As it turns out CNBC has cut me from their segment tonight. It is a harsh thing, being cut from a segment on the lowest rated cable news outlet in America. Well I guess the roughly 111,000 primetime viewers of CNBC won’t have me to kick around!
It’s just as well, I am still tired after last night’s New York Scooter Club kick off party.
I will be appearing with Steve Rubel sometimes between 7PM and 8PM on CNBC tomorrow, Thursday October 27th to talk about vespaway.com. My Tivo is already all warmed up. Of course, I am not *too* excited, I mean I HAVE seen the CNBC numbers. I have also gotten my hopes up before, but ended up being cut from a story.
Anyway, check out the Press Coverage I have already had to date to see where I have made it on to.
By “here” I mean UP THERE, in Toronto. According to this GreenThinkers blog entry:
The city council of Toronto is meeting today to discuss and ultimately decide whether they should allow motorcycles and scooters to park for free.
One reason to allow free parking for these vehicles is to curb the problem of stolen parking receipts from motorcycles.
On the environment-friendly side, motorcycles and scooters create less pollution than their much bigger automobile friends. Therefore, the thinking is that if you allow free parking you will encourage people to use this type of vehicles rather than cars.
I am very very VERY interested to see what comes of this.
I once read about this and thought it was the neatest thing… but then I never blogged about it and lost the link. It’s one of those things.. you read it, you think it’s neat and then a year later when you need it you end up thinking “what the heck was that site I read about?”. Anyway, the deal is they make you a logo for like $25, and they do a good job too. Read this review and see what I mean.
The NY Times ran an article on corporate blogs, mentioning Vespaway.com but not me by name. A while back I mentioned that they had interviewed me and they even sent a photographer out to me to snap some pics. But I never heard back and never saw the article. The byline on this article is different than the person who interviewed me. So who knows? Anyway, it has caused a nice spike in Vespaway.com visitors, which in turn has caused a few more to wander over to here.
Come one, come all! To the New York Scooter Club kickoff party! I have been working behind the scenes with a number of great folks in the NYC scooter community to help put together a fantastic club. NYScooterClub is OPEN To ALL who wish to join and be a part of our events. Plus we have a super cool logo which will make you want to buy our swag! Did I mention the free food? It’s at 7pm, at the Brass Monkey.
Easy rider, he’s not. “I’m probably more of a rebel without a clue,” Micky Shearon said. Hardly that, either. Shearon is laughing all the way to the bank on his fuel-efficient Yamaha scooter, his pockets bulging with silver from savings at Granbury gas pumps.
Shearon said goodbye to his Ford Ranger in September and hello to two-wheeled, open-air transportation. He has no regrets. So far, the sand and gravel trucks have cut him a wide berth.
“This is a beautiful time of the year to be out riding,” Shearon said. “It kind of gets in your blood. I can understand how some people would take to riding motorcycles.”
Q. After I moved from an apartment in a two-flat on the North Side, the owners returned less than half of my security deposit. They said they needed to make repairs of damages, but they did not give me any receipts.
So I sent a certified letter requested the remainder of the security deposit. Their attorney contacted me stating that it is an “owner-occupied building with less than six units,” so security deposit rules cannot apply. What does that mean?
They did not actually reside in the building while I was living there. But they did store their motor scooter in the garage.
What are my rights?
A. An owner is a person who has legal title to the property. An owner-occupant is one who occupies a unit on the property. Under the Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance, courts usually interpret “owner-occupancy” to exist when the owner occupies a “dwelling unit.”
“Dwelling unit” means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a residence.
Since the definition of owner-occupied is tied to residence, a garage is not a home. The motor scooter is not a “tenant.”
It is also reasonable to assume that only for those times when the tenant’s and the owner’s occupancies overlapped would the units be exempt from the law.
You categorically claim that the owners never resided in the premises while you lived there. If that assertion is proved in court, the couple cannot meet the test as occupants.
If there are only two units and for trial you could produce the other tenant and your owner’s true address, the owners would be confounded by your proofs.
By qualifying them as covered under the CRLTO, you could be in line for the statutory penalties equal to double the security deposit, plus lawyers’ fees, provided a judge was so inclined.
CHICAGO, Oct. 18 (UPI) — For some reason, Chicago police are ignoring the “Do not ticket me” sign Lauren Addy has been putting on her Vespa when she parks it in a bike rack downtown.
City officials told the Chicago Sun-Times that Addy, a student at the Illinois Institute of Art, is wrong in assuming the courts will dismiss the tickets because it is illegal to park any vehicle on a sidewalk — with the exception of motorized wheelchairs or devices “moved solely by human power, devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks and snow mobiles.”
Addy gotten five tickets so far and plans to contest every one of them.
She told the newspaper police told her she can use the bike racks as long as her scooter has an engine smaller than 50 cubic centimeters. The Vespa comes in at 49.7 cubic centimeters.
Parking the motorscooter was never a problem in the crowded Lincoln Park and Gold Coast neighborhoods, she said.
At least one officer is on Addy’s side.
“It’s kind of like jaywalking. It’s against the law, but most officers won’t ticket you for it,” Sgt. Mike McCaster said.
yes, I waited on some LOOONG lines, 2 hours, but I got my free Tivo. The downside? I dropped my digital camera and broke it. How peeved am I?
Anyway, I got the box, strapped the huge thing to the back of my Vesoa (woulda made for a nice pic) and drove it home in torrential downpours.
Once I did get it home, I eagerly set it up, popped the phone line on and… dialing… connecting…. disconnected….
dialing… connecting…. disconnected….
dialing… connecting…. disconnected….
this went on for a while… until I realized… its the Vonage line!!! The whole analog to digital back to analog thing meant the box could net get it’s initial update (which would allow me to connect a broadband connection).
I called Tivo… they said “yeah.. that doesn’t work with Vonage, go to your neighbors house and borrow their phone line.”
So off I went, to my cousin’s, got the update and came home. Since then, works like a charm. I also set up the Tivo to go, but have not yet tried to burn a show to DVD.
