Category: Blog
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Trail By Error in Appalachia – Goddamned Kids
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Life has a funny way of diverting plans. Simple twist of fate. Elaine and I were supposed to hit the Foothills Trail, driving down this Saturday and starting on Sunday, the 13th. Emphasis on supposed to, because as of about a week ago the eastern terminus is ablaze from the…
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Meaning in a Streamlined World
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Short read. Short leash. No interruptions. No setbacks. No noodling. No fat. No excess. Low fat, low carb, low intensity, low stakes, low tolerance, low alcohol, low down payment, low risk investment. Leave nothing to chance, have AI fill the margins. Boredom replaced with scrolling, if you’re not consuming you’re…
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Not Strong Enough…
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I don’t know why I am, the way I am… Well, I sort of do but that’s beside the point. The weather is warming up and so is the year. In about a month I’ll be on the Foothills Trail with Elaine, come late May I’ll be paddling the Greenbriar,…
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A Mad Day Out in Rocktown
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Mildred didn’t know what we were getting her into. To be fair, she’s an 00’s Subaru Outback, if she’s sentient we sure as hell didn’t know it. I’d normally drive on days like today, but Baby Blue had been making me paranoid lately. Turns out my paranoia was just psychosomatic,…
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The Outside’s Inside, The Inside’s Outside
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In the past few years, more and more Americans have woken to the same, horrendous realization – all this technological progress, all the luxuries available to us, have all been a faustian bargain. We can see this laid bare in the rise of generative AI, heralded by STEM sociopaths. Art,…
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Trail By Error In The North Country: Why And Why Not
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“Why the hell did y’all come here?” That more or less was the question we kept on getting asked. It… makes sense. Why did three Virginians drive ten hours to experience winter at its most grey, snowy, and bitter? The middle of January is too cold for half their attractions…
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Trail By Error in the North Country: What We Can’t Explain
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People go missing in the Adirondacks – the largest nature preserve in the United States, dwarfing whatever national parks you can namedrop, with a small permanent population, it’s easy to see why. There’s no mystery to the slow disappearance of EMS, however. Once a regional giant with some of the…
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Trail By Error In The North Country: Finding the Elusive Median American Voter
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Originally intended to be one, somewhat succinct post, I’ve opted instead over the coming few weeks to post about different happenings in my most recent trip up north. Accompanied by two close friends, Alex and Stilly, we went out for a true wintry experience and got far more than what…
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Live Standing
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Over the past week, I’ve gotten to mess around with my new-to-me Fujifilm XT2 and have pondered one of the great questions of life – how do I balance my outspoken nature, my eccentricities, without compromising my own success. Or, is that a false premise altogether? I’m not unreasonable, I…
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Be Where You Are
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After a year or so of taking every chance to get wherever a full tank of gas could take me, I’ve spent the last little while looking more inwards than outwards. I want this coming year to be my most interesting yet, taking more advantage of the time I have,…