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Stash for the cold weather commute (not shown: digital camera).
Formerly my most viewed photo, but it's now been replaced by the upskirt shot.
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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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.
Entry for the lomography competition of the FZ7 users group
The first part of my commute to work. A 15 to 20 min roll down the hill to town.
This is the first of a series of images taken in the lomography style.
To learn about lomography here is a link to www.flickr.com/groups/e-lomography/
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. :)
(Seen everyday on my commute home from work)
If you're driving north on I-5 don't be surprised by the 17-foot-tall pinup girl gracing the side of Chris Brugos's house.
SEATTLE - In a recently released movie she was "The Notorious Bettie Page." Now a Ravenna homeowner has made Page Seattle's most visible pinup girl.
Just east of Interstate 5, the side of Chris Brugos's house features a giant painting of the nearly nude Page. His pal John Green painted the 1950s girlie magazine icon on the side of Chris' house as a birthday gift.
"He thought it was a great place to put something so a lot of people could see it," say Brugos. "And he knows I like pinup girls."
Bettie Page posed for thousands of racy photos in the 1950s and early 1960s. Fans say her apple-pie wholesomeness shines through even her most salacious poses. In recent years, young collectors have become an eager new audience for Page memorabilia.
Brugos says Green projected Page's image onto the side of his house and used that image for a template. It took Green 24 hours over two weeks to complete the artwork.
The neighborhood's reaction has "all been favorable," Brugos says. "I live next to a Mormon church and people were worried about their response, because she is mostly naked. But so far, there has been no negative response at all." The 17-foot-tall pinup is easily visible from northbound I-5. Just look to your right as you approach the Northeast 65th Street exit.
Old mid-80s Stumpjumper Sport I adopted as my commuting bike until recently. 'Upgraded' it with new pedals (MKS Sylvan), fenders (SKS), panniers (Arkel), tires (Schwalbe), and a new helmet. Wanted to make sure I was able to be seen by Houston's notoriously idiotic traffic -- hence why I've gone almost overboard with all the blinkies, lights, and reflective tape/stickers (see notes). It has 26" wheels (now with a 1.5" tire in the front and a 1.75" in the back -- both with the reflective stripe all the way around [photo shows old tires]), so is a tad small for me at 6'1" but was worth it as I didn't have to buy a new or used bike while trying out bike commuting.
As I've kept with bike commuting, I've upgraded my bike to a Bianchi San Jose (a single speed).