11 April 05

Bike Basket Inventory

A list of items in my bike basket — it’s good to do one of these every now and then!


  • Today’s Davis Enterprise, front page headline reading “Picnic Day nears”

  • A copy of Programming PHP, by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe, that I was going to return to my office today but forgot

  • A plastic grocery bag in which I was carrying around the PHP book

  • A Kryptonite bike lock

  • My charcoal grey light fleece sweater

  • An apple

  • An old washcloth used primarily to dry the bike seat on rainy days

  • A Cateye bike light

  • A 700×20/28C bike tube, Presta valve

  • 2 blue Uniball Signo pens

  • One green Uniball micro pen

  • One Bic ballpoint pen

  • 2 medium binder clips

  • A Park micro toolkit for the bike

  • A Park 36mm headset wrench

  • A copy of the Discworld reading order guide

  • An Amtrak ticket jacket

  • 3 AA and 3 AAA alkaline batteries, state of charge unknown

  • 1 pencil

  • Scratch paper with conjugations for the verbs conseguir,

    tomar, and cubrir

  • A black Pilot G2 pen cartridge

  • A rubber band

  • And a twist tie.

Posted by at 07:42 PM in Miscellaneous | Link |
  1. I thought we’d decided that Kryptonite bike locks were ever so slightly fallible….

    — Martin Redfern    13. April 2005, 06:57    Link
  2. In a writing workshop I’ve team-taught at Inkberry, one of our generative exercises is “describe a character, or establish yourself as a narrator, through listing the items in wallet or trash can.” I suppose bike basket could be added to that list! It’s amazing how complete a picture of someone can accrue through the small objects they carry with them—what dogeared book is jammed into your bag? What membership cards do you carry? Is your trash can filled with poems scribbled on napkins? I love this kind of stuff…

    — Rachel    13. April 2005, 07:39    Link

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