July 2010
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Bike Crash Aftermath
So yesterday I saw my bike and helmet for the first time after the crash. A big chunk of metal ground off the left pedal. Serious scrapes on the ends of the brake levers and on top of the brake lever assemblies. Seat’s out of alignment. So, looks like a fall to the left side, possibly with the bike going upside down (explains the brake lever scratches on top of both right and left brake...
An Open Letter to District 2 Police Commander...
An Open Letter to District 2 Police Commander Rhonda Jones
(Police Bullies Violating New Consent to Search Law)
July 29, 2010
Commander Jones:
At approximately 8:00pm this evening, shortly after a neighborhood meeting where Denver Police Department (DPD) officials talked about being responsive to community concerns, I noticed several police cars cruising up and down Downing Street...
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Ow ow ow ow ow
So somewhere along my bike commute back home Tuesday evening, I must’ve had a pretty serious bike crash. I barely remember the start of the ride, and the next thing I remember is it’s about four hours later and I’m in the hospital with Rocky and my folks and they’re cleaning my scraped-up elbow. Here’s what we’ve reconstructed:
Somewhere along the ride home I...
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Cooking
This is what Rocky and I made this weekend, in a crazy couple bouts of cooking:
Italian Sausage with Tomatoes and White beans
White Bean Chili
Molasses and Ginger Baked Beans
Grilled Chicken with Salad on Baked Tostadas
Peach-Maple Ice Cream on Corn/Blackberry Johnnycakes
The last one is SO AWESOME!
On deck:
Mango Salad
Watermelon-Cucumber Salad with Hoisin Sauce Dressing
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Traveler Thoughts
I’ve spent many years traveling—backpacking, hitchhiking, motorcycle travel…through Europe, Mexico and Central America, Europe again, the Near East, and parts of North Africa. Two trips were one year each; one trip was five years long.
There’s a subset of travelers like I was: long-term, long-distance, ultra-frugal, and very self-reliant. Lots of Australians (reasoning...
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More Garden Thoughts
Have to decide if we want to plant some things next year. Radishes, for example, are cool because they grow fast, but for $.50 at the supermarket, you can get a bunch of radishes that equals your radish harvest. Carrots didn’t even grow this year. Beets came out really tiny. (Is there something we need to be doing to get these root veggies to grow big in their roots rather than just huge...
Pet Peeve
In what must be the most trifling pet peeve of any time, I hate it when people write “from whence…” Whence means “from where.”
Use it to sound pretentious, end up sounding like a dumbass.
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Today I learned it's probably not good to yell...
(via aerissa)
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Trivia
In the paper this weekend, the answer to a question I’d always wondered myself:
Why are horses always mounted from the left?
The tradition comes from horses being ridden to war. Most people are right-handed, and they carried their saber on the left. You mounted from the left so that your sword would not get in the way.
Enlightened.
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Buntport Theater
Buntport is my favorite local theater company. Yesterday we went to see their “Debate Tuesdays,” in which they have two debate teams of four people each, debating a topic. Yesterday’s was: “Boston (the band or the city) versus Chicago (the band or the city).” It was hilarious! I was in the Boston camp, but it ended up losing to Chicago.
Next debate (I’ll have...
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Thoughts on Improving the Garden
Next garden bed I put in, I will line the edges with black plastic or something, to keep the weeds along the outside from growing up inside the garden.
Also, I’m going to look into hose splicing kits. Right now I have a soaker hose hooked up to the faucet, running over to the herb garden, winding its way through that, then looping over the edges before winding its way through the veggie...
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Travel Story: Morocco
Morocco is a cool place for shoppers. The handicrafts are varied and interesting and beautiful (though there’s also a lot of tourist dreck, and a lot of the same stuff). The town of Essaouria is famous for its workshops in thuya (juniper) wood, which has an incredible perfume, and as you walk down the streets of craftsmen and shops, the smell is wonderful! I bought a lot of juniper-wood stuff, a...
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“Quaffing is like drinking, but you spill more.”
– Terry Pratchett
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“You just peeled an apple, getting one length of peel, and threw the peel behind...”
– Terry Pratchett
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“Things just happen. What the hell.”
– the philosopher Didactylos in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
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Restaurant
To thank me for helping with her thesis, Rocky took me out to eat last night, any place I chose. I picked a place called Karma, 22 S. Broadway. It was reviewed in the paper ages ago, and I’d kept the review in case we ever got a chance to go. We ordered pretty much what the reviewer had liked, and it was fantastic! We both had Thai iced teas, and Pineapple-Cheese Wontons, and Chicken...
Celebration!
Rocky turned in her thesis for binding yesterday. That means that she’s done! DONE! She’s got her Masters degree. How flippin’ cool is that? I am so incredibly proud.
Also, now that that’s finished, we can concentrate on other stuff, like working on the house, the yard, going to the mountains, relaxing, watching movies, etc.
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The Talking Heads’ And She Was, rendered...
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Thoughts
If I were ever homeless, I would use some panhandled money and buy nails and rope. Then I’d get a bunch of waste wood and milk jugs and build myself a raft. I’d set up a tent on the raft and anchor it out in a river somewhere. No one would bother you! Bonus points if you could find a river that’s the border between two cities…if one city’s cops came to bother you,...
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“Wearing flip flops is like making a bet with the universe that today is not the...”
– Modern Savage
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Old Spice
Okay, this is total awesomeness.
1. Old Spice Guy (Isaiah Mustafa) does awesome commercial
2. He does second awesome commercial
3. Susannah Breslin writes about second commercial (summary: OM NOM NOM)
4. Old Spice Guy writes, in the comments section of Ms. Breslin’ article, a thank you, including a short video to Susannah (her name, and in the video, quotes her words from the...
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