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Disdain for Easy

June 13, 2011
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To get to a metal shop, I have to walk 20 minutes and take 2 trains for an hour and a half each way  Since it’s a shared space, it takes me 30-40 minutes to setup and 30-40 minutes to clean up — that’s about 5 hours in numb time where no metal gets cut, [...]

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Open the Door

June 9, 2011

Behind this door something valuable must be hidden and protected.  It must be precious enough to warrant a warning, but not a padlock.  An alarm will sound meaning trouble will come — the unknown kind that is designed to make you afraid. Open the door.  There is no alarm. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “”, [...]

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Weiner & the Higher Standard

June 6, 2011

In case you care, Representative Weiner did indeed send a picture of his crotch to some woman in Seattle.  I honestly don’t care what Weiner does except that this crap from paid representatives is embarrassingly distracting. We have an assumption that people with great power and responsibility somehow exceed our own sub-terrain morals or values [...]

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Overshoot

June 2, 2011

“Nature is going to require reduction of human dominance over the world ecosystem.” – William R. Catton, from Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “”, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }());

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3 x 7 = 21

May 31, 2011

Humans have a 7 speed transmission: Down Sit Stand Walk Jog Run Sprint Run through all 7 gears 3x per day, fuel with JP-5 rocket fuel (the best you can find), and do this everyday for 21 days.  Come back and tell me what happened. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “”, status: true, cookie: true, [...]

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