Wednesday, September 8, 2010
I grew up around bowling lanes culture. My great grandfather built a few of them–one of them is still run by our family today–and I had the priveledge of working the auto-fryer there my Junior year of high school.
The highest I ever bowled in a single game is a 265, but I never came close [...]
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If pressed, and I had to choose a favorite current TV show, Nitro Circus would definitely be on my short list. If you have not seen it, you need to. Everything they do takes serious cajones and is a deft display of the difference in the way us humans’ brains are wired. These guys do [...]
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Thanks to Grete Eliassen for this photo.
Here’s something you don’t see everyday in North America, a local ski jump. “Hey, Dad I’m going to go down to the 120m hill for a few hours before dinner.” “Ok, son. Don’t die.”
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Life is full of mysterious ponderables. Like, why do so many people willingly work in dehumanizing offices that force them to use programs with names like PowerPoint and Excel; why doesn’t anyone every comment on my blog posts?
The greatest mysteries are obviously those that are most difficult to answer.
One thing that has perplexed me for years is [...]
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During this Winter’s T Woods escapade, you might have heard the old guy, Tom Watson, bemoaning the lack of respect for the game of golf these days. But what about the lack of swagger in golf these days? Those guys are BO-ring.
Check out this photo of Greg Norman from 1976. Bowl-cut and all, he looks like [...]
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
No, not Shaun White. Sadly, the Olympics are almost over. I’m talking about snow, baby. Once again, my predictions for an especially snowy winter are proving true. The western corridor of New England and parts of our fair state are going to get bombed on in the next 48 hours. Easily 12+ inches in many [...]
Friday, February 19, 2010
I’ve been on a new freelance gig lately and have not had the free time, to which I’m accustomed, to populate this blog with necessary news nuggets. Apologies to my readers. Oh, I was also skiing for 10 or so days and didn’t spend much time at a computer. I did slay icy conditions from Colorado [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Hey errrybody, the Winter X Games start this Thursday night and I implore you to watch some of it. Set your DVRs to record all of it, then just pick out the parts that look stoke-able and watch those. This will let you skip over stuff like the snowmobile races. BO-ring.
The mean age for [...]
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
I read a funny story this morning about Breckenridge, Colorado passing local legislation that amounts to a symbolic legalization of marijuana. See, marijuana is still illegal in the state of Colorado and the cops in Breckenridge have to enforce state laws over feckless local ordinances. Apparently, Breckendridge’s permanent residents and the town board decided they’d [...]
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
60 Minutes recently ran a great piece on “The Birdmen”—the guys who go careening down sheer mountain faces wearing tricked-out wing suits like the one pictured below. For someone like me, who’s pretty damned scared of heights, just watching is completely harrowing.
There are people all over the world using these suits, but one of the [...]
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