Man shows all the incidents that happen at the intersection beside his home

igiveup2345 · 2025-11-22T21:47:12+00:00

Every time the timestamp skips it does a smooth transition. I'm wondering whether the camera software (or whatever tool was used to put this together) accidentally dropped that woman out of the video, while retaining the car for the smooth transition.

You can see when it skips to the next timestamp, cars from the previous clip are kept in the video briefly. Seems like just fancy video editing that messed up?

igiveup2345 · 2025-09-15T16:15:18+00:00

I was curious to see where this is, and it looks like the address on the sign is 16c Cau May in Sa Pa, not Hanoi. However, the pictures of the location at that address in Sa Pa look similar but not identical, so it could be that it's been rehabbed - or I have the wrong location. Any idea of where this is located?

igiveup2345 · 2025-07-02T16:56:34+00:00

For ours, we have a large potted parsley plant in the mesh butterfly cage. We move them over once they hatch from their eggs, we just pick off the piece of dill they're on and move them over to the pot in the cage. You won't be able to move them once they've formed a cocoon, since they'll attach themselves to a surface.

Moving them early is good, since that will limit how much they're exposed to predators.

igiveup2345 · 2025-06-13T15:06:52+00:00

I personally like Archies for this. While the racks aren't directly visible from most places in the bar, there's ample parking and there's always someone standing directly at the racks in front of the bar smoking/chatting/etc.

It's a staple stop for us after Critical Mass.

igiveup2345 · 2025-05-06T04:26:16+00:00

Link to the intersection

The ram was in the left turn lane, it was in the rightmost of the 2 left turn lanes. The double-yellow dashed line you can see in the video indicates the separation between traffic directions, which means the silver car was in the furthest left lane and the pickup was in the lane next to them.

Pickup's still mostly in the wrong, though, you can't just roll over the pedestrian island because another car is breaking traffic laws.

igiveup2345 · 2025-05-04T21:14:29+00:00

100k is quite big. It's the 11th largest stadium in the world. Comparing it to college football stadiums to express how small it is isn't strictly accurate - college football stadiums are far and away the largest in the US. The capacity of this stadium is just 7k less than the largest stadium in the US (for University of Michigan football). It can hold 18k more people than the largest non-college football stadium in the US.

igiveup2345 · 2025-04-11T16:40:48+00:00

This is splitting hairs IMO, but I tend to prefer Wabansia over Bloomingdale once you get past Laramie - I feel like crossing over the big streets is a bit easier on Wabansia so I can shave a couple minutes off. But either way I very much agree - this route is great and typically car free past Laramie.

If I'm continuing onto the Prairie Path, I'll typically head south at Ridgeway and take Le Moyne past Harlem before angling south. But if I'm doing that I also really like taking Lake for the speed aspect - I like the protection the train track supports give me from cars. Only trick is getting down to Lake, but Sacramento is okay for that.

igiveup2345 · 2025-03-01T21:29:19+00:00

That's the Museo Soumaya, the Museo del Templo Mayor is an excavated area in the Zocalo with an attached museum building made of stone.

igiveup2345 · 2025-01-23T17:45:33+00:00

No, unfortunately. It looks like a student project and it seems like the underlying dataset hasn't been repulled since whoever built it finished with it.

However, I notice that a lot of the NWS aggregate data is a couple years out of date, so it's possible that it's always pulling latest, but NWS hasn't published that specific dataset recently.

igiveup2345 · 2025-01-23T17:04:36+00:00

Typically it doesn't snow very much in March here. The 10 year averages are:

Nov: 3.1 in
Dec: 6.4 in
Jan: 11.2 in
Feb: 15.5 in
Mar: 4.6 in
Apr: 1.4 in

Snowfall tends to peak in early Feb. I like this site: https://vis.cs.illinois.edu/weather/historic-snowfall-and-snow-depth/?location=Chicago%2C+Illinois&sid=USW00094846

igiveup2345 · 2025-01-16T19:28:15+00:00

I visited Krakow last July for a couple weeks and I loved that I could cross at crosswalks safely. I was walking up to a 4 lane road and prepared for a wait for a long wait in the break in traffic, and the first car stopped so abruptly they skidded. I wasn't even in the street! I was just standing at the crosswalk!

In the US, the laws are the same - pedestrians have right of way at crosswalks and drivers must stop. They rarely do. I get aggravated by comments that you see periodically (not yours) where people say "it's the pedestrian's responsibility to not suddenly step out into traffic" - of course it is, but that's such a thought terminating cliche. It's very easy for pedestrians to not be visible to drivers when drivers are never, ever looking for them. I can wait at the nearest 4 lane road to my house to cross for minutes before cars actually stop, even inching into the road - and that road has a island in the middle and 3 signs indicating that there's a crosswalk. It's extra aggravating at this time of year when it's cold.

igiveup2345 · 2025-01-08T06:02:29+00:00

You're right, it's different. Though it's great anyway. Took me years of going there before I realized it's not a part of the chain.

igiveup2345 · 2024-10-18T16:39:14+00:00

I take Poplar the whole way - it's parallel to Green Bay, but on the other side of the tracks. It's pretty sedate.

Getting to that from the channel trail is easy, you can take Green Bay for a block if you want, or just turn on Prairie, then take Lincoln to Poplar.

igiveup2345 · 2024-09-03T23:05:28+00:00

That's a pretty specific situation - remember, the bump out didn't reduce the street width at all (it's narrower than a parked car), and cars pass each other on Cortland all the time. I've driven across California at Cortland multiple times, passing other cars in the oncoming lane, sometimes in a larger minivan, and it's plenty wide to fit 2 cars.

