I’m having an anniversary weekend (12!) and my wife was like how about we ride bikes for like 50 miles, take a train trip, eat a bunch of oysters, and then watch Jurassic Park until we pass out

Oh no, I have reached the age that I have accidentally created the beginnings of a bucket list and I might actually not live to do them all, no stop it stop no I’m gonna live forever

Bike lanes on Park St are happening, right now

Finally had the time to finish Life After Cars. It covered a lot of material I was already very familiar with, but packaged it in the most accessible way I’ve seen yet. And the ending made me cry. I needed that pep talk.

Allen, Allen, Allen, & Allen should be renamed “Oops, all Allens”

If you want to expand highway facilities, I might have something to say about it. And I'll use whatever megaphone I can get my hands on to say it. (starts around 1:01) youtu.be/IlDtjEsjBPk?...

I got to give a long speech against a couple of highway expansions and vote against them. Felt great.

Moved into our new house today and walked a couple blocks to a great restaurant and the owner saw me wearing a t-shirt about biking and started talking to me about cycling and I planted the seed that he should wheel in a tv and serve brunch and show big races

The only use of TheFacebook for me at this point is to see very old pictures because I haven’t touched it in a decade

I cooked a boneless leg of lamb in a sous vide for three days and then smoked it with hickory for a half hour or so. It’s like a medium rare soft pate with a pastrami crust. Every bite I’ve taken has made me think to myself, no, don’t even think about starting a food truck, you have a job, stop it

Americans drive a lot more than people in other rich countries. If we didn’t drive so much, we wouldn’t die in so many crashes. It’s a simple point, but one that NHTSA, traffic engineers, and many road safety org’s have yet to learn. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

I have reserved a spot in my small talk repertoire for asking if you’ve tried Lucky’s Cheesesteaks on the mall and how they serve lunch now and the other subs are actually what I order and the cheesefries are solid. So let’s knock that out first and plan lunch next time we talk.

My Saturday plans are morning biking, smoking a bunch of pork, watching a Belgian bike race, maybe watching some baseball, and celebrating a friend’s birthday party with a viewing of Jurassic Park. Spring is here, I don’t care anymore.

Cities across the United States are discovering an effective pathway to safer cycling infrastructure — and it begins not with policy mandates, but with recreational enthusiasm.

And fill in the space with a tree planter or bike rack

I wonder if people are paying attention to how much their doom scrolling is cutting into time they used to use to read books

“If free buses strike you as wasteful, you’re not alone. Plenty of the beneficiaries would be people who can afford to pay. Does it make sense to give them a freebie? Yes, if it improves the life of the city, just as free parks, libraries and public schools do.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

Very excited to see the City do this: ww.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/2427

Of course I’m prepared for the blizzard- The smoker is clean, the pork butt is soaking up the dry rub, and the cook should finish up right as the first flakes start to stick

I don’t need to coordinate with a leftist to know that masked ICE agents shooting fleeing people are in fact scared little fascists who should be documented, shamed, and prosecuted for murder, not brave or enforcing laws or under attack by anyone

I bought myself a new road bike for Christmas

My mom found this old news article and I can’t stop looking at it, what is the little skull next to me

Come on, man, can I just wrap up some stuff at work and go on vacation

Everyone’s excuse for why their Spotify Wrapped is messed up is that they play something as background music. Mine doesn’t account for what we listen to as background at home: live broadcast of FIP through the France Inter app. Probably the best radio station in the world.

Found out the real Seb knows about the Christmas Tree name vote and wants to win

Oh man, Seb is a finalist

Looks like a Seb to me

The name of the downtown mall Christmas tree should be Seb

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

I’m really glad Election Day is a state holiday. It should be a local and federal holiday too. It should have street festivals, a 5k race, food trucks, and a parade. It shouldn’t just be me watching CNN with a six pack yelling “POLLS ARE CLOSING” and figuring out when I’m going to bed

the seattle mariners.

May the blessings of the Etsy Witch be upon you #goMs

So everyone is mad at Jay Jones for recycling a joke from the Office? I don’t remember anybody giving a shit when the butt of the joke was Toby

364 days since the City’s last pedestrian fatality. We almost made it a full year. www.cbs19news.com/news/pedestr...

There must be a better way to do this. Read more in “One Problem, Two Responses: What Philly and Charlottesville Reveal About School Transportation" on our site! buff.ly/fx8eHKZ

Dropping off and picking up a kid from school is one of the most frustrating parts of a parent’s day. But it’s also often the most dangerous part of a kid’s day.

Mariners announcers are apologizing to the Rockies, saying the Ms are having the best time and they don’t mean to rub it in that the Rockies are bad and that they understand.

Nice night in with a bottle of wine, put on some downhill road cycling videos, crane my neck and go oooooh as they go around corners really fast, please don’t tell me new information

STOP THE COUNT!

Haven’t done a long cook on a smoker in a while, time to see what this new pellet smoker can do

Ball so hard mfs wanna fine me

Is there a bar/restaurant in Cville that could become the Saturday/Sunday morning (7-12ish) spot for watching bike racing broadcasts? Bonus points if easy to access by bike and double points if I can have bread and butter and coffee

Capital Trail is confirmed, one of the best places in the Commonwealth to ride a bike

Someone posted on NextDoor about opening a hot dog stand six months ago and following up on that post is the only reason I open that app and haven’t deleted it yet, still waiting on that hot dog

Hark! I bring tidings of great joy: the newish Vietnamese spot next to Melting Pot (Mai Tea) finally got their special bread oven and are selling $9 bahn mi that I am probably going to eat at least once a week for the rest of my life

Allons y!!!!!

But first, we celebrate the last time we did it right

I guess we have some work to do, Virginia