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Despicable Me

December 20, 2010 – 10:37 am

Who: Me and a beige Camry Where: Heavy traffic on DeAnza Boulevard & Stevens Creek Boulevard, Cupertino, California, just south of Apple’s headquarters. When: Last Friday’s evening commute, in the rain and dark.

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Peter Sagal rides a bicycle

August 17, 2010 – 2:00 pm

Last week’s news that I neglected to pass along: Peter Sagal, host of public radio’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” game show blogged about getting t-boned at an intersection while he rode his bike. Via Chicago Bike Advocate and Biking In LA. Last fall, Peter Sagal’s brand new Felt road bike was stolen.

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Bicycle Neglect

March 27, 2008 – 11:29 am

I posted about this months ago, but it’s worth another mention. Bicycle Neglect is a series of articles by Alan Durning about why most Seattle area cities don’t treat bicycles as transportation, which communities are doing the best job, and what’s at stake. Elsewhere: Bicycle Design on the NYC better bike racks contest. Like father read more »

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Bicycle blog

February 26, 2008 – 11:13 am

I didn’t run into Dorky Doug today, though I led BionX Boy and Java Man in to work at a nice 24 mph pace. I’m loving this week’s Bay Area weather, and it looks like every other bike commuter is also. Caltrain was packed and it’s only February. If you plan to bring your bike read more »

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Lateral apical postalveolar flap

January 8, 2008 – 10:07 am

While reading the Wikipedia article about the Japanese language, I encountered this sentence about how Japanese pronounce the “R” sound: The ‘r’ of the Japanese language (technically a lateral apical postalveolar flap), is of particular interest, sounding to most English speakers to be something between an ‘l’ and a retroflex ‘r’ depending on its position read more »

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SF Bay Area: rain Rain RAIN RAIN. And wind, too.

January 2, 2008 – 3:14 pm

This is for all of you bicycle commuters who neglect to check the weather forecast (and you know who you are) — three storms systems are barreling down from Alaska with two to four inches of rain forecast in Santa Clara valley and up the Peninsula into San Francisco beginning Thursday at noon. On Friday, read more »

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