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someday maybe the Huffy in the basement will get this treatment

dare to be crafty - Katie kravings

dare to be crafty:

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Dandidit

Dandidit is a graphic signs designer in Brookfield, CT.:

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And a friend of mine....it looks just like him!

Open Water Rowing Center in San Francisco | OutsideOnline.com | Dropping In | OutsideOnline.com

Open Water Rowing Center in San Francisco | OutsideOnline.com | Dropping In | OutsideOnline.com: "SCULL CRUSHERS
On wind-blasted San Fran­cisco Bay, a crew of hardcore rowers dodges freighters and fog banks for kicks. They are mostly women over 40. And they will destroy you."

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CrossFit Tips with ESPN's Erin Andrews

CrossFit Tips with ESPN's Erin Andrews

Chocolate Mousse

4-minute Chocolate Mousse: "This incredibly decadent, luxurious chocolate mousse recipe comes to us from Gordon Ramsay (to whom I lovingly refer as Angry Chef). You have to try this! It's worth every single minute of effort.

Made this for Katie's birthday, which is today! - 21. I guess it must take some practice to get down to 4 minutes...probably took me about 12 minutes.
Now where is that bottle of wine?



WARNING: THE FOLLOWING RECIPE IS EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE"

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The best out-of-office email ever written

The best out-of-office email ever written: "You know the worst thing about going on vacation? Writing your out-of-office email message."

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I am currently out of the office on vacation.

I know I’m supposed to say that I’ll have limited access to email and won’t be able to respond until I return — but that’s not true. My blackberry will be with me and I can respond if I need to. And I recognize that I’ll probably need to interrupt my vacation from time to time to deal with something urgent.

That said, I promised my wife that I am going to try to disconnect, get away and enjoy our vacation as much as possible. So, I’m going to experiment with something new. I’m going to leave the decision in your hands:

If your email truly is urgent and you need a response while I’m on vacation, please resend it to interruptyourvacation@[redacted].com and I’ll try to respond to it promptly.
If you think someone else at [the company] might be able to help you, feel free to email my assistant, and she’ll try to point you in the right direction.
· Otherwise, I’ll respond when I return…

Warm regards,

Josh

I like these bars...

Metropolis City 31.8X620 Black

I saw these bars on a bike at the REI store in Norwalk this morning. Salesman came over and ask what he could do for me. I said "I want those bars!". We finally arrived in the bike shop and eventually discovered similar bar that had been removed for another bike....manager said ten bucks. I said sold!

GMS Rowing Center a Quiet Success Story - Sports - Housatonic Times

GMS Rowing Center a Quiet Success Story - Sports - Housatonic Times: One of the quietest yet most significant success stories in New Milford area sports over the past decade has been the GMS Rowing Center.

tattly

Tattly is a temporary tattoo store for design-minded kids and kids-at-heart. After applying many bad-clip-art tattoos on her daughter, swissmiss decided to stop complaining and take matters into her own hands. Tattly was born. Now, let's rock the tattoo world together.

rainy sunday practice for Dragon boat race

Dragon boat practice in the rain today up on Candlewood lake. getting ready for next Saturday's racing at Lynn Deming Park in New Milford. Saw a bald eagle flying along the shore...that was neat! Water was in the high 70's I'm guessing....like a bath tub.

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chalk up another vacation on the Cape

signs of life: MOVE, LEARN and EAT

MOVE on Vimeo: "3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ....into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films....."

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

reading this - Pirate Latitudes

Michael Crichton's career has been peaked by darkly exploratory journeys into science gone wrong with novels like Sphere, Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Congo, and while I've always appreciated his knack for creating believable, if not plausible, sci-fi scenarios using his love with certain areas of fringe tech, some of his more entertaining books come about when he steps away from the schematics and computer print outs and goes to town in a world of complete fantasy. Such is Pirate Latitudes, the last book ever written in full by Crichton, which was discovered on the author's computer after his death in November '08.

There are no moral tales of the responsibility inherent to toying with the genome or brushing shoulders with extinct species found here. Rather, Pirate Latitudes is more in league with Eaters of the Dead and The Great Train Robbery; a pure adventure story. However, while you may be expecting a pirate book arriving after the monumental success of Pirates of the Caribbean to feature out-of-this-world plot devices and ridiculously zany, swashbuckling set pieces, rest assured that Captain Jack Sparrow has left no visible imprint on Crichton's latest. No, Pirate Latitudes is a hard-boiled, men-on-a-mission thriller that has more in common with Michael Mann's Heat or Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds; it just happens to be set in a wonderous time when anything seemed possible, a time when sea dragons and cannibal natives may not have just been tall tales.