Earlier today I posted my last post on MySpace. I am not deleting the account, but rather moving to a different board. This is that place.
I began using MySpace in the summer of 2006, and soon afterward began blogging there, too. I had been writing diary entries and letters to myself for years. In fact, several of these posts are re-types of or excerpts from some of the reams of notebooks I have kept over the years.
MySpace has never allowed for an easy way to index blogs. This does not work for me. Much of my writing is worthy of being referred back to at a later time, but with no indexing mechanism, and with increasing difficulty in paging back through the posts, it simply no longer meets my needs. Thus, I will simply cut it off here, with the most recent post below being the "3,600-word rant on transit funding" from September 2010 -- not to be confused with the April 9, 2010, "Rant on transit funding".
Herewith, in chronological order, are the 213 public posts.
Bye bye, MySpace. Hello Blogger!
Sep 3, 2010 3,600-word rant on transit funding
Aug 22, 2010 Death of a butterfly
Aug 19, 2010 My testimony at the transit hearing today, 8/19/2010
Jul 25, 2010 Flock of Cycles
Jul 24, 2010 My letter to PA legislators on transportation funding
Jul 6, 2010 Not happy about rescuing a baby bird
Jun 18, 2010 Flock of Cycles, June 18 2010
Jun 8, 2010 For the PA Transportation Funding hearing, June 18
Jun 7, 2010 The real enemy: Bad land-use policies
Jun 1, 2010 Bicycles, transit, and a gulf full of oil
May 22, 2010 A Flock of Cycles
May 3, 2010 Kent State, May 4 1970
Apr 13, 2010 My take on the GOP plan to fund PA transportation
Apr 10, 2010 My proposal for a new fare-payment policy
Apr 9, 2010 Rant on transit funding
Apr 2, 2010 a bicycle love story
Apr 1, 2010 Who says there's no humor in science?
Mar 7, 2010 Non-Sexual Appearance of Breasts
Feb 24, 2010 The first disco song I can remember
Feb 16, 2010 Hiking a suburban road without shoulders
Jan 3, 2010 2010 resolutions
Dec 1, 2009 Love your package. Ship it right.
Nov 27, 2009 Black Friday my foot
Nov 8, 2009 Divinity piffle
Oct 12, 2009 Setting an example to live by
Oct 11, 2009 100 friends on Facebook!
Oct 4, 2009 Pursuing my dream of a transit GIS system
Aug 20, 2009 40 Years On, So That's What That Was All About
Aug 8, 2009 Three Rivers Storytelling Festival 2009
Jul 11, 2009 Counterculture things done in a new car showroom
Jul 4, 2009 Big Dipper and Little Dipper
Jun 26, 2009 Michael Jackson: A remembrance
May 24, 2009 50-mile bike ride: McCandless-Moon-Downtown
May 23, 2009 National health insurance
May 21, 2009 Primary Election 2009 at Pittsburgh 4-8
Apr 28, 2009 Adventureland -- where I live?!
Apr 19, 2009 Why can't people recycle?
Apr 15, 2009 Tax night, and I beat midnight!
Apr 11, 2009 She earned it, so we're going to the concert
Apr 9, 2009 April 9, 1963
Mar 4, 2009 Liz Book Stands Again
Feb 22, 2009 Five-mile walk
Feb 11, 2009 The end of the ice pack
Jan 29, 2009 Remembering the Blizzard of '77
Jan 9, 2009 My days at the USPS
Dec 19, 2008 Pittsburgh sports rant
Nov 18, 2008 My last ACTC meeting?
Nov 9, 2008 Some additional thoughts on pollworker training and site setup
Nov 7, 2008 Voting problems I observed
Nov 7, 2008 Cameras at the precinct
Nov 7, 2008 JoE The Multitasker
Nov 6, 2008 Poll watchers and the Election Protection people
Nov 5, 2008 To those I disenfranchised
Nov 5, 2008 Superliteracy
Nov 1, 2008 My Halloween handouts: Why always candy?
Oct 15, 2008 The Smithville planning game
Oct 13, 2008 Hey MySpace, this is a programming error
Oct 12, 2008 Public transportation -does- work
Oct 10, 2008 I do not donate to political causes
Oct 9, 2008 Back to being on foot
Oct 7, 2008 Recycling paper by bicycle
Oct 6, 2008 ABBA, my roommate, and the Swedish S.O.S.
