Thursday

The Popsicle Test

Can a child on foot get to the store, purchase a Popsicle, and make it home without it's melting?  Here is a short and bright piece about designing livable spaces from placeshakers' Scott Doyon that not only introduced me to the concept of the Popsicle Test, but also addresses the modern scourge of trying to buy your child happy.


THIS IS NOT A SHOE

 . . . it is, however, a slipper or part of a Peter Pan costume.  That is all.

This is unacceptable:



Monday

Stay in your Lane, or How I Could Have Made the City $3,565 in One Day

The penalty for parking or standing in a marked bike lane is $115.  I biked to work and back and snapped violations in ONE DAY.