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The Brooklyn Bridge is an important front in the bike publicity war; it is a place where bikes are losing.

via A Modest Proposal – Bikers, Take the High Road – NYTimes.com.

Great article about biking in the city. And regarding the brooklyn bridge, I witnessed a number of near misses and one intentional shoulder-check as bikers sped past the walkers.

i think facial hair is coming back. 90% of the men in the meeting this morning had some sort of beard/mustache/etc thing going.

i found the tape adapter for my car. hello iPod. mpr, I love you, but you’re bringing me down. with the iPod re-hooked up, i heard aimee mann, gnarls barkley, aphex twin, wilco, clap your hands say yeah and soul coughing. i love it.

“i can’t believe you bought a fucking robot” may be one of my favorite quotes of all time.

at the bike store this afternoon, i was told that there was “an archeological dig” going on down in the region of my bottom bracket.

speaking of bikes, tomorrow may be the maiden voyage for riding to school. this pretty much guarantees that i will be late for work, but it’s all in the name of saving the planet.

video chatting is amazing. i think i initially felt that it was sort of overrated, but now i’ve realized that when you want to really concentrate and talk with someone, video is the only way to go.

I took my first bike ride of any significant length this evening after an eight week absence for the collarbone breakage. A nice little cruise with my best lady around lake harriet.

It’s amazing how weak your body can feel after not using it for a while. My shoulder was saying to me, “What’s with all the weight and vibration? I liked the cush life of slow saunters and sashays” Too bad, shoulder, it’s back to work time.