Charles Redell

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• Commented on Is It Time to Ban Bicycling at Night?
  MvB- damn straight... not to mention not signaling and not having brakes on your dam fixie. Seriously, not all us bike riders are like that. the good ones just don't get noticed. It is time to ticket bike riders who...
• Commented on How to Dress for the Monorail
  For real kitsch value, check out the full 14-minute version of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgCQWEyvdl4 (it's not all monorail rides). It drags for a bit, but then around 8:00, you get some of the new features of the central phone switching...
• Commented on What the Bums Say About Your City
  New York bests us again. typical....
• Commented on Edmonds And Seattle Race To Ban Plastic Bags
  Where in god's name is the American Chemistry Council on this? Why aren't they swooping in to protect my god-given right to carry five items in 2 plastic bags? It's a LEft-wing liberal conspiracy I tell you! They've put a...
• Commented on Around Lake Union in 80 Minutes
  I don't know about riding around Lake Sammammish, but I do know about boating around it and that's much easier since you have space for your food, beer and other sundries (like a cooler). Plus you're not working as hard....
• Commented on Around Lake Union in 80 Minutes
  Next trip is around Lake Washington, right MvB?...
• Commented on Organic Food Is Not Getting Outlawed, People
  Man people are funny. They'll believe just about any nonsense, eh? According to the director of LocalHarvest.org which advocates for local food issues and helps people connect with CSAs and farmers' markets: From what we have learned, HB 875 is...
• Commented on Charles Redell Lays out a Case Against Fixies
  I agree completely. I was once almost hit by a guy on his fixie who was coming down Pine and made a right onto Boylston. He was going too fast and almost hit me head on. I was on my...
• Commented on Charles Redell Lays out a Case Against Fixies
  lonememe wrote: "Open and shut case. You didn't yield to oncoming traffic. You had a stop sign, he did not. He had every right to be upset. Your car came out in front of him." In my original post, I...
• Commented on Charles Redell Lays out a Case Against Fixies
  I don't have time to respond to lonememe's post right now, but wanted to clarify: the bike was coming down Gilman. No stop for him, but plenty of room to move. As someone else said, when I come down the...
• Commented on Charles Redell Lays out a Case Against Fixies
  brakes not breaks. mea culpa. Not sure how I made that idiotic mistake. good thing I earn my living as a writer, eh? "are you suggesting that because you perceive disrespect that you are to return in kind with disrespect?"...
• Commented on Charles Redell Lays out a Case Against Fixies
  lonememe: First of all, yes that intersection is not managed well and I am working on contacting the city about it. That is one piece of fixing this specific problem point for all users. It's pretty hard to see cars...
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• Commented on Charles Redell Lays out a Case Against Fixies
  bmessina: the reason I "took so much flak" from him is that A) I was terrified he was hurt and B) know full well how I would react had I been on the bike. I would have been pissed (after...
• Commented on Seattlest Tip: New Challenger for Greg Nickels
  he's got nice glasses so I'm voting for him....
• Commented on A Note to Our Readers
  this is news? Aren't they always retarded over there? I thought that was their shtick....
• Commented on Printed <em>P-I</em>'s Last Day: Tuesday the 17th
  Do they give you the ioption just to cancel the sub and get a refund? Who wants the Seattle Times? Definitely sparse at the start, but without all those printing and delivery costs/workers, one imagines that they'd have some money...
• Commented on Printed <em>P-I</em>'s Last Day: Tuesday the 17th
  as much as I don't want to live in a "no-newspaper" town, since the PI is going to be online, I'd like to see the Times go away now. That the crappier paper has survived irks me to no end....
• Commented on Dead Restaurant Dining: Madame K's
  Madame K's closing is bummer enough, but that it is being replaced with "vegetarian thai" is the worst news I've heard since yesterday when I learned that my wife was being laid off from her new job. Come on now.......
• Commented on We Still Love Technology, Always And Forever
  Hopefully this will make people absorb less of Pastor Mark's scary teachings....
• Commented on So When Can We Expect Delivery of Our Morning <strike>P-I</strike> Kindle?
  That makes much more sense to me though it may be a hard sell. People are less likely to want to see ads if they are paying a subscription, I imagine. This is pure conjecture, I'll admit. But it seems...
• Commented on So When Can We Expect Delivery of Our Morning <strike>P-I</strike> Kindle?
  But, as one of the commenters on Carlson's post points out, his calculations leave out the LOSS of print ad revenue in this model. So yes, people are willing to pay for E-delivery, but I bet it wouldn't be enough...
• Commented on State Rep Wants to Ban Plastic Bags
  Hey Tim, Thanks for the information on PLA which is a controversial form of bio-based plastic. For the record, I just wrote a story elsewhere about PLA usage at UW and actually, its performance is markedly better than it used...
• Commented on Metro Fares To Increase This Sunday
  Oh yes. Please bring us Orca as soon as possible. As with so many other things transit in this city, we are far, far behind in how we pay our fares in this city. That said, $2? Ouch. I have...
• Commented on A Digital <em>P-I</em> , or None at All?
  Personally, I'd like to see the PI survive in some form. If it's gotta be online only, so be it. Arguably, they've done a pretty good job with the online news delivery; certainly better than The Times. Granted, at first,...
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