Kate and Rockin’ Ronnie shopping for a new toilet:
… “We need a toilet with a big … capacity,” he boomed.I went crimson. “We have a dog,” I added hastily. …
Kate of Late – Talking about the big white telephone
… Another of the crazy things folks get up to on the left coast of Canada. I told them to get a robo-dog in the first place.
I recall the day I met Kyle. He was age-6 or 7.
… seems just a few years ago.
Kyle:
On May 6th, I turned 30. In celebration, I ran 33km’s. It was my longest run yet and it felt pretty awesome. …While running, I had some time to think and ponder what entering my 30′s means to me. …
In my 30′s, I will:
Be FEARLESS
Be decisive
Let go of my perfectionism
Manage my time and energy more wisely
Make health and activity my #1 priorities
Take on new scary audacious challenges
Stop trying to please everyone
Have more productive screen time
Simplify email: I’m checking it twice a day and that’s it.
Take BIG risks
Create opportunities rather than wait for them to happen
Do things rather than think about doing them
Publish books
Finish what I’ve started
Re-organize and down-size
Take more pictures
Have more dinner parties
Have less stress
Be more appreciative
Enjoy my life
KyleShewfelt.com – Thirties Manifesto
Wise beyond his years.
Better Kyle Shewfelt, than me.
Kyle:
… I both hated and loved the next 45 minutes of my existence. I hated the fact that it was cold, slippery and lonely and that my eye balls were being pummelled by snowflakes. But I loved the fact that I was out there pounding through my sets and feeling the burn. With each journey up the stairs/hill, the layer of snow got thicker on the ground, but my mission got more empowered. …
read more – Hardcore Hills!
From Anne Farries via email:
The grade five/six class at Abby’s school made a pro-environment video.
They hope to win a prize for the highest number of votes. Each view counts as a vote, so feel free to pass the link on.
That’s Abby’s Nova Scotia school in the background 
PS you can also “like” it on Facebook; that counts as a vote, too.
Kim and Karen continue their family world tour. On a quiet Thai island they had free internet, catching us up on the travelogue:
… Koh Lanta is on the west coast of Thailand, about 70 kilometers from Krabi bordering the Andaman Sea. The temperature was between 35 -40 degrees daily, … the sea temperature was between 26 – 28 degrees so it wasn’t as cool and refreshing as you needed at times. The island only has 20,000 people
… The agenda was pretty simple: Planning for the rest of the trip, swimming, drinking pineapple shakes and watching some of the best sunsets I have ever seen while eating supper at the beach restaurants.
There is not too much to do on Koh Lanta and needless to say, we found it very relaxing and reflective and we enjoyed the down time before we ramp up for India, Jordan and Egypt.
We did do a snorkeling day trip to Koh Rok, a small island 45 minutes away. We snorkeled at 3 different places and enjoyed lunch on the island. There were big monitor lizards lounging around the lunch tables, waiting for scraps. It was this islands version of a begging dog. …
Monitor Lizard ??
Morning after the Great West Gym Fest we enjoyed some luxury time up in the Coeur d’Alene Resort Penthouse.
Lisa organized in-suite massage and facial treatments.
The wealthy are not like you and me. They hot tub with vistas like this …
Back at the Adlard’s Candle in the Woods log house, I got 12hrs of sleep. Catching up for some short nights during the meet.
I chased Dave around the back roads one afternoon.
more post Gym Fest photos
I was hosted by Delaney Aldard last week in Idaho.
Your Dad did a great job quarterbacking the Great West Gym Fest.
I spent a couple of weeks hanging out with Doug, his wife Diana, and friends in Port Townsend, Washington.
During the winter Doug does much of his training on the porch, monitoring progress recumbent with multiple “apps”.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Diana and I liked how his body heat melted the frost off the window one chilly morning.
Jeff Jarvis, author of Public Parts:
We are sharing for good reason—not because we are insane, exhibitionistic, or drunk. We are sharing because, at last, we can, and we find benefit in it. Sharing is a social and generous act: it connects us, it establishes and improves relationships, it builds trust, it disarms strangers and stigmas, it fosters the wisdom of the crowd, it enables collaboration, and it empowers us to find, form and act as publics of our own making.
For individuals, sharing is a choice; that is the essence of privacy.
Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, told me that before the net, we had “privacy through obscurity”. We had little chance to be public because we had little access to the tools of publicness: the press, the stage, the broadcast tower (their proprietors were last century’s 1%). Today, we have the opportunity to create, share and connect, and 845m people choose to do so on Facebook alone. Mr Zuckerberg says he is not changing their nature; he is enabling it. …
read more on Buzz Machine
Jeff Jarvis is defending sharing in an Economist magazine debate with Andrew Keen.
I voted for Jeff.
Online sharing is one of the best things that’s happened in my lifetime. But I’m surprised bloggers have not changed the world MORE.
If you are against empowering idiots to spew hate and misinformation online, your best argument is a blog called “LITERALLY UNBELIEVABLE“:
… examples from Facebook of people who think stories from The Onion are real.
You’d successfully argue that many people shouldn’t be allowed to share online.
(via Kottke)
