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Facebook's Down!
It's the end of days!
Just trying to push a couple of envelopes this morning.
Painted the roof from 2011 yesterday, and damn near painted the whole patio, back doorway in the process. I don't paint often enough to appreciate the contagion of paint.
Biked to my new favorite coffee shop on the new bike. The point of redoing the shed roof is to keep ( Read more... ) -
Facebook down
Break glass.
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This day in excellence
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Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
The old testament (Talmud, Pentateuch, etc.) is clearly written of the Jews, by the Jews and for the Jews. It outlines the Jewish tradition and how a Jewish person should relate to other Jews and to god. It is not particularly evangelical in its marketing.
While the New testament is clearly evangelical, at no point does it say that all humanity ( Read more... ) -
Hot Shit!
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Alexandria
Since libraries are now throwing print books away regardless of age or value, I propose a solution. Change the indexing system to allow remote location indexing and donate the books to the care of any and all patrons who will promise to provide shelf space for whatever editions the library was going to destroy. The patrons volumes would be ( Read more... ) -
Who the Cap Fit
I was on top of the bike shed tarring the roof paper when this hit me. Anybody running for office as a member of one of the uncreative parties should be required to live on the other side for a month before they are eligible to run ( Read more... ) -
Summary of modes
So what does all that mean? To compare these modes side by side, consider what it would take to move America’s 140 million person workforce the average trip distance for each mode. 10 miles in traffic, 5 miles for transit, 1.3 miles walking and 3 miles biking. The cost to build those routes anew to carry all those people that short distance ( Read more... ) -
Biking
When biking, you are really thinking about death and your body. Everything is dependent on how in shape you are. How in shape you are is probably dependent on how much biking you do. Strength is made of a lot of humiliating weakness. Many bikers use the store of energy from childhood. If you stop for a decade, you will have to build yourself ( Read more... ) -
Walking
The quality of a walk is dependent on what you are walking through. A mile walk in the countryside, suburbs and city feels much different and goes by faster with the amount of interest and options offered you while walking. Walking for an hour burns 170 calories. Walking is essentially free, but we could accept an extra $200 for shoes every year ( Read more... )