God's Law School
I wondered a few months ago about what sort of law school Michele Bachman might have managed to graduate from.
Sarah Posner sheds some light.
Rocky Hillside
07/22/11
Whatever You Do, Don't Show Him The Queen of Hearts
If a Nobel laureate can't figure out what Obama's doing, how am I or any other Democrat supposed to?
My latest theory is that he is a sleeper agent for Grover Norquist.
Ah, well.
07/18/11
The Cyclotrope
[via Bike Lane Diary] Bike wheel animation. (The title is derived, I believe, from various other "tropes" once used create animations.) The creator, Tim Wheatley, has a blog called the Cyclotrope Project.
Wrongo!
I supported Obama over Clinton because I didn't want another four years of "triangulating," reinforcing moronic Reaganesque ideas, and failing to provide progressive leadership.
Even if Clinton was (or is) what I thought Clinton was, she couldn't have been as spineless and incompetent as Obama has proven to be.
Goofed again.
07/15/11
Shakespeare, Tolstoy, And J. K. Rowling
I thought the first four Harry Potter books were wonderful children's literature. The last three were sorry, pretentious, detestable dreck.
Little did I know the Harry Potter books and movies were not in fact juvenile literature. Rather, they are the pinnacle of Western Civilization. J. K. Rowling belongs in the pantheon of great writers. And all literature and movies are now best discussed in terms of Harry Potter.
Just so you know.
Salt Lake City Pedestrian Precautions
This is for real. In downtown Salt Lake, near Squatters. There were flags available on either side of the crosswalk.
If a pedestrian is hit in a crosswalk without a flag, is it the pedestrian's fault?
Bill Cunningham New York
Until I saw the film "Bill Cunningham New York", I had never heard of Bill Cunningham. When I learned he was a "fashion photographer," Gerty had to drag me to the theater to see the film at all.
Wow!
A very interesting man living a unique and modest life and whose work, to which he is utterly dedicated, is extraordinarily prominent.
I wouldn't say the film was excellent but learning about Bill Cunningham made it one of the best films I have seen in the last couple years.
From the NYTimes review:
[H]is life is one of monastic solitude and simplicity.
He owns what look to be roughly five articles of clothing. (His signature piece is the same royal blue workman’s jacket worn by Parisian street sweepers, which sells for about $20 and comes in a plastic bag.) He favors $3 lunches. Until he moved, when Carnegie Hall reclaimed the artists’ residences there for other uses, he lived in a tiny studio with no kitchen and with a bathroom down the hall. He gets around on an old bicycle and sleeps on a cot surrounded by filing cabinets containing every negative of every shot he has ever taken. And yet somehow the patrician image is further burnished by the radical lifestyle. He’s an aesthete and an ascetic, a member of the establishment and a bohemian, and among the last of his kind.
07/14/11
Fiddling. Rome. Climate Change Edition.
While the White House and Congress are spending their time arguing over whose plan to put people out of work is the best, efforts to address critical problems have stalled.
Anyone remember climate change? Thought for sure there would significant action during Obama's first term. Thought wrong.
From the NYTimes:
American Electric Power has decided to table plans to build a full-scale carbon-capture plant at Mountaineer, a 31-year-old coal-fired plant in West Virginia, where the company has successfully captured and buried carbon dioxide in a small pilot program for two years.
The technology had been heralded as the quickest solution to help the coal industry weather tougher federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions. But Congressional inaction on climate change diminished the incentives that had spurred A.E.P. to take the leap.
. . .
The federal Department of Energy had pledged to cover half the cost, but A.E.P. said it was unwilling to spend the remainder in a political climate that had changed strikingly since it began the project.
About
Rocky Hillside
In the dark of the moon, in the flying snow, in the dead of winter,
war spreading, families dying, the world in danger,
I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
-- Wendell Berry
Location
Edging away from the edge of American space
Links
Riders & Writers
- Biking Bis
News and comments about tours, touring, & racing. Good things not seen elsewhere.
- Commute By Bike
Many reviews, a DIY project or two, and some fun posts about biking.
- Cycle-licious
A great, active blog.
- FatBoyBiking
The struggles of a fat guy on his way to middle age and the classic battle of the bulge. Against him, the entire agricultural and food production system, American Midwestern attitudes towards food and eating and a lifetime of sloth and drunkenness. His only weapon, his bike.
- Freewheeling Spirit
An exhilarating cycling blog. Formerly the authoritative site for Danish handball news and the bike porn contest (my entry was rejected), Freewheeling is a site I check out ever day.
- Lovely Bicycle!
Wonderful writing from a "bicycle obsessionist."
