Archive for June, 2009
One-Revolution
What can a middle-aged paraplegic athlete do that most walking people can’t even dream of, let alone do?
Chris Waddell, shown here with his Lightfoot-built handcycle on Utah slick rock, is planning and training to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain on earth, on this handcycle in August.
Lightfoot Cycles is a local bike manufacturer specializing [...]
Think It’s Bad Now?
Enjoy what could well be our last few months of culturally reinforced American insularity and relative plenitude. But at least put this bit of news in your pipe and smoke it in the meantime. Talk about it with family and friends. Or start digging up your backyard to grow some veggies.
I’m a happy guy despite [...]
Got Backup?
Update: 1:00 p.m. : Hallelujah glory be! It worked! Backups really work. Yay!
This morning, I’m downgrading a Wordpress install from 2.8 back to 2.7.1 because the automatic upgrade failed. This week I’ve successfully upgraded 8 sites this way, but one client site decided to barf (no pages, nada!) this morning. So here I sit, patiently [...]
This Is My Country Too
Everything Americans think they know, they learned from a televised morality play. It’s all theater. You root for some good guy and boo some bad guy. You pick your own, but you dance to the tune of the men running the show. It’s mind control, pure and simple, and if there is an American immune [...]
120 Minutes
Ready to live more in the next couple of hours than the rest of your life to date? Just tell yourself you have only 120 minutes to live. (Whisper it to yourself a few times, it helps to get this profundity front and center in your mind.)
Of course time will pass the same no [...]
