piran café

Is there a better way to restart the LJ Pic of the Day project –as well as re-open the café– than with this, a promise that unparalleled pleasures of the mind, body, spirit and soul lie in wait just around the corner? I think not.

This was taken yesterday, near an entrance to Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana’s (and Slovenia’s) premiere cultural center [home][eng].

About a year ago, LJ Pic of the Day reached a record 38 straight daily posts. With the typically busy summer now fading to memory, surpassing that with this daily chore is the immediate goal.

For the LJ Pic of the Day Archive, go here. If you feel a Ljubljana image overdose is in order, go here.

Ljubljana 0163, originally uploaded by pirano.

I see quite a few offerings like this for municipally-run bicycle rentals. Pick up the bike at a typical station, like this one in Oslo, and drop it off at another. Any idea that really needs to spread. Everywhere.

Rates in the Norwegian capital – NOK 80 (EUR 8.85/USD 12.37) per day, with a three hour limit per bike. For Oslo residents, same rate for a full year.

More Oslo info here. For elsewhere, try here.

This massive hunk of steel, LJ 14-4DB, parked on Kongresni Trg on Saturday 26-April, nearly forced me into a head-on collision. When I was done cursing in about a dozen different languages, I noticed the ticket on his windshield.

We’ll call this progress, and a minor victory.

More about Self-Absorbed Bike Lane-parking Morons here, and don’t forget to check out the eponymous flickr group here.

Self-absorbed bike lane-parking moron 000000022, originally uploaded by pirano.

On Miklosiceva, at about 22:05 on 09-Apr-2009.

This is LJ U7-25P.

More details about this project here, and check out the eponymous flickr group here.

Please, do join us!

self-absorbed bike lane-parking moron 000000021, originally uploaded by pirano.

This is GO A8-523, who was obviously in cahoots with fellow Self-Absorbed Bike Lane-parking Moron LJ 91-66F.

On Trzaska Cesta at about 20:15 in Ljubljana, 06-Apr-2009.

More details about this project here, and check out the eponymous flickr group here.

Please, do join us, won’t you?

self-absorbed bike lane-parking moron 000000019, originally uploaded by pirano.

In a few select areas, Ljubljana’s bike lanes are quite wide. Wide enough for LJ 91-66F, and other Self-Absorbed Bike Lane-parking Morons like him, to park in quite comfortably.

On Trzaska Cesta at about 20:15 in Ljubljana, 06-Apr-2009.

More details about this project here, and check out the eponymous flickr group here.

Join us, won’t you?

self-absorbed bike lane-parking moron 000000018, originally uploaded by pirano.

The guy wouldn’t smile for the camera. Again on Miklosiceva, 2:16pm Friday 27-March.

These are LJ 51-8LK and LJ 28-3FL.

More details about this project here, and check out the eponymous flickr group here.

Join us, won’t you?

self-absorbed bike lane-parking moron 000000017, originally uploaded by pirano.

The best part about this chore is that I don’t really have to go far from home to catch these folks on film.

This is KP J3-183, apparently on a burek break, on Miklosiceva at 8:14pm on 26-Mar.

More details about this project here, and check out the eponymous flickr group here.

Join us! The more is indeed the merrier!

self-absorbed bike lane-parking moron 000000016, originally uploaded by pirano.

Little need for sanctimonious excuses for not having posted here in months when I can return with something useful.

Spring has sprung, and with it an aggressive hunt for these SABLPMs. This one, LJ 64 V9D, spotted this afternoon at 5:46 on Miklosiceva, hit close to home because it is close to home.

More details about this project here, and check out the eponymous flickr group here.

Join us!

self-absorbed bike lane-parking moron 000000015, originally uploaded by pirano.

Another quick update: The fledgling flickr group, Self-Absorbed Bike Lane-Parking Morons, is up to 39 members, so the good news continues to spread.

Here’s a couple photos passed along by pengovsky of Sleeping with Pengovsky fame, both taken on or about the 9th of July. The first is on Glonarjeva Cesta in Moste (Ljubljana) and the second on Subiceva, across the street from parliament. That one — LJ 54-8CR– couldn’t belong to an MP or member of his/her staff, could it?

Thanks Pengo!

Look! This car’s even affiliated with a website, www.martinkrpan.si !

For the flickr group I recently started, Self-Absorbed Bike Lane-Parking Morons, now with 20 photos from 29 members.

Join us!

Quick update: our fledgling international group is growing by leaps and bounds, with 17 photos from 25 members from about a half dozen countries. Well, everything evolves from modest beginnings. And we even got some press last week in the Slovenian daily, Dnevnik. 

Anyway, busy day today dodging self-absorbed bike lane-parking morons. Here’s one below, and another, and another, yet another, another, and even a visitor from Poland!

Do you know any of these people? If so, drop ‘em a line to say ‘Hi’!

self-absorbed-bike-lane-parking-moron-000000008, originally uploaded by pirano.

For those of you whose bicycle is a primary mode of transport, you know what I’m talking about. They bring to life one of the opening lines –or perhaps the opening line?– from Stephen King’s “The Shining”: Officious little pricks.

A few weeks ago while riding my bike on the clearly marked bike paths along Ljubljana’s congested streets, I came up with an idea on how to deal with these self-absorbed bike lane-parking morons, and it finally sprung to life this evening in the form of a flickr group whose sole purpose is to cast more attention on these attention-seeking self-absorbed bike lane-parking morons. I decided to call it Self-Absorbed Bike Lane-Parking Morons.

The idea is a simple one. Snap a pic of the offending self-absorbed bike lane-parking moron(s) with the license plate clearly identifiable –like this one, LJ D0-13A– note the time and location, post it to the group, and while you’re at it, send an email to your local police precinct.

Join us! And spread the word!

When my first real bike was stolen when I was eight years old, I lost my innocence. When my bike was stolen last night, I lost my only mode of transportation. And so it goes.