- Martino's Bike Lane Diary
Sharp-witted cycling advocacy and photos
- The Bicycle Story
Kent Peterson is Issaquah’s Favorite Car-Free, Ultra Long-Distance Racing, Techie-Turned Mechanic
- Urban Velo
It's a magazine, newsletter, blog, and the mind boggles to think what else.
- Urbana-Champaign Bicycle Commute
Charming, "fresh" writing about biking in University of Illinois Land.
- Yehuda Moon
Rick Smith's bikey comic.
Colorado
- Bicycle Colorado
Wrapped up effort to get a "share the road" vanity automobile license plate. In February 2008, failed to raise the maximum fine for running over a cyclist while the driver was failing to yield. (Bicycle Colorado was pushing for $1,000. Radical.)
- Bike Denver
Positive trajectory in doubt, trending back to ass-kiss mode. Too bad.
- City of Denver's Bike Program
Denver shows why it's behind the curve. (I really didn't think this page could get worse . . . Wrong again.)
- Cycle Analyst
The most experienced mechanics in town and the most complete collection of tools and parts in the West. No place like it.
- Denver Critical Mass - YahooGroups
Last Friday of the month. Meet at Civic Center Park at the Seal Fountain pool between 5:30 and 6:00 pm.
- Denver Cruiser Ride
The Denver Cruisers meet at the The Ginn Mill at 2041 Larimer Street every wednesday at 6:30pm, until September 30th.
- Denver Local
Adventures in Local Living
Biking, Walking, and Public Transit in Denver, Colorado - Derailer Bicycle Collective
A free, non-profit, collectively run community bicycle shop on the west side of Denver.
- Kickstand Magazine
The world's first and only cruiser magazine has it's home right here in Denver. Aren't we the lucky ones!
- Rocky Hillside on Google+
- The Bike Depot
A east side (Park Hill) non-profit bike place that encourages folks to build and fix their own bikes and gives them the tools and help to actually do it. Nice dedicated folks who seem to know what they are doing. (As befits a foundation-funded operation, the website description is opaque and baffling, but I've been there and it's a good place.)
- Track Shack
Friendly, competent, and cool.
Cycling Advocacy
- Bicycle Fixation
A large collection of articles and links on cycling and sustainability.
- Bike Portland
To inform and inspire. And it does.
- C.I.C.L.E.
(Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange) dynamic site promoting cycling as a viable and sustainable transportation choice.
- Cycling Cartoons
"Explaining" cycling in cartoons. Works for me.
- Driven To Distraction
The NYTimes series on irresponsible, multitasking drivers.
- StreetsBlog
The blog of the New York Streets Renaissance - advocacy in action - and as everyone knows, it happens in NYC first.
- Time's Up!
grassroots group that uses direct action and education to push for a sustainable NYC.
- WashCycle
Washington Area Bicyclist Association
Writers
- Gezellig Girl
Though it's about cooking and food, I love the writing - snappy and downright . . . rollicking. Read this.
- The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers. And its website is a collection of literary curiosities, fiction, and essays.
Tourists
- A Bikeable Feast
"I want to learn about sustainable agriculture, as much as I possibly can. . . . I plan to hop on my bike and head north, following the growing season in a giant loop around the country, stopping to learn and work . . . I imagine this will take about a year, maybe longer."
- A Honeymoon to Remember
"[They] built the bikes, sold the house, got married, quit a job," and are cycling around Asia. They finished their tour in May 2010.
- crazyguyonabike
THE place for cycle tourists. If you are planning, dreaming, or riding a tour . . . .
- reCycling the World
David Byrne cycled around in the world in 1975. Now retired, he's doing it again. Why? "I can think of nothing better to do."
- The Touring Store
The best, most knowledgeable, compulsive person to talk to about panniers and racks is Wayne. Has any business, internet or brick and mortar, ever know so much and been so helpful about this stuff? His prices are great, too.
Bike Ogling
- Bikes For The Rest Of Us
- Rides A Bike
Movie stars and their self-propelled vehicles.
Japan
- Finding Fukuoka
Fukuoka, Japan.
- More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan
Interesting photos and descriptions of Japan. No bikes.
- Tokyo By Bike
Bicycles and cycling in Japan from someone quite opinionated about Japanese cyclists and commuters.
- TravelJapanBlog
No cycling here but a collection of glimpses of Asia, mainly Japan -- from baseball beer girls to beaches.
Bike Tech
- Mike Sherman's Gear Calculator
Calculates gearing in several useful ways and provides extra info like required deraileur capacity.
- Zinn's Fit Calculator
Lennard's Zinn's bike fit calculator. The link goes to the Road version.
Gardening
- Front Ranger Gardener
Gardening in Denver from the staff Horticulturist with the Colorado State University Extension office in Denver. Good stuff.
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