I was cycling down Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose last week when I looked south down 1st Street and I spotted a distinctive white Dutch style bike with a skirt guard the next block down on San Fernando. Since I’m crazy about bikes — especially slightly unusual bikes — I raced down 2nd […]
The NRDC video demonstrates the correct way to navigate your bike through heavy pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk. State Farm Insurance shows us what it’s like to “swap four wheels for two” in this ad, suggesting an excellent way to save money on insurance and gas prices! (Via, with numerous mentions all over the place. […]
Sara’s working on her degree in Clinical Psychology. After reading a few paragraphs in one of her texts about feminist therapy, I made some completely uninformed and moronic comments to my wife, mocking the idea that all of society’s problems are caused by men. She gave me that special smile reserved for small children, drooling […]
I barely missed the bus to work this morning. I could have waited 15 minutes for the next bus, but instead I decided to bike the entire distance from home to work, which I’ve never done before. Breakfast was a small package of peanut butter crackers and a glass of water, and I filled by […]
Thanks for the comments regarding my grandfather, all, including those that were sent privately. This is hitting me a little harder than I expected, to be honest. We weren’t super close, but I loved the old man as did everybody around him. Freddie Rodriguez (Rock Racing) @ Ronde van Brisbeen 2008. Photo ©2008 Ken Conley. […]
1. Overslept. 2. Got on the bus, from where I saw three major wrecks on the highway. One of them was a 10 car pileup. 3. I wore bike-geek clothes today and totally forgot to bring a clean shirt. Dug the cleanest shirt I could find out of the dirty clothes cache in my office. […]