mom
Hope you are skiing today!
#4502 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:45:28 -0600
mom
Looks like it is cold enough today for that new winter jacket.
#4501 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:29:59 -0600
mom
Happy Thanksgiving!! Hope you accepted an invitation to a Thanksgiving feast or are having a good run, awesome bike ride or great snow skiing - all things to be thankful for ...
#4500 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:46:25 -0600
mom
What have you found lately?
#4499 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:56:45 -0600
mom
Looks like you got your wish - the snowing has commenced!
#4498 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:15:03 -0500
ben
Meh. I just got a letter that the University's president has authorized release time if I wanted to. But I'm more interested in "An Evening with Ira Glass" that's coming up mid-November.
I don't know who manages WPR's website, but holy cow. Spaces in the URLs. Pdfs you have to download for what should be just HTML pages. Besides the fact that the site is ugly and littered with broken links and orphan pages. jeez. Honestly, I'd be ashamed if that was my project.
#4497 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:28:13 -0500
mom
Will you be going to hear Gorbachev?
#4496 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:21:23 -0500
ben
Two items.
- I found my little GPS tracker that I thought I had lost earlier this summer
- I ran the Silent Trails Memorial race this morning.
Which means you can (imagine booming voice and wavy arm movements here) check out my lap in 3D.
Fortunately, it doesn't directly show you how terribly slow I ran. This may seem almost oxymoronic when you're talking about running 10 miles, but i'm a really lazy runner. Also it was snowing the whole time. Unfortunately, it's just as snowy here in town too. I didn't really want to start shoveling this early in the season.
#4495 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:50:40 -0500
mom I also heard that it is snowing in the mountains - doesn't that make it a good day?
#4494 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:18:14 -0500
ben
To make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan
A quote I was going to say was used to great effect by the symphony of science. But man, that video is not as cool as I remember it being.
A very good day in Laramie? I don't know. It's getting cool and ended kind of rainy. It's been nicer...
#4493 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:44:28 -0500
mom
I hear it is a very good day in Laramie!
#4492 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:26:52 -0500
mom
To make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe. Carl Sagan
#4491 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:36:18 -0500
mom
Do you have a new pen and some nifty paper clips?
#4490 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:09:04 -0500
mom the word was cool no coo
On my way this afternoon to get Matthew from the airport. With holiday weekend traffic I hope to make it home by midnoch.
#4489 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:15:27 -0500
mom
The clock is coo, but it's a kit, you have to put it together!
#4488 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:29:52 -0500
ben
I'm really not sure how my mind works sometimes. I spend weeks if not months agonizing over the decision to buy a refurbished Kindle for $100, and then I go and blow almost $300 in a single day on the spur of the moment.
Well, kind of on the spur of the moment. $200 went to a Snowy Range season pass, and then another $90-ish for this wicked cool clock I've been lusting over for a while that just happened to come back in stock today.
I also drove down to Denver to to see MC Frontalot monday night. Well worth the trip. Even with the angry panhandlers. Plus I got his new CD a whole day before it was released. I'm so awesome.
I had a kind of big project go live with the beginning of the semester. Students can now reserve library study rooms online. Before they would have to actually go talk to somebody to reserve a room. Terrible!
#4487 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:52:59 -0500
mom
What does the finishers medal look like for this year's Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half?
#4486 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:02:57 -0500
ben
happy friday. There was something I had to say, but I forgot. So heres a stupid cat instead.
#4485 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:01:47 -0500
mom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur-y7oOto14
OK GO Maybe you have seen this, but I just did and thought it was cool enough to share. Happy Monday.
#4484 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:10:28 -0500
mom
#4483 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:29:59 -0500
mom
I looked at New York Burning and decided to make it my pick for my book club in September. The library here had 4 copies so I ordered a used copy from borders for me. It sounds good and the reviews say it is well written. Have you read anything by this author before?
#4482 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:38:39 -0500
mom
There is a race tomorrow. :)
#4481 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:26:31 -0500
ben
So Captain Picard, what do you think of this?
Well said captain. Well. Said.
I didn't race last week because I wasn't paying enough attention to the dates, and didn't know there was a race last week until I got an email the day after saying the results had been posted. The races are usually two weeks apart, so I didn't expect it.
I finished Inside of a Dog last weekend. I really liked it. Next up: New York Burning. About the Conspiracy of 1741.
#4480 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:48:12 -0500
mom
No mountain bike racing this week? How are the knees? (I looked at the results and didn't see your name.) Have a great 4th weekend!
#4479 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:56:00 -0500
ben
After finishing the disappointing Woken Furies, I've picked up Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz. Amazon Caesar Milan fan's reviews not withstanding, I'm finding it a very interesting, edifying, and quick read. To the point that I've gotten more than halfway through it after just picking it up last friday. Having nothing to do Saturday but sit on my porch and read probably helped.
If you have netflix, and a streaming device of some sort hooked up to your TV, you should really be watching the Beeb's modern take on Sherlock Holms: Masterpiece Mystery!: Sherlock. Of course, I'm the guy who keeps wanting to call the guy who plays Watson, Tim, instead of his real name. So I may not be the brightest bulb in the six-pack.
Also watched Doomsday saturday night. Not really a good movie. It starts out as a kind of Mad Max post apocalypse-y/zombie smash up kind of thing, and then rapidly devolves into a muddle of a king arthur/Bentley commercial mishmash. With a generous helping of WTF moments and ridiculous plot holes and unexplained motivations. Not worth sitting through I'm afraid. Not good, and not quite so terrible you can laugh at it.
#4478 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:18:08 -0500
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