A lack of infrastructure — not sprawl — hinders the adoption of bicycles.
There is also a video of a really cool bike storage system at Japanese subway stations.
Warning: it's in Japanese with no subtitles.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Someone who understands!
This person understands my aversion to IM, Skype, facebook, etc etc. uh and Twitter? Que es eso?
"However, when it comes to the flip side - posting my own stuff on Twitter - my introverted nature causes problems again. For one thing, being the inward-focused type that I am, the very thought of constantly telling the world what I'm thinking or doing makes me tired and gives me the vague sense of not having enough solitude and privacy.
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You'll recall that introverts like to choose their words carefully and deliberately, and so for me, even a one- or two-sentence tweet requires thought and consideration. That ends up being another task on my already full schedule, so it happens infrequently."
"However, when it comes to the flip side - posting my own stuff on Twitter - my introverted nature causes problems again. For one thing, being the inward-focused type that I am, the very thought of constantly telling the world what I'm thinking or doing makes me tired and gives me the vague sense of not having enough solitude and privacy.
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You'll recall that introverts like to choose their words carefully and deliberately, and so for me, even a one- or two-sentence tweet requires thought and consideration. That ends up being another task on my already full schedule, so it happens infrequently."
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