Siri tried to assassinate me last weekend. Perhaps it wasn’t Siri; perhaps it was Miri, her evil and conniving older sister, who haunts the depths of GPS systems with a District of Columbia street map, and a list of all the one-way streets in America. My family recently got our first GPS system. Naturally, we [...]
Posts Tagged ‘equipment’
The Way to Wal*mart
Posted in life, travel, tagged equipment, humor on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Tupperware: A Phantom Menace
Posted in rant, tagged cooking, equipment, humor on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A new menace to the world order has come to my attention. Even in the most ordered democracies, the presence of just one of these agents introduces entropy and initiates a swift downfall into chaos. Even now, it lurks unsuspected in our homes. This phantom menace? Tupperware. Like most people, I find Tupperware to be [...]
The Nightmares of Planning a Backpacking Trip
Posted in rant, Scouts, travel, tagged camping, equipment, Venturing, what I learned... on June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Having just planned and completed a thirty mile backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail, I am rather tanned, and still getting some grief about my planning process from some of my participants. Here is a summary of lessons learned. Or unlearned. I still feel rather self-righteous. Start Early. I started a little over two months [...]
Notes on Journaling
Posted in fiction, life, rant, travel, tagged equipment, journaling, summer, writing on June 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Journaling is one of those things at which I am really bad. This past week, however, I brought a notebook on our last biennial family reunion, because if there is one thing I am worse at than journaling, it is remembering specific events and ideas. I did not want to forget a thing. During the course [...]
Camping Stoves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged camping, crafts, equipment on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I adore camping and making stuff, It was only a matter of time before I made a camping stove. (Well, perhaps not, I’m a procrastinator.) After checking around, I put together a hodgepodge of instructions from these sites. (included for reference) wikihow, most useful site, and Zen stoves. Further, I decided to post how [...]
