Tweets for the Week of 2014-02-02 to 2014-02-08

For all the billions we spend on spy sats looking inward, we ought to be searching for these outward threats too: https://t.co/0edq98Gr3t 16:45:38, 2014-02-08
@csoghoian That's right, Snowden must have used the mighty "wget dash arrr" (pirate edition). in reply to csoghoian 15:35:26, 2014-02-08
Great interview w/ Kim Stanley Robinson on California as a terraformed and yet still utopian space: http://t.co/PcNEinEYDc 12:58:56, 2014-02-08
You're a ghost, driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust. What do you have to be scared of?
[who said this?] 12:08:13, 2014-02-08
Maybe not incidental that KfW lends at 2-3% for building EE retrofits. Future retains 1/2 its value 25-35 years out w/ those discount rates. 00:54:10, 2014-02-08
@bruteforceblog @alexsteffen The city and the housing authority seem into doing a lot more of it. We'll see about the neighbors… in reply to bruteforceblog 21:14:24, 2014-02-07
@bruteforceblog @alexsteffen Affordable housing forum Q&A last night in Boulder focused on shared living: co-ops/co-housing… baugruppen 🙂 in reply to bruteforceblog 21:13:21, 2014-02-07
@alexsteffen Psst! bug @bruteforceblog to get part 7 linked in on all the pages in that series… http://t.co/suyFhOrwTC in reply to AlexSteffen 17:51:45, 2014-02-07
RT @bouldercolorado: @downtownboulder businesses: meeting on Feb. 14 for improvements to Pearl Street's West End. http://t.co/ogGYvZjvJD ht… 15:46:27, 2014-02-07
I do kinda wish car companies would focus on 35k US traffic deaths/year… and bike shops would talk more about style: http://t.co/wBab2AWcmW 13:27:57, 2014-02-07
Seems like they're actually trying to create a parallel bike/ped/transit network that is car-free, not remove cars: https://t.co/xj5tb4qhV1 12:51:54, 2014-02-07
And another article about Hamburg's connected car-free greenway network plan: http://t.co/IohP81PmSd 12:50:55, 2014-02-07
Is Hamburg, Germany really planning to go car-free in the next 20 years? http://t.co/i2aA0weDjk 12:50:15, 2014-02-07
RT @scottholton: Hamburg: After Decades of Car-Filled Streets, Can A Modern City Turn its Back on the Automobile? http://t.co/OATFRH6LxC #c… 12:39:48, 2014-02-07
Why can't we build density and affordable housing along our existing transit corridors that are designed for high capacity? (Betsy Martens) 20:05:23, 2014-02-06
Housing cost increases in Boulder take about 900 units out of market rate affordability every year. But do we care? (Betsy Marten) 19:56:55, 2014-02-06
Lots of people in other cities are actually happy living in studio apartments & good public spaces. Why not here? (Isabelle McDevitt) 19:49:00, 2014-02-06
Should we add internet connectivity and continuing education to the list of "basic needs" we think people are entitled to? (Stuart Lord) 19:25:13, 2014-02-06
Single family detached housing is basically built out in Boulder. Future will be attached multi family dwellings, infill. (Jeff Yegian) 19:21:19, 2014-02-06
On our current path, permanently affordable housing and market rate housing costs will diverge dramatically. (Jeff Yegian) 19:19:13, 2014-02-06
More rental housing units will be added in Boulder than any year since the 1970s. 19:12:01, 2014-02-06
RT @CommunityCycles: Come to Walk Bike Summit open house 5 pm Millennium hotel 16:39:05, 2014-02-06
Lots of folks shoehorning land use and parking policy into the 5 Es. Ha ha. #bws2014 15:27:34, 2014-02-06
Lots of folks making the connection between land use patterns and the kinds of transportation systems that could work. #bws2014 11:39:15, 2014-02-06
Françoise Poinsatte bucking that trend… noting that space constraints can be overcome if we take some space from cars, parking. #bws2014 11:30:29, 2014-02-06
Sensing a correlation between age and resignation to the suburban status quo. #bws2014 11:28:01, 2014-02-06
Man, people really have a hard time imagining a world that's different from the present, even when you tell them to do just that. 09:57:19, 2014-02-06
Interesting skit at walk bike summit… In which the main prop indicating a person's preference for urbanism is a smartphone. 09:09:05, 2014-02-06
@ericmbudd Well, you might want to go ahead and send them an email in support instead if you can. They do read them. cc @scottholton in reply to ericmbudd 07:19:04, 2014-02-06
@ericmbudd were you going to go to planning board tonight to support that @scottholton project at 1750 14th with the 43 microunits? 01:53:19, 2014-02-06
RT @trueanomalies: New crater! <3 @coreyspowell: An asteroid just slammed into Mars and did…this. http://t.co/vRQMnngRMS http://t.co/ywf… 22:15:38, 2014-02-05
@COHealthOP still struggling to get @C4HCO to update my enrollment… Why does this have to be so painful? in reply to COHealthOP 19:24:47, 2014-02-05
@ericmbudd @downtownboulder I think it's great. More than anything, downtown needs more humans to make it more active all day, all year. in reply to ericmbudd 10:34:36, 2014-02-05
@sugarmags3 With a question like that… it kinda almost doesn't matter what the answer is. in reply to sugarmags3 10:27:10, 2014-02-05
