Dinesh Kumar, who emigrated from India four years ago, was on his way from his Sunnyside home to Queens College, about a 45-minute ride, counting the bus from Main Street.
Three rides counts as a busy day, and is as much as he has had on any card in the past fortnight.
Bull riding counts its season as January through November, so now is the time that executives at Professional Bull Riders are lining up sponsorship deals.
Those of us who were there for the ride will count his tenure as the best working years of our lives.
They spend hours designing roller coasters on a computer game, which then rates the excitement factor of each ride and counts how often it crashes.
Actually, I'm not sure riding motorbikes counts as a life skill but you get my drift.
It's also touting a milestone of more than 500 million rides and counting, and expanding its autonomous technology testing program, with a recent permit acquired from the California DMV for testing on state roads.
Then there is the sound: I started counting Ride's effects pedals on Saturday and lost count somewhere around 50, which seem to produce a more powerful, and more psychedelic, sound than in 1990.
Make it count: Ride at whatever cadence (revolutions per minute) feels best to you.
At the end of the ride, one can count on finding a nerdy and fractious team facing a fast-moving technological crisis, a number of computer screens (whose displays will be reproduced typographically, for authenticity), and the need to run around, moving from one purportedly safe place to another over hostile ground.
