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Category: TD/GDMBR 2024
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…
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…
Muscle Burn & Lactic Acid
Tl;Dr: Muscle burn isn’t caused by lactic acid, but it might be OK to think that anyway When you exercise hard your muscles feel like they’re burning. Most people think of this as ‘Lactic Acid’, annnnndd… that’s wrong. Here’s a very good article, backed by this scholarly research. The short version is: Lactic Acid is…