There are a lot of things in our world that might merit a bit of paranoia. Joyce Morrison has chosen cycling as the object of her conspiracy
theories:
But are we being prepared to be forced to use bicycles for our major mode of transportation? Could it be this activity is purposely being placed into an […]
Monthly Archives: July 2003
Trails are bad, and roads are for cars-
July 19, 2003 – 12:00 am
TerraScale SneakerNet
July 17, 2003 – 12:00 am
Disks are becoming sequential storage, more like tapes than memory, and Jim Gray is mailing entire computers around because it’s
faster than using the ‘net. Found via Jon Udell who found it via Tim Bray who presumably discovered it on his own.
I certainly can sympathize with the notion that capacity has grown too fast for […]
Neighbors
July 17, 2003 – 12:00 am
Tonight I met a woman who is likely the most beautiful I’ve ever laid eyes upon in person. She’s moving into my building, with her husband.
For the record
July 14, 2003 – 12:00 am
Sat: 35 miles
Metropolis Ride and then some The Riverfront Trail rest stop at the old Coast Guard building has a new Mary Meacham mural, and one of the Americorps volunteers there had some great stories of his days as a prizefighter (highlight: meeting Nelson Mandela while he was still imprisoned).
Sun: 48 miles
Trailnet Big Bottle ride. […]
Smash
July 10, 2003 – 12:00 am
After more than a decade of driving, I’ve finally hit someone. A woman who started to accelerate into traffic then stopped, while I was re-checking for oncoming traffic and, finding none, accelerating and not stopping.
No one is hurt, the damage to my car is just under my $500 deductible, and hers is even more […]
“Rethinking the idea of innocent information”
July 10, 2003 – 12:00 am
A grad student has mapped public infrastructure and pissed off a lot of people who I suppose assume he’s done something that no evildoers would have thought of. Found via idly.org.
Hardcore
July 9, 2003 – 12:00 am
Tyler Hamilton suffered a broken collarbone in the Meaux
crash on Monday and is still riding. Last year, he fractured his shoulder during the Giro d’Italia and carried on to finish second.
That’s not Jordan’s business, it’s ours-
July 8, 2003 – 12:00 am
In 1982, the US delegation fought to prevent the Old City of Jerusalem being placed on the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger. Why?
Intoxicated Pachyderms
July 8, 2003 – 12:00 am
Picture a herd of elephants. Drunken elephants. They are all heading in roughly the same direction, although it’s unclear if they have a destination in mind. Being drunk, they aren’t very efficient about moving forward, and often swerve towards one another and make course corrections with no apparent purpose. Occasionally, one […]
