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BIG NEWS FROM ME: Ultra-Something is now available as an audiobook! Narrated by the author (me!). After enough people said they would like to listen to the book while running, I finally caved and spent 30+ hours recording, editing, googling audio settings, and very nearly tearing my hair out (but not quite).
- Audible
- Amazon
- Apple Books
My friend Nate Bender competed in the five-day Snowman Race in Bhutan in 2022, and he recently put together this amazing map story about the adventure. I highly recommend viewing/reading it on a laptop or desktop computer instead of a phone to get the full experience of the photos, 3D map animations, and videos.
As I said in the comments of Michael Estrin’s latest Substack piece, “Inconsiderate Yogi,” it’s not the person being loud at the campground late into the evening keeping me from sleeping, it’s my fuming inner rage that someone is being inconsiderate at a campground (which is about me, not them).
I’m pretty neutral on candy corn in general, but I do enjoy a good defense of “a thing that’s cool to hate. You know, tell me about something you love instead of complaining about things you don’t like. Anyway, this is a fun read: Actually, Candy Corn Is Great
As the parent of a toddler, I am enjoying revisiting Richard Scarry’s wonderful illustrated books (Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, Busy, Busy World, etc.). So I’m the prime audience for this thoughtful look back on Scarry’s life, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. But maybe you are too? (via Kottke.org)
I don’t know why Reddit fed me this, but there’s some crazy artwork in this post titled “Some actual photos of the house I grew up in,” starting with those dolphins.
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Writer, artist, filmmaker, columnist for Outside Magazine. My newsletter about creativity, adventure, and enthusiasm goes out to 15,000+ subscribers every week.
Friday Inspiration 458 If you click on this video, make sure you have 14 minutes to watch it uninterrupted. It’s slow, but I think it needs to be slow to help you feel what it’s really like to live in Forrest, Australia, population 2. I absolutely love the shot of the bicycles on the runway. (via Kottke.org)(video) NOTE: I have a bunch of new stuff I’ve made for the holidays this year, and I’ll be sharing it at the bottom of the next few Friday newsletters so this doesn’t turn into *yet...
Somebody Should Do Something About This It was a couple years ago, probably eightish miles up the Stuart Peak trail, when I first started thinking about it. A small tree had fallen perpendicular across the trail, no more than four inches in diameter. I had to slow my already-not-that-fast uphill running trot to almost a complete stop to step over the tree. Of course I thought for a half-second, like you always do, that my day would be a tiny bit more pleasant if that tree had not fallen...
Friday Inspiration 457 This film takes its time letting this guy Beneke de Wet drop some bits of wisdom, but it’s worth the wait (video)(thanks, Nate) I’m pretty sure I shared an article a couple years ago about the special secret mud that gets rubbed on every ball used in a Major League Baseball game, but this is kind of a summary of that same story with a new twist: University of Pennsylvania researchers conducted a study to figure out that yes, the mud has unique properties that can’t be...