CaBi vs Giant
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Lately I have been opting for Capital BikeShare over my personal Giant bike. I always thought CaBi would be my savior late at night or when needing a one way ride, but recently I have been using Capital Bikeshare much more for the following reasons.
- More Stations
- More Bikes
- More Station Balancing
Along with the original reasons
- Zero Maintenance
- No Theft Potential
- No Batteries for Lights
The expansion of the Bike Share system has really alleviated the number of empty or full racks by the addition or expansion of stations and additional bikes. Granted this comes in the winter and perhaps ridership is down due to the cooler temps, but recently whenever I have wanted a bike, there has been one, sometimes only one, and always a spot in my destination rack :) Before the expansion, I was able to walk past 3 empty stations on my way to work and ended up just taking public transportation. I sometimes will supplement my travels with a CaBi leg to additional transportation.…
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French Lesson
While the couple shall remain anonymous, I had the privilege of helping some friends, a newly arrived couple from France with some English.
Dilemma
While I have heard that in some languages, accent and tone can complete change the meaning of a word, I did not realize that English was one of those, but here is an example to support this.
How do you pronounce the following….
- Lawyer and Liar
- Sheet and Shit
- Beach and Bitch
Firstly…. Lawyer and Liar and sometimes considered synonyms. I am just kidding of course, but there are times when this is true.…
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Movie Review: Mission Impossible IV – No Spoilers :)
So, I do like action movies, and I do like the Uptown Theatre in Cleveland Park, so this Holiday weekend I was to check out Mission Impossible 4.
Tom Cruise and Paramount?
Maybe I read the tabloids, but I thought that when Tom Cruise declared his belief in Scientology, that Paramount dropped him from all movie contracts, but several years later, back they are working together.
Technology!
While I do work in DC, I don’t work for a defense contractor, so maybe for you guys the technology is already used in the military today, but for me, real or not, it was really cool! While more complicated than one would think, the projection screen with a camera behind it to camouflage them as they moved closer to the guard station was really nice. Also, Apple must have shelled out a few advertizing bucks as the iPad was used quite often and they all had iPhones.…
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