* the ferries are free, as is walking bikes here are pervasive enough that bangers are pretty inexpensive I'm sure you can do better I'd be happy if you would try. Was it to make us smarter, and if so, how? Did you hope it would make us wiser, and in that case, in what fashion? Or was it to make us more joyful, in which circumstance I await the punchline with eager anticipation.īecause right now you just look like a jerk. Then after you're done with that explanation, go ahead and tell me how your comment was designed to improve the conversation. I'll give you "white", numerically, but that might be because we're in Northern Europe and that's the way the statistics stat. Jimbeaux D do tell me how the ordinary citizens of a major city taking the cheapest* forms of transportation to get from one of the poorest districts† to the city center is privilege.
It's late at night and I am full of run-on sentences. Then you have margaritas and talk about Babylingus because really, at least you are not that guy. It also helps to find people you can tell stories to about the dating, people you can show profiles to as messages come in, people you can compare messages to because sometimes, you get a nineteen-year-old searching for cunnilingus experience and he's messaged not only your friend who is older and fat (and who wrote him back saying that she didn't think he meant to imply that she'd be pathetically grateful to be his practice dummy, but he should reconsider his pitch regardless) but the friend who is just older, both of them. My profile, written 2010, includes recent embroidery projects, Miss Manners, and a list of websites I considered required reading at the time. Advertise to attract the people you want and repel the people you don't. You are advertising for the position of Worthwhile Dating-Type. Sarah, I think it is easy to forget that online dating is not interviewing for a job. What it concluded was that there isn't magic, just a lot of birds reacting to their immediate neighbors in small ways. Some time ago, I read a thing about how birds flock and fish school, trying to figure out the potential hivemind, instincts, the works. How did anyone ever think that hurtling along on two narrow bands of rubber would work? It’s inherently ludicrous. It’s weird and improbable that it works.īut if you think about cycling in general, it’s a weird and improbable way to get around. Call it artisanal small-batch traffic management, the distributed-processing alternative to a people-flow problem that no one has been able to find a systemic solution to: mixed wheeled and foot traffic coming from multiple directions, going multiple places, some in bursts and some in steady flows. It is exactly as chaotic as it looks, but it’s the chaos of people making thousands of tiny, dynamic, one-off accommodations for each other.
Timelapse van de shared space bij Centraal Station from Gemeente Amsterdam on Vimeo. It’s not inconceivable that I’m in the shot somewhere.
I do this every workday, coming from the blue ferries on the right, exiting the plein on the red path at the bottom. Posted by Abi Sutherland at 05:25 PM * 940 comments