Category: Diversions

Trivialists of the world, rejoice!

Harper’s Magazine recently posted its Index feature online, and I haven’t gotten much done in the mean time.
It’s hard to beat the spontaneity of their monthly list. But with access to material since 1984, you can see how a subject like baseball or DNA or Al Gore intersected with the national consciousness (or at least that of [...]

Photographing Boulder, CO at 1 a.m.

My brother Scott is following in our Dad’s footsteps, spending his every spare moment looking through a camera lens. Here’s a picture he recently took outside of Boulder, CO.

Trial by fire

I love public speaking. Weird, I know, but I might as well make something of it!
A few months ago, I spoke at the second Ignite Fort Collins. If you haven’t already heard, Ignite is a community-created event during which presenters are armed with a microphone, a set of slides and a captive audience.
What’s in it [...]