Six O’Clock Vintage

Seek those images that constitute the wild, the lion and the virgin, the harlot and the child. Find in middle air an eagle on the wing, recognize the five that make the Muses sing. | W.B Yeats, Those Images

Unequivocally, Books

I’ve been busy with a few projects lately. One of them is currently a secret, though you will hear about it soon. But I can tell you about the other project:I found an open-source library management program (OSX only, sorry to (and for) you lonely and forlorn PC ...

Bombastic Textuality

I’ve been mulling over a theory today. It is about writers, writers and their near universal priggishness. This literary priggery quite often may translate into bombastic textual arrogance. Naturally this bombastacism is subtle—if it were outright it wouldn’t be priggish; and that, when it comes down to ...

Ecstasy

"The reporters who don't use tape are always the ones who get the story right in the end," he says with a twinkle in his eye. His 1971 film Land of Silence and Darkness, about a community of blind and deaf people, includes fabricated interviews, while Lessons of Darkness opens ...

August 13th 2008
Tags: Asides

“You’re a Phony, a Big Fat Phony! Hey Everybody, He’s a Phony!”

I know that China is the home of iPhone rip-offs and lead-filled Colgate, but it appears that their duplicity and fakery  don't end with electronics and domestic household products. China admitted faking the opening fireworks of the Olympic Opening Ceremony as well as faking the voice of the cute little singer ...
August 6th 2008
Tags: Asides

Mountain Lion Drags Dog out of Owner’s Bedroom

Crazy story, this is a small front range town just southwest of the Denver area.  I go mountain biking in this area all the time. A mountain lion slunk into the master bedroom of an Idledale home early Monday, snatched a yellow Labrador retriever and vanished. Officers are hunting the mountain lion ...
July 14th 2008
Tags: Tech

iPhone Apps

I spent the weekend at a cabin in the mountains and so didn't get a chance to download the the latest iPhone software update until late Sunday evening.  After a frustrating flurrey of "restore, verify, restore" proceedings I finally was forced to delete by back up and do a full ...
July 3rd 2008
Tags: Asides

The Fattest States in America

Another reason to move to Colorado, the home of lean, well-muscled and tan super people :)
June 30th 2008
Tags: Adventure, Stories

Flat Tires

I keep getting flat tires during my rides. In less than a month I've gotten two flats in remote sections of each ride's respective trail.  The first flat was on Three Sisters trail in Evergreen.  I somehow managed to rip a huge gash in my tube and found myself pedaling on ...