why Apple would buy out PA Semi. It’s an interesting line of thinking and it raises some awesome questions. Foremost among them is, why is Apple buying out a chip design group that specialized in varieties of the PowerPC architecture? This is an important point to ruminate [...]
[If you're here for more information on commuting by bicycle, try starting with this particular entry.] Not a lot exciting to report here. Racing season was supposed to kick off on Sunday, but I didn’t make it. There’s an opportunity tonight, but I don’t have the energy for it. I could race on Saturday, but [...]
The city of London has an ad they’re playing about staying aware of your surroundings while driving, which I’m embedding here for the sake of completeness: This has inspired some thinking on the subject and I am beginning to wonder a few things. Are cyclists frequently victims in vehicle accidents because we’re such an unexpected [...]
Once again, I face the prospects of entering a season with little/no training. Now, to my credit, I actually made an attempt at training this year before I started racing. Unlike last year’s festivities which, hereinafter, shall be referred to as the “Year of Blowing Chunks”… The good news is, it’s still early in the [...]
Photo by jessflickr. Licensed under the Creative Commons. [This piece is the fourth in a five-part series in this blog about how to effectively commute by bike. For Part I, click here.] I’m hoping that my earlier posts about bicycle commuting got some of you inspired to get out there and start riding. Here in [...]
So I got asked the following questions by Christopher Hawley: 1) Your take on the Olympics, the venue, and whether bicycling is adequately represented in the official events 2) optimism/realism/cynicism/pessimism: where do you see yourself on this spectrum? Is there another position which you would prefer to find yourself? 3) perversity of the universe, and [...]
Amy J asks, “How do you get inspired for fonts?” Even though I’ve got a category for it, I don’t often discuss my font design work on here, which is odd, given that the design of such things is such a strong part of my identity. I always carry a Moleskine and a source of [...]
Things I learned from my really drunk girlfriend last night: 1. In discussing Charlton Heston’s death, I learned that there are twelve commandments, not ten. She could not, however, tell me what the two additions were. 2. She won a best butt contest. On-stage. I’m not surprised by this, really. It is rather impressive.
Photo courtesy of dunechaser. Licensed under the Creative Commons. Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and I wrote nothing in here about it. From that, you could infer that this factoid is meaningless to me. That inference would be wrong, despite my being born four years (and change) [...]
