Road signs on your commute
08-22-19, 07:59 AM
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08-22-19, 08:53 PM
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People in my kids' generation just don't appreciate Monty Python. I don't know what's wrong with them.
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08-22-19, 09:38 PM
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Look, this isn't even an argument!
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I used to work in an older town that had a number of roads that changed names and directions. Giving people directions there was a challenge.
We have a few streets where they seemingly arbitrarily change the name somewhere along its course. You could start out at the "cluster-blank" intersection (bad for cars, terrible for bikes, worse for pedestrians) east of downtown, head east on Williamson St, and without "turning" (the road curves as it wraps around the lake), be on five differently named streets. To top off the confusion for visitors, most locals call Williamson "Willy Street".
Adding to the challenge giving directions to visitors are the diagonal streets, the spoke/star pattern of streets around the Square, and the preponderance of one-way streets. Much of downtown is easier to navigate on foot or bike than in a car.
Adding to the challenge giving directions to visitors are the diagonal streets, the spoke/star pattern of streets around the Square, and the preponderance of one-way streets. Much of downtown is easier to navigate on foot or bike than in a car.
Welcome to Boston and environs…
Even though I've lived here for over 30 years, I always get lost on a new ride. Streets are laid out in a haphazard fashion; many streets, particularly the one you are riding on are not marked; they surreptiously change names; and in rotary intersections it's easy to lose your sense of direction.
Even though I've lived here for over 30 years, I always get lost on a new ride. Streets are laid out in a haphazard fashion; many streets, particularly the one you are riding on are not marked; they surreptiously change names; and in rotary intersections it's easy to lose your sense of direction.
…[But] I cycle a nice distance of at least 14 miles [on my commute] through one of America’s most charming, interesting, and historic metropolises on residential and light commercial roads (and partially on a bikepath in a park)…
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08-23-19, 08:09 AM
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08-23-19, 12:35 PM
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08-24-19, 06:52 AM
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I guess you had this coming...
https://youtu.be/ohDB5gbtaEQ
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08-24-19, 08:03 AM
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That's IT!
Must now play my MPFC best of compilation 
If anyone is a gamer, you might remember Blood Bowl, the brit take on american football....
The silliest team is based on Ogres and tiny, goblin-esque "snotlings". My particular team is named: "Grotty Phyton's Flying Circus, aka, The Search for the Wholly Fail! All the Ogres are named Bruce
If anyone is a gamer, you might remember Blood Bowl, the brit take on american football....
The silliest team is based on Ogres and tiny, goblin-esque "snotlings". My particular team is named: "Grotty Phyton's Flying Circus, aka, The Search for the Wholly Fail! All the Ogres are named Bruce
08-24-19, 05:52 PM
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Must now play my MPFC best of compilation
If anyone is a gamer, you might remember Blood Bowl, the brit take on american football....
The silliest team is based on Ogres and tiny, goblin-esque "snotlings". My particular team is named: "Grotty Phyton's Flying Circus, aka, The Search for the Wholly Fail! All the Ogres are named Bruce
If anyone is a gamer, you might remember Blood Bowl, the brit take on american football....
The silliest team is based on Ogres and tiny, goblin-esque "snotlings". My particular team is named: "Grotty Phyton's Flying Circus, aka, The Search for the Wholly Fail! All the Ogres are named Bruce
09-30-19, 06:39 PM
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10-03-19, 06:43 PM
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Obstacles circumnavigated
10-03-19, 07:53 PM
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10-03-19, 09:03 PM
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"Whaddya got in there, King Kong?"
This is a section of the ARBT that's been blocked by a landslide for over two years. People have been going around the barriers since the moment they were put up, but at least the park can feel good they tried. There's been a trickle of info from the state park about who they were getting to fix it and how. In August, a crew finally cleared the landslide, but then stopped. They still need to remediate the cliff so it doesn't slide again soon, and repair the pavement. And so far as I can see, they're not. Last October they had to stop their survey because of a pair of bald eagles nesting nearby, but that wouldn't explain stopping after only a week of work this year in August.
About Jesse, I have no idea.
This is a section of the ARBT that's been blocked by a landslide for over two years. People have been going around the barriers since the moment they were put up, but at least the park can feel good they tried. There's been a trickle of info from the state park about who they were getting to fix it and how. In August, a crew finally cleared the landslide, but then stopped. They still need to remediate the cliff so it doesn't slide again soon, and repair the pavement. And so far as I can see, they're not. Last October they had to stop their survey because of a pair of bald eagles nesting nearby, but that wouldn't explain stopping after only a week of work this year in August.
About Jesse, I have no idea.
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10-04-19, 08:01 AM
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^^^^^ Maybe someone perished during the landslide?
Am I the only one who looks at the stack on the far right and thinks ((shudder))?
Am I the only one who looks at the stack on the far right and thinks ((shudder))?
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10-07-19, 08:39 PM
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Exit through the gift shop
10-15-19, 08:14 AM
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I wasn't on my bike when I saw this so for give my street clothes in the reflection. I can't say I've ever seen anything like it before.
10-15-19, 10:41 AM
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whoa
At first I thought it was a tally of what he owned, but then I got to the old lady in with the cane. What's the last one, hiker?
At first I thought it was a tally of what he owned, but then I got to the old lady in with the cane. What's the last one, hiker?
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How wude!
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'Nuff said.
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