Maine

Spent last weekend up in Farmington, Maine for our annual Survey Team Retreat.  Mostly just a lot of drinking and partying but we managed a day hike up Tumbledown Mountain on Saturday and caught some nice pics of the leaves changing.

google

Really busy at work today so I started typing things into the google search engine to see what it autofinds..."why am i afraid of..." is my favorite starting point.  Many things work like "Why am I.." or "Why are you.."  or "I like to.."

Iron Mike

I watched Tyson today



It's a recent documentary on the greatest fighter of our time. It's mostly an hour and a half of him rambling mixed in with clips of his knockouts..meaning its super awesome.  So I would definitely check it out.  If you don't have time, then just watch these highlights below



More hyphy stuff to check out below

•  a good view point on the health care debate  Complaining about Health Care

• Not sure if I would call this art but its interesting   Confluence

•  This guy travels more than me and it makes me jealous   Where the hell is Matt?

•  Create and publish your own books   Blurb

• A tribute to the late and great   Eternal Moonwalk

"real love"- mary j

getting down in abidjan from doug reid on Vimeo.

events.

today, the soap slipped out of my hand while I was having a shower. it slid down the shower curtain and down the side of the bath like a quarter-pipe. it then shot up the other side of the bath and I casually caught it with my other hand and continued showering. 

watched this video about 10x today, going to set aside 30 mins each night to practice, will let you know how it goes

sicky gnar

couple movies to order, cant stop wont stop watching these trailers

links!!!11one

I'm heading to Australia and New Zealand on my next survey trip in October/November, with one of my survey destinations being Perth, the only major city on Australia's rugged western coast.  As if Perth wasn't remote enough, about 1600 miles off the northwest shore lies Christmas Island, an Australian territory, closer to the islands of Indonesia.  For years, I've been overly interested in this island, since I saw a documentary on their famous annual Red Crab migration.  I'm hoping this might be my best chance to go, since my work will be taking me the majority of the distance, and the timing will be very close to the predicted migration period.  There are some links here below with more info, definitely check out the video.

HD movie on Red Crab Migration 
Wikipedia- Christmas Island 
Christmas Island site- Red Crab info

Recommended reading:
Two amazing books about India, if you've ever been, you need to read these.

A Fine Balance- Rohinton Mistry (this book especially)
White Tiger- Aravind Adiga 




Sirens of Titan- Kurt Vonnegut 
Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut
A couple of really poignant novels written by a famous author of the 1960s.  He mixes satire, black comedy and science fiction in a really interesting way.  If you want to get an idea of what they are like, check out this short story. It's probably my favorite piece of literary work ever written.
Harrison Bergeron- Kurt Vonnegut



excited for this new movie from the Bro Rape creators-

 
An interesting analysis of the Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident:
it takes a socially transcendent moment to remind us what makes life worth living kanye west is a valuable member of society



These Gaspari exercise clips are great for some new lifting ideas-
Gaspari Shoulder Workout 1-



Gaspari Shoulder Workout 2-



 hilarious bud light ad-

travel travel travel

So I took a bit of a hiatus from writing unfortunately, but I'm making it a point to come back with some great new entries.  Until then...here's some recent photos to keep you interested.

Cheers

Ipanema Beach, Rio De Janeiro

Freetown, Sierra Leone from Helipcopter

Maravagi, Solomon Islands

Sands Motel- Socorro, New Mexico

Night sky- White Sands National Park, New Mexico