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rollersinstinct: A reminder of why cycling is so popular in the Netherlands…amazing cycle infrastructure taken from OpenCycleMap and found on Carlton Reid’s Twitter stream. Wow. That’s what good transportation policy can do.
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Whew! Just made it! They’ll let me in to get my car.
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‘Post-truth’. Sounds like an Orwellian term from ‘1984’. Life imitating art. I’m concerned about where we are headed…
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Pure Canadian Gold.
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humansofnewyork: “My grandmother got me a violin when I was thirteen. Whenever people were fighting, and I wanted to get away, I’d just go in my room and play. Sometimes I’d play for four or five hours per night. It gave me a lot of confidence. I started playing in front of the church, in…
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It’s a three dog night
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During these dark days of late fall I always begin to feel a little boxed in by the blackness; especially on weekdays. Dark when I wake up. Dark when I have a run at the lake before breakfast. Dark when I come home from work. Dark when I take the hounds out for a walk…
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rollersinstinct: A couple on their way to the sea in a René Burri photo taken in Havana, Cuba in 1993. It will be interesting to see how much Fidel Castro’s death changes Cuban society.
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How complaining rewires your brain for negativity
I like the concept of only complaining with a purpose, if at all. How complaining rewires your brain for negativity
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rollersinstinct: Going on these photos from the Tour of Rwanda, the Tour de France has no monopolies on crowds when it comes to cycle racing. Check out more photos over on CyclingTips. Rising from the ashes…
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lostjohnny: Iggy Pop The Passenger live in 1977 …and I ride and I ride and I ride. I’m the passenger.
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humansofnewyork: “I feel homeless. Like this isn’t the place that I thought it was. I feel like I don’t understand where I am. Where we all are. Last week students started chanting ‘build the wall’ in the lunchroom of a local middle school. Some of the Hispanic children started crying. If you’re the principal– how…
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lostjohnny: Jimi Hendrix Public Transit. Just like the rest of us.
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Played hooky this afternoon and did my last trek to the Escarpment on a beautiful day. Coffee shop in Creemore felt stangely empty. What a way to end the week!
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rollersinstinct: Paul Newman side-rides a bike from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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With all my experience in this field, I could totally be a product tester for Cottonelle.
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lostjohnny: Blondie Femme Fatale live at CBGB 1975 When I was nine years old, this is what Blondie was doing.
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Tweeting Yourself to Death
Keep Tweeting so one day Big Data can figure out what the hell is Wrong with You What Facebook, Twitter posts reveal about your health Tweeting Yourself to Death
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lostjohnny: Sister Rosetta Tharpe Didn’t It Rain
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Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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soundsof71: David Bowie “The Jean Genie” videoshoot with The Spiders from Mars, October 28, 1972, San Francisco. Photo by Mick Rock, who also directed the video, via
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You can peel a Glass Onion and you can peel a banana but you can’t peel away the legacy of iconic album artwork.
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history-inpictures: John F. Kennedy’s blood-stained shirt that he was wearing the day he was assassinated, 1963
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history-inpictures: The bite that got Ted Bundy convicted, 1979 Happy Halloween
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Mom’s Last Ride of the season was spent enjoying the splendid south shore of Barrie’s Kempenfelt Bay. We made our way from her place in Painswick, through Tyndale and Minet’s Point to our house in Allandale where her bike will wait patiently through the winter for her to ride again in the Spring.
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Despite no physical resemblance, I’ve been called Forrest on several different occasions by several different people. I had a great run at the local MEC half marathon.
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rollersinstinct: The one time I don’t mind a cyclist under a car…
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history-inpictures: Hippies sit on the porch of an old farm house which they occupied in Meadville, 1968
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history-inpictures: The Taj Mahal at night, 1962
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Please HELP! New blood donor guideline means more new donors are needed. 6000 in Ontario alone!
Canadian Blood Services announces new, stricter iron guidelines for donors Please HELP! New blood donor guideline means more new donors are needed. 6000 in Ontario alone!
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history-inpictures: 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer being taken to prison after killing two people. Her answer as to why she did it was “I don’t like Mondays.”, 1979 A favourite tune of mine from the early 80s. I still like it. https://youtu.be/Kz8d4qnmEnQ
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Alleyway in Creemore, Ontario
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Structural change in hockey leagues means fighting in on its way out. Is this good or bad for the game? Discuss…
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Why Dano? Why?
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My biking bucket list. Three down, forty-seven to go.
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My commute home tonight was particularly colourful and bright even at 6pm. Every extra ray of sunshine is much appreciated at this time of year.
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nevver: The Streets of San Francisco, Cocu Liu Source: instagram.com
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gentlemensmuse: Yunak Evleri Hotel is a series of seven cave houses carved into the side of the hill, now made into a total of 40 private rooms located in Urgup, Turkey. Hotel for cave dwellers only Source: gentlemensmuse
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Can you guess who the tourist is?
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Can you guess who the tourist is?
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lostjohnny: Jimi Hendrix lefthanded black magic
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Gross Galactic Underestimation
The universe may contain 10 times as many galaxies as previously believed via the CBC News Android App Gross Galactic Underestimation
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Wow! Timing is everything.
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lostjohnny: Joe Strummer Young Joe
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lostjohnny: Johnny Ramone It’s tough being a punk rock star. Sometimes you gotta just chill and read some King.
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rollersinstinct: The Night Cyclist by Stephen Graham Jones and cover design by Keith Negley moi
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Thankful for all the good things in life that I sometimes take for granted. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Some serious commitment to Halloween in Byron!
Two Wheels To Nowhere 