Many will call it reckless, yet there is no doubt that riding fast, almost racing, in New York City traffic is quite the adrenaline rush. It’s one thing to go against another bicyclist – and they are out there, too – but quite another to go against cars and trucks and buses and motorcycles. Obviously, [...]
In the early eighties, personal computers were billed as something like educational toys. Some kids wanted them, but only a handful of parents fully understood the point. The world, see, had not yet undergone the personal computing revolution then. Computers had not taken over businesses, becoming an indispensable tool of everyday business; there were still [...]
Racing isn’t on the minds of most bicycle commuters, unless they happen to be messengers or deliverymen who, usually, ride to work! And in such instances, it would not be too surprising to find them employing what could pass for ad hoc racing strategies of the sort found in informal alleycat contests. It may seem [...]
On Sand Hill in Fort Benning, Georgia, every recruit training company has its own armory with its own gun safes where rifles are stowed. Back in the early 1990s, the Army’s block of Basic Rifle Marksmanship (BRM) instruction usually didn’t take place until the fifth week of Basic Combat Training (BCT), so none of us [...]
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