Which is funny because even going to Outlook.com now redirects you to an Outlook subdomain of live.com yet you can’t register a new one.

I was lucky enough to grab an @live.com address before Microsoft bailed on that whole shtick. First name, Last name, @live.com I think has worked well in my favor for being clear, concise, a little unique (I don’t think live.com addresses are common anymore and are obscure enough to not age me), and easy to…

Please don’t use plastic. It’ll kill anything living in your soil, and then it’ll break down into smaller pieces that you’ll be picking out of your garden for years.

LIFEHACKER’S BACK, BABY!

I used enormous cardboard sheets from work (from large screen TVs) for my yard. They worked pretty well, but there is one other thing to remember: Weeds also grow from the top down. Wind blows seeds, seeds sit on top and germinate. Yeah, they are easier to pull out but you have to be vigilant.

Be better drivers. Just waiting for the comments to come about “but I see bicyclists do this and that blah blah blah”. Yeah, maybe but they are taking their life into their own hands. They don’t run over cars and kill people, but they are overwhelmingly at danger and face death because of inattentive drivers, angry…

I feel bad for drivers facing these barriers. On one hand - yes, they are trying to save the lives of cyclists like me. But on the other hand, they make it tougher to watch YouTube while driving way over the speed limit. It’s a terrible inconvenience, that. What are they going to do next, force cars to stop before…

iirc, credit unions have a consortium of sorts that all credit union members can use ATMs for other credit unions without surcharge. There's also an agreement about distress, I was mugged in another city, my credit union sent me to an member union to get emergency cash and a hotel until I could get a new card sent to…

I mean... it basically is. It’s annoying, it’s smelly, lately it’s comparatively expensive. You’re more likely to eat crap foods than not (which is what the station literally banks on). You literally can’t do what’s inarguably the best part of vehicle ownership - drive - while you do it. There’s often crap music or TV…

I looked at the free N95 masks that our local CVS had available when they were first distributing them. They looked like a 3rd grader’s paper mache project. I have a hard time believing what they were giving out were actually N95 certified masks. A few weeks later they were trying to give them away by the handfuls to…

I’m fully vaxxed with a single booster, and I’m just getting over COVID after traveling to a work convention that I had to attend.  I still have horrible sinus and chest congestion, two weeks later.  I’d hate to know what it would’ve done to me if I hadn’t had the vax.

I mean, if you really, legitimately wanted to haul around 3 toddlers with a bike, you’ve got choices.

This is literally the part of Detroit that I got hit by a car on my bike a couple of weeks ago. The intersection behind the building on the lower left.

I have long been a proponent of higher gas taxes. Europe’s high fuel prices post WW2 have meant that cities stay walkable, desirable and urban sprawl is limited.

My home, Detroit, is the opposite.

Perhaps long term $5 a gallon will have some effect.

I love my car but I would bike/ride/walk to work way before I drove, if possible.

not permagray anymore!

I was thinking I’d be angry with you, but realized I did the same thing in 1979 when I moved to Manhattan. For 35 years I loved not having a car, and renting on the odd occasion I wanted one.

I’m not sure why it’s surprising. Jalopnik semi-regularly runs content that lines up with this and has for a while.

As someone who just moved to the suburban wasteland of Henderson, NV, I often struggle with this idea. How could we meaningfully impact the dependence of cars in the cities that are already built for cars. We’re not going to raze these “master planned” communities and install beautiful, walkable and livable…