quality of life issues

this is P W Murray of New York, New York 

I’m thinking of a color between 1 and 100.
I’m thinking of a color that does not occur in nature.

I am looking at a commuter.
I am looking at a mirror.

Some people wear tyvek STP jackets proudly.
Some people cut them up into little squares and make tire boots.

Some people make neat little sandpaper squares and talk about work.
Some people tear off a piece and get to work.

Sometimes you feel like a nut.
Sometimes you don’t.

Jenny Dailey photo

why wait for a facsimile
a first generation copy

to be scanned digitally enhanced
printed on paper of archival quality

100% of actual size
when the original is right here

the time is now is the time
make a new plan stan   

the rules have changed
new & improved different definitions

see appendix E  paragraph 3.19.11

Who has two thumbs and one new pilderwasser shirt?

(men's medium in a tasteful American Apparel lapis)

...one of the guys down at DANK bags 

(check out the six-pack ring collection stage right)

K Klein photo RAGBRAI 09

The calorie is a pre-SI metric unit of energy. It was first defined by Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat, entering French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867.^[1] In most fields its use is archaic, having been replaced by the SI unit of energy, the joule. However, in many countries it remains in common use as a unit of food energy.

Definitions of a calorie fall into two classes:

• The small calorie or gram calorie (symbol: cal)^[2] approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.18 joules.
• The large calorie, kilogram calorie, dietary calorie or food calorie (symbol: Cal)^[2] approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 °C. This is exactly 1000 small calories or about 4.18 kilojoules.

In an attempt to avoid confusion the large calorie is sometimes written as Calorie (with a capital C). This convention, however, is not always followed, and not explained to the average person clearly (and is sometimes impossible). Whether the large or small calorie is intended often must be inferred from context. When used in scientific contexts, the term calorie refers to the small calorie.

The gram calorie, however, is a very small a unit for use in nutritional contexts. Larger units are therefore used. The kilocalorie (symbol: kcal), being 1000 small calories, is one such unit. The large calorie, usually refered to simply as calorie, is also used. These are equivalent (1 kcal = 1 Cal).^[2] Therefore, in nutritional contexts the calorie and kilocalorie are the same size.

that was all cut & pasted from Wikipedia

caloric intake

on your left

P I photo

clean lines...but no cup holder 

straddling the seamless transition from neither here nor there to everywhere

looking back on what seemed like a good idea at the time

brake pads will wear their way through spray paint eventually

on a trial and error chain tension learning curve

paul‘s rides photo

Utility Cycling is a quality of life issue

it's coming up DANK bags everywhere you go

orange you glad I didn't say banana?

greener grass is not exactly a brick & mortar concept

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it’s about
here & now
getting your hands
dirty digging ditches
differently
placing postholes
properly because
that’s how it
should be
plumb bobs
hanging
ornamentally
symbolically
functionally
for real
really
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walking the talk

Mark your Calendar for March 26, 2011       details here 

Bombing down Denny every morning at 8:12am for years and years I know the expansion joint in this photo quite well. It separates the Capitol Hill addresses from downtown literally and figuratively and geographically and metaphorically. Toss in the Denny divide and confusion often arises among rookies and tourists. 

When I was your age it was all big bunny hops over the gap, full of enthusiasm and a colorful show of lifestyle choice for the commuters waiting at the light on Melrose. Ass pocket U-lock rising up half way out of the pocket when I pushed off the pedals and crested the arc. 99% of the time the lock came back to rest in my shorts. I was sans helmet even sans socks in Sidis sometimes stupid.

As I aged it became much more of a subtle un-weighting of the pedals, silently, smoothly clearing the obstacle and to the untrained eye never leaving the ground. Getting the job done efficiently and effectively sometimes even apparently effortlessly. Tim-Mason-like. But those in the know, know it just looks that way sometimes.

I wouldn’t want your job on a day like this.

Getting from 1216 Pine to 300 E. Pine in a matter of minutes.

I am however still fond of  the 1221 E. Pike to 300 E. Pike roundtrip

"I got a sharrow here bro..."