If I didn’t have to work to pay my bills, I would spend my days:

• Traveling
• DJ’ing and Making Music
• Dancing
• Writing
• Creating Applications (web or otherwise)

How would you spend your time if money wasn’t a concern?

This sweet slice of A/V dorkery needs to be seen, and heard, to be believed.

Don’t miss the goods that start around 1:35 especially.

Keep the sound up and your eyes open.

Nod Mike for the link. 

Just trying this out…

Cutting thru Denver’s Civic Center park on my way home from work thru the brisk, fall-like night yesterday I saw something strange.  

A man with a metal detector; making slow sweeping arcs across the freshly cut lawn.  He was definitely a civilian, with a big beer belly spilling over his dingy, stained jeans.  My first thought naturally was, ‘another kook, doing something kooky in the epicenter of kooksville, Civic Center park.’

Then I saw the others.

Continue reading ‘urban scavengers’

And now I bring you the climatic regions of the United States.  Are these weather zones related to this?  Maybe…

Leslie, dishy drunkard diva

This past weekend was the annual Modern Drunkard convention.  I was lucky enough to attend the closing ceremonies (well, pretty much all of the ceremonies happening Sunday).

A few thoughts on the experience:

Continue reading ‘2008 modern drunkard convention review’

Imaginative America (Blair Humphreys) you should know Denver Infill (Ken Schroeppe).  While I don’t personally know either of you, I think the two of you have very similar goals for the downtown growth in your respective cities.  Let me know how it works out.

P.S.  Readers should check out the above sites for all things urban planning.

Last night we checked out the new ice cream parlor @ 13th and Pearl, next to Fashion Nation.  

The verdict?  Decent.  They serve Dryer’s ice cream which seems strange in a town full of boutique, in-house-made shops.  Still, you can do a lot worse than Dryer’s.  Less forgivable?  The price.  Our one scoop cups clocked in at around $2.85 with tax.

Good Times flavor of the day custard, one scoop?  $1 + tax.

The Oklahoma City Airport (OKC), or technically the Will Rogers World Airport, is way nicer than I expected. While the almost 4 million yearly passengers fall way behind Denver’s 50 million, the design would fool the common passenger otherwise. The large open areas of brushed metal and exposed stone give this western airport a metropolitan feel. Continual renovation is underway with phase II completed just two years ago, and phase III (a parking modification) currently in design. Echoing much of the city’s focus on development, the airport is achieving its goal as a welcome beacon to the highly desired visitors.

Regular posts will resume on Tuesday.

If there’s one thing I love, it’s carazy tales of drug induced fun.  This story has it all.

Continue reading ‘drunk, high, naked driver crashes into parked car while masturbating’

With all the media awareness on the American democracy system this week, I thought it ample time to post this video from the British House of Commons.  While I’m not entirely sure how British laws work, I do think it’s highly entertaining.  If the House of Representatives sounded like this, I might tune into CSPAN once in a while.

Thanks to Sean for sharing this.

After a dive bar happy hour, beer fueled discussion about dropping off the grid that can only be called bizarre, even by UM drunk talk standards, I went looking for pictures of Greg’s future dwelling.

If there’s ever been a picture that better sums up the man than this I’ve yet to see it. The article it’s sourced from speaks volumes:

The Airstream has become the kitschy darling of a young group of architects who are talking up the design virtues of trailers, shipping containers and other humble conveyances. Now the Airstream has its own place in the pantheon of design. This week the Museum of Modern Art in New York parked an Airstream from 1960, known as the Bambi Travel Trailer, in its lobby.

Now where’d I put the tofu dogs?

I was late to hop on this bandwagon, and have opted to use my account mainly for professional networking, but damn, I love this thing.

How I use it:

• Updating My Current Location (Not starbucks, but different cities)
• Looking for services
• Looking for discounts
• Requesting information
• Publishing quick snippets/links I find useful (mostly technical)

Are you twittering?

Having spent plenty of time as ‘tech support’ both for less computer savvy friends and my family (not to mention spending a large chunk of my day doing the same thing), there’s two hard and fast rules to fixing 99.9% of problems:

Continue reading ‘practice what you preach: i.t. edition’

An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political or spiritual vision and are often part of the alternative society. They also share responsibilities and resources. Intentional communities include cohousing communities, residential land trusts, ecovillages, communes, kibbutzim, ashrams and housing cooperatives.

Wikipedia: Intentional Community

My disdain for the NY Times is legendary.  Once in awhile though, they come through.  Take a quote from today’s edition from an article about this micro, underground restaurant ‘clubs’ popping up in NYC (like Underground Carrot x1000):

Meat is murder.  Tasty, tasty murder.

Ole!

Lately my beverage of choice has switched to the locally available microbrews.  One idea I’ve been contemplating though is switching to growlers.  The points currently swaying me are:

• Cheaper Price
• Enviromentally Friendly (reusing the bottle)
• Supportive of local business

Anyone buying growlers on a regular basis?

Any recommendations for the Denver area?  (I called Vine Street Pub, the latest Mountain Sun location in Denver, but they aren’t brewing on site till next year.)

Walking into work today, I noticed a commotion by Earl’s on 16th street.  A huge crowd had gathered, along with the requisite army of DNC related police.  Working my way through the masses, I quickly determined two things; first, they were hosting some kind of a ‘press conference’ with what appeared to be 4 vaguely recognizeable actors.  Second, neither I, nor one person I overheard could tell who the hell any of them were.

How sad to be famous and yet completely unknown.   By sad I mean, in your FACE, losers.

While visiting friends recently, they shared with me a dating pattern their roommate uses.  She schedules regular reviews with scientific rigidity to evaluate the relationship.  If she approaches a hard spot but it’s not a review point, she doesn’t prematurely end the partnership. Instead she chooses to work through the problems till the next review checkpoint.

Any thoughts on this?  Does it sound like a logical way to keep a relationship strong or an overly methodic approach to dating?

Anyone have an ebook reader of some sort?

I’ve currently abandoned the notion of working on the metro rail, so I’ve been wondering if an ebook reader would be a productive tool.  Not only for reading books, but news and blogs as well with the added ability to save snippets for things like Urban Monarch.