Theories

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Someone is a little grumpy

Found this gem on the mobile page for the cinco de mayo wiki.

Two handles, two mugs

I found a moth

This little guy was just chillin in the grass next to the bike racks on campus.

Funny what you see when you take the time to slow down and enjoy the life around you.

more throwing

here is some more time lapse footage of me throwing. This time I attempted a spouted pitcher

I am not really happy with the way my spout turned out it kinda sucks leaving the wheel with something you are not terribly proud of. It just reminds me that I have so much to learn when it comes to throwing. As with much of art, things look a lot easier to do than they really are.

trimming and handles will go on tomorrow, stay tuned

here are some pictures of the trimmed pieces I did from my last video

time lapse test

found out my cell phone camera had a time lapse camera. (rad!)
here are the results

Banks on advertising

Strong words and definitely has some logic to it. Seems like the solution would be to have a greater collective appreciation for the space we share instead if handing it over to marketers

This also makes me wonder about online advertising and online public space. Is there anyplace online that is truly a public place? Wikipedia? What about graffiti, which can be found in just about any public space in cities. Is there an equivalent online graffiti?

the mother of all thought experiments.

On Twin Earth, a brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two options that the brain can take: the right side of the fork in the track or the left side of the fork. There is no way in sight of derailing or stopping the trolley and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows trolleys. The brain is causally hooked up to the trolley such that the brain can determine the course which the trolley will take.
On the right side of the track there is a single railroad worker, Jones, who will definitely be killed if the brain steers the trolley to the right. If the railman on the right lives, he will go on to kill five men for the sake of killing them, but in doing so will inadvertently save the lives of thirty orphans (one of the five men he will kill is planning to destroy a bridge that the orphans’ bus will be crossing later that night). One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things. Another of the orphans would grow up to become G.E.M. Anscombe, while a third would invent the pop-top can.
If the brain in the vat chooses the left side of the track, the trolley will definitely hit and kill a railman on the left side of the track, ‘Leftie,’ and will hit and destroy ten beating hearts on the track that could (and would) have been transplanted into ten patients in the local hospital that will die without donor hearts. These are the only hearts available, and the brain is aware of this, for the brain knows hearts. If the railman on the left side of the track lives, he too will kill five men, in fact the same five that the railman on the right would kill. However, ‘Leftie’ will kill the five as an unintended consequence of saving ten men: he will inadvertently kill the five men rushing the ten hearts to the local hospital for transplantation. A further result of ‘Leftie’s’ act would be that the busload of orphans will be spared. Among the five men killed by ‘Leftie’ are both the man responsible for putting the brain at the controls of the trolley, and the author of this example. If the ten hearts and ‘Leftie’ are killed by the trolley, the ten prospective heart-transplant patients will die and their kidneys will be used to save the lives of twenty kidney-transplant patients, one of whom will grow up to cure cancer, and one of whom will grow up to be Hitler. There are other kidneys and dialysis machines available; however, the brain does not know kidneys, and this is not a factor.
Assume that the brain’s choice, whatever it turns out to be, will serve as an example to other brains-in-vats and so the effects of his decision will be amplified. Also assume that if the brain chooses the right side of the fork, an unjust war free of war crimes will ensue, while if the brain chooses the left fork, a just war fraught with war crimes will result. Furthermore, there is an intermittently active Cartesian demon deceiving the brain in such a manner that the brain is never sure if it is being deceived.
What should the brain do?

– Michael F. Patton Jr., “Tissues in the Profession: Can Bad Men Make Good Brains Do Bad Things?”, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, January 1988

here is a comic along the same lines

reading hard books

There's no need for haste, the pages which lie ahead of you will lie ahead of you for as long as you like them to; it is perfectly all right if some things are at first unclear, and if there are references you don't recognize. Just go happily on; we don't stay in bed all day, do we? just because we've mislaid our appointment calendar. No, we need to understand this book--enjoy its charm, its wit, its irony, its erudition, its sensuous embodiment--the way we understand a spouse we have lived with and listened to and loved for many years through all their nights. Persons deserving such devotion and instinctual appreciation are rare; rarer still are the works which are worth it.
-William H. Gass

nice tip

wish I knew about this before I scratched up my new handlebars. oh well at least it will be covered with bar tape

Yes I think spring is here

Upside down moon

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No time for stalling

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philosophy poster

taken from this kickstarter

Remarks by the President at the Associated Press Luncheon

 main speech 37 min long followed by Q&A.

NYT Editorial

here is the speech in it entiriety

and here are some excerpts I liked:

utah population map

utah is ripe for some nice mass transit options when so much of out population is so concentrated. imagine a light rail system running all the way from ogden to spanish fork, it would be awesome.

