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I’ve been a computer geek since I was 8 years old when I got my first C64. Back then, digitizing media didn’t make sense. The resolutions of old monitors were too low, the sound quality was mediocre at best, and the equipment to do the conversion from physical media to digital was expensive and rare. […]
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During the Minneapolis occupation by the Federal wannabe-gestapo a symbol arose that came to define the moment. In early January a Reddit user, Feral_User_ posted a simple design that mashed up the symbol of the rebel alliance in Star Wars with the state bird of Minnesota, the common loon. Within days this symbol had spread, […]
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This past weekend was Zumbro Trail Race weekend and so I headed down for my usual stint of taking photos. My friend Mike and I skipped our usual Thursday course loop and just came down in the evening. We ended up having a wonderful time playing guitar at Scott and Karin’s campsite well into the […]
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I’ve mostly used two running vests in my trail running career. The first was a Mountain Hardware vest that I don’t even recall when or where I purchased it, and the second was an Ultimate Direction Mountain Vest (Anton Krupicka edition) I picked up in 2018. Those two vests have served me for me for […]
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Alex Pretti and Renee Good. May their names be eternal. We were barely an hour outside the Twin Cities when my wife’s phone started getting texts from her friends about the second murder of an American citizen in Minneapolis by federal agents. She let me know what was going on as I continued to drive. […]
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As 2025 comes to an end, it’s left me with one final gift… sickness. We’ve been surrounded by it for weeks with various friends and family going under the weather, and it’s finally our turn. I’m grateful that I had already taken off most of the week from work, but I’m also peeved that I […]
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This year I’m compressing my running and biking review posts down to just one post and talking broadly about the trackable activities I did over the year. Broadly, this was a MUCH lower intensity year than I’ve had for a while. I got in just over 2100 miles throughout the year across running, biking, walking/hiking, […]
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I started my running career using a Petzl Tikka+ headlamp that got the job done, but after a year I decided to up to a Black Diamond Spot. Both of these headlamps were solid choices and they helped me through a lot of late night and early morning runs. Yet, as the calendar keeps moving […]
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When I was a very young child we had some family friends who had a classic VW bus. This was 1980, so not as “classic” as it stands today, but I vividly remember crawling into the back of the van to go to drive-in movies. Then a couple years later when I had joined a […]
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This morning I opt’d for a walk over at Elm Creek. It’s been a long summer with lots of travel, running, biking, and generally living life to its fullest. But even the joy that comes with living adventures doesn’t happen without demanding sacrifice. Over this summer I’ve traveled close to 8,000 miles for running, biking, […]
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This weekend I’m pacing and crewing a friend of mine at a 100 mile race out of state, and as luck would have it, I was reminded that 6 years ago I completed my first (and only so far) 100 mile race. It got me thinking about how many races I’ve run over the years, […]
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A couple weeks ago I needed to be in Boston for a big public transportation conference for work. I’m not a huge fan of flying, I’ll do it if I need to, but it’s not my favorite way to get places. I’ll often plan longer driving trips just so that I can see the countryside, […]
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