- Finished gruelling but spectacular Urique Canyon loop. Bike and me both still in one piece. In Creel again, headed toward Cd. Chihuahua. #
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Author: Zane Selvans
A former space explorer, now marooned on a beautiful, dying world.
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Tweets for the week of 2010-04-04
- Biked to Creel in the Sierra Madre from Cd. Chihuahua. Wonderful people, weather, scenery, lousy roads. Funny how those go together! #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-03-28
- Really enjoyed the @LAStreetSummit Thanks @UEPI and @JoeLinton Hopefully next year I can get more folks from up here to come down w/ me! #
- Friends and quiche and tea in the morning. Implementing our tax protest through continued voluntary poverty… aka grad school. #
- Too bad my bicycle doesn't qualify for the "Energy Efficient Car" or "New Car Tax" tax credits. Lame. #
- Assembling spares and tools for Barrancas del Cobre bike tour. #
- If only I knew what I was going to forget to take to Chihuahua, I could pack it now… #
- Taking the loaded bike up Chantry to see how it feels, and make sure nothing falls apart. Including me! #
- Bicicleta + equipaje + camino de arena al Monte Wilson == siesta. ¡Espero que esta va bien! #
- Manejando una bicicleta por las Barrancas del Cobre y la Sierra Tarahumara en el estado de Chihuahua, Mexico hasta aprox. el 16o de Abril. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-03-20
- Utah weather was not cooperative. Missed my bicycle more than the Internet. Turns out some of the world's best information is in books. 🙂 #
- Looking forward to bike/ped friendly NYC transpo kmish Janette Sadik-Khan's talk at Oxy Thursday night. Wanna come? http://bit.ly/doKTDW #
- US DoT sez "Consider walking and bicycling as equals with other transpo". Then how bout $ proportional to modeshare? http://bit.ly/b1xjBR #
- Misread @flyingpigeonla hours, biked down to pick up an order and found them closed. *sigh* #
- I totally feel like blowing the whole world off at this point. #
- Sagan is dead! Long live Sagan! http://bit.ly/atq5hI #
- Used the back-end of a clothespin instead of a $23 pair of retaining ring installation pliers. #iloveopposablethumbs #
- Panning around Google Earth at high zoom cannot possibly be the best way to find the Tijuana bus station. #
- Ugh. @LAStreetSummit is feeling a little bit too much like a scientific conference. #
- Lack of open WiFi at @LAStreetSummit is going to make my workshop on crowd-sourced mapping…. uh, challenging. #
- My @LAStreetSummit talk could have been smoother. Listening to @lacbc talk about 1st LA bike counts, then on to Don Shoup/parking cash-out. #
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Carl Sagan is Dead
Before I finished Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age in the Salt Lake City airport Monday, I found a book by Carl Sagan in the bookstore. “The Varieties of Scientific Experience”, based on his Gifford Lectures from 1985 (and published posthumously, in 2006 by Ann Druyan). I read half of it in the airport, and the other half last night. It went fast, because I’d heard it all before. The main piece of new information was that a decade and a half after the fact, Carl Sagan is truly dead to me. I’ve read most of his books, I’ve seen his television series Cosmos several times. I love his ideas; they’ve shaped me throughout my life, but I no longer hope to find anything new in them. So long as there were pieces of his mind that had been recorded, but that I hadn’t yet been exposed to, it was as if he wasn’t quite gone. He was still, from my point of view, a dynamic entity.
