The Lonely Buddy List

When I first got AOL it was 1997 and I made lots of friends on there who I still stay in touch with. Since then I've added services such as Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, MSN, Gmail and ICQ so you would think that my buddy list would just be packed with lots of friends to talk to. I use so many IM programs that I have to use 1 single IM program (Pidgin) that connects to all those buddy lists just so I won't have to use up all my system resources for IMing. Yet, I face a new dilemma. Nobody is ever on anymore. My buddy list is the loneliest buddy list. I had to add myself so it wouldn't be lonely but it only makes it look more pathetic and sad :(.

Proper Bike Locks

This guy named Hal Ruzal critiques how New Yorkers lock their bicycles.  He grades them on the standard school scale of A - F.  I can say that I would easily get an F.  And I thought I was doing a good job keeping my bike safe when taking it to the grocery store.  All I have is 1 lock that I lock the frame to the pole at the grocery store.  I get a F-.  I need to lock up my new bicycle seat, my front wheel and back wheel to the bike too.  I guess I am ignorant.  Although it's a bit safer (not that much safer) in California because in my entire life the only thing that has ever been taken was a bike seat at the mall in Canoga Park.  I was only gone for 5 minutes too so they got it relatively fast.  Then there was this one time that the entire bike was gone when I came out of school, someone picked my bike out of the hundreds of bikes at the school bike lot.

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