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Switching gears
My wife and two sons, who've been out of town visiting her parents for a week, are coming back this afternoon, so I wanted to make sure they were coming home to a welcoming place. Continue reading →
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My car’s little drinking game
Hey LSAT prep logic instructors, How’s this for teaching the concept of symmetry? I just hit 1,599 miles on my odometer after dropping off my car for yet another repair. It’s been in and out of the...
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Life List #55: Place myself in 50 historical images (Audrey, Josef and Marilyn)
Had some time tonight to goof around with No. 55 on my Life List, which is to place myself in 50 historical images. I’m a hack, of course, but I tried not to let the perfect be the enemy of … Continue...
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Dayton’s bike routes: Carillon to Riverscape (a beginner’s overview)
Of all of Dayton’s bike routes, the stretch I take more than any other is along the east bank of the Great Miami River from Carillon Park to Riverscape. It’s my entrance ramp to the region’s bike...
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Performance/installation art? Count me in.
I’ve been spending some time — less than I want but more than I have — with the artists and youth participants at Blue Sky Project. Today, I was climbing around in the rafters of the Armory building in...
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On the road
(When an ad agency asked me to talk about an “aha moment” on video, I obliged, but I didn’t tell a very good story. Here’s the story I tried to tell, as it appeared in an essay I wrote in … Continue...
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Dayton’s bike routes: What’s Tadmor? (Oh, the places I ride)
Took a 34-mile round trip ride from my home near Carillon Park to Taylorsville Dam. I’d been told north of that was beautiful, so I rode another couple miles farther than I’d been before, turning...
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Testing a new 98¢ camera mount on my bike
To better communicate how wonderful Dayton’s biking infrastructure is, I decided to fiddle with the idea of mounting a video camera on my bike to capture scenes from my rides. I’m not sure yet what I...
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Slum tourism
I was really struck today by this article about tourism in slums. We need more voices like his: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/opinion/10odede.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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A working-class hero is something to be
Salon. com has it just right about Steven Slater: “This is what we on the Internet like to call EPIC. Until yesterday, you probably didn’t know that this was exactly what the perfect kiss-off would...
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Why cycling in Dayton is like nowhere else
I had a revelation today that shocked me: The best part of the GermanFest Picnic might not be the beer. Don’t get me wrong. I had an Erdinger and a Fischer (yes, from Alsace and “a product of France,”...
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Yes, clarity
This is clearly what happens when you cut the staff too deeply. If a mistake like this ends up in a headline, imagine the less obvious errors that end up in stories.
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Will Duzer ever meet enough nice people?
I came across this guy earlier today, and I’m loving his hilarious updates (and peopleforbikes.org jersey). And what a dream, biking all the way down the West Coast from Canada to Mexico.
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How do I love thee, Dutch people? Let me count the ways
1. Your cycling mania. 2. Your world-class road trips/party-to-go. 3. Did I mention your cycling ways? 4. Your masters like Rembrandt, van Gogh, Mondriaan, Vermeer and Escher. 5. Your gift of the Hague...
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Yummmm, beeeer
The cure for long, hot summer rides? Post-ride recovery beers, of course. Brilliant. I’m partial to a good hefeweizen, and my goodness I can always drink my Guinness.
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The art of the interview and the blessings of Katrina Kittle
Maybe I should have brought a list of questions, all written out with a bullet point next to each so I’d know where one ended and the next started and I could check them off as I went. That works …...
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Point of etiquette, Mr. Speaker: Bike parking
We have a problem at work: Too many bikes, not enough bike rack space. As problems go, it’s a good one to have. Three years ago when I started riding regularly, bike racks on the campus where I work...
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Rust Belt Haus Frau
Who knew my wife* was this funny? (Hint: I did.) She started blogging: http://rustbelthausfrau.wordpress.com. You’ll want to bookmark it. *Not actual image of my wife, or even close.
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Why don’t we care about income inequality?
I came across this series of articles about income this morning. I’ll dig into it tonight. The data is not surprising — what’s surprising is how widely ignored it is....
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