'personal' Archive

dealing with it gracelessly

8 March 2010, 6:51 am
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I’m not among those hit worst: those who have to clean up the metaphorical and physical mess, those who loved him, those with a hole in their lives where a friend use to be. Everybody who has to be wondering, now, if they had only done some little thing differently, if the story might have […]

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dream of the levitating motorcycle cops

21 February 2010, 10:27 am
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As he comes around the hairpin in his matte black Javelin, Luke is struck by the sight of two motorcycle cops on the verge of the road. The drop-off is steep to the left; on the right there’s a gravel pad on the shoulder of the hill. This is where the cops are. Their bikes […]

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giving up for lent

18 February 2010, 6:39 am
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verbally expressing my displeasure with cyclists/motorists who do not actively threaten or actually injure me

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guard taun-taun

15 February 2010, 5:59 am
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as mentioned earlier:

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nerd levels off the charts

10 February 2010, 4:46 am
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I’m in a Taun-Taun sleeping bag, holding lightsaber chopsticks. Christmas day.
Yeah, somebody loves me.

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goodbye bike #5

25 May 2009, 5:54 am
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what got me

The end of a strut that holds the fender on wrapped around a spoke.
totalled

The bend of the front tube is obvious, but of course you can’t bend just one side of a triangle. Toward the left you can see that the top tube is actually somewhat flattened — its cross section changed.

From above […]

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happy to be here

6 May 2009, 7:35 am
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Solo bike accident last Friday left me with a broken wrist, so updates may be (even more) infrequent for a little bit. I am so, so glad I was wearing a helmet, I really hope you do too if you ride. And I am enormously grateful to the person or persons unknown who called 911 […]

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no day of agreement yet.

4 April 2009, 11:06 am
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This one is delayed to . . . oh, heck, you don’t care. It’ll show up eventually.
In other news, the Shriekback song can’t be on Days of Agreement coz I want to Creative Commons license the whole thing, but the rights to Shriekback’s song aren’t mine to give away. So I’m behind by two tunes, instead of […]

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