April 2011
26 posts
HIGHLIGHTED LIFE: Searching For Tailwinds →
jamesnord:
I noticed first that my jaw hurt. We had spent 25 miles going into a 30MPH wind and I had been clenching my teeth together, grimacing and cursing. Still we plotted along, sweating to hold our the 22MPH pace on our pulls. It wasn’t until the way home that I got to thinking about wind. Resting my forearms on the bars it felt good to be going over 30MPH in the flats, it felt a bit like...
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hintsandallegations:
thedailywhat:
Lights Out: Larry Althiser, a professional meat cutter with over 30 years of experience, owns and operates the Hartwick, NY-based meat processor Larry’s Custom Meats — a slaughterhouse with a sensitive side.
“A lot of people, ‘oh you kill for a living’,” Althiser tells Liza de Guia in The Good Slaughter. “Well, you know, yeah I do, but, you know, that animal...
Nevada factoid #1:
spacejam:
alexandra-ewing:
devoninthedesert:
It’s Nev-ad-a, not Nev-ahh-da.
I’m still learning this the hard way, daily.
People are so picky about this. Don’t they realize Nev-ahh-da sounds prettier?
In Spanish it’s “Nev-ahh-da” so I guess we’re trying to correct ourselves to mispronounce it.
Exactly. I might never say it right.
New tumblr blog alert: →
So I moved across the country and I’m going to attempt to blog about it. It may or may not be successful, but I have high hopes. Check it out.
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A friend-of-a-friend
thinks that Owl City is the best band of today.
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For those of you who studied abroad/traveled:
How do you pack for a 6 month trip?
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BRIGHTEYES AND THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
ARE COMING TO BURLINGTON IN JULY AT A GORGEOUS OUTDOOR VENUE.
AND
I AM MOVING TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN NEVADA.
Edit: Presale here, password “shellgames”
If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em.
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So this one time...
when I called a job to let them know I had accepted another offer, they said, “What? You were hired.”
And I said, “What, no I wasn’t.”
And they said, “So you’re quitting?”
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wamiv-:
Just walked by a man in his seventies wearing Abercrombie ‘Fierce’ cologne……….
… and recognized it.
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