Month: October 2012
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How I Voted
I’m going through my Alameda County vote-by-mail ballot and decided to share what I’m thinking and links to useful resources. If you haven’t already also consider registering to vote by mail — link to form for Alameda County residents (pdf). Easier to think about it that way; you can still drop it off at your local polling…
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Hurricane Sandy via NASA Goddard
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Friedman on Race To The Top Programs
Nice piece by Friedman on Obama’s “race to the top” fuel efficiency and school reforms. “So Romney wants to throw away our cheapest, cleanest oil — the stuff we make in Detroit through greater mileage efficiency — and replace it with the world’s most expensive and dirty oil from the Canadian tar sands . .…
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Alameda County: Vote yes on B1.
Sure would be nice to have more bike lanes and transit options around here.
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NCDC 1981-2000 Average Temperatures On Google Maps
I’m taking a road trip through the southwest this winter, and was interested in seeing a map of average temperatures so we would know what we’d be driving through. When I couldn’t find any easily, I decided to see if I could plot data from the National Climate Data Center [FTP] via the Google Maps API.…
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SF to Berkeley Bike Ride.
One of my favorite rides — looking forward to doing this again when my broken wrist is healed. There’s a lot of great parks that line the Bay, and it is fun to see the whole SF Bay area in a day. I often stay closer to the East Bay shore, going through Oyster Bay…
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Most amazing facts, via Quora.
Possibly the most amazing Quora answers ever. “12% of all the people ever born are walking the planet at this very moment” and “If you properly shuffle a deck of cards, in all likelihood, the resulting deck has never been seen before in the history of the world.” are my two favorites.
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What is there to see between Dublin and Cork (but not *in* Dublin or Cork)?
I asked this on Quora, and no one answered, so I went ahead and answered my own question after having ridden between the two towns. There’s: the ruin of Kells Priory (“one of the largest and most impressive medieval monuments in Ireland”); the Rock of Cashel if you take the northerly route, or some nice…
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What to do when flying with bikes.
Bicycle Touring Pro has a good page with major airline policies laid out. It is from 2008, so perhaps a bit out of date, but a good starting point. This summer (2012) my wife and I flew with our bicycles from San Francisco to Dublin, rode around Europe for the summer, and flew back from Copenhagen to…
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What are some good beginner-to-intermediate biking routes in the San Francisco Bay Area?
My answer to this Quora question. From Berkeley, my favorite rides are: (1) Up old Tunnel Road (Ashby/13), a winding ~10 mile ride that is a moderate climb most of the way. You can return to Berkeley either via Claremont Ave, or for a longer ride go up to Grizzly Peak and drop out on…
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Why is cycling much more popular in Europe than the USA?
From a Quora answer I wrote in response to this question: I spent two months of the summer of 2012 cycling around Europe and thought about this a lot. Here’s what I have: (1) Urban Layout. European cities were designed before the advent of the automobile, so they all are arranged around a central point,…
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Yes on 37
Michael Pollan: “[M]any of America’s biggest food and beverage makers — including PepsiCo, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and General Mills — have together ponied up tens of millions of dollars to, in effect, fight transparency about their products.” (Vote Yes on 37, Californians). http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/why-californias-proposition-37-should-matter-to-anyone-who-cares-about-food.html
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