Hey Michael, Below is an email from my youngest Hannah that I would like you to share with the blog. You may recall she is over in Lugano Switzerland looking at her first choice school, Franklin College. She’ll be joined by her boyfriend Willy on Thursday and they will continue on to tour Italy. They […]
Hey Michael, Below is an email from my youngest Hannah that I would like you to share with the blog. You may recall she is over in Lugano Switzerland looking at her first choice school, Franklin College. She’ll be joined by her boyfriend Willy on Thursday and they will continue on to tour Italy. They […]
Michael, Finally, the wildflowers are coming to the foothills. And that’s in spite of two snowstorms we had last week right here in Boulder. (The snow disappeared the next day.) This picture shows the area we XC-skied in at about 10,500 ft the day before yesterday. It’s up above the tunnel under the Front Range […]
Michael, I don’t think this new toy is a spoof. The eyePhone may not actually be available yet, but it looks technologically feasible. It’s just what we Beartooth fogies need to identify those mysterious lakes and mountains without fooling around with maps. I wonder what happens if you point it at yourself? Does it come […]
Mike, A couple of weeks ago, Mrs Rakkity & I got back from a circumnavigation of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.  One of the nicest towns we spent time in was Santa Fe which is so full of street art, art galleries, random art, and “revival adobe”, my little camera nearly caught fire. I […]
From the letters to the editor of The New York Times Book Review. (Travis, please read) To the Editor: Pamela Paul’s riveting, ribald and sophisticated review of Mary Roach’s “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex†(March 30) is accompanied by an intriguing pink portrait of a hypothetical organic molecular entity. Perhaps this molecular […]
Adam’s photo from their rental on Bailey Island.
I sit here watching an adopted baby Brown Headed Cowbird on my deck. He is with his parents. I know that he is adopted because I know a little about the Cowbird and he is twice the size of his parents. He’s demanding attention and they are stuffing him as fast as they can with […]
Michael, many of your readers have probably seen the #5 article, about the itinerant island chain San Serriffe with two main islands Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse, but just in case they didn’t (no pun intended, honest – I didn’t catch it until I re-read this), I do think you should publish it or a […]
City Council Resolution Would Impose Height Restrictions By Oaklined R. Childerings In a move that challenges some of the greatest natural forces on Earth and even the authority of God herself, the Boulder City Council on Tuesday passed a resolution imposing height restrictions on the Flatirons. Created over millions of years by nearly unimaginably powerful […]
As of today, April 1, 2008, Gmail subscribers will be able to pre-date messages, mark as read or unread, and do all those things you forgot to do, like sending late birthday wishes or graduation congratulations on time. Time is limited! You have only until midnight to take advantage of this free offer. –rakkity
Jock lives over there in those condos and this is the second year he’s sent me a postcard from his wife’s family home in Chile. Matt saw only the photo side and said, “Hey, Popodopolis, what’s with the postcard”? I told him to read the back. It’s so much better than, “Having fun, wish you […]