But Eric Ripert, who's only a few years younger than Bourdain (I want to say AB was 50 at the time of the episode), joined him for the dinner service and chugged right along, smiling like he had a song in his heart and not visibly sweating.

Does your title have a comma and/or a colon in it?

How long of a CalTrans train ride is it?

I'm weird because I do ride the bus and train when I go out there, or walk, if possible.

Also, they start working on the southern part of the canal path this fall. So that'll help some.

OK—they're dicks.

Fair enough. I really haven't ridden in downtown Phoenix much. My understanding was that it had improved considerably.

Man, not everywhere. I've been in offices where people have been fired for shit like that.

After three bike accidents each bad enough to send me to the ER, in an eight-year period and whacking the side of my head on the sidewalk in the last one, I finally got a helmet. I figured I'd run out of luck.

That depends. In the suburbs or residential areas, where no one uses them, and there are no bike lanes, say along even major streets? I'll use a sidewalk.

It's not great. The insane heat makes even moderate humidity intolerable.

Being a temp has a lot of advantages—I've done it off and on since 1999. I like bouncing around from place to place, not being beholden to one employer (or even agency) and getting to do a variety of things.

I often cycle down two streets in Phoenix that are full of big lots and big houses, and that's where I'd probably buy if I won the lottery.

Man, may I politely suggest a bicycle? It hurts one hell of a lot less than running, and I believe therefore helps more, because you'll it do it more often and for a longer duration.

Look—if you teach them stuff, one might become president. There's a precedent now, and all it's done is encourage people.

He sounds delightful, and like he should be reported to HR.

"Awkward" is a constant risk. In most cases, you're either the third being integrated, however temporarily into an existing couple, or you're the couple trying to bring in the third, and either way, it can get weird fast.

I do, but I say "weed" more often. I use "cannabis" when talking about it as medicine, or if I'm being political about it.

I had a girlfriend who referred to them as "trying to drive two cars down the road at the same time," and that's the best description I've ever heard.

"How many tin cans for 'around the world?' "