A hawk in class

Today in vertebrate zoology lab we had a hawk (or at least that's what I remember it as. But maybe it was a falcon) it was pretty rad to hear about it. This particular bird was used for falconry and I found the whole idea of using a bird to hunt with. It reminded me of all the history behind this ancient practice and got me interested in learning more about falconry. It seems like a pretty time intensive hobby, the owner of this bird had told us he lost one of his birds after it was attacked by another bird and his bird flew off to get away from it and this was all after he had spent days training it to return.

Interviews

I would like to interview more people. Get to know their opinions and thoughts on a variety of topics. I find it very interesting how people discuss their opinions and viewpoints. I think I will start interviewing people and post the recordings up here.

Any takers?

Bill Nye on the city of the future

So rad to see a scientist, someones whose profession it is to solve today's problems with tomorrows solutions, endorse bicycle use.

Silver And Light

SILVER & LIGHT from Ian Ruhter on Vimeo.
This project was created with the same spirit that america was founded on. Our intentions are to connect everyone in america through the lens of this camera and social networking sites. We can't do this without you. We want to tell your story and show your city or town through photographs of you, and people you know. As we travel around america looking for people and places to shoot you will be able to keep track of where we are going and help us decide where we go next. Join us in our journey by liking our facebook to get yourself photographed by us.

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more on the process after the break

transatlantic telecommunication cables

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor

this is fast so pay attention!



you got it? ok
lets get rid of coal now.

why movies generally suck

Has Hollywood Lost its Way? | Short of the Week
The loss of great inventive and imaginative movies is due to the guaranteed revenue from the latest prequel, sequel, or adaptation that have flooded the theaters

Rad

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new glasses

5 simple logical fallacies

The high cost of free parking

Economic View - Why Free Parking Comes at a Price - NYTimes.com

The high cost of free parking
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/03/EDGFGD1VQ61.DTL&ao=all

Which foods keep you full longer: the satiety index

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I love these technical animations that explain the inner workings of gizmos.  

Death am I, and my present task Destruction

Nuclear disarmament is a task that should be readily taken heart. What possible military target requires the use of forces that levels a city in an instant. Nuclear weapons exist as weapons to burn innocent  civilian populations.

A thousand simultaneous suns
Arising in the sky 
Might equal that great radiance,With that great glory vie.
Amazement entered him; his hair Rose up; he bowed his head;
He humbly lifted folded hands, And worshipped God. . . .
Death  am I, and my present task Destruction. 

Rad documentary: cassowary dissection

Watch "Inside Nature's Giants Episode 12/15 The Dinosaur Bird (Channel 4)" on YouTube

Dissected a pigeon in vertebrate zoology lab on Monday and noticed some similar things. This documentary highlights some good points on the similarities between dinosaurs and birds.
I think it is so rad that this show exists to actually show a dissection of some amazing creatures. I look forward to watching more of this program.

Deep self compatibilism

Freedom comes from acting on the deep desire that we hold as individuals. We are not genuinely free when we are indifferent about conflicting desires. Introspection of what desires are truly important to us as individuals and acting on them will allow us to be as free as possible.

the universe in us

Motivation

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I find it so funny sometimes the choices I make. Often I make choices that have consequences that I had not intended or foreseen. if only I truly knew what would lead me to happiness.

Happy Valentine's day

Agency

"Man it is free to what he will but he cannot will what he wills." Schopenhauer

The Habits That Crush Us
Have not blogged in a while but hopefully I will get something posted soon. In the meantime enjoy this link which describes that most of our bad habits are actually manifestations of boredom or stress.

Souls as harmony

"The soul, if she is a harmony, will never have any vice; because a harmony, being absolutely a harmony, has no part in the inharmonical." - Socrates

Or in other words the essesnce of a soul is perfection. Anything less and it would lose the quality of being a soul.

Concentrate on simply being

The art of living well

It is the degree of completeness of living  in the experience of making and of perceiving that makes the difference between what is fine esthetic in art and what is not
-John Dewey

The Beauty of Pollination

There are far more ways of being dead then there are of being alive.
Watch your step!

Working out

The body hold around 50,000 to 200,000 calories as fat. Enough energy for 200-400 hours of exercise.
Meaning the displeasure from abstaining from cake is far more temporary then the effort needed to "work" it off

Wabi Sabi

nothing lasts,
nothing is finished,
and nothing is perfect.

