Just wanted to post a quick note about a good experience I had with a repair job by Metro Bikes on 96th near Broadway. I biked in on Saturday afternoon, with the feeling that something wasn’t right in the bottom bracket of my Giant Halfway folding bike. Sure enough, in 15 seconds, the mechanic had [...]
I played the old board game with my kids this evening and was surprised by the many lessons it offered up — some of them surprisingly timely. My son spent a ton of his money on stock, which proved to worth only a fraction of what he paid for it. My daughter reached a fork [...]
I just want to say that these guys are great, and helped me out of a jam tonight on the way home from 125th street station. They’re located at the top of Marcus Garvey Park, here: View Larger Map I had a stripped crank and a pedal falling out. They fixed me up on the [...]
This is the second in my series on Biking instead of driving, busing, training, etc. See Part 1 first. Downsides If you ride the city long enough, you will start to see some problems with biking. Ghost bikes are bikes that are chained up, spray-painted totally white, everything. They mark a place where a cyclist [...]
A new way of moving around This post is about changing the way I travel, and how I’ve been doing that over the past year and a half. It’s been a fantastic experience, with so many benefits that I have to shake off the rust and start blogging about it in the hope that more [...]
Arggh. ! Here are the symptoms I had that were making me remember why I left Outlook in the past: The Send/Receive status would get to 77% and freeze. The application would stop responding. Eventually, after a few minutes, I could click on menus, but still the receive was frozen. Thunderbird works fine against the [...]