This week is uphill

This is where I turned around today. This was when my ride was still easy.

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After this, I suffered. It wasn’t even the good kind of suffering, but more of the “What just happened to everything? And can I make it back home?” Almost all of the uphill was going that direction. There may have been an error in this plan.

It was just 30 miles, but my summer consisted of shorter, harder rides. I just looked through the route notes, and I’m a bit embarrassed by how long it has been since I’ve had a ride with a significant distance.

Elsewhere we’re just getting back to work. Classes start next week, which means I’m prepping things and being barraged by emails this week. Work is fun. Summer is more fun, that’s all.

So when the next several days or weeks seem thin around here, let’s blame that.

Things to read … because no one can blame me for not having interesting links.

Mr. T shows up for jury duty in Rolling Meadows and he’s ready to put people away:

Toting a Bible, T at one point joked that he wasn’t going to eat during the lunch break because if he did, he wouldn’t be able to be “mean on the criminal.”

So you can pity the defendant tried in front of him.

Terrifying, Dear Driver of the Silver SUV who ran into me on my bicycle this Saturday…:

Did I suddenly disappear from your view your vehicle drove over my back wheel and whipped my body sideways down to the ground?

I doubt you heard the crack of my ribs as my shoulder and head slammed into the ground. But maybe you heard the crunch of my bike under your tire and the loud pop that a modern bike frame makes when it snaps into pieces.

If not that, surely you felt your tire thump over my bike? Did you wonder if my body was caught under the wheel too?

The Future of Mobile Apps for News:

The mobile tsunami has just begun to unfurl. Soon, it might flood a solid half, then two thirds of all news pageviews — and we can expect further acceleration after the release of the next batch of iPhones: their larger screens will provide more attractive reading.

If mobile is to become the dominant vector for news, retaining readers will be much more challenging than it is on a PC or tablet (though the latter tends to engage readers 10x or sometimes 20x more). A news app needs to be steered with precision. Today’s digital marketing tools allow publishers to select multiple parameters monitoring the use of a application.

And that’ll do for now. May all of your hills be down.

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