Rob E. Loominess

I like cheese and bicycles, but seldom at the same time.

[Rob E. Loominess @RobE]

So many people out on the #Greenway today getting their #exercise . No one else has a #milkshake. #maybeimdoingitwrong

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

Whyyyyyyyyy didn’t this movie make a billion dollars so we could have 10 sequels? One of my all-time faves.

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@TheBikeBelle @bikeshopgirlcom Not as good as I had hoped. Looks like their solution for southbound traffic is to simply cross the street and use the Museum-adjacent path for a quarter mile and then cross the street again. Not really a fan of that. You'll spend more time waiting for signals then riding.

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@TheBikeBelle @bikeshopgirlcom That's great. I knew there were plans. I didn't know they were so close to starting or what the final plans were. Not having to go over Wade with cars on one side and a 3 or 4 foot rail on the other will be nice.

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@TheBikeBelle @bikeshopgirlcom Although apart from the pretty bike lane, that stretch is terrible. Bike lane goes north only. Going the other direction, there's neither a bike lane nor sidewalk, just 4-5 lanes of road to share with fast-moving traffic.

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@TheBikeBelle I think looking at this and at @bikeshopgirlcom 's other comment, it puts me in mind of the cycle track that runs along Blue Ridge at sidewalk level in front of the art museum. It's a very short lane, but probably the prettiest I can think of.

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@laura_laker @FollowingFX I'm not sure that's luck. It's a weirdly specific bike part (at least where I live), and I'd have to think that that piece may have come out of that same bike shop.

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@Henryz_mom Or you could buy and EV, drive it little as possible, and as long as you drove it more than 20K miles (whatever the number is). If you don't think you'll drive it the necessary X number of miles to make it worthwhile, consider selling the ICE and buying nothing.

[Rob E. Loominess @RobE]

@Henryz_mom There are some pretty good calculations on how many miles you need to drive an EV before the reduced carbon emissions make up for the environmental cost of production. So the thing to do to evaluate those sources, evaluate your driving habits, and decide if that's realistic.

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@LucreSnooker @J_K_Chesterton What makes car driving not a hobby? Is it because you use it to get to work, get groceries, and otherwise participate in society? Because that's how I use my bike. The fact that you don't see parallels doesn't make an abuse of language.

[Richard Broughton @fborocyclist]

Isn't there some sort of rule about this . . . ? Only got about 1.5s of it as I filtered to the bike box - not sure if that's enough to report.

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@BarmanNYC Although, to be fair, my wife has a car and has zero interest in letting it go. I almost never use the car unless we are both going somewhere she refuses to bike to. But it's there, and it comes in handy on occasion.

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@BarmanNYC Car I hardly ever drove had the clutch go bad. Cost of repair equaled a round trip flight to visit my out-of-state family and 2 round trip train tickets to visit my in-state family. I was already not using the car locally, so I got rid of it 10 years ago.

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@pablonegro I wish the greenway actually went to Bond Brothers. Much like downtown Raleigh, most of the greenways seem to shy away from downtown Cary.

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@fruittwink That would be Batman. https://t.co/6PI8VjiNxA

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@annaholligan I've been trying to figure out something similar for my banjo.

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@OpOnions Sunlight wakes me up, too, which is why my real ideal is sunrising exactly at whatever time I set my alarm for. I don't know how this will be arranged, but if you could all set your clocks to match my sleep schedule, that would be great.

[Rob E. Loominess @RobE]

@OpOnions I feel that when I get off work there should be sunlight, 365 days a year. If it's dark in the morning, I'm okay with that. But I do think the point you made is exactly why permanent DST has not been successful some places.

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@jgrif17 @ARadDocDates Disagree. The South is where if you don't specify, they will default to sweet tea. And if you do specify "unsweet" there's a 1 in 4 chance it's going to be sweet anyway.

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@tmorman Also, I will say that I roll out of bed at the last possible minute, head straight to my 9-to-5, and really don't care if the sun doesn't rise until 4:30 PM as long as I can have some sunlight after work, which, for a month or so a year, I cannot. DST4ever!

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@tmorman "...1974 was a long time ago and a lot’s changed since then. And that’s true, but more things haven’t changed. People still like ice cream and hate getting punched in the face." Amusing, but don't we make allowances for ice-cream haters and accept that some may like a face punch?