As someone who bikes frequently, I personally worry more about people in cars more than anything else. In Madison, you can ride on the street or sidewalk, and my strategy for biking is the same as driving - stay as far away from anyone else as humanly possible. Luckily Madison has tons of bike paths, so I can stay away from people in cars, and I usually have a fairly brisk pace to keep me away from other cyclists.

I tend to follow the traffic signals though, and usually wait even until I have a clear moment if I do have the right away. A vague concept of "I should go before you" is not going to help me if some unattentive driver doesn't notice the small human on a bike beside their car/truck.

The sidewalk is just that, to walk on, not ride on. As previously stated, state or local laws proclaim bicycles as vehicles and as such, must be ridden on the street and not the sidewalk where pedestrians are expected to walk for their own safety. 

 WhiteKnight77

I feel that argument is terribly reductive. Madison has a pretty large number of people on rollerblades, who in my opinion never have any business being in the bike lane or anywhere close to the road. By your definition of a sidewalk, the only that should be permitted is walking. No jogging/running, no skateboarding, no skipping. Nope... It is explicitly a place for walking and walking only.

I personally feel as though bikes are not wholey vehicles or wholey pedestrians. I'd prefer if we had something similar to the Dutch, as I understand bikes are not shoehorned into being full class vehicles, but a seperate entity with their own defined road system.

[QUOTE="drokmore"]Man throw in some exercise and you'll be moneyXBOunity

yeah i know i gotta do that but hate that,  I have learned alot about myself, basically im habitual, very hibitual.   If I get into running I could maybe get into it, maybe swimming, i dont know thats the next step.

I suggest getting a bike and cycling. It's easier on your joints than running, and I see more people stick with cycling than I do most cardio-excercises.

I gave up pretty much all sodas a few years ago, and even most store brought juices. Drives my family insane as the only thing I keep in the fridge is milk, water, some lemon juice if I want the water to have flavor, and a perpetual amount of ingredients to make a smoothie for after my workouts.

Why does super strength have 3 others super-powers bunched into it? You're super strong, invulnerable, can fly, and have super speed, where as shapeshifting is just... shapeshifting into another person.

The tables seem pretty stacked.

Sign up for a gym, and supplement it with at home work out. You don't need to buy a DVD - you can find pretty much anything on the internet really. Including great workout forums and videos. Spend the money you'd spend on a DVD and get some nice running shoes, a jump rope, and some elastic bands.

If you're friends are already going to the gym that makes a huge difference. It becomes less tedious that way - it becomes another way to hang out with the guys. When you can't make the gym, just fall back to the bands and body weight excercises.

The higher the gas prices go up, the less I ride my car. I've really gotten attached to my bike though. For anything <15 miles away and time isn't an issue, I usually just grind it out. That being said, I hate filling up to go visit family in Chicago.

i have the 32 GB model and I love it. No real complaints.

I was torn between this and the Samsung Galaxy S4 for a while. Ended up going with the HTC One because I decided I wouldn't use most of the features on the S4 (I barely use most of them on the HTC One) I also had a Samsung Focus before hand, and for about 6 months the back would barely stay on the phone, pushing me away from all plastic phones. Most people probably don't have this problem as they use cases, but I don't and it annoyed me to no end.

Architecture for me. Though I minored in Computer Science, which is the field I'm currently working in.

Sounds like a Gen X'er that just wants to pat themselves on the back.

Point 4 is also laughably vague and meaningless, and at points even contradictory.

First thing to pop into my head was this pic :P

Def going to buy his book. Send me a website thingy when it's out.MrPraline

Lai, if you must have a website for your book, please pay someone to make it. That Charmander/Elijah Wood blog thing is atrocious from a design standpoint. I didn't take a look at the page source code, but I'd wager it was full of obosolete code as well.

Keep that stuff off the interwebs,

Sincerely,

Every web developer ever