Siftings
Jul
01
Craig’s Friday Countdown - Bad to Worse
Packing for climbing is a never perfect balance of keeping weight down, while bringing enough stuff to deal with what happens. The dozen things I’ll be schlepping I least want to use:
12. Excedrin. Probably will, given seashore to 10,000 foot (or thereabouts) camp in less than one...
Jun
26
Routes
This won’t help at all. Outdoor World has an end cap with Wiffle Ball bats. I went in looking for some category 4 sunglasses. Otherwise known as glacier glasses, the dark tinted lenses and sideshields are necessary while at altitude, on snow. Three-day weekend coming up and snow-capped Mount...
Jun
17
Craig’s Friday Countdown Local Econ
How do you build a local economy to last? A dozen bad ideas, a dozen good ones, and two in the middle that locals are always certain of … because travel is too darn scary for some.
24. Hated, Bigotry, Violence
23. Deprivation, Inequity
22. Bad Math Skills
21. Animal...
Jun
10
Craig’s Friday Countdown KSG Kernels
There’s this school out east that has this program I scammed my way into 15 years ago this week (more here). I listened and / or took notes while there. 25 actual transcriptions from my notes below that may or may not be helpful [with 2016 notes that also may or may not be helpful].
25. Try...
Jun
08
Reverie in the Round
First in my class at Harvard. It’s a joke, of course, but it was also a little bit true. If you’re the first in your family to go to college, occupying a seat at Harvard’s Kennedy School seems like a fraud on the scale of securing a major political party’s nomination for President of these United...
Jun
03
Craig’s Friday Countdown - Teen(ish) Flicks
The countdown is a countup this week, with movies boys should watch on their way to becoming young men. Or, perhaps, they’re movies I watched somewhere along the way. Instead of rank order, presented in ascending age.
7 - 9 Star Wars (by “Star Wars”, I mean Han Solo is on screen)
10...
Jun
02
Zen Gardening
A text comes through from the first-born. Amanda’s passed a test she had to take for her new teaching position. “Of course you did” I reply. Like there’s some chance a multiple-choice test is going to trip her up. A wonderful Memorial Day weekend of NorCal wanderings leaves many memories. ...
May
26
Reading Recommendation
I covered team as family stand-in a few days ago (here), but this (here) is much more poignant and well worth a few minutes of your time whether you're a baseball fan or not. Get a tissue at the ready.
May
22
Pie; Chart
Just a day. Best of times and worst of times already taken so, just a day. Thereabouts nineteen and a half thousand so far and, let me check the official Social Security life expectancy table (fun times, click here) … twenty-seven point zero one years left. Rats. Now I have to convert .01 years...
May
20
Craig’s Friday Countdown Best Endings
Caught in a meeting going nowhere, two Siftings rattling around in my head, but it’s not like I can whip out the laptop and start maneuvering words into order. But I can hand write a list and make it look like I’m taking notes. Thus (off the top of my head, so I could be way off) the best ending...
