After several years of braving wooded trails and busy city streets, I’ve put my mountain bike into semi-retirement. I’ll still take her out for rugged riding, but as of a few months ago, I have a new two-wheeled mainstay — my Giant Tran Send.
Giant Tran Send? Isn’t that what Matthew was glowing about in a previous blog post? Yes. Same bike. We both have a sleek, urban-utility commuter bike with fenders and a rack on back, except mine is gray and Matt’s is blue. “Hello, inner 8-year-old” is right. It glides on the paved trails of Indianapolis and helps make my 13-mile roundtrip to work a breeze. Continue reading ‘Hey! That’s my bike!’
Mandy Miller is senior online editor for Angie's List publication department. When she's not focusing on the
magazine's website and other online offerings, she's tackling a mounting list of home improvements she thinks she can do herself. Plus, she really likes to ride her bike, play with her puppy, Boo Radley, and take naps.
So I’ve been in my new place a month now, just a couple of blocks away from the Blue House. In keeping with such descriptive names as the Yellow House and, of course, the Blue House, my home is known as the Pink House, despite my best efforts to get such terms as Poguetopia or Pogue’s Secret Villain Headquarters into the regular discourse.
The nearness to work is by far the coolest thing about Pogue HQthe Pink House. The sheer change in gasoline costs alone, from my previous 25-mile-each-way drive, makes a significant difference. And with the current pump crunch and gas prices sailing past $4 in some places, every gallon counts. Continue reading ‘Fuel economy’
Paul is senior staff writer at
Angie's List magazine.
His favorite album is Blondie's "Parallel Lines," he's more obsessed with
Doctor Who than any American has a right to be, and his desk at Angie's List is guarded by (toy) robots.
I was thinking about writing something else today, but my free time over the past week has been consumed by yard work, and with the spring weather, I’m sure it’s been the same with many Angie’s List members and contractors, hence this post about yard work (containing a rather long intro sentence.)
Like Kristy, Staci, Jackie, and “Flipper,” I’ve been having issues with my lawn lately. When my wife and I moved into our house about a year and a half ago, we had a blank canvas to work with: the front yard had some taller-than-me fire bushes concealing half of our house, there was a small rosebush on the side of the porch, and the backyard had a mass of flowering vines climbing along one side of the fence, but that was about it. There was some grass in the backyard, too, but overall our landscape wasn’t much to look at. We’re hoping to change that, one small step at a time. Continue reading ‘Grass, grass, please go away, I don’t want to mow you another day’
Tristan Schmid is host and producer of
List-en up!, the Angie's List podcast. When he's not sitting in front of a computer, working on websites, audio or video production, he stays occupied by taking his dogs for walks, helping
homeless animals find families, and skiing.
“Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520 – 570. In the subtractive color system, it’s not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue or yellow and cyan.”
— Wikipedia
With all this buzz surrounding sustainable living and eco-friendly practices, I bet some of you had forgotten: green is actually a color. NBC devoted a whole week to going green, Al Gore mysteriously pops up in front of every camera on Earth and Angie’s List magazine just printed our “Green Issue,” exploring everything from LEED-certified houses to green products for the home.
It seems everywhere you turn, green’s a buzz word that’s being used. And there’s a reason. While many promote green as a way to save the environment, it seems the true catalyst in this current movement is economics. People are moving towards sustainable living to save the most important green element: cash. Continue reading ‘Green is a color?’
Conor is an associate editor for
Angie's List magazine. He has a cat named Kanye and a puppy named Sherman, his favorite movie is
Back to the Future, he loves playing basketball and his favorite place is his couch.
