The beautiful January Jones lends support to a cause that works at "saving sharks from exploitation and extinction." What's a matter, January, chainsaws weren't needy enough?

Or, you know, ads for Snuggies (four million of which have been sold in the last 3 months) in primetime. FOUR MILLION?

"Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark."

To compliment the city biking guide I linked to several months ago, and to keep the day's bike theme going, here's a significantly more irreverent Guide to Riding Your Bike in Boston. This can be summarized succinctly as, "Don't kill people, ride within your comfort level, and always use your fuckin' brain." Which, if you think about it could be applied to almost any activity.

I've been taking her easy. I rode in the sludge after a storm a couple weeks ago, spent 45 minutes cleaning my bike, and then have been too much of a baby to get my bike dirty again. Wah wah wah.

In the last 2 weeks or so, a slew of positive Boston biking news has been announced.

The Mayor releases the annual bike report:

Mayor Menino kicked off Boston Bikes a year ago with a strong commitment to transform bicycling in Boston. Since then, Boston Bikes has installed 250 racks, added several miles of bike lanes, started a bicyclist advisory board, worked with nearly 500 youth, and engaged over 7,000 cyclists in a variety of programs, both old and new.

The city released a draft of it's BikeMap (PDF) and asked for comments/suggestions.

And most importantly, the Bicyclist Safety Bill passed after 8 years signaling a ton of changes making biking in Boston safer.

Three cheers!

Wow, sorry about the late start. I was having some technical difficulties. This first 10 minutes has been action packed. Sorry for the delay, but here we go, more after the jump.

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I know I have a strong personality, and yet, I was a bit taken aback to receive the email below from a former coworker. The only thing that's clear from this is that one of us doesn't understand social networking (probably me). And that this coworker was in love with me.

from redacted@newworkaddress.cpm
to A---- C----
date Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:45 AM
subject RE: Join my network on LinkedIn

A----,
My apologies for not replying to you sooner! I must have been busy doing nothing or, as you more eloquently put it at one point, doing "jack shit." Honestly, I am very surprised that you would want to have me be part of your LinkedIn network given that your opinion of me is so low, as evidenced by the additional comment that "I don't know anything."

While your opinion of me is low, I certainly am glad I had the, shall we say, 'experience' of working with you. It is not often that someone can witness a person such as you, in action. Thank you for reminding me that the best opportunities for learning actually come from watching those who do nothing, learn nothing and remain unevolved as human beings. Priceless.

Cheers,

[Redacted]

P.S. Oh, and NO, I do not want you as part of my network, I have a reputation to uphold.

On November 18, 2008 7:10 PM, A---- C---- wrote:
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Since you are a person I trust, I wanted to invite you to join my network on LinkedIn

Some notes:
1. Notice that she waited about 6 weeks to respond? 6 weeks and this is the best that she could come up with?
2. Although I felt the way described in the first paragraph and people knew I felt this way, I don't use the phrase "jack shit", and never discussed my feelings with the former coworker, so the use of quotations is erroneous.
3. My biased opinion suggests that the third sentence of the second paragraph is nonsensical.
4. Priceless?

I didn't respond. I knew that immediately after hitting send, I would think of a much better response. What do you think I should do? What's the best response you can think of? Remember to be civil.

I, for one, am happy to find out that when the Zombie war starts, the DOT is ready with informative road signs.

Have a Google Calendar and want to sync it with iCal? Check this out (via KFM).

Only works with Leopard (not a big deal) and will only sync calendars you own. The latter is a dealbreaker for me (Rachel and I share our Google Calendars, and I need to see both in iCal and on my iPhone) so I'm sticking with Spanning Sync for now. If you only have a single calendar, though, this looks pretty sweet.

This article in Vanity Fair was interesting and amusing, but I post it because, like Tracy Morgan, friends said of Pearson that, “He was always on.”