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You Will Like My Alta Pictures

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Published on February 28, 2010, by in ADVENTURES in biking, skiing, traveling, thinking.

I have been using Flickr to post my pictures from our travels. I decided to categorize my pictures into “collections” by state – so far, there’s a category for Utah, Arizona, Texas and Nevada. Each state, as a category, has individual albums for each place visited. For example, the Arizona category has five albums: Black Canyon Trail Riding, Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Sonoran Desert Museum, South Mountain Trail Riding. I don’t take pictures everywhere we go, but I try to at least. I also don’t post ALL of the pictures that I take, as I decided to focus on quality over quantity. I find it overbearing to click through hundreds of pictures, rather than a tightly edited album. I still working on the editing part, but try to keep each album down to 50 or fewer pictures. Below is a gallery of my new album from Alta, featuring

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To Blog or Not to Tweet

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Published on November 17, 2009, by in ADVENTURES in biking, skiing, traveling, thinking.

Blogging is really neat – it gets more people writing, it’s just a fun and personal way of communicating, and by not using my phone as much I can avoid the misery of my AT&T call playing ping pong with a dead zone. I’m been thinking about blog overload though — not so much overload with the amount of blogs that exist, but in regards to the regularity of new blog content. There might be some outliers, but bloggers tend to hope for people to actually read their blog. They can advertise, spread the word through other social media venues, hope for extreme popularity, or market themselves in other ways. But how do you create content that truly engages readers, and makes them come back? I’m not entirely interested in marketing myself and steering loads of readers over to this blog, but I’d like for people to enjoy what they

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Take Me Out to the Movies

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Published on November 11, 2009, by in LISTS.

It’s perfect movie season. However, I won’t go to a movie if I have a bad feeling about it. Chances, are, it won’t be good and I’ll have remorse about paying to spend time in a human popcorn box. I’m not afraid to trust Rotten Tomatoes for movies. Adam Smith believed that we should maximize everyone’s expertise; this includes movie critics. If all the movie critics in the U.S. like a movie, chances are, I will too. I find that if a movie is above 78%, it will be good and I will like it. If a movie is anywhere between 53% and 77%, the movie is probably good, but has some weird elements that turn off some critics. I use personal judgment when deciding to see this movie. If those weird elements are up my alley, I will enjoy the flick. The weird element in “Where the Wild Things

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Peas In A Pod

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Published on March 3, 2009, by in DESIGN.

I was looking for drawings of peas, or peas in a pods (don’t ask) on the interwebs, and found some of the funniest and most awesome (and sometimes bizarre) drawings. I would like to share them, especially “Super Pea.” Here are some.

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