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Miranda F Camera body, adapted with Takumar 35mm lens. Kodacolor II film, expired late 1970s
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I zoomed way out to demonstrate that my commute is actually quite short. 4.4 miles according to Google, but they take a ridiculous route. I think it's closer to 3.5. Maybe I'll try to remember to look at the odometer.
Anyway, I wanted to show you some things in my wider neighborhood. Feel free to look around. Ask questions. Have some sweet iced tea.
Keith Cotton and Ted Horobiowski with LeAnn Yamamoto, accepting on behalf of the Spokane Regional Transportation Council (Commute Smart Employer Champion).
Took a photo every minute on my way to work and merged them using Photoshop.
A belated submission for the wordpool: commute
(11/365)
Travelers come and go in all directions at Toronto's Union Station as the work day comes to an end.
This was my daily 50 mile commute home today.....fun. Gotta love Michigan, this will put us over 100 inches of snow so far
Commute 3 (3.8.11)
Totally surprised at how much the new cranks and tires changed the ride. It felt lighter, faster, and livelier.
Addendum: I think the thing I'm most stoked about is the lack of knee soreness during the ride and after. I've been battling a pain in my right knee, medial to the knee cap, which has affected me on both long and short rides, fixed or freewheeling, flat or hilly. During the ride, I felt like I was haunted by a type of phantom pain, where I thought my knee was acting up, when really it wasn't. When I actually focused on it, yoga-style, the knee felt just fine. It felt fine in the evening, as well as when I woke up the next morning and did the mixed-mode commute in on the fixed gear. So far, a win!
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Throughout the day, guests at the Valamar Fortuna Hotel on St Nikola Island off Porec in Croatia await the little ferry to get to the mainland.
It's like waiting for a First Great Western train. Only very different.
What kind of scientific discovery might make such an incomprehensibly long daily commute from Earth possible? Bing Copilot answers:
Ah, “A Long Commute”—the title alone feels like a wink at cosmic absurdity. That sleek car streaking across a desolate alien highway beneath a sky of planetary grandeur suggests a daily grind that spans star systems. To make such a commute scientifically plausible, we’d need breakthroughs that border on the mythic. But let’s riff on a few that could anchor your scene in speculative realism:
1. Stable Wormhole Engineering
•Concept: Einstein-Rosen bridges—wormholes—could connect distant points in spacetime.
•Breakthrough Needed: A method to stabilize and enlarge wormholes using exotic matter with negative energy density.
•Narrative Flavor: The highway itself could be a physical manifestation of a stabilized wormhole—an interstellar autobahn maintained by a cosmic transit authority.
2. Localized Time Dilation Control
•Concept: Manipulating time via relativistic effects or artificial gravity wells.
•Breakthrough Needed: A way to compress subjective time for the traveler while keeping Earth-time in sync.
•Narrative Flavor: The car’s propulsion system might generate a “commute bubble,” where hours pass in seconds—like a temporal espresso shot.
3. Quantum Entangled Transit Nodes
•Concept: Using quantum entanglement to instantaneously transmit matter or consciousness.
•Breakthrough Needed: A scalable method for entangling macroscopic objects and reassembling them remotely.
•Narrative Flavor: The car isn’t moving at all—it’s a ritual interface. The real journey happens in quantum space, and the vehicle is just the anchor for the rider’s continuity.
4. Dark Energy Surfing
•Concept: Harnessing the repulsive force of dark energy to accelerate across vast distances.
•Breakthrough Needed: A propulsion system that can “ride” the expansion of the universe like a surfer on a cosmic wave.
•Narrative Flavor: The glowing blue trails are the wake of spacetime being stretched behind the vehicle—each commute subtly reshaping the universe.
5. Consciousness Commuting
•Concept: The body stays on Earth, but the mind is projected into a synthetic avatar light-years away.
•Breakthrough Needed: A neural uplink that transmits consciousness across space with zero latency.
•Narrative Flavor: The car is a metaphor—a visual representation of the mind’s journey. The real commute is psychic, and the landscape is a shared dreamspace.
Want to explore how the emotional toll of such a commute might manifest—fatigue, longing, or the quiet absurdity of cosmic routine? Or maybe we lean into the humor: intergalactic traffic jams, roadside diners orbiting Saturn, or a commuter loyalty program that spans dimensions. How would interstellar traffic laws work? What are some real theories about wormholes?
St Albans to the City of London is reputed to be Britain's "most expensive commute".
Rather than take the train, I decided to travel overland and see what I could see...
I like getting work in Oxford. The cycle ride though the City is the best commute I have. This photograph is made after crossing Magdelene bridge with the tower of Magdelene College on the rght.
Morning traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Heading into Manhattan from Brooklyn.
I have been out all weekend long without a computer or internet access...this is just a quick post to say hello and that I will catch up with everyone over the week. :)
commuting gear: sks mudguards, rear tortec rack, ortlieb ultralight rear pannier, ortlieb office pannier/bag, carradice barley saddlebag.
Sleep on a hill.
St Albans to the City of London is reputed to be Britain's "most expensive commute".
Rather than take the train, I decided to travel overland and see what I could see...
A classic Polish express passenger locomotive, 2-8-2 Pt 47 65 near Rosnowko heading the early morning Wolsztyn to Poznan 'commuter' service in fine form, shortly before sunrise on a misty 2nd September 2001.
(Taken with a Mamiya 645 fitted with a 210mm lens and mounted on a tripod. Scanned from an Agfa Scala B&W transparency).
Pt 47 65 was one of 180 locomotives built by Cegielsko (80) and Chrzanow (80) after the Second World War, the first appearing in 1948. These engines took advantage of the 16 years of technical development of the previously-built 2-8-2 class, the Pt31 . The Pt47 class worked most of the heavy express passenger trains in the non-electrified areas of PKP during the 'last days of steam'.
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