Category Archives: Wheels

21-JUN

Dedication

Ribbon Cutting for New Fire Station

Fire Station 37 is located near Lincoln & Curtner and serves the south area of the Willow Glen community and the north area of the Cambrian community.

The new building is an 8,100 square foot two-story, single-fire company station that contains 2 apparatus bays, separate crew and captain’s offices, an open kitchen, dining & living room, exercise room, and 5 two-bed capacity dormitories with private restrooms.

The City’s new standards of Zero Net Carbon totally eliminate the use of natural gas. There are 82 Photovoltaic Panels generating a total of 25kW in solar power.

The project is said to have been completed on schedule and within the approved $8.8 million budget (after acquiring the city parkland it now stands on).

14-JUN

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Significant

This was a three hour dirt-ride into the Inyo National Forest off of Death Valley Road east of Big Pine.

Looking West, across Owens Valley, toward the Mountains of the High Sierra.

There was a moment when I felt there was no return.

18-MAY

Ice Machine

MONDAY May 8th, 2023: Sold my internal combustion engine (37 HP, 417 lbs) to a middle-school teacher.

Now riding an electric Zero FX (46 HP, 289 lbs)!

13-MAY

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Transcontinental

These two bicycled from one side of the USA to the other, just like this! Such a healthy duo!

Update 2024: I’m feeling fine. Getting energy back. Speech is still affected, but can at least communicate. Hoping focus on exercise and caloric restriction proves effective.

Update 2023: Doctor asks for me to take a look at the MRI. It is stable from before, not worse or better. The good thing is there is no contrast enhancement to suggest an ongoing active infection. Since steroids have not helped symptoms, think it is best to do another spinal tap (lumbar puncture) just to make sure there is no inflammatory process.

08-MAY

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Round & Round

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. –Leo Tolstoy

It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful. –Nietsche

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. –Leo Tolstoy

01-MAY

Isolated

What society thinks of as reality is the hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced fiction in which we are all collectively participating. –Deepak Chopra

Update April 26, 2023: still waiting for results of yesterday’s MRI.

12-APR

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Giddy-up

In so many ways, better than a bicycle.

26-MAR

Heavy Metal

Reasons you might want to talk to a computer: fantasy, dominance, privacy, confession, and the appeal of pushing the boundaries of consciousness. Simple fact is that there’s no greater pleasure than a good chat.

Sweet Nothings, The New Yorker, March 16, 2026

Perhaps the promise of A.I. machine-companionship is not the illusion of another person at the end of the exchange, but the assurance that there is actually no one there at all.

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