Christopher Schmidt
@crschmidt.better.boston.ap.brid.gy
Tilter at windmills. Alphabet Workers Union. Opinions stated here are my own, not Google's. He/him. Signal: 617.599.5778. @crschmidt on Twitter. Available on […]
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I am so bad at categorizing bikes in any useful way.
Trying to talk about the difference in the seating position of the Aventon Level versus the Soltera, or the difference between the Radio Flyer L885 (fixed forward handlebars) versus the GSD/HSD (tool-less […]
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Trying to talk about the difference in the seating position of the Aventon Level versus the Soltera, or the difference between the Radio Flyer L885 (fixed forward handlebars) versus the GSD/HSD (tool-less […]
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August 20, 2024 at 2:48 PM
I am so bad at categorizing bikes in any useful way.
Trying to talk about the difference in the seating position of the Aventon Level versus the Soltera, or the difference between the Radio Flyer L885 (fixed forward handlebars) versus the GSD/HSD (tool-less […]
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Trying to talk about the difference in the seating position of the Aventon Level versus the Soltera, or the difference between the Radio Flyer L885 (fixed forward handlebars) versus the GSD/HSD (tool-less […]
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Since I just activated a "free trial" for shopify, sharing the pricing options that are presented for shopify customers.
August 15, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Since I just activated a "free trial" for shopify, sharing the pricing options that are presented for shopify customers.
Good morning. This morning, I was taking a bike ride out to the end of the Minuteman and back before work, and as I arrived at the end of the path, I received a calendar alert on my phone for therapy. So I sat down in a park in Bedford Center, did therapy on […]
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August 12, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Good morning. This morning, I was taking a bike ride out to the end of the Minuteman and back before work, and as I arrived at the end of the path, I received a calendar alert on my phone for therapy. So I sat down in a park in Bedford Center, did therapy on […]
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* A police officer was parked in the bike lane.
* I asked him to move, and he did, but he was then a dick to me about "having no life".
* I filed a complaint with the police department Professional Standards complaint form.
* I got a call 2 hours […]
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* I asked him to move, and he did, but he was then a dick to me about "having no life".
* I filed a complaint with the police department Professional Standards complaint form.
* I got a call 2 hours […]
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July 31, 2024 at 3:06 AM
* A police officer was parked in the bike lane.
* I asked him to move, and he did, but he was then a dick to me about "having no life".
* I filed a complaint with the police department Professional Standards complaint form.
* I got a call 2 hours […]
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* I asked him to move, and he did, but he was then a dick to me about "having no life".
* I filed a complaint with the police department Professional Standards complaint form.
* I got a call 2 hours […]
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Got a ride around Somerville from Coach Balto in the library Bunch Cargo trike tonight.
(For those who don’t know, Coach Balto is a major figure helping drive forward bike buses nationwide.)
(For those who don’t know, Coach Balto is a major figure helping drive forward bike buses nationwide.)
July 31, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Got a ride around Somerville from Coach Balto in the library Bunch Cargo trike tonight.
(For those who don’t know, Coach Balto is a major figure helping drive forward bike buses nationwide.)
(For those who don’t know, Coach Balto is a major figure helping drive forward bike buses nationwide.)
Last week, I flew to and from Kentucky on full aircraft. I spent more than an hour around hundreds of people in the crowded Charlotte, North Carolina airport.
Unlike 98% of people in the airport, I was wearing an N95 mask.
Earlier today (5 days after my […]
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Unlike 98% of people in the airport, I was wearing an N95 mask.
Earlier today (5 days after my […]
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July 30, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Last week, I flew to and from Kentucky on full aircraft. I spent more than an hour around hundreds of people in the crowded Charlotte, North Carolina airport.
Unlike 98% of people in the airport, I was wearing an N95 mask.
Earlier today (5 days after my […]
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Unlike 98% of people in the airport, I was wearing an N95 mask.
Earlier today (5 days after my […]
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Good morning.
I am currently in Slade, Kentucky, where the weather is 69 degrees and raining. This week I have ridden a chair lift to the top of the Natural Bridge in Natural Bridge State Park, kayaked inside of a flooded limestone mine, visited Whistling […]
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I am currently in Slade, Kentucky, where the weather is 69 degrees and raining. This week I have ridden a chair lift to the top of the Natural Bridge in Natural Bridge State Park, kayaked inside of a flooded limestone mine, visited Whistling […]
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July 24, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Good morning.
