Over at the OpenSalon version of my last post, there was some reasonable incredulity about my guesstimates of my bicycling weight. To wit:
One of my bikes weighs a little more than I do; the other weighs a little less. On both, I’m expending very little energy to move a combined weight of about three hundred pounds…
Those numbers were more than a bit off. I plead late night grogginess and a bottle of Moose Drool. Here are the actual facts:
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I’ve been commuting to work by bicycle for about three months now: not a very long time (my wife has been doing it for about twelve years), but long enough that I’ve thought quite a bit about what I gain and lose by using two wheels instead of four for my daily trip.
While I’m not a bicycle commuting evangelist, most of my co-workers know that I bike and a few have asked the usual questions: Isn’t it dangerous? What about the winter? What about the rain? My answers tend to be brief:…
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Spam—the junk message type, not the tasty luncheon meat from Hormel (pan fried and served on rice, it really can’t be beat…)—is a significant annoyance on all the “Web 2.0” services, but nowhere more so than on Twitter.
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