Jim Willis

  • Should we bring our #Xtracycle on our DC family vacation to cart kids around mall? Anyone have experience with X + chariot on a DC Metro?

  • A couple pictures from this AM’s 35 miler around Colts Neck

    A couple pictures from this AM’s 35 miler around Colts Neck

    We bailed on last night’s camping trip since both of the kids were already miserably over-tired and heading out on the hottest night of the year didn’t seem like such a great idea. Anyway, I got up…

  • Improved instructions for Columbia Cougar Flats II Tent

    Improved instructions for Columbia Cougar Flats II Tent

    I got this tent a couple of months ago. The first time we went to set it up, I realized that the wrong assembly instructions were included in the box. Fortunately we were just camping in the…

  • Les Paul’s gone at 94. Now there goes a guy who was definitely the change he wanted to see: http://bit.ly/14fjbT

  • Some photos from the MTB race I did this weekend: http://bit.ly/CcxIB note my very expensive MTB racing outfit and cutting edge bike.

  • Some photos from Tatum Park MTB Race

    You’ll notice here my very technical “performance gear.” A lot of the other racers were very interested in and clearly intimidated by my uber-expensive MTB-specific garb. Make note of my high performance jersey with the flattering sweat stains at the end of the race.

  • Anyone in red bank have a 9-pin to 6-pin FireWire cable I can borrow? Dead HD on MBP & need to boot up in target mode to run discwarrior.

  • 7th in 30-39 group, 10th overall in this AM’s MTB race. Legs felt strong on the climbs thx to fitzstrength.com workouts. Thx Fitz!

  • (RT @JackTemplin) T-Shirt: “Don’t Jersey My Providence.” Wearer explained it’s directed at “douche bags who come up, and fight and shit.”

  • A whole lotta pork roll sandwiches made wicked early in the morning of our last fishing trip.

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  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]

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