Jessica Lauer

Bike racks at the finish

View from the GW Bridge…almost finished!

GW Bridge from NJ

Fall colors along the Hudson in NJ

Starting chute along the west side highway before we entered the Holland Tunnel

Breakfast smoothie before the race.

Great Meadow, Arlington MA

HDR Photograph by Anthony

Sound Cyclists Team Photo

Statue of Liberty from the return State Island ferry

Obligatory bike photo

Verrazano Bridge

Road Rash

RFK Bridge in Astoria Park

Gospel singers in Harlem

Start Zone

Race day self portrait.

The patio is open

Photo by Jess 4.11.12

Beavercreek Mountain

Photo by Jess - 3.29.12

Weeping Willows Along the Hudson

Photo by Jess - 3.24.12

68th Street Transfer Station

Photo by Jess - 3.24.12

This is another of my favorite sights on my weekend rides. I finally dismounted and carried by bike around the waterfront to grab this photo.

I wish I could make peace with dying as this man has.  Really nice video.  

This made my day.  A film about a 9 year old’s cardboard arcade in his dad’s auto parts shop.

kateoplis:

nevver:

Social Media Explained (with donuts)

Tumblr: FUCKYEAHDONUTS (?)

Dear Sirs and Sirettes,

Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (ABTT) would like it entered into the record that as of January 30th, 2012, the sum total of our donations was $1,023,121.24.

Stephen Colbert, President of ABTT, has asked that I quote him as saying, ”Yeah! How you like…

There’s no better place to people watch than Brooklyn.

Photo by Jess 12.30.11

The NYT built a beautiful display to commemorate readers’ loved ones that passed away this year.

kateoplis:

think-progress

Art has been tugging on my heart lately and this is a beautiful video.

Thanks to the new job, I spend 3 1/2 hours commuting each day, giving me plenty of walking and reading time.

Last week I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s, Eating Animals. Now to come to terms with what and how I want to eat. Heres my highlights:

According to a study published in Consumer Reports, 83 percent of all chicken meat (including organic and antibiotic-free brands) is infected with either campylobacter or salmonella at the time of purchase.
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Nestle notes that in parts of the world where milk is not a staple of the diet, people often have less osteoporosis and fewer bone fractures than Americans do. The highest rates of osteoporosis are seen in countries where people consume the most dairy foods.
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Does anyone really doubt that the corporations that control the vast majority of animal agriculture in America are in it for the profit? In most industries, that’s a perfectly good driving force. But when the commodities are animals, the factores are the earth itself, and the products are physically consumed, the stakes are not the same, and the thinking can’t be the same.
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Let’s describe the reality: that piece of meat came from an animal who, at best - and it’s precious few who get away with only this - was burned, mutilated, and killed for the sake of a few minutes of human pleasure. . Does the pleasure justify the means?
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…and my grandmorther, surrounded by her family, thought in the language of her dead relatives. Two dozen or so mismatched chairs circumscribed four tables of slightly different heights and widths, pushed together and covered in matching cloths. No one was fooled into thinking this setup was perfect, but it was.
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Love me some John Stamos.  

kateoplis:

This city letter carrier posed for a humorous photograph with a young boy in his mailbag, 1900. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples.

Smithsonian Institution 

underpaidgenius:

tl81:

Killing time at a Korean subway station - shopping at the virtual supermarket by scanning billboards with a smartphone.

(via Subway Platform Supermarket — The Pop-Up City)

related

• Tesco virtual supermarket in a subway station (therestofthepiecesofmylife.wordpress.com)

Bridgeport Stacks

Photo by Jess - Yale Harvard Game Day 2009

While most of the Connecticut coast is idyllic, there is a little industrial patch in Bridgeport that changes the shoreline.  Fortunately, the rising sun was forgiving to the smoke stacks as I made my early way to New Haven for the Yale Harvard tailgate that morning.

Dad has been on the road for 12 days restoring electricity after hurricane Irene. I met him in the staging area in New Jersey tonight before going out to dinner. (Taken with instagram)

Sometimes a girl needs her own favicon.

US Open before the crowds arrive in the morning (Taken with instagram)

There’s no power on my street, so I’m winding my 70 year old clock for an early US Open wakeup. (Taken with instagram)

Carousel bike stop in Boston. (Taken with instagram)

Rainbow Crosswalk (Taken with instagram)

Mushroom Kingdom (Taken with instagram)