tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560934058727325259.post6783137923185079866..comments2023-03-29T20:44:13.999-07:00Comments on Chafe City: It's time.Chafedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09600452318978949340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560934058727325259.post-5112402035536027072012-04-30T10:57:15.575-07:002012-04-30T10:57:15.575-07:00Hey Jess, congratulations on your bicycling commut...Hey Jess, congratulations on your bicycling commuting. I like bicyclists and consider a part-way bike commute a totally reasonable solution. We have a folder also, a Bike Friday Tikit. Now that Contraption Captain is not commuting to SF it gets less use. <br /><br />When I bicycle I almost always feel very good and only occasionally feel threatened. My worst (bay area) fall I managed all by myself, no help from the cars. I worry a lot. Possibly because I want to control more than what can be controlled.Chafedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600452318978949340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560934058727325259.post-37974988208359497982012-04-30T07:21:15.437-07:002012-04-30T07:21:15.437-07:00I started commuting by bike about a year ago. I st...I started commuting by bike about a year ago. I still drive part of my commute, since it is so long, but I have a <a href="http://www.montaguebikes.com" title="Montague Folding Bikes" rel="nofollow">bike that folds</a> and I keep it in my trunk. Even though I'm "out there" on the bike for part of the commute (admittedly the less trafficky part of it), it's a lot nicer than when I'm in the car - and in a way I feel safer, since I've always got an out to the shoulder (not always so with a car)Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01628039193846190159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560934058727325259.post-43591614650119671842012-04-29T15:19:24.144-07:002012-04-29T15:19:24.144-07:00At my workplace, "going to the office" h...At my workplace, "going to the office" has much in common with marshmallows and spaghetti ;-) That particular pinball machine is a time-honored way for operational engineers to relax. As I mentioned she also did some of my regular workflow with me and attended my most important meeting of the week as it happened to land on that day.Chafedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600452318978949340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560934058727325259.post-87929331944310289562012-04-29T12:54:12.382-07:002012-04-29T12:54:12.382-07:00Congrats on the house closing, hope it's the b...Congrats on the house closing, hope it's the base for many future happy bike rides.<br /><br />Growing up in a small business family, there were very few weeks that didn't have at least a few "child at work" afternoons or Saturdays, and I actually think that it's nice, at least at a certain age (9?) to just shadow your parent instead of having mini-professional development. My dad is an engineer (back when he graduated there was no such thing as computer science- they just called it EE, and they did it with vacuum tubes) and every day with him was an exercise in "thinking like an engineer" - and I mean that in a totally wonderful way. We spent a lot of car rides with him explaining how things work, and me building a model in my head of whatever he was describing, and asking questions to flesh it out. <br />Anyway, I think that it's really useful as an elementary school kid to have experience with what "going to the office" is really like, no marshmallows and spaghetti, but dressing a certain way, interacting with people in a certain way. Even if you end up not wanting to work in the same kind of workplace as your parent, it's useful to have the straight experience of what it's like.<br /><br />I'm glad that the bike part of it worked out well, and I'd bee 100% in favor of a selective congestion pricing scheme which would charge you a $20 fee to drive in dense urban downtowns with a vehicle over 1,500 lbs.cyclerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10331461189944538729noreply@blogger.com