Axoplasm / Web-log / 2022

December

Narrow urban forest path shrouded in fog and mist. The deciduous trees (mostly maples) are bare of leaves. English ivy creeps up the trunks and along the forest floor. Air is ripe with the smell of vegetation, fir trees, and wet leaves. The fog lends a fe

2022-12-30

The Local Legend

I’m not resolving this per se but I am setting the goal for myself of claiming — and keeping for all of 2023 — the Local Legend laurels for six Strava segments on my favorite hill

X-ray of my left collarbone, showing clean breaks in two places

2022-12-12

Car insurance as health insurance

Why my car insurance company was a better health insurance company than my health insurance company

November

Selfie taken while riding the cargo bike, downward view, my face only partially visible, several bags of groceries on the bike behind me

2022-11-14

♥ Five times my bike has touched a car

In the 20 years and 100K mi that I have ridden on Portland area streets, my bike has contacted a car five times

handmade sign at a very muddy cyclocross race, showing a raised middle finger and the text “we’re #2”

2022-11-09

Not a Joiner

Something I have known about myself since childhood is that I am Not a Joiner, but despite myself I have wound up in a community

October

2022-10-17

Back to the office

I was back in the office for the first time in 30 months

September

2022-09-19

Boris at Revolution Hall

I do seriously wonder why I enjoy punishing myself like this

August

Backpackers traversing a hillside, Mt. Jefferson in the near distance

2022-08-26

Every other week off the grid is not enough

“How can these OLD PEOPLE walk SO FAST without STOPPING?“

Low perspective photo of our dog Kuma on the beach

2022-08-14

Marathons

I can run a marathon forever if I don’t ever stop running

July

2022-07-14

Minnesota

We spent a long weekend laying my father-in-law to rest

2022-07-04

Read the Constitution, it might surprise you

On America Day™ I encourage all my friends to read the Constitution. It won’t even take an hour!

2022-07-04

I ran the numbers

For no reason at all I ran the numbers on my other obsessive website

Four books in a pile: DISPATCHES FROM ANARRES, CYCLING REVOLUTION by Patrick Field, ENDLESS LOOP by Mark Jones Lorenzo, and FIRST PERSON SINGULAR by Haruki Murakami

2022-07-01

It was bound to happen eventually 🤒

I’m the first person in our family to test positive

Sticker on a bike rack reading “53 miles per burrito”

2022-06-10

If I could somehow metabolize gasoline…

…I would get 718mpg and it would cost me less than 1¢/mi

2022-06-06

Ballet explainer for ballet-illiterate ballet parents

It took me like 5 years to figure out ballets have plots in the same sense as Fast-n-Furious movies. You don’t have to understand “what’s happening,” you’re not here for the plot. You’re just here for a specific kind of technical mastery.