June 2012
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A bicycle and a few friends leads a big man into a... →
I’m generally not a fan of people who equate cycling to weight loss or weight loss to health. That said, I love this story of a man who was faced with “gastric bypass or die” from his doctor, he chose the third option - riding a bike.
And I love the community of cyclists he found who rode with him instead of shaming him back into his house. Cycling is such a joyful, freeing...
Cargo Bike Roll Call: Tour de Fat is location of... →
cargobikerollcall:
Join us for the next Cargo Bike Roll Call at Tour de Fat on Saturday, July 21, 2012. We’ll have a cargo and family bike contingent in the morning bike parade.
Parade registration begins at 9 AM and Roll Call organizer Brandon Gobel will be signing people in. Then meet Ash Lottes in the parade…
“So the moral of the story is that looks can be deceiving. What a person looks...”
– Sarah Robles, Olympian Weight-Lifter. Does Size = Health?
If you want to support an Olympian, support Sarah Robles. Here are ways other than donating money that you can support her.
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tattoo
I got the first draft of my tattoo from Serena at midnight last night and it is simply gorgeous. I sent it to a few people for their thoughts and am taking my sister’s suggestion on one change.
It will be the ultimate bike Chicago tattoo. Maybe not THE ultimate, but it is so damn nice. Can’t wait to show you, internet.
dgridley: Paranoid →
dgridley:
…admitting when I’m injured or sick (especially online) is just throwing it out there to the world that I’m the sickly member of the herd. Just makes me think of Nat Geo shows where a bunch of wolves/lions/etc pick off some haggard looking ungulate…and…done. That may be pushing my situation a bit,…
Foot bones are pretty complicated and very important in the long run. I would go...
what my parents think will happen if i'm not...
frumgirlprobs:
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“PadMapper still has a lot of other sources, I’ll be adding more, and I’ll keep...”
– PadMapper founder and CEO Eric DeMenthon • Discussing the recent cease-and-desist order he received from Craigslist. His site, which effectively made searching for apartments on Craigslist and elsewhere much easier by pinpointing locations on a map, ran afoul of Craigslist’s terms of service, which...
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technology killed romance
aldoushuxtable:
Nope, apathy did.
If you demand better, then you’ll get better. That goes for men/women wanting to be wooed and the men/women getting wooed.
(The above statement took me 26 years and 360 days to realize, but Whoomp! There it is.)
vancouver
And then John Fluevog said, “these young girls in NYC are wearing platforms, but they aren’t wearing them well. They need canes.”
He said that when I met him in his flagship store.
“There is something else you can do to help: Send positive energy by visualizing...”
– Superheroes For Sam: A Photo Project « The Comic Book Shop’s Blog
My friend’s six year old son has been diagnosed with acture meyloid lukemia. She and her husband are collecting photos of people in superhero shirts to show him that people are rooting for him.
This paragraph from...
“I wanted to use it as an SEM SEO presentation to kind of teach my team about how...”
– How Lisa Frame Made So Yeah Duh a Viral Hit | NBC Chicago
Well. All the fun is officially sucked out of that now.
(via ourmaninchicago)
Or, maybe, Lisa has lots of friends in the media so when she shot out a link to it and some of them clicked on it, it grew exponentially. In order for the SEO...
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“You know, it’s funny, generally when men refer to their exes as “crazy” what I...”
– The Gloss
“Being both a parent of children in CPS and a teacher can be like walking a...”
– The CTU Contract Negotation Thread « CPS Obsessed
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Buy these from me - 3x Cycling Knickers →
Bought these in a women’s 3x and I don’t like how they fit me. I was able to zip them, so they are technically true to size, but I don’t like how they look on me and would rather sell them to a tumblr cycling lovely than deal with the 25% restocking fee and shipping if I return them.
I paid $50, so I’m asking $50.
“Muhammad Ali was in town last November for the funeral of Smokin’ Joe Frazier,...”
– Muhammad Ali’s Grandson Bar Mitzvahed (via journalofajournalist)
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Now to find an artist
I started out thinking that I wanted a bicycle/pin-up tattoo, but the more I looked for inspiration, the more I had to admit that pin-ups just aren’t my style.
Art deco bicycle designs, however, are super my style. There is so much movement in the images and I love it.
Does anyone know of an artist (or happen to be an artist) that can take all of these ideas and come up with a bad-ass, art...
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