Jason Kottke says blogs are dead: Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice… Instead of blogging, people are posting to Tumblr, tweeting, pinning things to their board, posting to Reddit, Snapchatting, updating Facebook statuses, Instagramming, and publishing on Medium. Of course he doesn’t mean that all blogs …
Another year, another soundtrack. You can listen to these songs on Apple Music or Spotify. The Lonely Island: “Spell It Out” Thes One: “Trippin’ On A Tambourine” The New Pornographers: “Mass Romantic” Grouplove: “Raspberry” Foster the People: “Houdini” Julian Casablancas: “11th Dimension” The Strokes: “Partners In Crime” Man Or Astro-Man?: “Defcon 5” Beastie Boys: “Too Many …
U2: The Joshua Tree The background photo on our version is from our vacation in Wyoming — wrong national park, but good enough! Bad puns on the reverse side: “Wishing U2 a merry Christmas and hoping all is quiet on new year’s day (with our without you).”
In late August ex-New Englander Matt St. Gelais was back east visiting family & friends, and we were able to get together for some riding at our usual Cambridge spot. Cambridge Flatland – Aug 31, 2013, a set on Flickr.
I love gardening. I originally got into it because of my dislike of mowing, fertilizing, and in general taking care of the lawn. The more gardens you have, the less lawn there is. And while I do enjoy gardening, I also like to minimize my work. That’s one reason why (in general) I don’t deal with …
July 21, 2013: Rick MacDonald held the 4th annual Flatland Fracas flatland contest in East Bridgewater. His (and his family’s) hard work paid off, as everybody had a good time…even with the heat. It was very cool that Jean William Provost and Dane Beardsley showed up, as well as riders from New York (Roy de Guzman, who …
This weekend I went for a ride in Wompatuck State Park in Hingham, MA. It was a beautiful day for a ride, and it was also a fun photo-taking outing. The old naval ammunition storage, weapons development buildings and bunkers are in the process of being demolished, so it was pretty cool to see some of the …
At his Family Fun Fest on June 8, Kevin Robinson held an old school style BMX contest — the “Wisdom to Youth” contest — complete with quarter pipes and a kick turn ramp (plus a box jump for the newer schoolers). Also, he had actual old school riders: the contest was invite-only, so the riders were …
Because my daughter recently sang the song at a recital and I had a Twitter mini-discussion with a friend, this has come to the forefront for me again. I have nothing but respect for Kermit the Frog, but one thing has always bugged me a bit: the question at the beginning of “The Rainbow Connection” that asks Why …
The snow is gone, my gardens are coming alive, and yet I’m still doing winter sports. I started curling with the South Shore Curling Club about a year and a half ago. I was happily surprised to find out that the somewhat bizarre sport that I watched every four years during the winter olympics was …