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I think of myself most deeply as an explorer and an observer. Some people like to be in the thick of things, the focus of attention, an integral cog. I feel more comfortable, confident and effective on the periphery, able to see all the action without being swept up or swayed by it.
As […]
“She was the cynosure of other people’s designs.”
—Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer
“Acoustic culture: living simply, living well, living harmoniously, living with purpose and living to live!”
– Ed Meers in Bicycle Times letters
Reliability calculation as a metaphor for understanding the bog ideas have to go through in large corporations. My hat off to you Mr Doctorow.
“Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and them the really good things come to a beginning again.”
– ‘Makers’ by Cory Doctorow
2009 has been a year of intense change, learning about myself, my husband, and my family.
* I lost 30 lbs
* Learned to mountain bike
* Learned to snowboard
* Became a certified bike mechanic
* Excelled in several areas in my career
* Got 2 cats
* […]
I’m in Ashland Oregon for the next couple of weeks. I’ll be attending a bike course at United Bicycle Institute.
I left Vancouver around 8:30 this morning, took a short flight to Portland and then another shorter flight to Medford. From the Medford airport I took a shuttle to Ashland.\r\n\r\nI’m staying […]
It’s interesting that we spend so much of our time trying to be like no one else, to be completely unique in some way we define and the rest of the time we spent trying to some glimmer of similarity between ourselves and others, some means to feel connected and like someone else.
I’ve noticed […]
Recently I changed my online handle to atiniir. I’ve been using kerfufl or my real name sort of sporadically for 5 or 6 years but recently using kerfufl has bothered me. I’ve been going through a lot of changes in 2009 and I don\’t percieve myself as a noisy disturbance or commotion anymore. I don’t […]
I’m making some plans, chipping away at tasks to try to reach a few goals. The goals cover a pretty broad spectrum of life: fitness, health, work, and focus.
I find myself often distracted from these tasks, finding something clear and fairly easy and obvious to do instead. I think the reason is fairly obvious, […]
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