Oct 3, 2008 The transition into a bicycle suburbanite
Sep 30, 2008 Non-smokers, please read (from 1987)
Sep 25, 2008 First raped, then screwed
Sep 18, 2008 Effects of smoking on me (the longer version)
Sep 18, 2008 Me on smoking, in 1986: "Smokers Please Read"
Sep 16, 2008 Finding a blank check
Sep 15, 2008 Preparing for a bus strike
Sep 12, 2008 Bicycling in the rain
Sep 8, 2008 The mouse, Part I
Sep 6, 2008 I will not discuss politics. Period.
Sep 4, 2008 I need a new backpack
Sep 2, 2008 I'm tired of glurge
Aug 31, 2008 Prediction: Hurricane Gustav & gas prices
Aug 30, 2008 Critical Mass Pittsburgh, August 2008
Aug 25, 2008 Your 168-hour no-car challenge
Aug 15, 2008 Bicycling with a full load of groceries
Aug 15, 2008 Bicycling with the Devil: McKnight Rd and Wexford Flats
Aug 12, 2008 $4 gasoline. Whaddya gonna do?
Aug 12, 2008 Three Rivers Storytelling Festival 2008
Aug 4, 2008 Passing the midpoint of summer
Aug 1, 2008 Bicycling to a concert
Jul 24, 2008 So easy to do a good deed
Jul 21, 2008 CHAOS: Can't-Have-Anyone-Over Syndrome
Jul 16, 2008 No time for a proper blog, so...
Jul 9, 2008 Dealing with the heat of summer
Jul 6, 2008 Was Emma Goldman the Second Coming of Christ?
Jul 4, 2008 Helms is gone. Good riddance
Jul 2, 2008 Lots of cycling. Why not to an interview?
Jun 27, 2008 A hot day for a ride, but nonetheless...
Jun 20, 2008 End of the cello
Jun 14, 2008 20 stinking years later, finally a state smoking ban
Jun 9, 2008 Summer began June 1. Where are the fireflies?
Jun 2, 2008 About boycotting gasoline (written when gas hit $2/gal)
May 29, 2008 5/29/08, *1908* that is: Aunt Sarah's birthday
May 28, 2008 First rail trip, ever
May 19, 2008 Bike-to-Work Day: Me on video
May 14, 2008 *Raise* the gas tax
May 13, 2008 Mildred Loving has passed away
May 10, 2008 A "reel" project: Mowing tall, wet grass with a push mower
May 6, 2008 10,000 steps
May 2, 2008 one car, four people, eleven places to go
Apr 30, 2008 It's snowing in Pittsburgh
Apr 17, 2008 Barack or Hillary? We need more choices
Apr 18, 2008 The 168-hour no-car challenge, week 1--complete
Apr 14, 2008 Wheel spinning
Apr 3, 2008 Syracuse, Day 2: The bus ride
Apr 2, 2008 Syracuse, Day 1
Mar 30, 2008 How I spent Earth Hour
Mar 22, 2008 How I came to own a rare record
Mar 19, 2008 What did I get myself INTO?
Mar 19, 2008 A not-quite-impossible bus commute
Mar 16, 2008 Check out *this* church
Mar 13, 2008 Nose to nose with a raccoon
Mar 11, 2008 My prediction on fuel prices
Mar 8, 2008 My Hero: Liz Book
Mar 4, 2008 When right next door is unique, do you notice?
Mar 1, 2008 March 1: Springtime!
Feb 19, 2008 Navigating without a map
Feb 11, 2008 Defining the topfreedom debate
Feb 2, 2008 My daughter, the wrestler
Jan 24, 2008 Sidewalks after a brief snowstorm
Jan 22, 2008 How not to travel to Monroeville
Jan 12, 2008 What that IRS form with Payer 38-1798424 really means
Jan 8, 2008 Bus? Bike? Walk? It shouldn't be this difficult
Jan 2, 2008 The "Icycle Bicycle" ride that wasn't
Jan 1, 2008 Welcome to 1930! Happy New Year!
Dec 31, 2007 My "X of the day" routine
Dec 30, 2007 Storytelling: A blog I didn't write in August
Dec 27, 2007 The movie rating system
Dec 22, 2007 God rest ye MERRY. What does that mean, actually?
Dec 19, 2007 Like a trumpeter at a harp concert
Dec 18, 2007 123,457
Dec 13, 2007 Brief story about two of my bus stops
Dec 6, 2007 Read (or see) The Golden Compass: A review of the book trilogy
Dec 5, 2007 It's winter, so I gotta insulate. You should, too.
Dec 2, 2007 It's December, so it's winter
Nov 28, 2007 Rights, Freedoms and Privileges
Nov 27, 2007 changing blog colors, take 1
Dec 27, 2008 Breastfeeding in public
Nov 21, 2007 I was the first to cross the 31st St Bridge!
