In which I try to explain the fixed gear craze: Welcome to the world of the fixie, where cycling is reduced to its purest essence. Bicycle racing today revolves around marvels of technology. The old “10-speed” has become a 20-speed or more. Carbon fiber allows bike frames you could pick up with a finger, and …
John Fleck visits my beehive Originally uploaded by chantal foster. That’s me, looking at Chantal’s bees this morning. Chantal’s the smartest person I know about the nature of self-organizing web communities (she’s the founder of Duke City Fix). You can’t exactly manage them. Instead, you provide the seed to get things started and the necessary …
Some stuff I wrote elsewhere, on the fate of the U.S. nuclear weapons budget: I say “it appears” because I don’t have any paper out of the committee yet, just a guy in a bar (I swear, this is how it happened) reading the statement to me over a bad cell phone connection. More later, …
Check out energy celebrity Al Zelicoff’s latest energy-saving tip. But for the real action, you must watch Al and Troy’s latest energy tips and piano bar video.
I’ve been picking up and putting down Daniel Yergin’s The Prize for the last few months. It’s both a delight and infuriating, for the same reason. Yergin clearly loves what he’s writing about, so he writes about it a lot. I keep wishing he’d get on with things, but his side trips are not without …
Aaron sums up the importance of the ordinary at a pride day barbecue for his friends Ron and David: The real story there, the real victory, is that Ron’s parents are there at his cookout, chatting about lawn care and paint chips with their son-in-law in a way that you’d never ever have imagined fifty …
The very cute couple: And you’ve gotta check out the blog post: a) did a new release of libvirt, and b) got married. 🙂
Jad Mouawad reports in the New York Times this morning that Saudi Arabia is planning to bump up its oil production half a million barrels a day in an attempt to do something that doesn’t entirely make intuitive sense, but then I am not an economist: While they are reaping record profits, the Saudis are …
Rudolfo Carillo elaborates (delightfully) on the lack of water in the desert: By the time we finally moved to Burque, I remember standing at the edge of the Rio Grande, staring. When I asked my father about this utterly strange phenomenon, a river that flowed, he would say that the world was a watery place, …