Here's the paradox of my girlfriend, Pam.

She trains 20 hours a week for an Iron Man. This is a crazy triathlon, where you finish with a marathon, after a 2.5 mile swim and a 112 mile bike. (Don't knock on that 12 miles at the end of the bike ride: I had a highschool cross country coach do an Iron Man, and he said that you don't think much of ( Read more... )

I just spent a few days in Colorado National Monument, camping with my dad. Originally, this was going to be a trip to Halls Crossing in UT, but no one else was interested, and that trip seemed a bit ambitious for the two of us. So, we just explored Rattlesnake Arches, which is in BLM land just west of the monument. We also spent some time in ( Read more... )

I was walking in the hallway of my condo today, and this fellow, with earphones in, comes riding down the hallway on his longboard. Wearing his CU shirt ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Truck, A Love Story, for my bookclub. It's a great book, mixing gardening, small town life, a realistic romance between 40 year olds and the rebuilding of a 1951 International Harvester truck. Anyway, there were a couple of quotes I wanted to share.

All things are relative to a point, and then they are a concrete block to ( Read more... )

Maybe it's just my particular frame of mind, but I found this to be hilarious:

http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Disco_Elevator

Who would take the stairs?

As I grow older, my focus seems to be more and more local. I have done my share of international travel, and still think there's no better way to expand my understanding of the world. But lately, my trips have been more around the West, or to attend friends' weddings.

An essay I read by Brian Eno brought the idea of a "Big Here and Long Now" ( Read more... )

9 words that don't mean what you think. Via Mike

Also comes with "a helpful guide as to just how big of a dick you'd have to be to correct people on it. We have also included many pictures of these words being read by women with large boobs." Classy. I enjoyed it.

Oh yeah, the wonders of the series of tubes.

I went to the roller derby last night. (http://denverrollerdolls.org/index.php). So much fun!

I have recently been a bit obsessed with food. Not so much the eating of it, but the procuring. I guess it started when I went to a talk sponsored by Boulder Valley Relocalization about peak food, which highlighted the fact that the agricultural sector uses an awful lot of fossil fuels. The obsession hasn't been helped by the 'Encyclopedia of ( Read more... )

End up owning you."--Tyler Durden in Fight Club.

Here's a great explication of this fundamental truth.
Companies that sell stuff have spent huge sums training us to think stuff is still valuable. But it would be closer to the truth to treat stuff as worthless ( Read more... )