RT @radleybalko: The State Dept. is telling Americans going to Sochi that their communications may be monitored.*
(*Also, Americans not g… 10:22:13, 2014-02-05
@ericmbudd *twinkles* in reply to ericmbudd 09:29:09, 2014-02-05
@ericmbudd and yet so much more to be done… in reply to ericmbudd 09:18:35, 2014-02-05
@ericmbudd The shape of the discussion will only become clear upon the arrival of the opposition. in reply to ericmbudd 00:24:20, 2014-02-05
@ericmbudd So far so good. Positive responses from Zan, Mary, Lisa. Who knows where it'll end up… in reply to ericmbudd 00:23:42, 2014-02-05
@ericmbudd @boulder_bcycle @car2godenver And hopefully an @egocarshare key fob too… 😉 in reply to ericmbudd 16:09:51, 2014-02-04
I know it's cold, but if you support letting folks live with whomever they choose, come to Council tonight at 6pm: https://t.co/V6v7pTRaPH 15:31:36, 2014-02-04
Whoa. California as a terraformed (xenoformed?) space, interview w/ Kim Stanley Robinson: http://t.co/PcNEinEYDc via @AlexSteffen 12:32:57, 2014-02-04
@sugarmags3 Nope. I despise live internet video. Archive it. Send me a link. Let the masses watch whenever. in reply to sugarmags3 12:12:33, 2014-02-04
@sugarmags3 Hard to imagine it being any less productive than just a single webinar…. in reply to sugarmags3 12:09:53, 2014-02-04
RT @interfluidity: “walled gardens” were bad enough before the walls became one-way mirrors. 08:59:50, 2014-02-04
@clmarohn Preferably while halving the scale of your failures… in reply to clmarohn 08:55:15, 2014-02-04
@alexsteffen I'm teaching that class again soon. They're all going to watch your Shareable Future of Cities TED talk beforehand. in reply to AlexSteffen 17:02:03, 2014-02-03
RT @AlexSteffen: Here's @ZaneSelvans good summary of the arguments for better cities—not better cars—as the climate solution we need: http:… 17:01:11, 2014-02-03
@ericmbudd Almost all of it is organic FB sharing, from my mention of the post in connection to US36/EV stuff last week. in reply to ericmbudd 16:06:58, 2014-02-03
Glad to know that my blog can handle a few thousand visitors a day… even happier that I know it because of this post: http://t.co/foGMIYwvex 16:04:59, 2014-02-03
RT @BrentToderian: "Stop letting your traffic engineer design your city!" – @JeffSpeckAICP's key advice to America's mayors. 12:37:59, 2014-02-03
Interesting forum on the future of housing in Boulder, this Thursday 2/3, 6:30pm at @ImpactHubBldr http://t.co/3dT5Gl41xq 10:12:46, 2014-02-03
@ericmbudd Jeezus, who collects all this data, and what does anyone do with it? in reply to ericmbudd 00:47:37, 2014-02-03
And then there were nine.
TdC moved from Masala to North Haven this weekend. 00:27:26, 2014-02-03
@ericmbudd Yeah, but that seems like a silly place to draw the line. Motordom is a system, and it includes all those other moving parts too. in reply to ericmbudd 00:19:50, 2014-02-03
@ericmbudd They're talking about the automobile manufacturing industry… which is but a tiny cog in the grander motordom machine. in reply to ericmbudd 00:12:30, 2014-02-03
@ericmbudd But even so, annual car costs definitely aren't 1/5th of $9k/yr, which would be required to match 3% number. in reply to ericmbudd 00:04:25, 2014-02-03
@ericmbudd Definitely includes all operating costs. Meant to model "average AAA member" using car for personal transport. in reply to ericmbudd 00:03:29, 2014-02-03
@tservo I think that might be 2 humans in every bed… in reply to tservo 23:51:42, 2014-02-02
@ericmbudd US GDP=1.6e13. Cars in US=2.5e8, $/yr/car (AAA)=9e3. => Cars = ~14% of US GDP. And that's before parking, highways, & oil wars. in reply to ericmbudd 23:45:43, 2014-02-02
@ericmbudd I have a hard time believing that 3% number. Seriously? in reply to ericmbudd 22:00:45, 2014-02-02
Is it just me, or does "A Human in Every Bedroom" seem like a slogan for a campaign it is ridiculous to even need to have? 21:58:09, 2014-02-02
Great blog series from @clmarohn & @StrongTowns on how the last 60 years of suburban growth have been a Ponzi Scheme: http://t.co/dsivKoQDak 16:10:30, 2014-02-02
@ericmbudd Great! Send them an e-mail too. They read them, esp. >= 24hrs ahead. in reply to ericmbudd 15:53:08, 2014-02-02
@ericmbudd Which plan? That link goes to the PB packet, which has like 50 pages on the proposed development… in reply to ericmbudd 15:48:20, 2014-02-02
@ericmbudd OMG, unbundling is a total no brainer here. Too much parking? Just sell it into the CAGID pool on a year-by-year basis. in reply to ericmbudd 15:43:54, 2014-02-02
@ericmbudd For unbundling, or just generally? And the bike path, creek, teahouse, farmer's market. If it were a baugruppen I'd move in. in reply to ericmbudd 15:39:38, 2014-02-02
@ericmbudd I knew as soon as the phone buzzed that it was you favoriting that last tweet… in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:35:38, 2014-02-02
43 micro-units in downtown Boulder, replacing a surface lot. Why not unbundle the parking? https://t.co/5SYDtDLwPZ http://t.co/yYRW7rDfiU 15:27:07, 2014-02-02
So, I hear the Superb Owl starts at 4:20. #GoAwayBroncos 13:56:37, 2014-02-02

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