RIP 2011 – Most Popular Posts of the Year

January 1, 2012 · 2 comments

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Honorable Mention (at #12 on the list, which both cracks me up and makes me very, very sad): Culture Clash, or How an English Teacher Sees Your World of Warcraft Post (20 February 2010)

10. Scrivener (2 November 2011)

9. Failure Is Just a Point of View (22 October 2011)

8. Why I Ride – or – It’s All a Load of Crap (10 September 2011)

7. Trip Routing: Google Maps (15 January 2011)

6. An Abrupt End to Summer (15 July 2011)

5. Book Review: Hint Fiction (8 January 2011)

4. Short Story Club – “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” (4 July 2010)

3. DragonRealms (2 June 2010)

2. Review: The Dune Series by Frank Hebert (15 September 2007)

1. Trip Routing: Mapquest (23 October 2010)

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Review: “And So It Goes”

28 December 2011 Reading

Title: And So It Goes – Kurt Vonnegut: A Life Author: Charles J. Shields Year Published: 2011 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pages: 494 First Line (of the Introduction): Writing this book has been like conversing with an empty chair. I don’t typically read biographies, but I have always been a tremendous fan of Kurt Vonnegut. So when Charles J. [...]

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Happy Holidays!

24 December 2011 Miscellaneous
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Snapshot: Wolf Pond Rd. – Adirondack State Park

23 December 2011 Riding

Wolf Pond Rd. – Adirondack State Park Wolf Pond Rd, near the northern edge of the Adirondack State Park, runs generally east-west between Mountain View, NY and Standish, NY. Back in 2010, a little over a month after I got the GS, I made a 2k mile loop of the Northeast to “break her in.” [...]

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Is it bad that I’m already looking forward to next Christmas?

21 December 2011 Miscellaneous
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Ride Report: Panguitch, UT to Pariah, UT

19 December 2011 Riding
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series 2011-The Melt in Your Mouth Tour

edit: Map plugin is working! I’m using WP GPX Maps. Many thanks to the developer (Max – a super good guy) who jumped on the issue I was having, figured out in a couple of hours, and had a new release fixing it up in less than a day! Date of ride: 21 June 2011 [...]

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No… Really… You don’t.

18 December 2011 Writing

Every semester, my composition classes begin with the same writing assignment: Examine, analyze, and evaluate your writing process. And, every semester, more than 90% of the processes examined express, almost verbatim, the same idea: “I wait until the last minute because I work better under pressure.” Some will add in “exceptions” that take into account [...]

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Shopping for Motorbike Apparel?

10 December 2011 Riding

This is a shout out to my new favorite online store: MotorcycleGear.com, “the new name of NewEnough.” There are a bunch of online stores out there that specialize in motorcycle parts, accessories, and apparel, but I’ve been using these guys for years and have never been disappointed. I’m not your average-sized guy. I’m tall and thin [...]

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Bustedness Found…

5 December 2011 Vertumnus

It seems as though my comments are throwing out errors. I’ll track it down and get it sorted as soon as I can. edit (6:27 am): was hoping it was a simple plugin conflict, but disabling the comments related plugins I have did nothing to alleviate the problem. Will find time to track it down in [...]

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The Children of Hurin

4 December 2011 Reading

Title: The Children of Hurin Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Editor: Christopher Tolkien Introduction: Christopher Tolkien Illustrations: Alan Lee Year Published: 2007 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Pages: 313 First Line (of the story): Hador Goldenhead was a lord of the Edain and well-beloved by the Eldar. First, a quick summary… Hurin is Mankind’s greatest warrior. He [...]

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