Tag: AIDS LifeCycle

  • Once again asking for your support

    Once again asking for your support

    In 2023, I rode my bike from here to LA, 545 miles, with a couple thousand other people, to raise money to fight HIV/AIDS. It was an amazing, wonderful, exhausting, life changing experience. One I would highly recommend to anyone crazy enough to ride their bike nearly 100 miles every day for seven days. As…

  • books, bikes, and hackers

    books, bikes, and hackers

    Less than forty-eight hours before I left home to ride my bike across California, I discovered that this site had been hacked. It’s not the first time I’ve encountered this problem — though it’s been a long, long time. Long enough that I didn’t really feel like dealing with the laborious task of reviewing all…

  • ALC Update

    ALC Update

    As y’all know, I’m participating in this year’s AIDS/LifeCycle event, raising money to end AIDS, and riding my bike from here to Los Angeles. The ride’s taking place the first week of June. I was required to raise $3500 (did that several months ago); but I set a personal goal of raising $5000 (passed that…

  • ALC23 Update

    As readers know, in 2023 I’m participating in the AIDS/LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles this June. Seven days, 545 miles to raise money to help end HIV/AIDS and support folks living with it and vital public health services provided by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the LA LGBT Center. In order…

  • A giving Tuesday post

    A giving Tuesday post

    The Tuesday after (the U.S.’s) Thanksgiving is popularly known as “giving Tuesday” (#givingTuesday) a day to support causes and non-profits and all the good stuff in the world rather than giving more money to the billionaire narcissists who keep trying to ruin it. So this is just a quick post to remind folks that in…

  • the ride

    the ride

    I have officially signed up to participate in the AIDS LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles in June 2023. Participating requires me to raise at least $3500. And one of these things they tell you to do is to let people know why you’re riding, what the ride and the cause means to you.…