Christian Missionary Deconverted by Tribe (proteanview)

why science fiction is great

short 3 part documentary that examines the roots and social commentary science fiction gives us.
parts one and two are the best showing that good science fiction is not always about green aliens from mars but instead science fiction provides a backdrop for important and relevant social commentary of moral or cultural issues.
part three is an examination of why star wars fails to provide strong social commentary and is thus a poor example of science fiction and instead a fantasy story.

Sage on the Stage

lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique now that information is everywhere

great article on lecturing and its ineffectiveness in the classroom. I for one agree with the article, with information at our fingertips it makes it unnecessary for a teacher to lecture and instead should allow for more open and flexible forms of teaching. Technology should be leveraged to maximize the opportunities to educate. With digital media ubiquitous it should be no problem to record the lectures for the students viewing out of class which then frees the teacher to provide opportunities to apply knowledge or if needed provide further instruction to those who need it. Salaman Khan of khanacademy.org I think has a great model and approach to teaching that I think would not be a huge obstacle to implement.

I have noticed in many of my science classes which are lecture based that pure memorization over reasoning tends to be emphasized. It is all too often in my science classes that I get the feeling that I am learning the "Story of Science" instead of gaining the firsthand experience gaining the knowledge through an experiment or teaching someone.

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Carl Zimmer Profiles Neil deGrasse Tyson

The voice is deep and loud--not loud from shouting, but from some strange acoustic property that gives it a conversational boom. It comes from a man who looms in the dark at the edge of the crowd.

awesome read done by Carl Zimmer on Neil deGrasse Tyson. It is inspiring to read such a well written piece on such an accomplished and recognized voice in science. Just as Carl Sagan inspired a generation so too has Neil.

the cyclists ten commandments

Romney’s top contributor: Goldman Sachs, Ron Paul’s: US Army

Democrats are shocked to see President Obama treat Wall Street's top banks with respect and kindness. In order to predict his kindness (Obama's justice department has failed to prosecute the crimes that helped lead to the financial crisis of 2008) towards the top financial institutions it didn't take a crystal ball, all it took was a list of his top donors which included Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citigroup. Applying this same logic to the GOP primary election Romney is the candidate that will likely be buddy-buddy with Wall Street. Mitt Romney's top ten is made up of Goldman Sachs, followed by Credit Suisse (Switzerland), Morgan Stanley, Barclays (UK), Bank of America and JP Morgan. In contrast Romney's co-frontrunner in Iowa, Ron Paul, has a top three donor list made up of the US Army, US Navy and US Airforce.

 Obviously Goldman Sachs and company donate heavily to Romney not because they like his stance on the social issues but because he will continue the rigged game of crony capitalism. The revolving door from Wall Street (particularly from Goldman Sachs) to the White House will remain open and Goldman and company will maintain not only their rigged game but their influence.

while I don't necessarily agree with Ron Paul on a majority of his positions I think this article makes it clear that Romney is hardly the candidate to alter the dynamic between Wall Street and Washington*.
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*this does not mean that Obama has any better of a track record.

Global warming

Regardless of if humans are causing global warming or not, the benefits to reducing humanities impact on the Earth is a goal worth working towards

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person. "
-Benjamin Franklin

2012

first post of the new year!
to kick things off I think this video is awesome. I crack up every time I see it.

I love how this kid is just so excited about everything in this video and I think it is great. If only we were as excited as this guy.
Lets make sure 2012 is about finding the excitement and joy in life.

Best Images of 2011 - Imgur

Best Images of 2011 - Imgur

Reincarnation

military surplus panniers

cheap and durable seems pretty awesome to me

maturity

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You're Awesome

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epic high five

Politics and Corporations: The Overlap

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Used cow

I don't even want to know what a used cow is

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Cycling has lower emissions even when accounting for production and maintenance

link

Moses tea

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23 and half hours or why bike commuting has greater benefits than lower gas prices

fast dog

Lily Shreds trailside. on pinkbike.com

"Religious morality"

Watch "Professor Richard Dawkins schools an ignorant fools delusion of atheist morality." on YouTube

I think it needs to be emphasized that religion does not have a monopoly on morality

Acceptance

Sometimes it is hard to accept the hard cold truth of reality.
I have been beat and I don't want to accept it.
But once I do, life will move on like nothing happened and I will realize that things work out.

the Republican Party is the legislative wing of Wall Street theft.

I believe the Occupiers are opposed to the lawless and destructive greed in the financial industry, and the unhealthy spread in this country between the rich and the rest. It is sickening to see how the rich and their pawns oppose desperately-needed Universal Health Care, and sad to see the Tea Party fall in line with their shadow masters to oppose something most of them will someday need. - Roger Ebert on the Occupy Movement

An open letter

"In any event, believe it or not, I’m really not angry that I got arrested. I chose to get arrested. And I’m not even angry that the mayor and the LAPD decided to give non-violent protestors like me a little extra shiv in jail (although I’m not especially grateful for it either).

