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Tilth Plant Sale Purchasing

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Being that we were so late in planting our seeds, it’s important to buy plants already sprouted!

So here is my girlfriend and I at the Seattle Tilth early edible plant sale:

 

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Moving a Tree

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

My first tree move! It’s a weeping pussy willow and we found some people looking to get rid of it to make room for more vegetables through the lovely program “Freecycle”. It was quite an expedition but well worth. Thanks to the work of my two lovely assistants of course.

 


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Building a rooftop garden

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Planning out the building of a rooftop garden is fun. This week I got to work with the Outdoor Research facilities head honcho Dean Watt to get everything prepped and ready for this years spring gardening.

Here’s a slideshow of some of the work we did. One thing I learned is that’s it’s wonderful to have spare building materials around to take full advantage of.

 


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Coffee

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

My new favorite gallery plugin, Slideshow Gallery Plugin, of me and girlfriend at Cafe Vita.

 

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Writing a Novel

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

NanoWrimo LogoThere are a lot of people writing a novel while I’m writing this very post. Some have outlines and character concepts. Some don’t. Some have expectations of writing 50,000 words this month, it is National Novel Writing Month after all.  Another year of NaNoWriMo is upon us and with it 4 weeks finger-bleeding creativity.

I for one am not participating due to the hectic-ness of my personal situation. That and the last time I tried was a complete flop and I’m in no better arena to think it would be different this year. My creativity runs high but to write a 50,000 words within a month creativity is not all that you need. You need time, you need to be able to write fast without worrying about editing, and you need strategies to quickly shake any writer’s blocks you will get along the way.

Developing characters while developing a plot is no easy feat. In fact doing either one of those I find to be quite a difficult undertaking. Remember, a novel is fictional. You can’t just be writing the story of your life or the life of another outright. If you’re going to do that you have to at least hide it under the guise of a different world, a post-apocalyptic era, a culture and set of beliefs unknown to today’s mind.

There is so much that has yet to be written or thought of, that within each new novel the possibilities of mental expansion to help us solve world issues or more importantly help us cope with daily life are better laid out before us. This is not just for the readers but for the writers as well. Think about how much better you’d feel after you tackled writing a novel? Checking that doozy off your list. What can you accomplish next? When you buckle down and accomplish something difficult that you didn’t have to it’s mind blowing. There are a million things in the world to do and you just found you can accomplish any one of them if you set your goals to do it.

Cheers to you NaNoWriMoers. If you can even jot down 5,000 words consider it a damn good start.

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Unlearning

Monday, October 26th, 2009
Unlearning

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In a conversation about unlearning the other day I realized how essential this capability was for the evolution of our society. Strikingly. Especially today.

The main cause for my concern is how much information we’re feeding on, digesting and making room for. And the only reason I think it’s “we’re feeding on” rather than “being fed”  is that I’m not sold on the fact we can’t control it. We can talk forever about setting up boundaries and rules for ourselves, protecting us from the multiple streams of trash that lurk in every media outlet. But we needed to learn that 10 years ago before we took the deep dive as an online society. So…Unlearning. :)

Now let’s not be confused by thinking that most of what we’re absorbing is pure rubbish, only a decent mix. Sufficient enough for us to accomplish the basics and lead enjoyable lives. I on the other hand am more interested in living an  extraordinary life where I make a difference in all the areas I feel passionate about.. (more…)

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3 Cheers for Diction!

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Being that it’s (oct.16th) National Dictionary Day, also Noah Webster’s birthday, I think it’s important to show my appreciation of our every growing diction with a post of praise.

I didn’t know it was National Dictionary Day until about an hour ago, but randomly enough I was in a bathroom at a coffee shop this morning and wall-papered everywhere around me was pages from a children’s dictionary.  I spent my entire time reading about extra meanings of words I incorrectly thought I knew everything about! Enjoying them along with picture accompaniment! It made me want to read through a dictionary from start to finish! How much wiser would I be then?

Getting back into a more realistic state of mind I should note that I do a similar habit of dictionary reading when I’m in focus of improving my daily habits. I found an exercise book entitled 1100 Words You Need To Know:

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Your Theme is You.

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

The right theme for your website is more than just important, it’s an art and a science. A theme is a digital manifestation of the looks, literature and logic of whatever it is representing. For my website: it’s me; for a business: it is that business. Your theme is more than just the user experience (UX) it is how you want to convey yourself with all things public, and equally important, how you look at yourself.

So now it should be a little more clear where I’m going with this. Sloppily organized, horrible UX and dull colors, if represented by you, is what people are going to associate with you or your business. Your digital presence has to be thought out if you want to be thought of as thoughtful or experienced. It has to be unique if you at all want to be thought of as unique, better, or worth looking more into. (more…)

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Work with Computers? Learn to cook.

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Let’s get this straight off the bat, learning to cook isn’t just great for people who work with computers. Learning to cook is important for any living soul who wants to be in touch with life.

Cooking is flavors, textures, aromas, sizzling, and colors. All major senses are relied upon, and each one gets to experience life in a unique way which is fine tuned toward every dish. You can learn so much from a food by chopping and dicing it, picking it up in a fistful and dropping it into a heated oily surface to hear it sizzle and watch it change colors. Popping pieces into your mouth to feel and taste for the right texture, the right level of ‘al dente’ meant for your dish.

Speaking from personal experience computers add a lot to my daily enjoyment of intellectual experience, and have no doubt my friends, when not frustrated with something or another I am quite enjoying myself and the capabilites that fit inside of that box! (more…)

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