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Musings about life on two wheels
4 Corners 2025 pt 2
TL;Dr: More old buildings, Day 4: To Bluff! Bluff is a little hippy community about 30 min south of Blanding. It’s… Less Bland. Good coffee & espresso, nice art & rugs, a felting workshop, and another Petroglyph wall. This one had quite a bit of graffiti on it hard to know what you were looking…
4 Corners 2025
TL;Dr: SW Utah is awesome, as always. Petroglyphs & Pictographs. Puebloan architecture. Amazing geography and great friends. Just wanna see the pics? Here you go. We have a group of friends to go places – Hawaii, New Orleans, now the 4 Corners area of the Colorado Plateau – Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. One…
Veritasium Appreciation
Tl;Dr: Veritasium on YouTube is really good, e.g. Nobel, 6 degrees and genetic engineering are awesome & apropos Veritasium is a YouTube channel focusing on science and math, and it does an amazing job. Both in making things comprehensible and relevant. Some recent examples: The story of Alfred Nobel – he invented high explosives, then…
Book report: Desert Solitaire
TL;Dr: Desert Solitaire is not what I expected – I really like it. I was expecting a cranky old man. And there is some of that. But there’s a lot more thoughtful, beautiful writing than I was expecting. The section on Uranium mining was interesting, then riveting. The descriptions of cow herding seemed very realistic.
Book report: Altered Carbon
TL;Dr: a pretty good murder mystery with too much pew-pew and humpin I’ve been on a cyber-punk kick lately. Altered Carbon is apparently in the canon, and I liked the show so I gave it a shot. I’m a sucker for cyberpunk concepts, this book has a few that it explores well: what would happen…
The Children’s Bible – Lydia Millet
TL;Dr: A casual stroll through climate apocalypse or maybe religious allegory? I liked it. It’s written from a young adult perspective, mostly. A young person who’s parents fail them in the face of disasters – some climate related, others less concrete. The tone is very much that of a diary of a 20 year old.…
Book Report: Delta_V & Critical Mass
TL;Dr: Delta-V and Critical Mass were fun in a rather clinical way. Nice work Daniel Suarez I’ve been on a cyber-punk/sci-fi kick recently. Wanting to have some of those Snow Crash/Necromancer vibes. Surely there is a broader genre? Daniel Suarez’s books Delta-V and Critical Mass come up on a fair short list of options. These…
Backpacking in the Sierras
Tl;Dr: Wonderful friends and I made it to Roads End for a 3 day trip to Paradise Valley in King’s Canyon My friends recommended I read the High Sierras a Love story by Kim Stanley Robsinson a few months ago. I did, it’s fantastic. And it really made me want to go and experience the…
BerkClerb in Minnesota
Tl;Dr – traveling to and with friends is lovely A few folks from my book club went to visit a member who’d moved to the Twin Cities. High: Low: Buffalo: But mostly it was just fun to hang out with my friends and slowly amble from experience to experience. And we experienced a lot! State…
J goes to Greely
Tl;Dr: Kid2 now lives in Colorado, we had a great trip to Greely This is a brief brain dump. J, M and I flew to Denver to take J to college. The trip out was uneventful. We had good food in Denver, ‘Chili Verde’ and Sunny’s. We stayed in “LoHi” – the lower highlands of…
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