See Hypermilers, The key number is MPGPP (miles per gallon per person). The article looks at cross-country (New York-LA) travel. I would like to see the figures for Minneapolis-Chicago (trust CNN to ignore “flyover country”) and to include Megabus in the comparison.
I did not ride my bicycle at all last week, between the rain, scheduling issues, and just plain not waking up early enough. I did ride to and from the bus stop this morning and evening, enjoying my repaired bike and the perfect weather.
Fortunately my weight does not seem to have suffered during the hiatus, but I cannot count on that in the long run.
Later in the afternoon I did some shopping while mia_mcdavid took a nap. I then made one of the changes to the post drill that I had thought of last night. Then a shower, and off to work. Fortunately, that just meant a trip to the basement, where, with a cable modem and VPN, it is almost like going downtown.
Ian Grimble’s Chief
of Mackay is the first volume of his Strathnaver Trilogy:
…. bringing into focus
and describing in tragic detail the fate of the Mackay country –
Duthaich ‘Ic Aoidh – in the far northwest of Scotland. Because of gradual
changes in the idea of chieftainship, the people underwent a
transformation from a traditional tight-knit Gaelic-speaking community
to a down-trodden helot population to be cleared away at the will of the
landowner and replaced by sheep.
Irish Class, June 2, 2008
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Nick was out this evening, but he left us some exercises to work on. The
first was a set of conversational questions for us to answer and discuss
as Gaeilge.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 