While procrastinating the inevitable completion of the last in a long line of keynote presentations this semester, I happened upon this gem amongst my ‘Rapid Bus’ google results.  From Alan Hoffman, a San Diego transportation consultant.  (Read the whole article here.)
“It’s what I call the ‘AYF Factor.’ Attractive young females are the
canary in the coal [...]

Typical afternoon with the Kennedys…
hands off! my new iphone from Mad Kaw on Vimeo.

Last weekend was Monsterjam.  For anyone who has never been to a monster truck show, the audience  is divided pretty evenly between two groups.  Dads and kids, and guys who talk to the trucks like they’re people.  I don’t know who’s more amusing to watch: The wide-eyed eight-year-olds waving their checkered flags, ears-a-plugged, grins permanently [...]

Brian: You know that doesn’t really do anything when you shout like that.
Me: I know, it’s mostly for myself.
Brian: Fair enough…

Took me forever to get around to posting this, but I used the built in camera in the monitor plus a program called Gawker that takes still captures at predetermined intervals (every 5 seconds for this) to make this video of me striping and then rebuilding my new fixie. The explosion sound at the [...]

(Written: Saturday, October 27)

Midnight rides are generally fun. Generally. Which is what I thought when I set out twenty minutes ago. Despite it being actually midnight, and thus dark, the full moon was directly over my head, bathing the entire road in a nice blue light. As I set out I [...]

It’s been a while since I last posted anything.  I’ve been busy.  Yeah, I know that’s no excuse.
Truth is that I’ve really spent the last month or so taking everything in.  I’ve been absorbing information and experiences at such a volume that I’ve simply not had the time to take a step back and reflect [...]

Here’s to six years of knee-jerk legislation, pre-emptive war, and a keen focus on the most important problems this country is facing, all wrapped up in a nice red, white and blue package.
My office had a six hour “suspicious package” search today that HR refused to acknowledge, despite the block long line of fire trucks, [...]

Many wonder if Sniff This lives full time at the Dodd farm, or if he has a lair or a cave somewhere and was raised by bears. A certain sect of Falcon Ridge-goers believe that he is the manifestation of all the mischevious thoughts of the whole folk world. Well, the intrepid, award-winning [...]

I dumped the bike on Saturday. Nothing serious, just a few scrapes and bruises, but it was really strange because I was joking around about taking a spill only minutes earlier, seriously.
The whole thing was over before I had time to think about it, but as I remember it, I was coming down a [...]