Nov 12, 2007 North Hills to Squirrel Hill *entirely* by bike
Nov 10, 2007 I hate leaf blowers
Nov 6, 2007 Judge of Elections
Nov 3, 2007 Why bus service to 3 Pittsburgh malls should stop
Oct 27, 2007 What? No candy on Halloween? *What* then?!
Oct 25, 2007 Second Monroeville bike trip
Oct 23, 2007 Fire hoses and flower gardens
Oct 22, 2007 New glasses
Oct 21, 2007 North Hills to Monroeville by bike (& bus)
Oct 18, 2007 Not shopping at Wal-Mart, ever
Sep 30, 2007 Growing tired of church -- again
Sep 25, 2007 Planning public transit, part 1
Sep 18, 2007 Why teaching evolution is necessary
Sep 12, 2007 Message to those offended by Christianity
Sep 11, 2007 What do you get when you turn "9/11" upside down? "11/6"
Sep 11, 2007 A house for $10K, a building lot for $200
Sep 11, 2007 My three Sept. 2001 essays
Sep 6, 2007 Nailbiter transfers
Sep 5, 2007 Bicycling on the HOV lane
Sep 3, 2007 Gunned down on a Pittsburgh street
Sep 2, 2007 Sept. 2, So It's Fall: How I Figure Out the Seasons
Aug 31, 2007 What and how I recycle
Aug 24, 2007 Taking the 54C quiz
Aug 17, 2007 The anti-litterbug
Aug 8, 2007 My first blog since my mother's passing
Jul 23, 2007 Anti-TOBACCO vs. anti-SMOKING
Jul 14, 2007 getting 30mpg out of a 20mpg car
Jul 3, 2007 On a Stack of Bibles
Jul 3, 2007 So I saw Sicko
Jun 12, 2007 The Loving Conference, 6/13/1992, a brief remembrance
May 28, 2007 Random birds seen here recently
May 27, 2007 Pittsburgh's Critical Mass ride, 5-25-2007
May 22, 2007 Another long bike ride, not by choice
May 16, 2007 Problem with electronic voting: Disenfranchised by the clock
May 11, 2007 25-mile bike ride
May 10, 2007 smoking vs. other methods of ingesting tobacco
May 6, 2007 Listening to robins
Apr 27, 2007 Three short essays I wrote just after 9/11/2001
Apr 8, 2007 My father was a Fuckemallist
Apr 6, 2007 Someday, lots more people will do this regularly
Apr 3, 2007 People who are against power lines
Mar 31, 2007 Fifteen years of falling sky
Mar 4, 2007 A look back at why I entered grad school (written 11/1995)
Jun 22, 2007 Index to all past blogs
Feb 27, 2007 Why I, an anti-smoker, am against the US Senate tobacco control proposal
Feb 25, 2007 redesigning Port Authority's bus service
Feb 20, 2007 I've seen 15 out of 240 movies
Feb 15, 2007 Shoveling driveways, chipping ice off cars
Feb 9, 2007 My testimony on Port Authority's service and fare proposals
Jan 16, 2007 KQV 1410 editorial on privatizing public transit
Jan 11, 2007 The difference between an agreement and an oath
Jan 6, 2007 20 to life for a murder that may never have happened
Jan 3, 2007 Why I favor the flat-rate fare hike proposal
Dec 31, 2006 2007: the year we will decide to respect public transit
Dec 19, 2006 Time for Flat-Price Gasoline: $4/gallon, 24/7/365
Dec 16, 2006 Gripe Of The Week: Stranded shopping carts
Dec 13, 2006 The North Shore Connector and The Mon-Fayette/SOuthern Beltway (MFSoB) Turnpike project
Dec 12, 2006 arrogant drivers
Dec 7, 2006 My new identity: UnicycleInTransit
Nov 29, 2006 How and why we should change our pocket change
Nov 22, 2006 To eliminate abortion, eliminate its need (written 1/1985)
Nov 17, 2006 Email that says "You've received a greeting from a family member!"
Nov 6, 2006 buying a 78
Nov 4, 2006 In God We Still Trust, by Diamond Rio
Oct 4, 2006 Banned books
Oct 3, 2006 paying bills ahead
Oct 1, 2006 the trouble you go to to recharge a laptop
Sep 28, 2006 186 ways to live with only one car
Sep 11, 2006 the eagle in the yard
Sep 9, 2006 Lose the idea of a new Arena. Lose the Penguins, too.
Sep 7, 2006 my public comments on Allegheny County's proposed smoking ban
