Tenacity fucking hurts. Like on the deepest contour of self, that shit hurts. I ate shit fairly hard today in the pool dropping in. Jammed my wrist up real good. Fortunately, I had on my wrist guards otherwise I’d be nursing a broken bone at this point. On the run before I wrapped it up [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Support Cruelty, Eat Veal Cheeks!
Last weekend was remarkable, one for the record books. Friday I got up at 6 in the morning and dawn patrolled with Trevor. We came home around 9:30am and toured through several New Glarus brews in honor of his *cough* 43rd birthday. We hit the Enigma, the Old English Porter, the Two Women Lager and [...]
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USB Bike Generator
Instructables has an interesting article on building a bicycle powered USB generator so that you can charge or run USB driven devices (like your iPod, Garmin, etc) while you are pedaling through the city (or countryside as it were). “The basic idea for the USB Bike Generator is to use a suitable stepper motor as [...]
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Animals, Whores & Dialogue Now Available!
This is a little off-topic for us here, but who cares, it’s an exciting release and I designed the packaging for the project so I can talk about it here all I want. Wayne Ewing has released a wonderful sequel to his 2003 work “Breakfast with Hunter”. “Animals, Whores & Dialogue: Breakfast with Hunter Volume [...]
Praise Filthy Jesus, I Dropped In Today!
Almost 1 year to the day of riding a pool, I finally sprouted nuts and dropped into the pool today. 35 fat years old and I still got a couple limp-wristed tricks up my filthy sleeve!!
Metropolitan’s I-Beam “Beer of the Week”
The Chicagoist blog named Metropolitan’s I-Beam their beer of the week. And they right. That shit is delicious. “Alt” refers to the pre-lager method of brewing, except the Germans of Westphalia used a top-fermenting yeast like a Pale ale yeast to ferment the beer, then stored the beer at the lower lagering temperatures. Over time, [...]
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Is it Winter Yet?
I’m up butt-cracklin’ early to dawn patrol, sipping on this here video wondering where all that fluffy white stuff is at.