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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.
I haven't posted an odometer shot in a while. Add this to the 4000 miles I put on the Della Santa over the summer and you'd get the impression I ride bikes a lot...
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.