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Tweets for the week of 2010-03-06
- Retirement talk seems to have gone pretty well… It was probably the tie. #
- US to require all cars have brake-override. Great. I feel so much safer. Personally I'd prefer we just banned engines. #
- The handyman from Beven and Brock was a sociology major, liked the play Copenhagen, and also metaphysical quantum mechanics… #
- I realized today that my black bike actually makes me want to dress up when I ride it. #
- Is Facebook really censoring a NYTimes article about gay marriage in DC? Or is a link-shortening glitch? http://nyti.ms/crWznQ #
- Saying goodbye to the Internet for about 10 days. I'm sure it will be fine without me. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-02-27
- Rode up the toll road into the clouds, home before the rain, squeezed oranges, chicken soup, talked science, society, shared spaces. #
- Given 2 simultaneous deadlines, is it better to work on both things in parallel, or serially? I wish I knew. #
- Hallelujah, my thesis is now findable via Google Scholar! It must really exist if Google knows about it: http://bit.ly/bEqXSF #
- Oh Amtrak, I would gladly accept your slowness if you were convenient and comparable in price to Southwest Airlines, but you are not. #
- Made (dumpster) banana bread w/ zest from (salvaged) naranjas agrias, and flaxseed. Breakfast for before climate and media talk tomorrow. #
- Made a poster for a conference I'm not going to. Working on my talk for next week. This retirement seems a little bit like employment… #
- Pasadena Babalon was good. A kind of Caltech/JPL/Pasadena folk art/history. We need more of that kind of thing. #
- Laid low all day long by some stupid stomach bug. Now missing @CICLEorg party too 🙁 #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-02-20
- Spoke-n-Art ride was great. Bought 2 Mayan posters, 3 tacos. The Propaganda Porteur served me well, dumpster chicken, ganja in San Marino. #
- Signal lost. Searching… #
- RT @AlexSteffen: Why Bill Gates' #TED talk was the most important environmental statement of the year so far: http://bit.ly/9NfKsM #
- If only I had a network cable, I could play some music to drown out the screaming Asian couple next door while I napped. Ah, technology. #
- Dressed up like someone who's trying to look like a science geek. #
- Just found the last bits of my Dr. Science: Uncertified Financial Planner costume, outfit, thing. I'm so not ready for a job interview yet. #
- I'm apparently closer than I thought to being officially persona non grata at Caltech. What can I say? After 17 years, it's about time! #
- The first of a few posts on my Retirement Investing for Scientists and Engineers talk: http://bit.ly/cyA2gh #
- Hmm. Caltech Social Science PhD student who interned at the Fed is coming to my retirement investing talk. But then, what did I expect? #
- Multitasking is so not my strong point. Maybe I need to get in touch with my feminine side. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-02-13
- What better way to avoid the Superbowl than brunch with friends and building bicycle wheels with dynamo hubs? #
- Ugh. Working on this paper is giving me thesis flashbacks. #
- Pasadena's bike plan draft is out. Check it out and give feedback on Feb 23rd at 6:30pm in City Council Chambers: http://bit.ly/9VMwR5 #
- Deadlines are for quitters… #
- I'm giving a talk on retirement investing for scientists and engineers at Caltech: http://bit.ly/bkezAn Please come heckle! #
- Considering changing the licensing on all my photos to be Wikipedia compatible CC-BY-SA instead of CC-BY-SA-NC. #
- Hyperactive sauerkraut fermentation all over the counter. Website migration scripting. Where's my coffee? #
- The always dripping shower makes me feel like I live in a cave. That, and the 10°C inside air temperature no matter how nice it is outside. #
- On my way down to @CICLEorg HQ to talk like a web monkey. #
- Whoa, post-meeting pre-dumpster nap ran into overtime. So much for my freegan evening. Guess I'll do some more web monkeying. #
- Anybody want to come out with me for the Spoke(n) Art ride tonight? http://bit.ly/cKVJJI #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-02-06
- Zane the bike zombie got distracted by an internally geared hub for more than an hour, and totally forgot he had food cooking on the stove. #
- Too much paperless paperwork piling up. Bookkeeping, reimbursements, billing, etc. Makes me want to go bike touring, sans home. #
- Still up with this stupid lingering cough. #
- Making yeast-leavened mash-grain buttermilk pancakes. Experimental food. #
- More than 90% of the energy we put into our water heater leaks out before we use it. Our bills are nearly constant, irrespective of usage. #
- My morning meeting with The Man went as well as could be expected. Glad to have this mess progressing finally in the right direction. #
- The CA state senate finally realized free parking isn't really free, but there's backlash that needs managing: http://bit.ly/aJttev #
- Happy New Year Y2K! I'm thankful for friendships so old that I can get a card ten years late. #
- Having a hard time getting myself to actually commit to taking a Spanish class at PCC. It just seems so… structured. #
- I'd forgotten how much I like wearing tights. They make me feel like some kind of superhero. A bicycle superhero, obviously. #
- When I go into the garage for a bicycle viewing I make myself to do as many pullups as possible. Might get stuck in there otherwise… #