I’m just really angry that every single Charles Prince wasn’t in jail with me.

Thank you for letting me share that anger with you today."

#Occupy


My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.

I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted “We Are Peaceful” and “We Are Nonviolent” and “Join Us.”

As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives to slice open every personal tent in the park. They forcibly removed anyone sleeping inside, and then yanked out and destroyed any personal property inside those tents, scattering the contents across the park. They then did the same with the communal property of the Occupy LA movement. For example, I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA’s First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally contributed that exact canopy tent to Occupy LA, at a cost of several hundred of my family’s dollars. As I watched, the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as “30 tons of garbage” that was “abandoned” by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to dispose of while we were sent to prison.

When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor.

It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist.

My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm.

I was put on a paddywagon with other nonviolent protestors and taken to a parking garage in Parker Center. They forced us to kneel on the hard pavement of that parking garage for seven straight hours with our hands still tightly zipcuffed behind our backs. Some began to pass out. One man rolled to the ground and vomited for a long, long time before falling unconscious. The LAPD officers watched and did nothing.

At 9 a.m. we were finally taken from the pavement into the station to be processed. The charge was sitting in the park after the police said not to. It’s a misdemeanor. Almost always, for a misdemeanor, the police just give you a ticket and let you go. It costs you a couple hundred dollars. Apparently, that’s what happened with most every other misdemeanor arrest in LA that day.

With us Occupy LA protestors, however, they set bail at $5,000 and booked us into jail. Almost none of the protesters could afford to bail themselves out. I’m lucky and I could afford it, except the LAPD spent all day refusing to actually accept the bail they set. If you were an accused murderer or a rapist in LAPD custody that day, you could bail yourself right out and be back on the street, no problem. But if you were a nonviolent Occupy LA protestor with bail money in hand, you were held long into the following morning, with absolutely no access to a lawyer.

I spent most of my day and night crammed into an eight-man jail cell, along with sixteen other Occupy LA protesters. My sleeping spot was on the floor next to the toilet.

Finally, at 2:30 the next morning, after twenty-five hours in custody, I was released on bail. But there were at least 200 Occupy LA protestors who couldn’t afford the bail. The LAPD chose to keep those peaceful, non-violent protesters in prison for two full days… the absolute legal maximum that the LAPD is allowed to detain someone on misdemeanor charges.

As a reminder, Antonio Villaraigosa has referred to all of this as “the LAPD’s finest hour.”

So that’s what happened to the 292 women and men were arrested last Wednesday. Now let’s talk about a man who was not arrested last Wednesday. He is former Citigroup CEO Charles Prince. Under Charles Prince, Citigroup was guilty of massive, coordinated securities fraud.

Citigroup spent years intentionally buying up every bad mortgage loan it could find, creating bad securities out of those bad loans and then selling shares in those bad securities to duped investors. And then they sometimes secretly bet against their own bad securities to make even more money. For one such bad Citigroup security, Citigroup executives were internally calling it, quote, “a collection of dogshit”. To investors, however, they called it, quote, “an attractive investment rigorously selected by an independent investment adviser”.

This is fraud, and it’s a felony, and the Charles Princes of the world spent several years doing it again and again: knowingly writing bad mortgages, and then packaging them into fraudulent securities which they then sold to suckers and then repeating the process. This is a big part of why your property values went up so fast. But then the bubble burst, and that’s why our economy is now shattered for a generation, and it’s also why your home is now underwater. Or at least mine is.

Anyway, if your retirement fund lost a decade’s-worth of gains overnight, this is why.

If your son’s middle school has added furlough days because the school district can’t afford to keep its doors open for a full school year, this is why.

If your daughter has come out of college with a degree only to discover that there are no jobs for her, this is why.

But back to Charles Prince. For his four years of in charge of massive, repeated fraud at Citigroup, he received fifty-three million dollars in salary and also received another ninety-four million dollars in stock holdings. What Charles Prince has not received is a pair of zipcuffs. The nerves in his thumb are fine. No cop has thrown Charles Prince into the pavement, face-first. Each and every peaceful, nonviolent Occupy LA protester arrested last week has has spent more time sleeping on a jail floor than every single Charles Prince on Wall Street, combined.

The more I think about that, the madder I get. What does it say about our country that nonviolent protesters are given the bottom of a police boot while those who steal hundreds of billions, do trillions worth of damage to our economy and shatter our social fabric for a generation are not only spared the zipcuffs but showered with rewards?

