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September was another big month for my life, mostly for me offline. Another good month for bicycle riding, seeing more of the trails on Randalls and Wards Islands.The New York area has taught me a few things about islands and one of them is that they're very fungible. On a map, Randalls and Wards Islands look one one island because they're "conjoined". They were conjoined on purpose: they used to be two, with a bridge and everything. But then in 1955 the government announced they wanted to join up the islands "by allowing private contractors to dump debris within Little Hell Gate for free" (!)Photo from From City of New York Department of Parks: 28 Years of Progress, scanned by Erica Fischer (!) CC BY SA 2.0The opposite happened with Fire Island: it was one island for a while until 2012, and Hurricane Sandy broke it back into two.Photo from USGS, PDDump trash to combine islands, dump water from the sky to divide them. That's just how life is.ListeningI watched Magnolia this month and…