Comments(2) Effective today, I finished moving my entire blog over to my little ubuntu box running at home. This one will no longer be updated. Check out all the new bells and whistles:
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“Quite simply, women like powerful men to be nice to them, not feminized pseudo-men…”
“…To get the true benefit of “nice” in the way that women enjoy, one has to be able to attract that same woman without being nice…”
On a whim last weekend, I ran away to a secluded alpine reservoir resting a top the vast expanse of the great Sierra Nevada mountain range. Loon lake (and the adjoining Pleasant Lake depending on the water levels) is a man made reservoir situated over a mile above sea level in the El Dorado National forest and less than 30 statue miles from Lake Tahoe. Its remote location makes for great camping: the high altitude chases away most types of flying insects, the lake water is pristine and clear (and drinkable with an appropriate water filtration system), and although the access road ends at the north dam of the lake, the forest service’s designated campsites and campgrounds are limited to the south shore. Naturally, one does not drive 4 hours out of the bay area to rub elbows with other fellow campers so I’ve always set my sights on the north shore beyond the reaches of the north dam and the gravel access road that leads up to it.
For all you off-roaders out there, the north dam is coincidentally the trailhead for the highly popular Rubicon jeep trail that snakes its way through the Sierras and then dumps its human cargo on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
The lake truly offers a little of something for everyone… Read more »
So you’re listening to your music collection when you stumble upon a CD or an MP3 you didn’t know you had. Or you have your iPod on random and it starts playing from playlists you haven’t heard in ages. All of a sudden a song comes on and you say to yourself, “Whoa… this is pretty good. What IS this?” Then you check the display on your media device and realize you’ve had this album for 2 years and never bothered to listen to the whole thing.
Anyone know what I’m talking about? What ‘diamonds in the rough’ have you discovered?
BTW - If you’re wondering what the answer to the “What IS this?” question was, it was two songs by a band called Motion City Soundtrack off of their 2nd album Commit This to Memory. The songs were ‘Resolution’ and ‘Hold Me Down’.
So after a long day that started at 6:00am, I was walking to dinner with some friends when a car making a left turn against a red smashes onto on coming traffic causing a third vehicle to smash into those two cars. The car making the left ended up completely 180 degrees from it’s original direction of travel. The car it hit wound up running up the curb onto a grassy knoll. The car that was unable to stop in time plowed into the second vehicle sending it up the grassy knoll before smashing into a traffic light pole. With all three airbags deployed and three crash victims suffering blood trauma and possible head and neck injuries, we quickly ran out to the middle of the intersection to extract the people from their cars and keep them still until paramedics arrived. Read more »
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