My friends Heather and Patrick are now on Day Three of the Scooter Cannon Ball Run. Yes, that’s right, a bunch of scooterists are riding across country, from the Oregon coast to New Jersey. An odd contest–so odd, the Washington Post covered it. It is technically a race, but endurance…
So, the kid who hit my car (well, his dad, probably) took two weeks to return phone calls from his insurance company. But he finally called and accepted full responsibility! I’m getting a pay-out!
When I woke up Monday morning, I started thinking of metaphors for how my body felt. Beat with baseball bats, played football without pads… but eventually, I settled on “I feel like I was hit by a truck.” Which is, I think, a stunningly apt metaphor. Conveniently, Sunday afternoon, I…
I’m fine. Just bruised. My Vespa starts beautifully. Just looks bad. Kid driving an SUV with three of his buddies in the car turned left in front of me. Narrow road, no where I could go. A few more feet, and my brakes would have stopped me.
I decided to go on the Monkey Run ride to Port Townsend (via Whidbey Island–see the shamelessly stolen Google map right) yesterday. Monkey Run is a camping rally, and with my tent and sleeping bag in storage… no, it’s more that I was worried the Seattle scooter crowd would be…
Scooter Rage XX was the weekend before Pride, and I came specially equipped with a new L series zoom lens (70-200). I bought the new lens because of feedback from Brian about my pictures at High Rollers (gallery): Brian wanted more pictures of scooterists, less of scooters, and he was…
When I got off the train this evening, the rain was coming down so hard that sheets of water were running down the sidewalks and streets of Potrero Hill. I don’t know why, but biking in a downpour is simply exhilarating. I started singing along with my iPod (an Indigo…
Mike S. also chimed in on my flame war, introducing Godwin’s Law, which states that: in any Internet flame war, as soon as someone makes an analogy to the Nazis, the discussion is over, and the person who made the analogy has lost the argument. as the length of the…
Now that my initial ire has cooled, I am reminded of this awfully terribly politically incorrect picture about internet flame wars on a fark.com thread sparked by an article about some entertainment figure insulting the organizers of the special olympics. Always a bit embarassing to become part of a flame…
Had a frustrating interaction with a couple of folks in the scooter crowd. A friend suggested that I share my pictures of High Rollers, so I posted a link to them on the San Francisco scooter group on Yahoo. First comment was from a guy asking me to put my…
