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.