From Joe McNalley’s Blog:

Visited the Apple store on 5th, and shot a pretty typical up looking view of the spiral staircase there. Liked the graphics of it, until of course an Apple employee stepped up and told me I couldn’t shoot up at the stairs cause somebody might be wearing a skirt. Now in Manhattan [...]

I’ve always said God did create Adam and Steve. He just didn’t put them in the Garden together. I guess I was wrong.

Photo by Marc Da Cunha Lopez

A week or two ago, the mountain side at this end of the valley caught fire. 800 acres burned before it was put out. I can’t even remember why now, but I was down town when it started. Driving home I could see the plume of smoke rising into the air. I could tell it [...]

Tired of feeling fat and out of shape, I’ve been making a concerted effort at getting to the gym on a regular basis. I started swimming a few weeks ago—at the gym, a full hour workout w/ QUAC would kill me right now—and today I was able to finish a length of butterfly w/o feeling [...]

I replaced my dying Saturn over the weekend. Here’ is my new beauty.

I went into my insurance agent today to update my policy. The two ladies in the office looked out the window and did some probably obligatory cooing over my new car. They liked the color. It’s called copper red micah. In the sun [...]

No celebrating spring today. (NSFW/NSFPWTS*)
*Not Safe For People With Tender Sensibilities

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Went to Capitol Reef over the weekend and rode my first honest to goodness mountain bike trail. A few observations:

My ideal bike trail is probably somewhere in Nebraska.
Forward momentum is essential to a vertical orientation.
Two inches of powder fine silt is not conducive to the aforementioned forward momentum nor the accompanying vertical orientation.
@&%#@$! [...]

Remember when it was enough to say “Restricted Area. Authorized personnel only?” Does anyone have any doubts about what “security breach” implies? You’ll be kissing the iron deck before you can say, “Jack Robinson.” (Anyone know who Jack Robinson actually is?)
Every time I fly I am reminded what a joke airport security is these days. [...]

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This is a cool concept. From the artist:

This is the way I see this city (or this country for that matter). A mix of different races, styles that don’t quite fit together yet and don’t understand that in a sense, all of them are necessary to fill one piece of the puzzle and [...]

Well, I survived the first year of graduate school. It was harder than I expected. Probably has something to do with the sink-or-swim philosophy of the practicum experience. I’m sorry, but I just don’t feel qualified to be acting as a therapist to adolescents with some real issues in my first year of graduate school, [...]