In any event, believe it or not, I’m really not angry that I got arrested. I chose to get arrested. And I’m not even angry that the mayor and the LAPD decided to give non-violent protestors like me a little extra shiv in jail (although I’m not especially grateful for it either).

I’m just really angry that every single Charles Prince wasn’t in jail with me.

Thank you for letting me share that anger with you today.

Cramming

I want to give up.
Its times like this where I realize that no matter how hard I try to cram nothing will make up for lost time.
Taking a break from school sounds more appealing than ever. But I don't think I could let myself do that. What would I do?
Would I never want to go back to school?
Maybe I am just being a wimp and need to buckle down and do something with my life (do not mention going on a mission)

Yeah I think that is it. I am just wimp and complaining about it will do nothing to fix it reguardless of how much I want it to.

Life finds a way

Bike muscles

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 the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition conducted a survey that used a neat trick to partition the city's two-wheeled community. Half the questioning was conducted via the Internet or mail; the other half of the respondents were approached on the street. One notable result: 42 percent of the street respondents said they rode five days a week or more. Only a quarter of the remotely queried cyclists rode that much.

And the riders who pedal so much more accomplish it with far fewer resources: 40 percent of the street respondents earn less than $15,000 annually (65 percent earn below $35,000), and 95 percent of them own just a single bike.

Nearly half of those surveyed by Internet and mail reported earnings of more than $75,000. The household income of subscribers to this magazine is $112,000, and, on average, four bikes are parked in our garages. If you're a typical subscriber, you plan to spend at least $2,000 on your next bike, but a passionate 4 percent of you say you'll spend $6,000 or more.


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Setbacks

Lame. I was totally pumped to go and ride my bike along with my fram out to the powdercoat shop today out in Spanish fork. So I set out for the bike collective to pick up my fork but no one was there! I even had my frame strapped to my back like a pro.
Just another setback I will have to deal with.

Asimov on democracy

Quote of the Day

If I ride

If I Ride on Vimeo

open

blog is now open, but dont expect much. I will probably not post as often or put as much effort into this thing as I used to. I will likely be posting short blurbs instead of full on posts these days.

Evolution is a fact

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Nomad bike for life A concept and an original...

I saw this on G+ and thought it was awesome. check it out! the ultimate urban RV

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Viola! Fenders fixed

Nothing a little wire can't fix

South fork bike ride

Went on a bike ride with Zac today up south fork canyon. I was worried about getting cold but things were actually great. The weather was cold enough that we were able to sustain a fast pace without generating alot of heat and thus did not sweat at all (practically speaking). Even though Zac beat me on the ascent (on a fixie nonetheless) I had a good time, I wish I made more of an effort to get out and ride more.
Afterwards we headed over to his place to get some of the parts for my bike project priced out, and it looks like things will be super legit when we get everything put together. I am really looking forward to this.

Amazing! Clonal selection theory visualized

Watch "Immune System - Fighting Infection by Clonal Selection" on YouTube

This video highlights the main process involved in fighting an infections agent.
Look carefully and you will notice IgM antibody production!

"The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free"

Played some bike polo tonight.
It was pretty tough trying to not only balance the bike but also try and hit a ball into a goal. Looks like I need more practice

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Vapid facebook quote

Dance like you are hurt, work like no one is watching, and love like you need the money.

Cool project! Touch screen gloves

Watch "DIY iPhone Gloves - Becky's Workshop" on YouTube
Seems really simple, just need to pick up some conductive thread and get sewing

I kinda like this bag. they sell it as a shopping bag sort of deal but I think it could be useful as an everyday bag. its got 3 compartments that can be made into one large space if needed.
if only they made it waterproof and out of some more durable material

Fender busted

Worst time of year to have this happen...

Bike update

Headed over to the Provo bicycle collective to get a bike I am working on cleaned up and disassembled before it heads off for some fresh powder coat. Still working on snagging some pics, but I will post em next time.
For the disassembly things went pretty smooth.  Had some snags with removing the crankset and bottom bracket but it was a cool experience to get some grease on my hands and get up close with some of the parts and tools.
Really looking forward to getting some replacement parts worded and seeing the powdercoat on it. I am thinking of getting it done in a nice cream color. While I don't know the history of the bike and how it ended up in Provo I do know that at one time it was registered at Harvard which is kinda cool. Zac had the great idea of stenciling "Harvard" up on the top tube which i think would be a great touch to add  to the bike once we get it all put together.

Bike Light

I want to do this project.
just need to find a vintage light housing...

Manifesto

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Dead cat

Saw a cat get run over today while on my bike.
Laying on its side, mouth open.
Blood pooling.
Tail twitching.