Monday, March 29, 2004
My second Smithsonian article comes out in April.
Enjoy. I'll post it on the portfolio page when I get all this figured out.
Enjoy. I'll post it on the portfolio page when I get all this figured out.
Monday, March 22, 2004
Apparently, the parachute experiments I conducted with my sister's already battered Barbies (which were still more durable than G.I. Joes, ironically) constituted abuse of a cultural touchstone:
http://www.californiaauthors.com/excerpt_lavoi.shtml
If I had only known. I would have taken more pictures of Suicidal Paratrooper Barbie.
http://www.californiaauthors.com/excerpt_lavoi.shtml
If I had only known. I would have taken more pictures of Suicidal Paratrooper Barbie.
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
I have missed so many continents, but focused intensively on the few I have been to:
create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide
create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide
Monday, March 15, 2004
Check out A Softer World. It's like a visual haiku -- enigmatic, fuzzy, often funny and sometimes a little cruel. Like life. Except on the web, and free.
http://www.asofterworld.com
http://www.asofterworld.com
I recently spent a few days riding in the mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia. It was pretty fantastic -- living, as I do, in Washington, DC, it's always a thrill to get to climb some real hills. Because I always talk about how much I eat, I thought I would document what I consumed in the course of a 65-mile ride to explain why I am still skinny:
3 Clif Bars (Lemon Poppyseed, Cranberry Apple Cherry, and Cool Mint Chocolate -- the first was actually really good, and the latter tasted only slightly better than it looked, and it looked like someone crapped in a foil wrapper) = 230 calories x 3 = 690 calories
3 bananas = 105 calories x 2 = 210 calories
1 Viva Vanilla Clif gel shot = 100 calories of brown rice syrup, with some random electrolytes thrown in
1 Almond Snickers bar = 240 calories
Doritos Jalapeno cheese crackers (seriously: http://taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=249 A fantastic value for just 25 cents.) = 230 calories (that's almost ten jalapeno-rific calories per cent!)
2 bottles of Gatorade = 300 calories
Total = 1770 calories. Considering the mileage and effort, enough to maintain but not increase my weight.
Of course, that's not including breakfast (3 muffins and a banana, insufficient in retrospect), or the two cans of tuna, many tablespoons of mayonnaise, large glass of whole milk, half a box of Triscuits and all the cheese I ate when I got back to the inn, the Triscuits, granola bar and banana I ate on the drive home, or the half-pound of pasta and half-pint of Haagen-Daz I ate when I finally got back to DC.
3 Clif Bars (Lemon Poppyseed, Cranberry Apple Cherry, and Cool Mint Chocolate -- the first was actually really good, and the latter tasted only slightly better than it looked, and it looked like someone crapped in a foil wrapper) = 230 calories x 3 = 690 calories
3 bananas = 105 calories x 2 = 210 calories
1 Viva Vanilla Clif gel shot = 100 calories of brown rice syrup, with some random electrolytes thrown in
1 Almond Snickers bar = 240 calories
Doritos Jalapeno cheese crackers (seriously: http://taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=249 A fantastic value for just 25 cents.) = 230 calories (that's almost ten jalapeno-rific calories per cent!)
2 bottles of Gatorade = 300 calories
Total = 1770 calories. Considering the mileage and effort, enough to maintain but not increase my weight.
Of course, that's not including breakfast (3 muffins and a banana, insufficient in retrospect), or the two cans of tuna, many tablespoons of mayonnaise, large glass of whole milk, half a box of Triscuits and all the cheese I ate when I got back to the inn, the Triscuits, granola bar and banana I ate on the drive home, or the half-pound of pasta and half-pint of Haagen-Daz I ate when I finally got back to DC.
Monday, March 08, 2004
For a while now, I've had a beautiful website built for me by a professional designer.
When I originally decided to revamp andrewcurry.com, I decided part of this beautiful design should include a blog. After all, everybody has a blog nowadays. It's practically an imperative -- a personal website without a constant update on the musings of the owner would be like a fish without a bicycle. Or something.
So as I slowly learn to use my website -- a painfully protracted process that has taken, for a variety of technical reasons, almost a year -- I will be playing with the blog as well, trying to decide if I have anything terribly significant to say, if anyone cares, and if so, why. Stay tuned.
When I originally decided to revamp andrewcurry.com, I decided part of this beautiful design should include a blog. After all, everybody has a blog nowadays. It's practically an imperative -- a personal website without a constant update on the musings of the owner would be like a fish without a bicycle. Or something.
So as I slowly learn to use my website -- a painfully protracted process that has taken, for a variety of technical reasons, almost a year -- I will be playing with the blog as well, trying to decide if I have anything terribly significant to say, if anyone cares, and if so, why. Stay tuned.
