I can’t stand the AUTO heat/cool function and I refuse to use it. My dad swears by it in his car, and every time I ride somewhere with him, it drives me bonkers. 

Painting bike lanes striped green is about the absolute least a city could do—it probably won’t do much to protect cyclists and pedestrians. It’s good they’re thinking about the issue, but there is a ton more that they could have done that probably would have been more effective, including traffic calming around…

I think one of the fundamental problems with how we talk about bicycle infrastructure in the United States is that we tend to have these conversations in isolation (ie: what do cyclists need?), rather than as part of a larger discussion on overall infrastructure and transportation policy (ie: what do people need to…

Because they think if they just “speak gently and kindly,” that will make it OK to strip the basic human rights of all women. 

“It was OK.” That is some quintessential Midwestern mom energy from Donna Kelce. 

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Jesus, they reworked Frozen 2 and it was still that bad when they released it? I can’t imagine what a hot mess it was before they “fixed” it, because the finished product is terrible.

It did, thanks! My committee (by design) was made up of very humane faculty members. My director liked to say that by the time you get to the defense, it should be a celebration and exploration of your work, not a gantlet. So I gave my presentation, we had about 90 minutes of Q&A, and then we went for drinks. I’m not…

Because I lacked that prior knowledge of who was carved into the rock, I literally thought Baylan was standing on a carving of himself.

Thanks! The pandemic pushed back my completion by two years, so it’s a huge relief to be finished. Now to find a job...

I graded the finale and series out pretty much the same way. Sub-par. Needed another pass or two of script revisions to flesh out characters, fill in plot holes, fix pacing, and contextualize things for viewers who didn’t watch the animated series.

I was OK with the ship limping along while it was being repaired until it’s attacked and Ahsoka and Co. then blaze away on the dog/horse things. Like, couldn’t you have left the droid and turtle people to fix the ship while you ran ahead to try to thwart Thrawn? That was my big problem. You had a much faster mode of…

Disney has a habit of assuming everyone is watching everything they make - and this is the latest and worst example.

Vulture gave the finale 4 stars, which smacks of grade inflation to me. I probably would have given this episode a C- at best, and the whole series a C. It was at times quite dull with really poor pacing and flat acting. I’m not a hardcore Star Wars fan, but I’ve kept up with the movies and most of the live action show…

All I needed to hear was Almodóvar and Pascal and Hawke. Sign me up. 

Eh, I was a girl scout all the way through senior scouts, and I feel like I learned very little from walking my neighborhood selling cookies. Maybe how to briefly interact with people I didn’t know.

A few years ago, I biked to work sometimes using a bike path that was near my then-apartment. It wound along a river and spat me out about a ten minute walk (up a mountain) from my office building. The 10 minute uphill climb wasn’t ideal, but the bike path overall made bike commuting feasible. Until the opioid problem…

You’ve hit on two of the big things: Secure bike parking and the current state of drivers today. My bikes are too nice and too expensive to chain up on a city street. No way. So if there isn’t secure parking, I’m not letting it out of my sight.

This. There is a big difference between adding bicycle infrastructure and adding good, effective bicycle infrastructure. Lots of cities slap a line of paint on a road and call it a bike lane. Hell, the major city near me touted a whole mess of new bike lanes, but they put them in the wrong spot. So there’s street…

What not to Wear became dead to me after I saw an episode where they were “helping” an athletic woman. Stacy and Clinton threw out an entire drawerful of Nike sports bras. And it wasn’t like they were the only bras she had. She had “real” bras. But the hosts dumped the whole thing and I (former college athlete) was…