JamesLonghurst

JamesLonghurst, 20 days ago to random

Walter Blucher, director of the American Society of Planning Professionals, owns up to induced demand. In 1950.

Walter H. Blucher, Moving People, 36 VA. L. REV. 849 (1950).

JamesLonghurst, 21 days ago to random

Certainly in 100 years of city streets we've figured out this pressing question? Surely?

Ernest P. Goodrich, "The Urban Auto Problem," National Municipal Review, volume 9 page 435 (1920).

JamesLonghurst, 1 month ago to random

is the opposite of "nonchalant" having an excess of chalants?

Just so many chalants? Too many, really.

JamesLonghurst, 1 month ago to random

showing solidarity with my students by having absolutely no desire to do any work at all this week

JamesLonghurst, 1 month ago to random

This is my regular reminder to any scale-model kit company: make a kit of the trucks from William Friedkin's "Sorceror" (1977) (now on Criterion Channel) and I will totally buy, like, at least two of each. Maybe more.

JamesLonghurst, 2 months ago to random

running theme in the PBS Frontline doc "The Discord Leaks" is that online high schools in 2020 for COVID sent a whole cohort of young people onto Discord to look for community, and they get pulled into absolutely vile, racist, violent communities.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-discord-leaks/

JamesLonghurst, 2 months ago to random

straight up not having a good time

JamesLonghurst, 2 months ago to random

whoops all closures

https://captimes.com/news/education/fifth-uw-campus-will-close-as-waukesha-branch-faces-2025-shutdown/article_a5996e96-dfd2-11ee-95e8-93fa3bd34ddb.html

JamesLonghurst, 3 months ago to random

screw this I’m going for a ride

JamesLonghurst, 3 months ago to random

Regents who vote against the wishes of the legislative majority will be fired, but also our problem on campus is that you can’t speak freely.

https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/03/09/wisconsin-senate-panel-votes-to-fire-regents-who-voted-against-limiting-uw-diversity-initiatives/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

JamesLonghurst, 3 months ago to random

What’s the weather like today?

Oh, 60F and 40% chance of snow.

JamesLonghurst, 3 months ago to random

Absolutely not.

JamesLonghurst, 4 months ago to cycling

#superb_owl and #BikeTooter crossover:

JamesLonghurst, 4 months ago to random

Sunny #Caturday

JamesLonghurst, 4 months ago to random

I have just taken some expired off-brand Dayquil in advance of lecturing to my class about Enlightenment political philosophy. surely nothing bad can come of this

JamesLonghurst, 4 months ago to random

I’m at the Iowa Bike Expo with several thousand bike people and a couple dozen breweries. (The breweries know who their customers are.)

A crowded expo hall. A hat in the foreground advertises a gravel event that hasn’t even been announced yet officially.

JamesLonghurst, 4 months ago to random

“Course Media” is not the place to put the media for your course. Neither is “Media Gallery” or “My Media” in the left navbar. Instead of clicking on “My Media,” which does not contain your media, click on “Account” and THEN click on that “My Media,” which does contain your media, unlike the other “My Media,” which does not.

JamesLonghurst, 4 months ago to random

last night I had another near-emergency caused by a Kryptonite U-Lock freezing solid. I had this once before with a previous version of the same lock, but I asked for (and got) a warranty replacement. And the replacement does the same thing. Below 10F and it will SOMETIMES freeze such that the key won't turn the full 180 in the cylinder, just 90. Bring it back inside for a bit, and it turns just fine, like it never had a problem. Both times it has done this, it's really put me in a jam.

JamesLonghurst, 5 months ago to random

oh sorry I was looking for grass-fed programmers.

JamesLonghurst, 5 months ago to random

The end of the semester means I actually have time to finish a model kit of a practical, everyday commuter bike. Fenders, full chain guard, integrated light, rear rack and briefcase hanger means this is a bike for a commuting worker. The fact that there’s a Chinese model kit of this kind of bike, and I can’t find such a model in the US, is an indication of different transportation cultures.

The very complicated instructions for the assembly of the model kit.

JamesLonghurst, 5 months ago to random

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning
( @UMinnPress , 2022)

“urban planning and capitalist urbanization have actually been key agents in the decollectivization of society and the destruction of communal space."

JamesLonghurst, 5 months ago to random

Super mysterious. https://www.wisconsin.edu/regents/event/special-meeting-of-the-board-of-regents-6/

JamesLonghurst, 5 months ago to random

ouch, crushing review. some real zingers there.

"This book also suffers from conceptual incoherence "

oh dear.

"Ultimately, the only thing Anxious Eaters leaves me anxious about is the state of academic peer review."

https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58764

JamesLonghurst, 5 months ago to random

yeah this is a stumper. Kudos to the city attorneys for really seeing a way to redefine what "is" is.

"permitted" but not "intended" means that there's no duty of care on behalf of the city . . . that's what you keep law firms on retainer for.

https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/bicycles-still-not-intended-roads-illinois-supreme-court-finds

JamesLonghurst, 5 months ago to random

Happy R4-19 and R9-20 day to all who celebrate.

An illustration from the December 2023 update of the MUTCD shows an R4-19 sign, with a symbol of a bicycle above the text "3 FT MIN CLEARANCE T0 PASS"