Jack’s Old & Busted Blog

The more I ride my bicycle, the more I see how poorly designed our town is for getting anywhere without a motor. Sidewalks run for a a hundred feet and just end. Major intra-city roads have no shoulders at all. Subdivisions are built with no walking access to markets. Of course, not very many people care about this, but as traffic becomes worse and worse and fuel prices climb, they eventually might. It’s also odd how there seems to be less and less residential-commercial zoning. Just more strip malls. Sprawl-Busters (website) is a good sour-grapes anti suburban sprawl site. Why isn’t good city planning more important to voters?

It’s about time I learned the finer points of Photoshop (adobe.com). I’ve used this ubiquitous app since version 3, but I have never tried to get a handle on all the tools it has beyond those necessary to make a normal photo look more like a normal photo. So, I’m on the hunt for some good tutorials. I was impressed with the demos provided with the PS7 upgrade, so I might pursue that angle.

Does everybody else dream more in the fall, too? Maybe it’s the decrease in sunlight or lower melatonin levels or something, but I always have more “dream sleep” during early fall than at any other time. Or maybe it’s just seasonal fatigue:
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
(World Civ. Reader)
Where’s that woodchuck?