Andrew Owen

Transportation researcher. Director of Accessibility Observatory (@UMNAccOb). Not born in @CityMinneapolis but got here as soon as I could. Obligate autodidact.

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@nhojelttil @bagofmoons In case this is still of interest to your household… https://t.co/cU16uic0GH

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

Sidewalk clearing might be the most impactful step @CityMinneapolis could take to support transportation for residents. Sidewalks are the “last 1/10 mile” link for almost every trip in the city, and complement walking, biking, transit, and driving trips alike.

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@mopeymcsadsack @nhojelttil @bagofmoons I’d never thought about it this way! I think you’re spot on, and I think it shares this core… theme? with Homestar Runner. The old computer & video game feel, Coach Z is a permanent dose of ~1980, comedy barreling obliviously through Strong Sad’s perpetual crisis.

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@bagofmoons @douglasmack @emily7m @flynnwaslike @jessevondoom Maybe you present it as a perk? Like “so in case you get bored the Roku downstairs is set up for Netflix and HBO, and also you can use this to shoot chipmunks in the head”

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@bagofmoons The many-colored!

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@bagofmoons That is fantastic and I really want to hear more about the beer brand -> character class mappings (I’m assuming that’s how it works?)

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@TeagueLyons Teague you can’t just post pictures you took of famous paintings on museums.

[push the needle @pushtheneedle]

the space race vs the timeline for seattle to build a bike lane and bus lane. same scale.

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@TeagueLyons I am assuming the dog’s name is Tract and he barks at everything passing by.

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@nhojelttil A school in our neighborhood kept up — for two years — a sign warning of playground restrictions “DUE TO THE CORVID 19”

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@reubencollins Oh no!

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

Me: “You didn’t finish your hot dog. Are you full?”

5yo: “No, but I want to save my emptiness for ice cream.”

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@bagofmoons @mopeymcsadsack @nerdseyeview @the_statesider I have only ever known this as “the sauce my parents served to me with fish sticks in 1985”

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@nhojelttil I feel like this one wants to be “The Fortran Enthusiasts” — something something statically typed

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@nhojelttil 🎸 Special Wall and the Key Tunnels

[William Lindeke @BillLindeke]

"More than 60% of the line is now constructed, particularly along its western stretch. But only 40% of a special wall for a key tunnel in Minneapolis' Kenilworth Corridor has been completed so far." https://t.co/LmQY5pfScI

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@TeagueLyons GUY: “Harlan! The last train to Chicago is fixin’ to leave!”

HARLAN (trying to get attention of love interest in chaotic station): “I’ll catch the 7:09 tomorrow.”

GUY: “No, I mean the LAST TRAIN TO CHICAGO! There ain’t none tomorrow, nor never!”

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@TeagueLyons Yes it is. And it’s set in 1969-1971 during the Amtrak conversion.

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@TeagueLyons This one has me trying to imagine what the rest of the movie is about.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Important if wonky issue for sustainable transport in the US. The new @uscensusbureau policy of adding falsehoods to fine-grained data is a problem for transit/walk/bike planning, which is sensitive to smaller distances than traffic planning and thus needs data in smaller zones.

[Andrew Owen @owenam]

@douglasmack Our kids have settled on “dessert of X” where X is an eating occasion other than dinner. So they have asked for “dessert of lunch” and “dessert of snack” and have considered how wonderful it would be if “dessert of breakfast” ever happened.