I have a hankering to start exploring San Francisco by bike. To wit, I’m starting with some Internet research and a tourist bicycle tour. Here’s what I’ve found: Curbed SF: Biking in San Francisco: A beginner’s guide – this guide is mostly cheerleading and safety information, but led me to two pieces of interesting and …
Author Archives: Nick Brosnahan
El Camino Bike Lanes in Palo Alto
Well, the Palo Alto meeting went pretty well. There was massive interest from the cycling community and nearly zero opposition from Palo Alto residents. That was good. Sadly, cyclist echo chambers can often seem like a clown car of people asking for things that just won’t happen given the current context, funding, and timelines. It …
AI Generated Bicycles
I needed to have a stock image of a bicycle for some business cards I’m putting together and thought I’d try out istockphoto.com‘s AI Generator. Here’s the prompt I gave it, asking for a photo in 4:3 with a warm color scheme: bicycle, a stationary bicycle, the bike is leaning up against a brick wall, …
Caltrans, Palo Alto, and Bike Lanes
Tonight, at 6pm, there is a joint community meeting hosted by Caltrans and Palo Alto to get feedback on the plan for repaving El Camino Real and adding protected bike lanes. We can expect that there will be plenty of people on “both sides”. Those sides are defined as “drivers who desperately don’t want to …
Virtual Coffee
Since I’ve been spending time learning Rust, I’ve been spending a lot of time googling around to find good resources beyond the stuff put out by the official folks. This put me onto a group of people who created a virtual community way back in the beginning of the pandemic: Virtual Coffee. They’re a community …
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Anne, Kyra and I are watching the latest incarnation of Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix and it’s surprisingly good as a live-action series. Most of the characters are really well-cast and play their roles enjoyably. Long ago, I was very skeptical about watching the original animated series, but my kids insisted and I enjoyed …
Welcome
I’ve set up a new WordPress blog here at brosnahan.org. It’s mostly so I have something other than a boring domain parking page here. This place could turn out to be a ghost town, but who knows? Topics that may appear here will likely have to do with road bikes, mountain bikes, e-bikes, cycling advocacy, …