Author: jedreynolds
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Let’s Make a Better Halloween (rant)
Knowing that 350 million children will groggily wake up on Nov 1 and then dart to their cache of candy and start snarling like wolves when their parents say its time for school makes me a bit depressed. Halloween must be one of the most worthless and most health-destructive holidays ever. Consider what mixed messages…
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Pixie Teeth Soup (Halloween Recipe)
Walnut Brasil Nut 4 Rasins 5 Almonds 4 Pecans 1 tsp sunflour seeds 1 tsp coconut flake Cinnamon, powdered 2 tsp coconut oil You morning coffee Take the bits of your captured pixies from dinner the night before, ya great big orge, and slosh in a bit o’ yer cofee to mix it up. Mmmmm…pixie…
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No Seat…A Bike Lock Alternative?
A friend told me a story–he was behind this guy in line at the store that had a greasy pipe wrapped in a veggie bag sticking out of his shopping basket. “Whats the pipe for?” “Oh, thats my bike seat. We ran out of formula for the baby and my wife said ‘just go real…
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Preserving a Bike in Salt Air for Several Seasons
In the PaNW we dont see winters as bad as on the east coast, and we don’t salt our city streets like they do. Hence our bike apparently last winters much better. However if you live close to the water or are out there in other cold, salty wet climes, this discussion covers a lot…
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How Cool Is This? The Zigo LEADER is COOL
This totally looks like a great kid and shopping friendly trike. It’s not too big, it’s perfectly stable, you don’t have to crane your neck around to check on your child, either. I bet it could carry at least four bags of groceries, too. Zigo LEADER Carrier. This design is kinda close to what I…
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America Becoming a Diabetes Disaster (Reuters)
Those who know me understand I gained a religion of exercise and diet. I used to defend my fat-and-happy lifestyle proudly. I’m happier and more confident that my health will persist into my old age, especially if I don’t drive. At what point must stop taking our health for granted? Our youth betrays our health…
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DIY Front Bucket Panniers (Wheel Revolution)
Pannier bags often crush fragile items like lettuce or squish loaves of bread. Often they are too narrow for really mundane items like … watermelons or pumpkins. Pannier bags are of ten pretty expensive, and they are a chore to wash. A bucket is easy to clean, and if you haul chemicals (like petrol) a…
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On Language by Stephen Fry (video)
Are you a winging pedant? You might feel like one after watching this.
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Touching Story of Recumbent Bike Surpassing Physical Therapy (Wheel Revolution)
I haven’t read such a touching story about how much a bicycle has changed a child’s life before. The Boy got a new lease on life, and an alternative to physical therapy sessions that were the bane of his existence. Now he has a way to exercise that focused on his interests and abilities, rather…
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Paleolithic Bread (NYT)
This is really a fluff article from the NY Times, which is kinda sad. It implies that the Paleo diet (meat and raw veggies, very low carb) might be invalidated by this discovery which pushes the date of the use of flour to 30,000 years ago. However, it doesn’t explain why that actually threatens the…
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