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Actual Cafe

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

The latest thing that everyone is talking about is the Actual Cafe in Oakland. Found on the corner of San Pablo Ave and Alcatraz, Actual Cafe promises to be, well, actual. That is to say, it’s  a real cafe. As opposed to an imaginary one.
Alright, so they’re not trying to oust that very favorite cafe [...]

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So Long, 2009

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone!
It’s been a wild year for me–driving 2000 miles from Wisconsin to California, then flying back to Wisconsin to get Orion and driving the 2000 miles again (I should probably buy some carbon offsets for this year, huh?).
For me + cycling, it’s been a wild year, too. Some achievements:

mastered bigger hills [...]

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Congratulations, Berkeley!

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

The City of Berkeley has secured $4.5 million to expand the current bike path system! The expansion will include a bridge over Highway 80 near the Marina, paving of previously unpaved sections, and expansions to link existing sections of path.
The paths will link parts of town that cyclists could previously only get to by riding [...]

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100 Bikes

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Occasionally someone does something that seems amazingly simple and like something I should have thought of myself. But I always wind up admitting that I could never have thought of it myself, and even if I did, I wouldn’t be able to execute it as flawlessly as the person who actually did think of it.
The [...]

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