cainmark

Reposted from http://hsvbike.com

Please consider signing this petition to have the City of Huntsville adopt the Complete Streets Policy. As you may or may not know Huntsville is the 2nd most deadly city in Alabama for pedestrians. Lets make the streets here safe for all!! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/adopt-complete-streets-policy-in-city-of-huntsville-alabama

The streets of our cities and towns are an important part of the livability of our communities. They ought to be for everyone, whether young or old, motorist or bicyclist, walker or wheelchair user, bus rider or shopkeeper. But too many of our streets are designed only for speeding cars, or worse, creeping traffic jams.
Now, in communities across the country, a movement is growing to complete the streets. States, cities and towns are asking their planners and engineers to build road networks that are safer, more livable, and welcoming to everyone.
Instituting a complete streets policy ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently design and operate the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.
more info can be found here http://www.completestreets.org

BASC, The Huntsville Bike committee, has these pdf graphics available of the swell bike route map that's in bike shops and other public areas.

http://hsvbike.com/?page_id=544

As a bike commuter, I greatly appreciate this work, something I could have used back in 1994 when I committed to bike commuting full time after skateboarding and bicycling when my car at the time would often be broken down due to planned obsolescence.

Pick one up even if you're not a bike commuter because it has instructions on bicyclists right to the road and how auto operators should behave in conjunction with them, and beyond that, it's actually a really good map of the city.

This comment I made (once it's approved) should show up after this link:

http://huntsvilledevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/09/housing-authority-shifts-to-lowe-mill.html

here;s the comment with irritating mispellings included:

That's not good. not good at all. Lowe Mill is already benefiting. It's already gone from alternative underground with the Flying Monkey Arts Center to above-ground with the Lowe Mill stuff aroudn it.

this happens againa and again ins city after city. The creative class risks going through and living in a rougher part of town, makes it more interesting and the new "cool" place to go and the upper crusts wants to kick out the pople who already live there? Let's not let Huntsville make the same mistake and instead work with people who need help instead of shuffling them off where some people dont' want to see them because it makes them "feel uncomforatble".

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 21:10 These comic book and strip mashups cracked me up icio.us/4spk5z #

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probably because just 2 days I saw it I was before I was thinking about a mashup of the Smurfs with Kill Bill, with Smurfette as The Bride.

Mayors Ride
May 17th 1:30 pm
Kids Fountain at 315 Fountain Circle

http://hsvbike.com/?p=235

http://hsvbike.com/

http://www.alabike.org/events/MayorsRide2009.pdf


If anyone wants to post this to the Huntsville community, that'd be swell.

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Though I take issue with the vampire assessment since I was into monsters long before the goth subculture took off after Bauhaus.

So, cainmark, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 1% unique and 14% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy vampires). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 26

(The average level of weirdness is: 29.
You are weirder than 57% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

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• 00:51 @Dan Christensen The best sword fight action scene ever is Basil Rathbone and Erroll Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Others copied.. #

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Dated (mainly because of nmaes used that people in the current time may not be aware of) humor, but still really, really funny in parts.

"Swear me in, swear me in, I've got the inauguration blues!"

http://www.archive.org/details/stan_freberg_show

Heh heh heh.

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/06/09/funny-pictures-has-house-full-of-old-ladies/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Valerius_Martialis

George Carlin died.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021649.html

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• 21:36 Lake Eufala was beautiful this time, with the rains only hard for about 4 hours instead of the all day ones we're used to at our family's. #

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• 13:09 New books received at work: Followship, Followship, Hello Kitty. #
• 15:09 @Team_Edwards The History of Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty. Thought it was funny after seeing 2 "Followship" titles. Cults R US! #
• 17:46 Yeah! Habeus corpus restored. Let's get America back from the fear-mongers. tinyurl.com/5jdxon #

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OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

So I look at my tags and I can't find anything in the Dewey Decimal sytem I could classify thi under, except, probably 355war and 649childrearing. Not very good child rearing, IMHO.

"Monday, May 12 - Friday, May 16: Bike-to-Work/Bike-to-School Week."

http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bikemonth/

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 08:53 "Brother Theodore" is a really strange performance artist. Seems like Andy Kaufman took over from him. Walk on all fours. Quadrupelus. #
• 14:17 Eating a sandwhich and reading Bill Moyers book On Democracy #
• 22:28 Eating a pizza and reading comic books while listening to an old interview with Stan Freberg. And twittering while I surf my Netvibes. #

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We liked this movie. Kind of a chick flick with gross-out humor for the guys. What I liked was that they acted like real people, not just characters.

These are one day behind. I don't know why.

• 22:21 Uploading Arizona photos to my flickr page. #

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Okay, all of our Arizona travel adventures are at this link here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cainmark/tags/arizona/


I started with all the Grand Canyon stuff first. It's weird that they look so much like postcards, but that big hole in the ground looks like it is a postcard in real life, too. Especially because of the snow clouds in it.

Last Wednesday was a whole lot of fun for us.