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Forests Forever

Great photography and a great cause—what more could we want.

Spell with flickr MobileHippie

Can you spell Mobile Hippie. This is a slick trick and some fun use of photography. It even gives you the code to drop into your site. Only one problem I can see with this—bandwidth. This is going to generate a ton of traffic on both metaatem.net and flickr.com.

House hunting and waiting

This weekend my wife and I went house hunting. We thought we had our loan in hand—more on that latter—so it should have been as easy as finding something we liked and going from there. It wasn’t quite so easy.
First, there is the little issue of how much home we could afford. We didn’t want [...]

Weblog of the Mobile Hippie

The Weblog of the Mobile Hippie has just received a much needed visual update.
I had been wanting to add comments to my blog for sometime, but due to the time output—however little that may have been—I was slow to get around to it. Well, now I have comments, a new navigation bar, and a [...]

The Secret Life of Computers

The New York Times > Books > An Essay: Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite!
Little did I know my computer was secretly one-upping me yet again. While I pound away on the keyboard each day, typing out a living creating the web, my computer - aware of the many insults I have [...]

Has it been that long?

Upon looking at my site following an extremely busy period in my life, I suddenly realize that I have posted absolutely nothing to my blog in 53 days.
I should be bothered by the fact I have a blog that is wasting away in the ether, but I’m not. I’ve been too busy to be [...]

RacePhotos.net (Their site could use some work, but my picture is on it.)

Okay, so their site could use a lot of work. RacePhotos.net is an IE-only (try to browse their photos with Firefox), screwed-up-background, in-need-of-some-optimizing website. Maybe I should offer my services.
Regardless, here is a picture of me, halfway up a very steep hill. If there is a slight smile on my face, it [...]

Cycle Me Blue

Cycle me blue.
Sky blue like an early morning stretch.
Cycle me silver…
Quick like a wet downhill tragedy.
Cycle me green.
Feel the pine-scented descent into happiness.
Cycle me white.
Puffy cumulus, sleek stratus, moments before the rain.
Cycle me grey.
Showers shiver my bone.
Cycle me black.
Eyes closed to dark sleep in preparation
Cycle me blue.

Completing My First Century and Living to Tell About It

I made it… well… kinda. What should have been my first century (100 mile) ride in the Mt. Hood Challenge ended with both a sense of accomplishment and mild confusion. An incredible amount of rain forced a change in the course. The race organizers failed to properly announce the course change before [...]

Second Day at New Job

Well, I have nothing better to do than update my blog at this point. It is the second day at Pacific and I don’t have a username or password to log in.
I don’t hold it against them–HR warned me yesterday that it would take 24 hours for things to get into the system–I haven’t quite [...]