Alan Fung Schwarz

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America

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Long, great blistering critique of the cyclist that set back cycling infrastructure in the United States by 30 years.

On Global Cycling Network, I learned about a rule of thumb, which is that you lose 1°C of temperature for every 100 meters of elevation. If it’s 20°C, then climbing thousand meters means 10°C, 2,000 meters, the temperature is at freezing.

tangbar.us/tangbar/stor... I went to Tang Bar for lunch. It’s a hot pot style food, but chosen and weighed in advance. It came to $30 and I finished it all.

Fans, Politics, and the Power of Sports A study by More in Common and FOX Sports reveals that Americans who are passionate sports fans demonstrate significantly higher levels of political and community engagement and are more open to cross-...

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I'm not into sports, but if they help people trust each other to work together, I can support it.

YouTube video by human1011 Yakko’s World - human1011 edition

A more geographically accurate song: youtube.com/shorts/uSmAu...

If only centuries delayed,
I'd count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land.

If certain, when this life was out
That yours and mine should be,
I'd toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.

If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.

A Toad, can die of Light —
Death is the Common Right
Of Toads and Men —
Of Earl and Midge
The privilege —
Why swagger, then?
The Gnat's supremacy is large as Thine —

Life — is a different Thing —
So measure Wine —
Naked of Flask — Naked of Cask —
Bare Rhine —
Which Ruby's mine?

The bee is not afraid of me,
I know the butterfly ;
The pretty people in the woods
Receive me cordially.

The brooks laugh louder when I come,
The breezes madder play.
Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists ?
Wherefore, O summer's day ?

To own the Art within the Soul
The Soul to entertain
With Silence as a Company
And Festival maintain

Is an unfurnished Circumstance
Possession is to One
As an Estate perpetual
Or a reduceless Mine.

The Hollows round His eager Eyes
Were Pages where to read
Pathetic Histories — although
Himself had not complained.
Biography to All who passed
Of Unobtrusive Pain
Except for the italic Face
Endured, unhelped — unknown.

Not so the infinite Relations — Below
Division is Adhesion's forfeit — On High
Affliction but a Speculation — And Woe
A Fallacy, a Figment, We knew —

Who Court obtain within Himself
Sees every Man a King —
And Poverty of Monarchy
Is an interior thing —
No Man depose
Whom Fate Ordain —
And Who can add a Crown
To Him who doth continual
Conspire against His Own

--help

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise

I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!

66 buildings in S.F. face foreclosure after Veritas defaults on $652M debt Tranche of 1,566 units could be sold as soon as December by San Francisco's former No. 1 landlord, barring deal or repayment of huge debt.

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Notable.

America’s Zombie Democracy Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.

"The next morning, a local librarian told me of a disturbing change at work. The town library was generally a noisy place, but in the days following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, people had suddenly begun speaking in whispers."
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YouTube video by YoBGS when you're way too focused... #funny #memes #pov

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I can’t stop watching this. The cyclist not seeing the cop’s motorcycle and truck.

Slap Ya Mama on watermelon.

How the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz Survived the Death Camps One evening in early 1944, four emaciated young women, attempting to rouse themselves from their grim prison conditions, began a secret performance of Beethoven’s Pathétique sonata in the cold and …

The multifaceted role of music amidst the horrors of the Holocaust.
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I find the trends in organic produce shopping interesting to know.

I’m grateful for the cooler weather today.

Spaghetti in a curry sauce with choy sum, chicken 🐓 , potatoes 🥔 , and carrots 🥕 . In the background is the grill of a gas stove.

Dinner: spaghetti in curry

Why Voodoo Death Spells Are So Dangerous As the name suggests, voodoo death spells are very dangerous, and you need assistance from a qualified spell caster like spell caster maxim so that he can help you out with the incarnation.

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Some good information on voodoo death spells, from Cole Hardware.

S.F. man slain at Muni stop an avid cyclist with a ‘strong sense of what’s right and wrong’ Colden Kimber, 28, was remembered as a driven athlete who could not stand by when a man threatened a group of women and children at a busy train stop in San Francisco’s Ingleside neighborhood.

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So sad.

How Public Health Discredited Itself To earn back the respect of Americans, the profession needs to return to its original principles.

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In case you missed it:
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A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.

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I wasn't much of a biker as a kid, but biking is a good hobby. And after biking and training, I've become more familiar with the terrains of Marin County and East Bay.