Finally, an Ask Slashdot I can weigh in on with some authority. You can see my comment (Score: 5, Informative!) here.
What's been on my mind lately? Read on...
After nearly a year, my brother updated his site to let folks know about some sweet t-shirts he has for sale at CafePress. There’s the robo-murito (robotic monkey burrito), frog, and satellite, all from artwork he’s done. Stock up now; when he’s a famous artist, they’ll be worth thousands apiece…
For the first time in a long time, I’m having a bad hair day. For years now, all I have to do is shake my head when I get out of the shower and my hair is done. Sure, when I don’t shower in the morning, my hair’s all a mess, but when I actually care that it looks okay, it looks okay. Today, however, it looks like someone buried an M-80 in there. Yikes!
For the second time this week, I got to work more than fifteen minutes late ’cause of traffic. Monday, I got to the highway and found it a seven mile parking lot. I managed to avoid sitting in it for hours, but going the back way took a while. And then today, a truck full of methane tipped over causing officials to intermittently close portions of several major highways. Driving just sucks.
In somewhat related news, on our way back from Plymouth this weekend, my brother and I counted cars on the road and divided them in to two categories: those that got above 25 miles per gallon and those that didn’t. We were generous, I would say, and when we were in doubt about a car’s mileage, we assumed it could do better than 25 miles per gallon. Counting 50 or so cars (and SUV’s, minivans, and pickups – all passenger vehicles) the split was right down the middle – half better than 25, half worse. According to the EPA and this article, the average mileage for new cars in 2003 was about 21 mpg, so we weren’t too far off in our counting. That’s appalling!
This past weekend, my brother and I went on a nice bike trip from Plymouth to Provincetown along the Claire Saltonstall Bikeway. It’s not so much a bike path as it is a route – there are signs guiding you from road to road (and eventually, for about 20 miles, on the Cape Cod Rail Trail).
We rode on Saturday from Plymouth to Eastham (about 60 miles or so) and from Eastham to P-town on Sunday (another 30 miles). The weather was spectacular, and we were lucky to have a great place to stay for Saturday night in Eastham: our friends have a house right on a fresh-water pond for swimmin’ with a great deck and a hottub, all not 50 yards from the bike path. And of course, there was good ice cream all along the way. The ferry back to Plymouth Sunday evening was also quite pleasant, though we were tired and mostly just napped at sea.
So three cheers not only for our friends in Eastham, but for Rubel BikeMaps, whose Eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod maps proved clear and invaluable.
Look for a few pictures soon…