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Explaining the Vortex

Saturday, January 11, 2014 // 3 Comments

Recently, much of North America (and it should be noted: ONLY North America) has experienced a brief period of record low temperatures as a result of the unusual but not [more...]

Olympic Selection Process

Friday, November 8, 2013 // 5 Comments

There has recently been some confusion surrounding the question: “how do I get into the Olympics in the sport of speed skating?”. Not helping in any of this is [more...]

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Monday, September 30, 2013 // 0 Comments

10 seats, a toilet shared with other shops and restaurants, and they only serve ludicrously expensive sushi. 85-year-old Jiro Ono runs his 3-Michelin-Star establishment and [more...]

The Killing (not the chicken)

Thursday, April 4, 2013 // 0 Comments

It is a generally known fact among my friends that I do not own a television. I find most television programming to be pretty awful with the exception of a handful of shows. [more...]

The Future of Doping in Sport

Monday, February 25, 2013 // 1 Comment

blood doping, inexpensive and still commonly used For the longest time, I thought that it was a losing battle. The dopers would always outfox the anti-dopers. It was simply a [more...]

New Photo Gadgetry

Thursday, February 7, 2013 // 0 Comments

Sony NEX-6 with Leica Summicron 35mm f/2 Lens It has been a little while since I posted about photography. Sadly I have been very busy and have not been able to update my [more...]

A Consuming Conundrum

Friday, November 30, 2012 // 3 Comments

This is a poem I wrote for Worldwatch Institute Europe’s monthly newsletter. The original post can be found here. I have a problem. I’m stuck in a bind; This [more...]

Basic Training Principles

Tuesday, May 22, 2012 // 2 Comments

A pillow fight is good stress relief Sport is a funny thing. It is almost universally recognized that if you want to be good at a sport, then you have to train for it. [more...]

On Jobs (not Steve)

Sunday, May 20, 2012 // 0 Comments

The Unemployment Rate of Selected EU Countries (source: Google Public Data) People who religiously adhere to, or defend a doctrine are to be treated with suspicion. Nowhere [more...]

You Have AIDS

Monday, May 14, 2012 // 1 Comment

It is no secret that I like mathematics. It is generally known that most of the maths that I’m really into would fall under the heading of “pure [more...]

Anatomy of a Photograph

Sunday, May 13, 2012 // 0 Comments

It seems that it has been a while since I last wrote something about photography. It’s not that I’ve given up or anything – far from it, it’s just [more...]

Cultural Keys

Saturday, May 5, 2012 // 0 Comments

before you read the article – just keep staring at it until you get it Not long ago, I came across this on my facebook news feed with the caption “First you [more...]

Yeowie’s Technique Lab

Friday, November 25, 2011 // 1 Comment

I once read somewhere that if you took a race-ready rally car, and its street-legal equivalent (say a regular Subaru WRX), swapped the tyres, then drove both of them on a [more...]

Inzell with the Danes

Sunday, October 30, 2011 // 0 Comments

Continuing from where the previous post “left off”, the weekend right after Enschede, I found myself in Inzell, Germany coaching and preparing for the ESDP [more...]
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