I am currently in Slade, Kentucky, where the weather is 69 degrees and raining. This week I have ridden a chair lift to the top of the Natural Bridge in Natural Bridge State Park, kayaked inside of a flooded limestone mine, visited Whistling […]
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I am currently in Slade, Kentucky, where the weather is 69 degrees and raining. This week I have ridden a chair lift to the top of the Natural Bridge in Natural Bridge State Park, kayaked inside of a flooded limestone mine, visited Whistling […]
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Biked to the airport this morning. Appreciate my Tow Monster, which is designed primarily for towing bikes, but is also useful for carrying relatively vertical cargo like my carryon bag.
Biking took 33 minutes—about 20 minutes shorter than the typical transit trip.
Biking took 33 minutes—about 20 minutes shorter than the typical transit trip.
July 21, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Biked to the airport this morning. Appreciate my Tow Monster, which is designed primarily for towing bikes, but is also useful for carrying relatively vertical cargo like my carryon bag.
Biking took 33 minutes—about 20 minutes shorter than the typical transit trip.
Biking took 33 minutes—about 20 minutes shorter than the typical transit trip.
Does anyone who follows me on Mastodon live in the 25th Middlesex District in Cambridge? https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1erpWQ8wbjZ2l6H6Pfr9q8YpqgJRWy2A&femb=1
July 17, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Does anyone who follows me on Mastodon live in the 25th Middlesex District in Cambridge? https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1erpWQ8wbjZ2l6H6Pfr9q8YpqgJRWy2A&femb=1
You’d hope that the transit police would be able to do something about the regular bike lane blocking in the Porter Square MBTA bus stop… if the Transit Police vehicle wasn’t literally doing the same thing at the same time. (Police vehicle was about 15’ behind the car.) @BostonBikeBlockers
July 10, 2024 at 11:09 PM
You’d hope that the transit police would be able to do something about the regular bike lane blocking in the Porter Square MBTA bus stop… if the Transit Police vehicle wasn’t literally doing the same thing at the same time. (Police vehicle was about 15’ behind the car.) @BostonBikeBlockers
Two different bike lane blockers as I rolled a bike laden with an air conditioning unit over the hill. Because what I definitely needed was to be forced into the lane to compete with 6pm Summer Street traffic.
July 10, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Two different bike lane blockers as I rolled a bike laden with an air conditioning unit over the hill. Because what I definitely needed was to be forced into the lane to compete with 6pm Summer Street traffic.
@BostonBikeBlockers Genuinely, I can't imagine any place this vehicle operator would be going that stopping here feels _easier_ than just ... pulling into the gas station.
July 9, 2024 at 3:40 PM
@BostonBikeBlockers Genuinely, I can't imagine any place this vehicle operator would be going that stopping here feels _easier_ than just ... pulling into the gas station.
Main St. in Medford, at 8:01am.
#ma_2zan57
There is a gas station immediately to the right of this vehicle. The car is directly in front of a building with an attached parking garage specifically for patrons and employees of that building.
@BostonBikeBlockers
#ma_2zan57
There is a gas station immediately to the right of this vehicle. The car is directly in front of a building with an attached parking garage specifically for patrons and employees of that building.
@BostonBikeBlockers
July 9, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Main St. in Medford, at 8:01am.
#ma_2zan57
There is a gas station immediately to the right of this vehicle. The car is directly in front of a building with an attached parking garage specifically for patrons and employees of that building.
@BostonBikeBlockers
#ma_2zan57
There is a gas station immediately to the right of this vehicle. The car is directly in front of a building with an attached parking garage specifically for patrons and employees of that building.
@BostonBikeBlockers
It is amusing to see a "Harvard Square real estate man" complaining "But soon there will be too many houses! We need regulation to prevent all these houses from being here!"
He was worried that homes in these buildings would be too cheap, because why would […]
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He was worried that homes in these buildings would be too cheap, because why would […]
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July 8, 2024 at 12:53 PM
It is amusing to see a "Harvard Square real estate man" complaining "But soon there will be too many houses! We need regulation to prevent all these houses from being here!"
He was worried that homes in these buildings would be too cheap, because why would […]
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He was worried that homes in these buildings would be too cheap, because why would […]
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all of these buildings were built _just in 1924-1925_ (and dozens more) in Cambridge, MA, the year before zoning was passed.
