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Yoga Joes: War meets Ahimsa
This is fantastic! Via Inhabitat, check out San Francisco designer, entrepreneur, and yoga enthusiast Dan Abramson’s Yoga Joes. (see more photos below!) Like millions of young American boys, I had an...
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Random Thought: To Flush or Not To Flush?
That awkward moment when you’ve just started peeing at a urinal in a public bathroom, and you suddenly realize that a guy in one of the stalls is talking, apparently in the middle of an important...
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Science Fiction, or Too Much Time On Hand?
One of my first posts here at Fish & Bicycles was titled Science, or Too Much Time On Hand?. I’d read a post by a blogger at Wired.com on the science of peeling eggs. Yes, you read that right, the...
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Video Fridays: The Magic of 1977 Grateful Dead
Disclaimer: I recognize that this installment of Video Fridays may only appeal to music geeks like me, or maybe even to just Grateful Dead music geeks like me, but inspiration hit me and this is what I...
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Eyecatchers: Little Plastic Army Men, Revisited
A week ago, I wrote about Yoga Joes, the brainchild of designer, entrepreneur, and Yoga enthusiast, Dan Abramson, who put his own spin on the classic little plastic army men of yesteryear, placing them...
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Stuff We Need: Affordable Electric Vehicles, Revisited
Back in July 2010, I wrote about electric vehicles (EV), making the claim that EVs will have to be much more affordable and charging stations more numerous and convenient in order for the desperately...
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Video Fridays: The Honeymooners
One of my fondest memories from growing up in New Jersey was the post-primetime lineup of reruns on Channel 11, WPIX TV from New York City. It was epic. 10:00pm M*A*S*H 10:30pm M*A*S*H 11:00pm The Odd...
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Video Fridays: A “Morning Dew” Extravaganza
I often think of myself as a pretty decent pop music historian, because in conversations with music geeks and non-geeks alike I very regularly can reference what others consider to be obscure music...
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Has TalkingPointsMemo.com Jumped The Shark, Or Am I Not Reading It Correctly?
When I first discovered Talking Points Memo (TPM), sometime around 2001, it was solely the political blog of Josh Marshall, and it looked like this: One blogger, one very narrow column with blog posts,...
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Video Fridays: The Odd Couple
Two weeks ago, as a Video Fridays installment, I took a nostalgic trip down Memory Lane, writing about a late night lineup of TV reruns that I was fond of in my youth. 10:00pm M*A*S*H 10:30pm M*A*S*H...
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You Can’t Take The ‘Subdued’ Out Of The City Of Subdued Excitement
As far as I know, the origins of Bellingham, Washington‘s unofficial nickname — The City of Subdued Excitement — are a mystery. Some claim it derives from a locally famous mural on the side of an...
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City of Subdued Excitement: Origin Story
Photo: mountainbikefarm.wordpress.comYesterday, I wrote: As far as I know, the origins of Bellingham, Washington‘s unofficial nickname — The City of Subdued Excitement — are a mystery. Some claim it...
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Video Fridays: M*A*S*H
Several years ago, one of my student employees came to work wearing a cap, like the one you see in the photo here, and the following Abbott & Costello-esque interaction occurred: Me: Nice cap,...
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Willie & Trigger & Me: ‘As long as it keeps going, I’ll keep going.’
I came across a wonderful short documentary film today at Rolling Stone about Willie Nelson and his legendary Martin N-20 guitar (shown here), nicknamed Trigger. And, as I watched the video, it...
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Video Fridays: Star Trek
Space: the final frontier… Man, every time I saw that star field and heard the opening tones of Alexander Courage’s theme music, and then William Shatner‘s voiceover…well, pun intended, it transported...
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Video Fridays: The Twilight Zone
Ever have one of those days, when everything seems to go wrong; when, as Hamlet said, the time is out of joint; when things just seem off; when you’re not on your game; when you woke up on the wrong...
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What’s In A Name? Julian Brave NoiseCat Is All That!
He shares the same name as my one and only son. And, his middle name, well, it couldn’t be more appropriate. His name is Julian Brave NoiseCat, he’s a member of the Canim Lake Band of Secwepemc...
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Video Fridays: Rock&Roll Is In A Coma, And Rhett Miller Should Be HUGE!
Two weeks ago tonight, while I was in Los Angeles for my mini-vacation, I had the great pleasure to see a music performance that both totally satisfied and baffled at the same time. Rhett Miller is the...
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Eyecatchers: Seth Globepainter
It’s been ages since I posted an Eyecatchers installment featuring a street artist (some past examples: BLU, Sam3, JR), but, thanks to Colossal, my eyes were decidedly caught this morning by the work...
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Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation … Trailer Review?!
So, apparently, reviews, not just of movies, but of movie TRAILERS, is now a thing. There’s even an entire website dedicated to this new form of journalism. I feel so old. I mean, I remember when...
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