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Convergence Station 1

Jan

14

2022

Tonight my housemate and went down to Convergence Station in Denver. I have been aware that it’s a place that exists because, hilariously enough, I spent two days testing the subgrade and asphalt in the north parking lot when they were building it. It was one of the few places where the site super made ...

Ash Falling From the Sky in December 2

Dec

31

2021

You can donate to the Boulder County Wildfire Fund here. In a minute I’m going to put together what I actually came over to this page for, which would be my year in writing review for 2021. But there are some thoughts I want to jot down, first. Yesterday I was over at a friend’s ...

A fast verdict 1

Jul

16

2015

Verdict returned on Aurora gunman, guilty on all 165 counts. I don’t really have any commentary on the case itself, other than profound sadness at the senselessness of it all, anger about gun control issues; the standard feeling I have about mass shootings. What I did want to comment on is the “speed” of the ...

Reason number five million why I miss Colorado (special voting edition) 7

Nov

5

2013

In Colorado I was on the permanent mail-in ballot list. Several weeks before election day, I would receive my ballot in the mail without having to do anything special for it, then peruse it at my leisure and mail it back, no muss, no fuss. Technically, they have mail-in ballots in Texas. But only if ...

I Snoopy danced through the election in Colorado

Nov

8

2012

Two days late, whatever. So yeah, this happened. As you can imagine, I’m pretty pumped about that, because the president of the United States hasn’t switched over to being an plastic manbot with a faulty truth chip. I’m pumped there are going to be record number of women in the senate. I’m pumped we have ...

Senseless 1

Jul

20

2012

I got hit with the news about the shooting in Colorado about five minutes after I woke up this morning. This has hit a lot of people hard, as it should. And a lot of nerds, because it was at the premiere for The Dark Knight Rises. If you’re at the midnight showing for a ...

Burning

Jun

27

2012

There’s a new fire near Boulder. It’s only 300 acres, but it’s burning the flatirons, it’s heading toward NCAR, and there are evacuation notices dropping. The High Park Fire is still burning at over 87,000 acres. My friends Susan and Galen have been evacuated from Colorado Springs. My best friend (their daughter) just told me that ...

Shame on you, Rep. McNulty

May

9

2012

Well, I got absolutely nothing done after trivia tonight. Rather, I spent the last 100 minutes watching the #coleg tag on Twitter with a growing sense of horror. It was already a shit night, thanks to voters in North Carolina. But somehow, the disaster in the Colorado legislature is even worse than that. We had a ...

You know you’re from Colorado if…

Apr

13

2012

My mother forwarded this e-mail to me, and I’ve kept all of the ones that I think are true. You eat ice cream in the winter. (Who doesn’t?) It snows 5 inches and you don’t expect school to be cancelled. You’ll wear flip flops every day of the year, regardless of temperature. You have no ...

Woo at CU: The Everything Has a Price Edition 2

Nov

11

2010

No fun name for this post, since it’s short and sweet. Stuart has the dirt over at his blog. A friend of ours let us know that there’s an article about the magical “because ions makes it sound sciency!” wrist bands at the Sports Business Journal. Unfortunately, the article is hidden behinda paywall. But here’s ...