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Good thing bikes don’t have cruise control

Below is a recount of my ride home from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum this afternoon.

3:15 pm

Left the museum to take my normally uneventful commute home from my day of volunteering.

3:20 pm

Watched as a Pedicab goes through a red light on Pennsylvania Ave.  I was hoping he was not “hired,” but unfortunately there was a family in the back.  Why risk the lives of others, let alone your life!

3:22 pm

Almost hit a pedestrian who was walking down the center of the Pennsylvania bike lane texting as he walked. Honestly!  Did he think it was a sidewalk?  Maybe want to be paying a bit of attention if you are in the middle of the road?

3:24 pm

Still on Pennsylvania Avenue….might have been hit had I not been paying attention and noticed a car making an illegal U-Turn.

3:35 pm

Near the end of the 15th street cycletrack, concierge hails a cab for some guests, but they don’t even look before they walk in front of me to get in the cab.

3:45 pm

At 15th and P Streets NW, pedestrians hail a cab and the taxi pulls over blocking the bike lane to load luggage and passengers.

Conclusion

I have concluded that if cyclists were in some way distracted, there would be many more collisions with pedestrians and vehicles.  Inventors, please don’t make a 4 wheel bike or cruise control.  LOL.

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Website So Close!

After even more late evenings, tonight included, I am very close to being happy with the integration of WordPress (Blog) and Plogger (Photo Gallery) into my site.  Check it out 🙂

So Close…

The only thing that is eluding me at the moment is why my valign=”top” is not working for my table cells holding content.  They seem to load at the bottom of the cell.  You will only notice this when the content in the right cell of the table is shorter than the widget menu on the left side.

Any thoughts?  Let me know 🙂

jasonclock.com

Let me know what you think!

Thanks!

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Blog Integrated :)

After many late evenings and the use of “undo,” I am happy to say that I have my blog fairly well integrated with my website at this point.

Yeah!

Okay..so I do need to learn much more about themes in WordPress in order to make use of widgets properly.  In fact I don’t have any at this point, nor do I have a sidebar!  Probably the addition of a sidebar would be all that I need, but that will come later when I find a “must have” widget.

Next Up….

Next up will be the integration of my photo gallery. I am hoping that will go as smoothly as the blog, but since the gallery does not seem to be as widely used, may not be able to find as much support.  Crossing my fingers. 🙂

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50th Anniversary US Space Flight

50 Years After…. 11 years of continuous ISS habitation and international collaboration.

While volunteering at the National Air and Space Museum today, a docent kindly told me about the historic event that is upon us.  Not only is tomorrow the day we celebrate our countries presidents, Monday, February 20, 2012, marks the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s trip around the earth in a Mercury-Atlas capsule.  Dubbed “Friendship 7,” this was the first time that American’s had put a man in space.

While doing my kids demonstration today, I was proud to let them all know that tomorrow is a day not to forget in space exploration.

Don’t forget Able, the Rhesus monkey, that in May 28th, 1959 paved the way for US space flight.  If you recall 2 years earlier, the U.S.S.R. attempted to send a dog into space, but the dog did not survive. Trailing the U.S.S.R., in both earth orbit and space walk, the United States has been the only country to send a space explorer to the moon, something which China plans to do in the future.

Now 90, John Glenn continues to tell stories of his space exploration.

Read all about John Glenn’s amazing career and check out photos and historical information at Nasa.gov

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