Category: Thoughts

Essays, philosophizing, reflecting, theorizing, wondering, wandering, ruminating, percolating, etc.

Why Jeff Bezos Really Really Needs His Amazon Billions

JPPartland

He wants to go to space. It’s not a joke. The world’s wealthiest person is putting his money into space exploration. Bezos puts about one billion dollars of his Amazon stock a year into it. […]

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Screw Marie Kondo

JPPartland

Minimalism is for rich people. I love the idea of having a living space with less stuff in it. It seems like it might be easier to think and relax in places where you don’t […]

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Clear Lenses for City Riding

JPPartland

When I was in high school, a teacher commented that he thought there’d be fewer car crashes if there were no windshields on cars. At least that’s how I remember it. I believe the reasoning […]

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Drivers Know What You Think.

JPPartland
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They don’t. WNYC, New York City’s leading public radio station, recently started a series called “We The Commuters.” It looks at how people get around town. Cycling, not surprisingly, is a topic. On the one […]

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Too Much Damn Parking

JPPartland

The headline on the Commercial Appeal was a great way to start my trip to Memphis. “Parking study finds too many spaces Downtown, still thousands more to be added.” To make it more poignant, I […]

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Fewer Kids Are Riding. Cyclists are worried.

JPPartland

America doesn’t make it easy. A recent finding from the Sports and Fitness Industry Association is making the rounds. Perhaps you’ve read it. Here’s one such statement from The Washington Post “The number of children […]

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The Test That’s Never Graded Until You Fail.

JPPartland
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Locking a bike up is existential dread. Testing out bike locks and writing about them induced a fair amount of paranoia. What do I know about locks? What if my bikes get stolen? What if […]

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Bad Cyclists Are Irrelevant

JPPartland

You know about the bad cyclist. The one who doesn’t wear a helmet, ignores traffic signals, and flouts the rules of the road. And there’s more. They violate common decency and common sense and just […]

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#commissairedoping is bad for The Amgen Tour of California

JPPartland

It’s a relief that Tejay van Garderen didn’t win the 2019 Tour of California. This isn’t aimed at him, but at the fact that the UCI race commissaires issued a terrible decision on the fourth […]

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The Tour of California Is Slow

JPPartland

The Amgen Tour of California is slow.  I love watching bike racing, but when I see the racers on wide roads, rolling through towns on eight-lane highways, even most finishing stretches, it always looks like […]

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