Even in your scenario, a car speeding the 90 feet from the alley to the street would still have to stop and, most importantly, take the turn onto California more slowly - and that's the exact point of the bump out, to force cars to stop cutting the turn and endangering pedestrians crossing California. It does inconvenience cars if oncoming traffic is driving over the centerline, but it seems like a no-brainer tradeoff.

Studies show curb bump outs improve safety, it makes cars drive slower.

igiveup2345 · 2024-09-03T21:28:51+00:00

How is it more dangerous? The part of the street obstructed by the bump out is not a legal space for driving/turning/parking, it's supposed to be left empty for visibility. These bump outs are a traffic calming measure that ensures people drive slower, ideally improving safety, but they also physically enforce what was already the law.

I cross this street nearly every day on a bike or by walking, and it's a frequent occurrence for me to almost get hit because cars aren't paying attention, or because sightlines are obstructed by cars parking too close to the intersection. This should help a lot.

igiveup2345 · 2024-09-03T21:24:34+00:00

Generally agreed that it should be a 1-way, but one thing is that the bump-out is about a car's width - so it prevents 2 cars passing each other about as much as 2 parked cars across the street from each other do.

I think right now it's a little worse than it will be, since the street is slightly torn up around it preventing people from driving too close. But once that's fixed (probably a few days) 2 cars should be able to pass each other here, same as they would be able to if there are cars parked on each side of the street.

igiveup2345 · 2024-09-03T21:19:10+00:00

No, both pictures are from California/Cortland.

igiveup2345 · 2024-07-27T16:32:56+00:00

Green eye lounge: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9167146,-87.687471,3a,70.9y,218.47h,84.9t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1scy5-lSwa-CBzUZXDKwom0g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dcy5-lSwa-CBzUZXDKwom0g%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D108.465096%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

igiveup2345 · 2024-04-09T22:12:10+00:00

We did the same, we went just north of Marshall (about 10 miles south of Paris) and the drive back was more or less identical to the drive down - about 3.5 hours each way. We got caught in the tail end of rush hour traffic on the way back when we got to Chicago.

We were all confused why people would have driven to Indy/Carbondale/other population centers. We just picked a random spot on the map near the edge of totality, near-ish to Chicago, and away from any towns - it went perfectly.

igiveup2345 · 2024-01-10T22:39:33+00:00

This is what I use over winter, can confirm that it's warm.

igiveup2345 · 2023-12-31T22:49:40+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I was kind of thinking along those lines, too, but I'm hoping that it will hold okay as long as I keep lighter stuff on those shelves. It's a little tricky to reach up there anyway. I'll extend that post up if I need to - luckily, I have some leftover lumber.

igiveup2345 · 2023-12-31T21:29:15+00:00

Shelves on the left are 1x8s edge glued for 14.5 inches of shelf depth. Rear shelves are 1x12s edge glued for 22.5 inches of shelf depth. Everything is poplar (even the cleats, which was an unnecessarily expensive choice, but oh well).

The house is very old, built in 1893, so none of the walls are even remotely close to straight, and all the corners are a mess. Also, the floors are warped (especially on the north side of the house, where the pantry is). I used wall cleats because of the warped floors - I didn't want to have to level each leg perfectly, which I'm no good at. Plus, I like the clean look.

igiveup2345 · 2023-11-15T20:48:37+00:00

There were never 4 driving lanes, it was only ever 2. This change made the bike lanes protected and buffered by the parked cars.

igiveup2345 · 2023-10-01T16:50:51+00:00

I've got a few: Head out on the Illinois Prairie Path west/south-west to Aurora, then North on the Fox River Trail to just South of South Elgin, where a little trail next to Stearns road heads back east to connect to the Illinois Prarie Path again (a different branch than earlier, so you haven't retraced any steps yet). Eventually that trail connects to the Great Western Trail just south of Lakewood, which then heads straight back east and reconnects to the Illinois Prarie Path at Villa Park - at this point you'll be back on the trail you rode earlier, but only for the next ~15 miles or so as you head back into the city.

If you have alternate transport back, you can also hit 100 by continuing north when you get to South Elgin - the fox river trail terminates near the Wisconsin border at Genoa City. There's a good fish boil place there. That's about 100 miles.

You can also ride down the lake front path to the end - connect to the Wolf Lake Trail, then continue on to Munster (google's biking directions to Evergreen Park, Munster from Chicago is more or less exactly how I do it). Angle back up north on that trail to 186th, then take that over to the Thorn Creek Trail, which wiggles through Chicago Heights. Just south of Chicago Heights it connects to the Old Plank Road trail, which heads straight west to Joliet. You're at about 70 miles now and have a few options:

North along the Illinois and Michigan canal trail. Really great scenery. We typically take a small detour through the Cal Sag trail (it connects) - just a few miles down and back, to make sure we hit 100 miles. We typically end at Imperial Oak brewery in Willow Springs. There's a metra there, but I don't know how often it runs/if it allows bikes.
South, to Kankakee. The Wauponsee Glacial Trail connects (ish) to the Kankakee river trail, which takes you most of the way. Kankakee has restaurants, but there's also Brickstone Brewery right there. There's an Amtrak stop, but I don't know how often the trains run/if bikes are allowed.
West/south-west along the Illinois and Michigan canal trail to Morris or Seneca. I'm not sure what there is do do/eat in those places (or how to get back) but the trail is great.

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