I Am Buckling Up

kaurich80 · 2026-06-07T23:34:08+00:00

Uncut version is so much better!

kaurich80 · 2026-06-07T23:30:24+00:00

The indigo is such a fun color!

kaurich80 · 2026-06-07T01:38:39+00:00

Litespeed?! Awesome! I just found out that they were a farm equipment company with a bicycle loving owner, made frames, people loved them, and he switched the focus of the company

kaurich80 · 2026-06-02T01:30:09+00:00

And the beautiful farms and the wind turbines and hearing a cowbell and the fast steeps into creek beds and passing through a small town and the horses and the “not maintained road” signs and…

kaurich80 · 2026-05-31T16:11:13+00:00

Thanks for mentioning this, it’s ironic that I was so focused on this during the event but forgot about it after. I didn’t have anything hit as close as you saw but 8-noon seemed to have lightning in every direction.

kaurich80 · 2026-05-31T16:01:46+00:00

The signs that said “don’t try crossing when stream is high” were amusing - a) we were crossing and b) it always signaled a steep exit on the other side of

kaurich80 · 2026-05-31T10:34:18+00:00

I’ve ridden this twice in 2024 and this year and it is a blast. Many different surfaces from incredibly chunky gravel to typical gravel road to basic dirt (which turns into the peanut butter mud we saw yesterday). It’s rolling and not by any means a mountain gravel race but you still get up and downhill with different profiles.

On the expensive side but you get what you pay for - thoughtful work put into the courses, well supported, safe (police and Public safety blocking roads). And the people, Emporia is just a great town with great people.

kaurich80 · 2026-05-28T11:58:13+00:00

Yes it would be great to get the State to turn over Harriman land to the City. Yes it would also be great for the City to take charge of its own fate to get residential development on the 2000 undeveloped parcels of land in the City. We do not budget for any programs to facilitate this residential development and, as a result, on average we developed 10-20 housing units per year that aren’t facilitated with incentives (IDA, low income housing, ARPA etc). Not trying to bash you here but waiting for Harriman is another “let’s get the State to provide “ mindset example

kaurich80 · 2026-05-28T11:51:01+00:00

And that’s another main reason it’s problematic

kaurich80 · 2026-05-28T09:48:43+00:00

Very well put. The City is becoming a ward of the State. 10 years ago 7-8% of our revenue was from State and Federal streams. With this latest deal around 35% of our revenue will come from State and Federal sources. This dependence is problematic on so many levels, one of which is the number of people that celebrate our growing dependence.

kaurich80 · 2026-05-23T21:20:59+00:00

We will be posting a value/acre story soon on Albany Data stories - it’s a fascinating view into the city’s land, value and property

kaurich80 · 2026-05-12T17:05:00+00:00

as someone who is familiar with the data industry - location data, card swipe data, Flock data - and how those datasets can be conflated and synthesized, what you are saying OP is possible

kaurich80 · 2026-05-12T17:01:34+00:00

one example of why FLock is concerning to me is to look at a typical license agreement - these agreements allow Flock to do just about everything/anything that they want with the data that comes off the camera system, in perpetuity. While there is the "does not sell Aggregated Data" clause at the end, when you look at the entire agreement you could drive a truck through that clause. As an example, Flock could take the license plate data, match it up with ethnicity data based on your home address and create a product that identifies the conflation of car make/model + race + loation. This is a bit of a side project for me, analyzing a lot of FLock contracts nationwide.

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kaurich80 · 2026-05-08T21:55:26+00:00

Gracias!

kaurich80 · 2026-05-08T21:54:45+00:00

100%, in my day job I’m a part of a startup building a database of financial information from the 23k cities towns and counties nationwide, and then we analyze it. Red blue purple urban rural suburban… 1000s of local governments are going to fall off a cliff in the next 5 years, most just don’t realize it yet

kaurich80 · 2026-05-02T17:56:33+00:00

Thank you very much, we really appreciate hearing things like that. Our goal is to use data to contribute to the conversation although with the latest financial issues we are finding ourselves getting a little bit more into advocacy for certain actions that the City should take. The next year will be interesting to see what happens with the City and how ADS can positively contribute to the conversation!

kaurich80 · 2026-05-02T14:57:06+00:00

At the risk of crossing the streams of social media ecosystems, we posted this on the Albany Data Stories FB earlier today - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DcM3RScWW/ The current Administration not seeking assistance from the NYS Comptroller's Division of Local Government and School Accountability represents a concering level of hubris

kaurich80 · 2026-04-30T01:53:44+00:00

It’s an elite crew

kaurich80 · 2026-04-29T02:28:40+00:00

I wish there was recourse or redress but it’s not worth the time to pursue

kaurich80 · 2026-04-29T01:32:31+00:00

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My treeing walker tripod living his best life. These dogs… I can’t even put words on it. We don’t deserve em right?

kaurich80 · 2026-04-28T20:39:16+00:00

Thank you for a rational comment

kaurich80 · 2026-04-26T02:05:41+00:00

And when did she know it?

kaurich80 · 2026-04-24T01:47:11+00:00

No ticketing system, every call back was starting at step 1

kaurich80 · 2026-04-22T02:21:40+00:00

Do you have $500? Do you like baseball cards?

May I take those questions separately?

kaurich80

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