I'm indifferent to the rain because I don't have a big yard that needs watering, but yes, I was just a little too hot and sweaty after my ride home today:) Cooler temps would be great!
I do avoid riding on 30+mph streets. I ride mostly around downtown and the medical center (where I work) and take the Braes bayou trail to and from work. I'm fully aware of the incompatabilities.. a taxi veered into a crosswalk and nearly slammed into me today.
I love school and I love my job, so I guess the mental part never factored into it for me.
When did cars become so safe? Those firetrucks and ambulances aren't rushing down the freeway to get kittens down from trees. And I bet you're the intellectual giant always honking at me. I do, however, understand the concepts of incremental change and personal responsibility to the urban environment.
I've done the suburb thing. I hated it. Now I live in an old house. It's not without problems. Yes, there is street noise. It's more expensive than some anonymouse cardboard box in a 4000 unit complex in Clear Lake. Some things can be a pain in the ass. But I've never been happier in my entire life, and I'd make the same decision a thousand times again.
I don't think I'm so arrogant and self-righteous. My property tax increases are quantitative data.
Anyway, I'm 15 mins from downtown on a high-frequency bus line and about 5 mins by car, if you still wanted to pay for parking. There are plenty of nice, modestly priced homes still available here. Developers haven't touched it too much because the white yuppies don't want to mix with tbe black middle class.
I think you have too much anger in your life, my friend:) Enjoy your commute!!
I don't see what the big deal is, really. I live, work, and study car-free in Houston, TX, a city not known for its public transportation or agreeable climate. 10 min bike ride to work, 15 min bike ride to school. To compare, the average travel time by car, door to door, including parking, stop-lights, traffic, etc, is 9 minutes to work and 15 minutes to school. I'd rather get a nice work-out and enjoy some nature (the path I use runs along a bayou). 5/8 people who work in my lab live within 2 miles of the building. The convenience lifestyle is boring and over-rated.
Anyone who sits for an hour a day in traffic has serious priority problems. Every freeway in this city flows in inches per second for six hours a day. Has anyone studied the physical and psychological price of sitting alone in a hermetically sealed box for X hours a day?
People who need 2000sq. ft.+ house in a lifeless suburb should probably rethink their concepts of housing.
I like to think of the bus as an adventure. Light rail is a nice, fancy decoration of political motivations but ultimately useless unless it's intra & inter-urban and extensive.
Cars are unreliable, ugly, and expensive.
Sorry to be didactic, but these are fundamental truths. The commuter city is irrevocably flawed and must be rebuilt.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think the real motive is designing a machine with a DRM core. It will run only 'CERTIFIED' binaries. This certification process totally breaks the GPL. Binaries you build yourself would be functionally worthless because they would not be certified; it would require an application vendor to build and have binaries certified by a certificate authority.
DCMA puts anyone who reverse engineers the platform in prison.
The computer will run only MS OS's, anything else would be both illegal and useless.
The DRM machine will also refuse to talk to other machines without DRM cert's.
This is a very real and scary future. Many people have commented that the death of the general-purpose desktop computer is already on us. God bless Apple for making beautiful and useful products, but they have proved the commercial viability of this model. Connect the dots to the next generation of PC hardware.
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I'm indifferent to the rain because I don't have a big yard that needs watering, but yes, I was just a little too hot and sweaty after my ride home today :) Cooler temps would be great!
I do avoid riding on 30+mph streets. I ride mostly around downtown and the medical center (where I work) and take the Braes bayou trail to and from work. I'm fully aware of the incompatabilities.. a taxi veered into a crosswalk and nearly slammed into me today.
I love school and I love my job, so I guess the mental part never factored into it for me.
My front yard is a 400 acre park.
:) Enjoy your commute!!
When did cars become so safe? Those firetrucks and ambulances aren't rushing down the freeway to get kittens down from trees. And I bet you're the intellectual giant always honking at me. I do, however, understand the concepts of incremental change and personal responsibility to the urban environment.
I've done the suburb thing. I hated it. Now I live in an old house. It's not without problems. Yes, there is street noise. It's more expensive than some anonymouse cardboard box in a 4000 unit complex in Clear Lake. Some things can be a pain in the ass. But I've never been happier in my entire life, and I'd make the same decision a thousand times again.
I don't think I'm so arrogant and self-righteous. My property tax increases are quantitative data.
Anyway, I'm 15 mins from downtown on a high-frequency bus line and about 5 mins by car, if you still wanted to pay for parking. There are plenty of nice, modestly priced homes still available here. Developers haven't touched it too much because the white yuppies don't want to mix with tbe black middle class.
I think you have too much anger in your life, my friend
I don't see what the big deal is, really. I live, work, and study car-free in Houston, TX, a city not known for its public transportation or agreeable climate. 10 min bike ride to work, 15 min bike ride to school. To compare, the average travel time by car, door to door, including parking, stop-lights, traffic, etc, is 9 minutes to work and 15 minutes to school. I'd rather get a nice work-out and enjoy some nature (the path I use runs along a bayou). 5/8 people who work in my lab live within 2 miles of the building. The convenience lifestyle is boring and over-rated. Anyone who sits for an hour a day in traffic has serious priority problems. Every freeway in this city flows in inches per second for six hours a day. Has anyone studied the physical and psychological price of sitting alone in a hermetically sealed box for X hours a day? People who need 2000sq. ft.+ house in a lifeless suburb should probably rethink their concepts of housing. I like to think of the bus as an adventure. Light rail is a nice, fancy decoration of political motivations but ultimately useless unless it's intra & inter-urban and extensive. Cars are unreliable, ugly, and expensive. Sorry to be didactic, but these are fundamental truths. The commuter city is irrevocably flawed and must be rebuilt.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think the real motive is designing a machine with a DRM core. It will run only 'CERTIFIED' binaries. This certification process totally breaks the GPL. Binaries you build yourself would be functionally worthless because they would not be certified; it would require an application vendor to build and have binaries certified by a certificate authority. DCMA puts anyone who reverse engineers the platform in prison. The computer will run only MS OS's, anything else would be both illegal and useless. The DRM machine will also refuse to talk to other machines without DRM cert's. This is a very real and scary future. Many people have commented that the death of the general-purpose desktop computer is already on us. God bless Apple for making beautiful and useful products, but they have proved the commercial viability of this model. Connect the dots to the next generation of PC hardware.