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Month: August, 2006

when the rapture comes…

I hope Colorado Springs will die in a fire. It’s a craphole of a city, and embodies everything that I hate.
It looks like a city, and feels like a city, but has none of the things that make living in a city worth it. What do I mean? Well, first off, it has city traffic. [...]

366 more years of terrorism

Islamist terrorists will continue to plague our planet until the year 2372. How do I know this? Simple math.
Islam dates from the Hijra, or migration from Mecca to Medina. Year 1, AH (Anno Hegira) corresponds to AD 622 [source: wikipedia]. In other words, it started 622 years after the start of Christianity. Alternatively, you can [...]

introducing the jewelry fool

Permit me a bit of spam on my own blog.
Jenny Windler has just started up a blog where she makes a new piece of jewelry every day and posts it online. Her pieces are for sale as well, so help out a starving artist by checking out her blog and buying something (for yourself or [...]

people’s triathlon

On Saturday, I “competed” in the 3rd Annual People’s Triathlon.
Organized by my buddy Mitch, it’s a more or less ad hoc event between friends, designed to raise a little money for charity and hang out with your buddies. The plan was to arrive at Duncan’s Ridge (a local bouldering spot) to drop off our bikes. [...]

metromint

Metromint is spearmint flavored water that tastes like someone left a piece of used up chewing gum in a bottle of water for a day or so and then sold it to you for consumption, kinda like what they do with tequila and worms, although thankfully they didn’t leave the gum in there.
Strangely enough, [...]

biking cameron pass

So my buddy Toots had his bachelor party this weekend. The plan was to chill with a bunch of buddies in the mountains before getting hitched forever. Mikey reserved a few campsites for us just a touch west of Cameron Pass, and I thought it would be fun to take a self-supported bike touring ride [...]