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Mmmm; yummy!

Fabulous lunch with the the short one today at Cafe Niche on 3rd South and 8th East, just northeast of Trolley Square. Don’t know if it was the atmosphere, the food or the company, but this was definitely one of the best lunches I have had in awhile.

After dropping Jennie off, had a good [...]

Poetry Friday

ELEGY

Do not look for him In brittle mountain streams: They are too cold for any god; And do not examine the angry rivers For shreds of his soft body Or turn the shore stones for his blood; But in the warm salt ocean He is descending through cliffs Of slow green water And the [...]

It’s a shaker!

Magnitude 6.3 – NEVADA

Earthquake Details

Magnitude 6.3 earthquake near Wendover, NV Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 14:16:05 UTC. Location 41.076°N, 114.771°W

No damage at my place, but according to the news, there are reports of damage elsewhere in the valley … obviously, I would expect damage to be worse closer to the epicenter.

Thankfully, [...]

Sellout!

I sold out.

I joined Facebook, and I’ve been on LinkedIn for over a year now.

New Bike Shop …

Looks like the southern part of the valley has a new little service-oriented bike shop, owned and operated by veteran mechanic Alan Greenberg.

Alan was the first person I met when I moved to Utah back in January 2002.

I had visions of being a winter bike commuter … little did I know just how [...]

Honeycomb

Part of the Honeycomb Cliffs, shot from above Prince of Wales.

Part of the Honeycomb Cliffs, shot from above Prince of Wales.

Video Poetry (part fire)

ALKALINE TRIO – BURN

There’s a lightning storm each and every night Crashing inside you like motorbikes We toss and turn, sleep so loud Grind the teeth in our empty mouths Our empty

There’s a forest fire burning bright Spreading quickly towards our last rights Nowhere to run, pointless to hide Just lay there [...]

Video Poetry (smashed)

SMASHING PUMPKINS – DISARM

Disarm you with a smile And cut you like you want me to Cut that little child Inside of me and such a part of you Ooh, the years burn Ooh, the years burn

I used to be a little boy So old in my shoes And what I choose [...]

Zuiker

From The Economist.com:

Sweetness and Light

Low-calorie sweeteners may make people fat

ARTIFICIAL sweeteners have long been touted as being good for the calorie-conscious. Unfortunately, a study just published in Behavioral Neuroscience by Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson of Purdue University in Indiana suggests that such compounds may actually end up making people fatter than [...]

Blue blood and white shoes …

I have a lot of pride in the company that I work for, even though I sometimes get really frustrated by my job.

And of course, being the obsessive sort that I am, I have to learn everything I can about the history of my firm … which means that even though I lived it [...]