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π The Need for Speed, Bicycle Messengers in New York (1993)
by JamesThe Need For Speed propels you into the fast and dangerous lives of new York City s hippest sub-culture: the hard core bicycle messengers who adhere to only one motto,- Either you get better or you get dead. They are the last free spirits in America, or as Steve - The Greek puts it, I am Marco Polo, doomed to New York!
I was searching YouTube for a documentary about bike messengers in NYC that I downloaded ages ago and found this fantastic documentary. The actual movie I was searching for was Pedal (2001).Β What's interesting is that one of the main characters in The Need for Speed, Steve "the Greek" had just started his bike messenger service and was still making runs and he also appears in Pedal, but this time as a dispatcher at his company.
These messengers have no cellphones, no gps. Just a pager (!) so they can use a payphone(!) to find out about their next run. So. Cool. -
by JamesI've started working on a file picker for Tanzawa. You access it by clicking the photo icon.Β The sizing is still a bit wonky. In the future there should be a search form allowing you to filter your photos.
File Picker
Clicking a photo re-uses the file detail modal I shared a few days ago, except the actions change from "view on site", "delete" to just "insert into post".Insert a photo into a post
Once you have a few building blocks in place, Turbo / Stimulus is so productive, I'm loving it. -
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#FUNFACT - The 1995 movie 'Hackers' was released 1337 weeks ago
Saw this tweet, and wanted to copy it to my blog as Hackers is probably my favorite movie.Hack the Planet -
The Week #43
by James- Itβs our second Golden Week with a state of emergency. The numbers keep on going up. I wish they'd give half the consideration they're giving for the olympic athletes to the residents of Japan. Weβre trying to keep close to the house as best we can.
- That said, I am spending time on my bicycle. I peddled to Enoshima and back (about 35km round trip). I know I've been talking about my bike a lot recently, but it's been a revelation. Like many Americans I stopped riding my bike in high school. Not only as I got a license, but the the suburbs in Houston are so spread out / bike unfriendly (unless you want to get hit by a pick-up truck the size of an elephant) that people naturally stop.Β
- I made some good progress on Tanzawa so far as well. I've built and launched my file browser. It shouldn't be too difficult to hook this in to Trix (the editor I use to write posts) so you could insert an existing photo into a post without re-uploading it.
- Leo's wearing undies during the day. He's had two accidents thus far, but he's getting better at it. Thankfully neither accident was in public nor over the tatami floors.
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by JamesListening 70βs rock on the radio in the car with Leo takes me back to being a kid driving around with my dad in SoCal.
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Checkin to θ₯Ώγε²‘ε ¬ε
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by JamesWorking on the delete pattern in Tanzawa using TurboFrames. Clicking the delete link on the file detail window replaces the content with a confirmation dialog. Since we don't want to have dead image tags everywhere, it also provides a list of posts that will be updated. Clicking the post title opens the post in a new window.
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by JamesPlanted some tomatoes, shishito, bell peppers, and corn seeds today. Only planted the corn because Leo insisted we get it. I know "life finds a way", but given my lack of green thumb, I'll hope for the best, but expect nothing.
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Checkin to Starbucks
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by JamesWhen Basecamp launched Hey, I really liked the philosophy and design of the system. But I wasnβt sold on using their domain. GladΒ I stuck with Fastmail.
