[ [ WARNING ] ] Posts consist of the irate rantings of a graduate student who has spent the past several years studying religions, ethics, public health, and environmental issues. In addition to this, he has become a bit of a cycling fanatic in order to maintain what little sanity he still possesses. Read with caution, a grain of salt, a good meal, and a cold beer.
Working for the weekend. Set up a nice “holiday gift ideas” display.
“Doored” - Btw, it hurts when you get doored on a bike. My knuckle is still not quite right from my “door-prize” over a month ago.
Reblogged from maxistentialist.
Count me in!
I want your handwriting.
Have you ever considered how strange it is that handwriting fonts have come to convey a kind of folksy authenticity in the design lexicon of our age? It’s disingenuous. Handwriting fonts - especially the ones you see everywhere (Comic Sans, Papyrus, Lucida Handwriting) - are mechanically reproduced and manipulated into a kind of cloying, fake, plastic perfection.
Penmanship is mostly a lost art - it is (rightfully) taught less and less in school, and the opportunities for people to see your handwriting are few and far between. As a result, modern handwriting looks really cool. What’s authentic and charming and inviting about real handwriting are the little imperfections that prove it came from a real person.
SO - I have decided to become a collector of handwriting.
Here’s how it works:
- You reblog this or email/Facebook me
- I’ll arrange for you to pick up a template
- You’ll fill it out
- I will create a TrueType font from your handwriting and send it to you
As I collect handwriting, I will periodically post things rendered in the handwriting of the donor - things they have taught me, important aspects of our relationship, jokes they have told me… we’ll see.
Please donate today.
The Tallest Man On Earth play NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert
Love this so much… Strange how sometimes certain music just speaks to you.
Granted, I’ve heard an excellent argument for Jesus being a vampire.
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I’ve been a big Smartwool fan for years and am looking at venturing out into some of their cycling gear - specifically the roadie jerseys. Has anyone used this stuff? If so, what are your thoughts, comments, concerns?
Just had baked sweet potato, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, and some baked salmon with a glaze of soy sauce, spicy mustard, and brown sugar.
Now I’m full, and back to working on this presentation.
Reblogged from caleyhustle.
Hell yes.
caleyhustle:(via twodayslater)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My cat is currently loving the inside of my boat shoe. Silly Lucy.
White gold in southern georgia. Have to say the cotton fields are really something.
Florida citrus is the best citrus. Just saying.
Where Are You Go - A Film about the Tour d’Afrique
Directed by Benny Zenga & Brian Vernor.
Four months on a bicycle between Cairo, Egypt and Cape Town South Africa is not your typical African safari.
En route with the Tour d’ Afrique, the world’s longest bicycle race and expedition, the Zenga Bros. (CAN) and Brian Vernor (USA) make light of this physically daunting trip by sharing a universal love of the bicycle with Africa’s roadside mechanics, sporting racers, and innumerable curious strangers.
Traveling more than 70 miles per day, 50 racers and expedition riders experienced the boundless Nubian desert of Sudan, the great majesty of Victoria Falls, and finally the cold rush of the Atlantic Ocean.
Where Are You Go captures the 7,000 mile expedition as a constant adventure full of playfulness and mysterious beauty, and is a testament to the endurance of human curiosity.”
I need to do something epic like this in the next couple years I think.
Reblogged from bikepornftw.
![Reblogged - bikepornftw:[daily dose of imagery] wheels on red
Bummer…. those wheels need bikes….](http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kto30kmrVV1qzz4s3o1_400.jpg)
Reblogged - bikepornftw:[daily dose of imagery] wheels on red
Bummer…. those wheels need bikes….
“All of man’s work is bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.”
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo - From Hagakure - The Book of the Samurai
