Used Bikes

Nice BikeTODAY – We will get you on a bike. I dunno how that will be possible through the internet, but it sounds like the right thing to say.

More realistically, what we will do is to give you a checklist if you are ever looking at a used bike, say, off Craigslist.

Long story short: Rust is really bad, wrecked wheels and tires are really bad, a clean bike is really good, and things generally shouldn’t wobble, squeak, or rattle at all. More in-depth suggestions below!

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Column-Count

As always, CSS is weird.

I was under the mistaken impression that using column-count would easily replace a number of silly UL based approaches for siloed content, navigation, etc. Turns out not so much. It is really good at doing what it was built for, which is to flow text content through columns like a newspaper. Trying to use it or specific layout is… problematic.

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