Inline skating the mean streets of NYC since 1993 and still alive to kvetch about it.
During the day, webmaster for some scientists, Java netCDF dataviz and cartography coder.
Otherwise, a Jack Methodist, somewhere left of center and (sigh) a recovering Idahoan.
Plus various experiences and opinions of no merit.
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When you chill out in #NYC, optimize your location.
Out #InlineSkating late Sunday night, and OMG, the combination of rolling #Manhattan #NYC avenues toward home after midnight whilst listening to a Dave Holland album I've never heard before ("Another Land", FWIW). The experience was close to perfect.
Now, I know, you need some good late-night urban skating music? Pick a small #jazz group with a damn good bass player.
Friday night just past 11 p.m., I was at first pleasantly surprised to see the #NYC Manhattan Br #BikeCounter reported > 6000 users today, which I hadn't seen previously this year. But then saw the annual total. WTF? I swear I passed by here in late August and estimated that it would be around Sep 15 before the counter reached 1 million. And yet the current total suggests that, no, that happened a week ago.
#NYCBike #BikeNYC people, please clue me in if you have been monitoring the counter.
If you were on the 7:22 Thursday evening from Brewster back to the city, the moaning sound you heard was coming from my ankles complaining about the 60-mile skate from the city to Brewster.
Theoretically, I might not go skating on Friday.
