Oats and Iron

Steel cut oats are my favorite food. I used to type a lot about diet and weight training, but these days I share more about my friends and random things I am thinking about.

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October 8
photo Oct 4th 2009 at Body EnglishVegas Crew - Sean, David, Me, and Paul

photo Oct 4th 2009 at Body English
Vegas Crew - Sean, David, Me, and Paul

October 7

vincentpeone:

This past March, a team of French documentary filmmakers followed me around for a segment on their European based television show about the lives of young professionals working in major cities all over the world. This one spotlights New York. My portion starts around 3:45 and continues at 8:51. I can’t believe how pretentious I sound when I mention the Opera.
October 5
As seen in a restaurant poster in Boulder City, Nevada USA

As seen in a restaurant poster in Boulder City, Nevada USA

October 4
David and I dressed for success going out for our last night of Vegas partying

David and I dressed for success going out for our last night of Vegas partying

October 3
Cowboy Boots in Las Vegas

Cowboy Boots in Las Vegas

September 27
Airplane reading (going to Las Vegas) Travel through the Congo

Airplane reading (going to Las Vegas) Travel through the Congo

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Friends Newsletter - September News?

Share your September news for my Friends Newsletter. Did you get a fancy new job at Boxee, launch your new Photojojo book, or learn how to make a new tuna casserole? (OK that last one was me) This month is going to be “short and sweet” so apologies in advance if I don’t include everyone. Please share your news here.

September 26

A video blog “vidblog” that I made in 2004!

Zach reminded me of these last night. Was this the last vidblog I made? I’m not sure. It opens with my friend Andrew Estel conducting his first symphony. Then some clips with Jesse Turcotte, me climbing my favorite trees in the world, a juggler, etc. Vidblogs are a great excuse to take random video clips!

September 25
Happy Birthday Zach Klein

Happy Birthday Zach Klein

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exmilitary: FOUR hundred years ago our understanding of the universe changed for ever. On August 25th 1609 an Italian mathematician called Galileo Galilei demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the merchants of Venice. Shortly afterwards he turned it on the skies. He saw mountains casting shadows on the moon and realised this body was a world, like the Earth, endowed with complicated terrain. He saw the moons of Jupiter—objects that circled another heavenly body in direct disobedience of the church’s teaching. He saw the moonlike phases of Venus, indicating that this planet circled the sun, not the Earth, in even greater disobedience of the priests. He saw sunspots, demonstrating that the sun itself was not the perfect orb demanded by the Greek cosmology that had been adopted by the church…. That observation was the first hint that, not only is the Earth not the centre of things, but those things are vastly, almost incomprehensibly, bigger than people up until that date had dreamed.(via Galileo, four centuries on: As important as Darwin | The Economist) Imagine that - only 400 years ago - someone realized that the foundations of Western space thought were dead wrong. I’d like to use this story of Galileo in one of my upcoming short motivational speeches.

exmilitary:

FOUR hundred years ago our understanding of the universe changed for ever. On August 25th 1609 an Italian mathematician called Galileo Galilei demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the merchants of Venice. Shortly afterwards he turned it on the skies. He saw mountains casting shadows on the moon and realised this body was a world, like the Earth, endowed with complicated terrain. He saw the moons of Jupiter—objects that circled another heavenly body in direct disobedience of the church’s teaching. He saw the moonlike phases of Venus, indicating that this planet circled the sun, not the Earth, in even greater disobedience of the priests. He saw sunspots, demonstrating that the sun itself was not the perfect orb demanded by the Greek cosmology that had been adopted by the church…. That observation was the first hint that, not only is the Earth not the centre of things, but those things are vastly, almost incomprehensibly, bigger than people up until that date had dreamed.
(via Galileo, four centuries on: As important as Darwin | The Economist)

Imagine that - only 400 years ago - someone realized that the foundations of Western space thought were dead wrong.

I’d like to use this story of Galileo in one of my upcoming short motivational speeches.