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  1. Stock U-Lock Mounts Can Ride Side Saddle

    Frame real estate is very limited. On the surface, it may look like your options for mounting your u-lock with the bracket it came with are too. Here’s a pro-tip for mounting your u-lock you may have missed.

  2. Upcoming Gigs

    1. w/ Pleasant Valley Boys at Berryessa Brewing Co. - Winters, CA More info

    2. Private Event

      w/ Bottom Dwellers at an undisclosed location - Woodland, CA More info
    3. w/ Bottom Dwellers at Father Paddy’s - Woodland, CA More info

    4. Davis Farmers’ Market

      w/ Pleasant Valley Boys at Davis Central Park - Davis, CA More info
    5. w/ Bottom Dwellers at Father Paddy’s - Woodland, CA More info

    6. Yolo Arts 10th Annual Farm Gala

      w/ Bottom Dwellers at Hotel Woodland - Woodland, CA More info
    7. w/ Bottom Dwellers at Sutter Creek Provisions - Sutter Creek, CA More info

  3. Ultimate Money-Saving Device

    Richard Reis pens a great piece on bike commuting from the perspective of a non-cyclist. And it’s a nice follow-up to last week’s piece about where you should live.

    As someone who lives 1.2 miles from work (which also happens to be a grocery store), I can vouch that everything he says in these two posts is true. I will never live any other way.

  4. Red Light Runner Pro-Tip

    Arial photo of two intersections prone to red light runners in Woodland, CA

    Minutes ago, I nearly bought the farm from a red light runner. I see them frequently, and always keep my eyes open. What didn’t “click” for me until today was that when one vehicle runs a light, the chances of a second coming from the same direction are very high.

  5. Loudness Is Not A Factor For Misophonia Trigger Sounds

    Selective Sounds Sensitivity Syndrome awareness bracelet

    The Newcastle Paper is really riding the news cycle. Pretty much every post to /r/misophonia this past week has been an article about the study. That is awesome! However, I feel I need to point out a common misconception I see repeated in many of these articles—especially by those who suffer from Misophonia: that loudness is a factor for trigger sounds. It is not, and I think saying otherwise can cause avoidable hardships down the line.

  6. The Brain Basis for Misophonia

    Progress!

    […] fMRI showed that in misophonic subjects, trigger sounds elicit greatly exaggerated blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) responses in the anterior insular cortex (AIC), a core hub of the “salience network” that is critical for perception of interoceptive signals and emotion processing. Trigger sounds in misophonics were associated with abnormal functional connectivity between AIC and a network of regions responsible for the processing and regulation of emotions, including ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), posteromedial cortex (PMC), hippocampus, and amygdala.

    This is pretty big news for people like me. And so easily acquired.

    Via James Gallagher at BBC News.