Knowing how to swim is not just about knowing how to float, wade, and use different strokes; it’s also about knowing how to handle oneself in water. If you get pulled into a current don’t fight it and don’t panic. First instinct (wrong) is to panic and over exert. Instead relax, flow with the current,…

As an active person who bicycles and is into fitness, I know what it’s like to go out and come home with sweaty clothes. One wants to be active, fit, and healthy but having to launder garments all the time is a drag. I also wash almost all of my clothes by hand so this…

Start watching at the 1’10” mark in this video. These are elected officials openly supporting violent felons. A woman lost her life in their city from a violent felon and one mayoral candidate is proposing to amend (actually to restore) the law to exclude violent felons.

Recycling, Once Embraced by Businesses and Environmentalists, Now Under Siege I once took a job at a company in downtown San Francisco. One factor that swayed me in favor of taking the job – when I went to interview at the company – were the recycling bins in their kitchen area. I felt glad to…

Affordable Housing: Fighting Inequality Through PowerBall It should be called “DisempowermentBall” Every election cycle now one sees initiatives, bonds, etc. for “affordable housing”. The government is in the business of providing affordable housing. They can’t promise enough of it. And we see how well the previous affordable housing initiatives have worked out for society. We…

“It was never about free speech. When they were not in power… it was simply just about their gaining power, so that they could do the same thing to their ideological and political enemies that they claim was done to them.” — Henrik Palmgren

If you are a beginning Java programmer one thing that seems daunting is the class header for the main class: public static void main(String[] args) Having to memorize this nasty-looking line of code from the beginning, without understanding what it means, is not fun. So here is a recommendation based on a shortcut from the…

This is a map of missing/stolen electric scooters from one company in San Francisco.  This company color codes the scooters on their map that need to be retrieved and charged and the red color code essentially indicates that the scooter is unlocatable. When I found out about the new electric scooters available in San Francisco…

Here is a recommendation for improving electric scooters based on my personal experience riding them. Most of the time they may be ridden on roads in dedicated bicycle lanes. Yet there may be times when they are ridden in plazas or sidewalks. Electric scooters should have two modes: street mode and sidewalk mode. Currently they…

Today I went on a 40 minute ride through a busy metropolitan area. This post is a report of my experience and impressions. As someone who has a lot of experience bicycling in a busy metropolitan area I feel the bicycling experience is definitely helpful. While riding through the city I felt in a similar…