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  An open letter to Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) who is calling to ban European Style Bike Boxes [1]

  “It’s basically about [rich conservatives] in Madison who hate [bicycles] and think everyone should [drive] to work. It is basically making it difficult to use [anything but an] automobile.” Sounds familiar, eh Mr. Nass?

  3 months on
  littletinyfish
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  Bike Friendly Business Checklist [4]

  The League of American Bicyclist’s have put together a basic list of how businesses can become more bike friendly, but personally I feel it’s not ambitious enough. So I started brainstorming more options and expanding on ideas they already presented. It should almost be a non–stop, always developing list.

  7 months on
  littletinyfish
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  This Year in Music 2009

  It's been a rough couple of years for music and while some powerhouses released albums this year 2009 was still kinda in the weeds. I usually do a Top 10 Favorite Albums that Defined my 2009 with an emphasis on my because I am often late to the game. Several years ago my number one album was The Postal Service's "Give Up", which was several years too late. But even as I put this list together I can't help but think that 2009 was more defined by Podcasts than albums.

  9 months on
  littletinyfish
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  Have you ever been embarrassingly conned? [1]

  So instead of getting arrested for a random charity I'm going to choose to support the charity of my choice. SOIL is a non profit working out of Haiti. Haiti is one of the poorest countries on our side of the world. SOIL turn human waste into usable fertilizer. They say “We believe that the path to sustainability is through transformation, of both disempowered people and discarded materials, turning apathy into empowerment and pollution into valuable resources.” If anybody else would like to donate, please leave a comment, send me a message, or send a donation yourself. I was trying to think of a good reason WHY you should donate (Donate as a way of showing you can say no, donate because the holidays are coming up, donate so we can show how awesome Milwaukee is) but I would much rather you donate because you can, because you want to, and because you believe in the cause. No gimmicks attached.

  10 months on
  littletinyfish
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  Mutant Chronicles: The Movie [1]

  the movie does stay pretty true to the universe’s roots. They give us canonical characters, like Mitch Hunter, Max Steiner, Valerie Duval and Sgt. MacBride (though his race changes). The guns are beefy, almost unweildly semi–automatics. The underworld landscape is suitably carved, broken malformed. There is gun play and sword fighting. And the story, overall, brings me back to the days when we would craft some creative roleplaying sessions.

  ~1 year on
  littletinyfish
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  Flow [2]

  Despite the incredibly common appearance of any number of these non–commuters and non–automobiles, drivers continue to drive beyond the speed limit and blindly struggle to keep pace in an effort avoid hitting the brakes as often as possible swerving impatiently around a cyclist to race to the next red light.

  ~1 year on
  littletinyfish
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  This chainring is totally wrong

  When I got home I decided to walk to Truly Spoken Cycles, a shop located only a few blocks from my house, to get the lockring removed. I’m glad I didn’t attempt to remove it myself without the proper tools because it took three people, a pair of spanners, a large metal pipe, some zip ties, some penetrating oil, and some duct tape (I kid you not) just to get the thing to budge. But we got it off and back home I went, where I removed my chain to clean it (and boy did it need it) and set about removing my chainring.

  ~1 year on
  littletinyfish
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  Change the Milwaukee Bike Registration Page [1]

  ...I feel like the Milwaukee bicycle registration form is a bit lacking as far as bike description goes. For instance, it asks for the tire size, when really you should be asking for the rim size. Furthermore, the tire size only uses inches while todays modern wheels follow European standards. And even the archaic "inch" measurement doesn’t include larger wheels, like 28" wheels.

  ~1 year on
  littletinyfish