Met with some folks at WREK today to hand off my responsibilities
as tender of the music robot. As of the end of the month, I am a
freelance on-demand developer for them and a listener. My days of high
involvement are pretty much over.

When I lived in Portland they were between attempts at the yellow bike
program. Interestingly enough, they are also doing the same thing in
the city of Decatur. It wouldn’t
work a lot of places, and not many places in this area. Decatur is one
of the few where it makes sense. People lean towards green politics,
and there is a dense enough city core that there is a need to bike
from place to place. I’m curious how well it will work, and for how
long. The Portland experiment suffered from bike attrition. I only saw
two of them while I was there, one in operation in a stand and one
abandoned down by the river. It would have been nice to have them
around when I was working there. For a while I brought my bike with me
on the bus every day, and I rode it from place to place. The day I
left work at lunchtime to ride my bike to the comic book store and to
play Galaga and Robotron at the retrocade, I felt like I was 14 again.