(The last one is sadly no longer extant; during the great depression, it lost its four upper floors. It's now the Target location at […]
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(The last one is sadly no longer extant; during the great depression, it lost its four upper floors. It's now the Target location at […]
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July 8, 2024 at 11:26 AM
all of these buildings were built _just in 1924-1925_ (and dozens more) in Cambridge, MA, the year before zoning was passed.
(The last one is sadly no longer extant; during the great depression, it lost its four upper floors. It's now the Target location at […]
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(The last one is sadly no longer extant; during the great depression, it lost its four upper floors. It's now the Target location at […]
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Google’s canon emissions report showing their data center carbon emissions are up is shitty, but blaming it on AI is a distraction.
Google’s carbon usage is up because they haven’t been able to accomplish expected carbon free energy projects in the Middle […]
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Google’s carbon usage is up because they haven’t been able to accomplish expected carbon free energy projects in the Middle […]
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July 5, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Google’s canon emissions report showing their data center carbon emissions are up is shitty, but blaming it on AI is a distraction.
Google’s carbon usage is up because they haven’t been able to accomplish expected carbon free energy projects in the Middle […]
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Google’s carbon usage is up because they haven’t been able to accomplish expected carbon free energy projects in the Middle […]
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Did my part today to take back the streets from cars a little bit, and rode a big stretch of Storrow Drive up and down while it's closed to cars for the Fourth of July.
July 4, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Did my part today to take back the streets from cars a little bit, and rode a big stretch of Storrow Drive up and down while it's closed to cars for the Fourth of July.
Sharing another @BostonBikeBlockers: Blocking the bike lane, next to an open parallel parking space, 100' from an off-street parking lot which was less than half full, with both doors open. (10:30am yesterday on Beacon St. in Somerville.)
Like, just try for […]
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Like, just try for […]
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July 4, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Sharing another @BostonBikeBlockers: Blocking the bike lane, next to an open parallel parking space, 100' from an off-street parking lot which was less than half full, with both doors open. (10:30am yesterday on Beacon St. in Somerville.)
Like, just try for […]
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Like, just try for […]
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Took a bit of a ride this morning. This was on the Velotric Discover 2, which started at 91% battery and finished at 6%. I was happy to see that the bike retained pretty consistent power throughout battery down to 6%. Included passing through Cambridge's […]
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June 30, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Took a bit of a ride this morning. This was on the Velotric Discover 2, which started at 91% battery and finished at 6%. I was happy to see that the bike retained pretty consistent power throughout battery down to 6%. Included passing through Cambridge's […]
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Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons statement in response to two recent cycling deaths is to center "our senior community, those with mobility impediments, our houses of worship, and our small businesses" as the primary people we need to be thinking about while […]
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June 28, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons statement in response to two recent cycling deaths is to center "our senior community, those with mobility impediments, our houses of worship, and our small businesses" as the primary people we need to be thinking about while […]
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This morning, I attempted to enter the bike lane on Hampshire Street, to find myself blocked by two different vehicles. One later moved, but I sat and watched tire white van for 11 minutes before giving up. During that time, 11 cars and 14 bikes passed me in […]
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June 20, 2024 at 12:26 AM
This morning, I attempted to enter the bike lane on Hampshire Street, to find myself blocked by two different vehicles. One later moved, but I sat and watched tire white van for 11 minutes before giving up. During that time, 11 cars and 14 bikes passed me in […]
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Only the yellow bikes from the E-Bike Lending Library.
June 1, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Only the yellow bikes from the E-Bike Lending Library.
New bike. (No review yet, I built it but haven’t taken a longer ride yet.)
May 26, 2024 at 5:12 PM
New bike. (No review yet, I built it but haven’t taken a longer ride yet.)
Some pretty proper flowers in my front yard. #BloomScrolling
May 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Some pretty proper flowers in my front yard. #BloomScrolling
This morning was the first time this season I’ve taken a fully recreational 20 mile bike ride, restarting a habit I formed last summer and fall. I’ve been getting in 15+ miles before work by doing e-bike library transfers, but today was a loop up through Winchester and Woburn. (Zion Hill peak is…
May 22, 2024 at 1:28 PM
This morning was the first time this season I’ve taken a fully recreational 20 mile bike ride, restarting a habit I formed last summer and fall. I’ve been getting in 15+ miles before work by doing e-bike library transfers, but today was a loop up through Winchester and Woburn. (Zion Hill peak is…