Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category

Obsessing over bike seats

2009-09-17

I think by now it’s common knowledge that bike seats can cause Erectile Dysfunction (henceforth “ED”) in men, or at least the pop-science mythology is prevalent enough. That “fact” was one of the reasons I was apprehensive about biking in the first place when I started to work in SF two years ago. My esteemed and highly bike-knowledgeable coworker Mark Palange laid my fears to rest by explaining that a seat won’t hurt you so long as you’re sitting on your ischial tuberosities and not your perineum (henceforth “sitbones” and “taint”). Otherwise you’re gonna be crushing nerves and blood vessels, doing nerve damage and greatly reducing bloodflow to your genitals (henceforth “junk”). So I got a bike and looked for seats…

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Where Do I Recycle This Friggin Compact Flourescent Bulb?

2008-01-21

[these people](http://www.nema.org/lamprecycle/contacts/) know. If you live in CA they’ll tell you to go to [the state info page](http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/WPIE/FluoresLamps/#HowToRecyDis) which points you to [Earth911](http://earth911.org/) which takes your zip code and tells you to go to some local place. In the end it just tells me to go to Cole Hardware in the haight, which is exactly what a pal told me. LMAO@me.