Stories by Daniel Gayle for the Spokesman-Review

Sports > Outdoors

Basic bike tune-up brings clunker to life

Fri., April 28, 2017

I’m glad there are no potholes in Spokane, because springtime is here again and it’s time to break out my bike and go for a ride. I have a cool old white Schwinn with chrome forks sitting in my storage unit, It looks like something a stormtrooper would ride, were the Emperor inclined to make 1980s road bikes standard issue equipment.

News > Spokane

Jehovah’s Witnesses to gather in Spokane for first time in 20 years

Thu., June 30, 2016

With a big Jehovah’s Witness convention coming to town, a Spokesman-Review online developer talks about his faith.

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Alien vs. Lincoln

Thu., Nov. 5, 2015

Alien vs. Lincoln

News > Spokane

Riding a bike to work pt. 5 - The question

Fri., June 19, 2015

You see that flannel-wearing fat guy on a bike trying to get to work on time, just the same as every commuter on the road in the morning? That's me. The only difference between me and most of the other daily commuters is that every...

News > Spokane

Bike to Work Week: Monday

Mon., May 18, 2015

It's bike to work week, so I rode in on my steed this morning.

News > Spokane

Why cars are more popular than bicycles

Fri., May 15, 2015

The mystery is solved.

News > Spokane

Riding a bike to work pt. 3 - The lateness

Fri., May 8, 2015

I didn't commute by bike today because I found the fatal flaw in bicycle commuting that is most likely the real root cause of why people drive everywhere.

News > Spokane

Riding a bike to work pt. 2 - The crampening

Fri., May 1, 2015

I dove in head first and rode almost 10 miles on my first day, the first time I had ever ridden a skinny road bike and the first day in approximately 17 years I had ever ridden a bike at all. Today, I tried it again.

News > Spokane

Riding a bike to work pt. 1 - The fatness

Fri., April 24, 2015

Last weekend I bought a bike. I didn't intend on buying this particular bike, it was just sitting in the rack at Goodwill, but it was only $29 and I'm a sucker for a good thrift store deal. Here is my tale.

News > Features

Batman: The Ride makes me wish I was 13 again.

Mon., March 16, 2015

New Batman ride at Six Flags promises puke, puke and more puke. Did I mention you'll probably puke if you ride the new Batman roller coaster. Yeah, you'll puke.

News > Features

We’re extending the commenting period for stories and blogs

Tue., March 3, 2015

Just as an experiment, the Spokesman-Review is extending the commenting period for stories and blogposts from our current two day window to three days. The reason for this change is because we wanted to give people a longer opportunity to comment on our blogposts, which...

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How to simulate poor Comcast connections with Comcast

Thu., Jan. 29, 2015

Comcast, the application, is a Go app for simulating internet conditions experienced by users of Comcast, the cable company.

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File your Playstation settlement, get your account closed or 2 cheap games!

Tue., Jan. 27, 2015

If you had a Playstation account prior to May 15, 2011, you're eligible to participate in their class action settlement for the April 2011 data breach (aka, the first time the Sony was hacked.) Fill out yer form!

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Day 2: Does hippie crystal deodorant work?

Fri., Jan. 16, 2015

So, day one of my hippie crystal deodorant test went well. I asked my girlfriend to smell me, but the results were inconclusive*: I'm not going to sniff you, this is awkward –Kelsey Regardless of the empirical evidence, the anecdotal evidence from my own smell-o-meter...

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8-Bit Guardians of the Galaxy

Thu., Jan. 15, 2015

8-Bit Guardians of the Galaxy

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Day 1: Does hippie crystal deodorant work?

Thu., Jan. 15, 2015

Wherein I put to the test a hippie crystal in a plastic bottle's ability to curb foul underarm odor. Godspeed me.

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Google stops shipping security fixes for Android < 4.3

Mon., Jan. 12, 2015

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has stopped shipping security fixes for Android devices that operate on Android versions 4.3 and earlier. Dubbed Jelly Bean, version 4.3 was released on July, 2013, updating phones that had originally shipped with 4.1 and 4.2. Devices...

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Selfies are so 2014. Belfies are the new hottness.

Wed., Jan. 7, 2015

You don't need to take selfies. You need to take belfies.

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Spokesman.com blog redesign goes live!

Wed., Dec. 31, 2014

The Spokesman-Review blogs have been redesigned from scratch to make it easier than ever to read all of the great blog content that our newsroom has been writing over the years.

News > Features