(Web?) Designers have a whole manifesto or something about this kinda crap, and they get fighting mad when other designers take shit jobs for shit pay because it devalues the whole job market. It's unfortunate writers can't do that, too, but I kinda think the design industry benefits from having a lot more money to go around, and probably fewer people trying to get a piece of the pie. I know plenty of people doing web design for close to or above 6 figures a year, but I can count the people who're able to make a living writing on one hand, and none of them are even close to that.

I've always wondered how they handle the liability for this, and if you think this is bad I can't even imagine how that car rental airbnb clone start-up is gonna pull off liability issues.

I'm glad you're okay. I saw tweets referring to the accident a few days back, but I had no idea you'd actually been hit. I hope the bike's salvageable, by the way. It looks like a really nice piece of work :(

I've almost been doored going full-speed down Potrero, but I haven't actually been hit by a car yet. Anyway, everyone's got their awkward bike rite-of-passage stories and here is mine: I was a block or so north of Chinatown, around noon on a week day, going down a small downhill onto Kearny. I hit a stop light and, for whatever reason, I began grossly over-thinking the stop-at-the-intersection process. Basically, I'm a huge idiot, and I went in with the very firm, deliberate intention of trying to stop, pull my left foot out of the toe cage and lean on it while I waited for the light. Instead, I pulled my *right* foot out of the toe cage, leaving my left foot in, and continued on my left-and-downward course with nothing to stop me but my ass. It was embarrassing, but itw as ultimately made amusing by the fact that, as I fell, my front tire grazed some woman's leg, and as I sat there on the pavement wondering where I'd dropped my dignity, she just stood there and stared at me like I was the world's biggest asshole.

I feel bad saying it but please take the playoffs off Seattle's hands, they need to grow up and stop trying to piece together a winning season on the back of a shitty division and half-baked talent because all it does is put them in position to draft terribly and this is exactly how they sputtered through the 90s in total anonymity and aimless, fruitless futility.

I thought it was just me that saw this, didn't know it Was A Thing but glad to know I'm not crazy :P