September 2024: Buenos Aires Everyone calls it BA The whole city reminds me of Barcelona with huge vias and avenues They carved up enough of the city for giant parks that it feels really nice The hop-on, hop-off bus was a really nice way to see a bunch of the city over a roughly two-hour
Travel Tidbits: Country #43: Uruguay
September 2024: Montevideo Very calm and safe It’s a great taste of Latino America without much danger, at all. Still has the feel of Peru, Bolivia, Columbia and Mexico. The block in the sidewalks, the streets, etc A lot of colonial architecture and new construction going on A large middle class, and much less poverty
Travel Tidbits: Country #42: Norway
July 2024: Oslo, Bergen, Flam Oslo The kids had a blast at the playgrounds. We noticed that it was really setup for kids. I had fun going on morning adventures on the electric scooters. I learned how to do jumps off of curbs! I fell in love with the Volkswagen ID.Buzz, their new electric Volkswagen
International Power Adapters
I’m preparing for a motorcycle trip to Nepal and Tibet in September 2024, and I thought I knew everything I needed to know about power….but I was wrong. Apparently, Nepal uses type C (cool, no problem), but they also use type D and type M plugs (WTF are these?). They’re from old British standards when
Travel Tidbits: Country #11: Spain:
2015: Málaga, Seville, Córdoba Madrid, Barcelona This was my first time visiting Spain, and it was with Zig Gmerek on our epic Morocco, Spain, France trip! Seriously, one of the craziest trips I’ve ever taken! 2015: DockerCon Barcelona Lisa came with me on this trip and I remember going up on the mountain and having
The Sinister Creation of Art
Almost everyone has an innocent desire to create art. Small children start drawing at 2-3 years old, just little stick figures, rainbows, or animals. Busy adults, who can’t commit a lot of time, go and sing Karaoke just to hear their own voice recreate the sounds of the original song, with their own little personalization.
The Absence of Data
One time, I’d had a few drinks and I was sitting with a group of acquaintances and they asked if I believed in God. I tried not to answer, but they kept pushing me. Without me answering, they detected wavering and assumed the worst. They asked “what would you have to see to to believe!?!?”
Protected: What Being in a Punk Band Taught Me About a Corporate Sell-Out!
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Swing Heil Scrapbook
Background There are a lot of different types of relationships you can have in life. You can have casual connections, like the regulars you chat with at a coffee shop, or you can have the super close, yet irritating, relationships that only brothers and sisters can ever really have. There are best friends, wives, husband,
A Spiral Fracture
On March 17th, 2024, I crashed in Southeast Ohio, riding off-road and broke my leg. As I picked myself up off the ground, I looked down and saw my leg twisted and mangled, I had the dramatic realization that I was actually in trouble. It was more serious than any training I’d ever done. It