... Make that five. I'm Sarah Keepers (nick name Sorcha). I went to the Santa Fe campus of St. John's college from 85 to 87 for Frosh and Soph years. Had...
... Yeah, I can relate to this. A few summers ago I tried to work at the Renaissance Festival which is about an hour away by car. Had a heck of a time...
I have heard this before... words I wanted to hear... solutions to getting around... letting arabs drown in oil they cannot sell or give away... 1974 or 1975;...
... I was talking a couple of months ago about making a left turn across a busy street. One of my cycling friends in town (an LCI) told me I should wear Terry...
I was encouraged to at least have an acknowledgement of an "oil addiction problem" in the State of the Union message. I was discouraged that any notion of...
... This is part of the problem that Jim Kunstler has identified. People don't understand the relationship between technology and energy. Technology is the...
JOSEPH T. HALLINAN, WALL STREET - Auto ads, a major source of newspaper-classified advertising, have been slipping steadily for nearly two years. But the...
Not all of the pooh-poohing in the early 1970s was bad. The good element of it consisted of a lesson from my mother: She told me that my desire to see arabs...
... TF: It was I who brought up rickshaws lately (by suggesting that they'd have a place in Dorothy Camer's ride-share business, assuming that she's not...
Curious ....................................... ............................the way I see this annoucement is that it will be used to justify drilling and such...
... Curious ........................ from my point of view, though, it seems that they are more intrusive, the feeling of being threatened for attack is...
Rickshaw, or ri-ki-sha, literally means man-power-wheel, or man-power-car, in Japanese. Technically, I think a pedicab would qualify as a rickshaw because it's...
Todays rickshaws make terrific sense. They *are* Carfree! I think Germany has a sleek present-day design mostly used as a taxi: the pedals in front, and room...
I live in an area that is plagued with severe thunderstorms during spring and summer. The weather also changes quickly. This can prove troublesome if I bike to...
Hi, my name is Elia Burkhart. I'm 18, and a student at the University of Cincinnati. I have a car, but only since recently (December '05); I was functioning...
... =v= I'd say it's interesting, but not encouraging. There are major players in the oil industry who are taking peak oil seriously, so it's not entirely...
I cycled through thunderstorms in VA and am here to tell the tale. I wouldn't have thought a cyclist would stand out more than a car or house and be ...
Thank you Shyrley. I was actually thinking more of lifestyle changes to accomodate the very real problem of not being able to bike somewhere when you need to....
... extremely ... Bikes, ... TF: Getting hit by lightning isn't always lethal. One time years ago during a severe thunderstorm that came up as I was bike...
Lightning ... offer some protection as long as you are not touching metal that is contected to the vehicle's steel frame. ... convertibles offer no protection....
Lightning ... shell around you protects best; house, enclosed car, aircraft, and velomobile are all ok. <<< It is the steel or metal frame in an automobile...
... It is true that only about 10% of lightning strikes kill. But many of the survivors are debilitated or suffer severe medical problems. No thanks. Also,...
Cycling during a thunderstorm is not of course extremely dangerous, but in a cowardly world it figures that such minor risks should be touted on the internet....
... dangerous, but in a cowardly world it figures that such minor risks should be touted on the internet. Dangerous is living in Sudan. Right! Living in our...
Welcome to the list, Elia! ... inconvenient.... another is the onset of winter, which in Cincinnati is ... rainy and horrible all the time, sometimes with...
Here's the video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6547777336881961043 Synopsis: Giant Tokyo-destroying monster encounters giant robot. They fall in...
i was more disturbed by the kermit-the-frog commercial for the "green" suv. they first show him riding a bicycle down a natural trail, and end with him ...
... "green" suv. ... with him ... suv and ... All I can say is "AMAIZING!" Actually, I can say more than that. As far as the above goes, it has rather been...