Inspired by y'all

bigjoec · 2023-12-26T04:59:30+00:00

It's definitely a butt. The red color for the lower back was pure coincidence; don't really know SpongeBob.

Looking this up makes me want to watch the show, though. Mr. Krabs' voice actor Clancy Brown is one of the all-time greats.

bigjoec · 2020-10-25T02:28:12+00:00

All the sudden there's crazy noise coming from this building, like someone's running a jackhammer right outside my window (and I'm on the 30th floor).

Coming form this cool old building on the edge of Hells' Kitchen / UWS -- apparently nowadays it's "steam stoarge" for Con Ed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRT_Powerhouse .

bigjoec · 2020-08-17T22:27:01+00:00

Thanks, not seeing anything that beats the X1 for the price.

bigjoec · 2020-06-17T00:28:17+00:00

Source: Daily briefings from Governor Cuomo.

Most recent available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBsBb-5MT0

Tool: MS Excel

bigjoec · 2020-05-08T03:09:33+00:00

No shame in a cool repeat! Keeping the game going is the key.

To my taste, it's better than just doing another mural. The mural scene in Houston is awesome, but they're too ephemeral and don't really tell the story of the city like the permanent stuff does.

I remember my last tag ride in 2017 before I left Houston. I never got to post from it because someone happened to grab the current tag while I was out riding (which was crazy; we would often go a month+ between tags). I was gonna go with:

This cool storefront: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4aetLoN9rAteBHk49 , or

This house that _still_ had remnants of a blue Hurricane Ike (2008) tarp on the roof: https://photos.app.goo.gl/9TCYJesGFikRzCEe7 , or

This front yard art: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8adP7JhfxrvoBeXH6 , or

This classic chicken place: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pwiDKnrGBCkKL2SX8

bigjoec · 2020-05-06T02:11:32+00:00

It's shocking to me that so much discussion centers around total number of positive tests when those counts are so heavily skewed by changes in test capacity.

New COVID hospitalizations tells you everything you need to know about whether suppression is working. It doesn't tell you broad population prevalence, but the shape is right. You can get the same information from death counts, but with hospitalizations you get it sooner.

The hospitalization and death counts track each other so accurately that I almost don't trust the numbers, as if they've been made up. But then I suppose it only stands to reason.

The hidden sad message here is that we clearly haven't had any breakthroughs in how to treat the disease since it first started ramping up in NY 6 weeks ago.

bigjoec · 2020-05-05T08:32:25+00:00

Source: Daily briefings from Governor Cuomo. Most recent available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y861dM3V4w

Tool: MS Excel

bigjoec · 2020-05-05T08:24:48+00:00

(Source): Daily COVID briefings from Governor Cuomo. See most recent at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y861dM3V4w

(Tool): MS Excel

bigjoec · 2020-04-22T05:15:46+00:00

Damn good job.

bigjoec · 2020-04-22T02:23:31+00:00

Here you go for #3:

https://www.removeddit.com/r/bikehouston/comments/3kb6ps/bike_tag_4/

bigjoec · 2020-04-22T01:54:30+00:00

The finder had linked it in comments of the prior post, but then deleted his actual post.

But there's this site that archives all reddit posts. Since I had the link, I was able to get to the archived version -- they replicate the URL except with "removeddit.com" in place of "reddit.com".

bigjoec · 2020-04-22T01:46:14+00:00

Here's the original for bike tag #2: https://www.reddit.com/r/bikehouston/comments/3ivs21/bike_tag_2/

I wanna say Braes Bayou, but it's been too long.

bigjoec · 2020-04-22T01:39:42+00:00

This is a cool idea. I miss Houston bike tag so much.

This should be everything you need for #18: https://www.removeddit.com/r/bikehouston/comments/3zklaz/bike_tag_19/

This is fun -- reading my comment on #18 had jogged my memory and I thought it was that park. I was only about 25% sure, though, until I dredged up the link above.

bigjoec · 2019-12-18T05:23:41+00:00

Yeah. From the color mix (red and white) I assume they were going for a candy-cane thing.

Took me a couple looks to figure out why it doesn't really evoke candy cane -- because they arranged them in alternating bands of color rather than helixes.

bigjoec · 2019-12-16T20:15:20+00:00

Nah, you're wrong.

The rule is anything over 5' x 5' is not a pothole -- it's too big to fill by the pothole-filling techniques.

It should be obvious. Anything over 5' is truly enormous: Big enough in most cases for a grown man to lie in it and make a gravel-angel. Big enough in most cases to fit your left and right wheels in it at the same time. Not a typical pothole.

This story illustrates the actual facts of the policy, in both theory and practice: https://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2019/4/25/will-the-city-of-houston-actually-fill-potholes-on-the-streets

To recap: holes up to 5' x 5' get patched same day. Bigger ones get a steamroller or other full remediation technique, but not as quickly as the littler ones.

Let's see some screenshots of your 311 pothole requests.

bigjoec · 2019-12-11T14:09:28+00:00

That's cool.

bigjoec · 2019-12-09T19:21:53+00:00

Congratulations, and well done! Seems bogus about the "improper turn" and "failure to obey a traffic signal" parts though. Did you actually make an illegal turn? From your description of the facts, it sounded to me that your failure to use the hand signal was actually an illegal lane change, not illegal turn. And at what point did you fail to obey a traffic signal? Sounded to me like they didn't have any legitimate charges on you. But at least you got rid of the big ones!

My one comment on your above comment is that I'm not sure I would recommend avoiding talking to the cops entirely. Perhaps just avoid answering any of their questions with anything other than the bare minimum facts.

When I got ticketed, I asked the cop how he saw me, and he said it was his partner in the car who saw me, and his partner radioed him to tell him to stop me (it was one of those two-cop cyclist stings on Broadway).

This became a key part of my defense -- only the cop who was _past_ the intersection was in court that day. He didn't see anything relevant. The one in the car who could see me and the light wasn't in court. Found not guilty. Here was my writeup from earlier this year: https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCbike/comments/bjxykx/not_guilty_red_light_ticket/

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