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My Career 2.0
I haven’t been blogging lately, not because I’ve been off section-hiking (I wish) but because I have been very actively rethinking my life and my career. The only way I can describe my mental state...
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Career Change as a Design Problem
It’s interesting how language shapes the way we think. For instance I’ve gone looking for jobs. Sometimes I’ve gone hunting for jobs. The result might be that I find a job opening and then get an...
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Designing a Personal Information Ecology
Tale à la Hoffmann by Paul Klee I am putting together an online portfolio to showcase my abilities in research, structure and design. And of course you can’t think about a design portfolio without...
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The Usable Tweet
Design Framework for a Single Tweet If Twitter is part of your information ecology you are going to run smack into an interesting problem during the design phase – you have no control over the...
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Now Maybe I Can Go Wild Again
I’ve been out of circulation for the past few months, nose in a book…actually nose in many books, learning as much as I can about the field of Information Architecture and User Experience Design. No...
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Trail Running (for Real This Time)
I started running in Vibram Five Fingers, inspired partly by the photo above. Problem is starting a running regime is easy… keeping it up, not so much. I’ve started and restarted a running program a...
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How Now Brown Cow: Chocolate Milk as a Recovery Drink
After hearing for years that water is the best thing to drink after exercise I was surprised to hear that the latest thing in recovery drinks is…chocolate milk! I don’t know if it’s my imagination –...
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Oh Noes! Calf Muscle Strain!
With the Malibu Canyon Dirt Dash a little more than a month away I figured it is high time to hit the hills. So far most of my trail running has been on fairly level ground. On Monday I did four reps...
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Reviews: 3 Gallon, 100 PSI Oilless Pancake Air Compressor
Every suburban frontiersman needs an air compressor, if only to inflate your car tires without shelling out eight bits at the gas station. Two things to consider when buying a portable air compressor...
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Reviews: JawSaw, Chain Saw on a Pole
From the looks of the JawSaw you would think that if Aaron Ralston had one of these wicked beasts in Blue Jay Canyon, the movie 127 Hours would have to be retitled 127 seconds. This thing looks like...
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Posting Just to Post
This post may just be a placeholder – a link in a don’t break the chain experiment that I’m conducting over the next two weeks. This site has gone to seed and I’m going to be looking at what it takes...
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The Last Hike – Caring for an Aging Parent
I’ve been busy “wood shedding” for the past half year because it’s been necessary to spend more time helping my mother with personal care. I never really put much thought into caring for an aging...
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How Do You Help an Aging Parent Adjust to a Move?
They say that nobody feels good about a change except a wet baby. That’s certainly the case when it came time to move Mother closer so she could better “keep an eye on us.” One of the things we noticed...
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Technology for the Elderly
One of my hopes was that we could find a technological solution for my mother that we could use as a kind of “cognitive prosthetic” to help her through some of her short term memory lapses. For...
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A Smarter Pill Reminder?
Medication adherence is a big deal for seniors. Forgetting to take one’s meds on schedule can destabilize a person’s health and lead them down the path to long term care. Medication reminder systems...
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Finding the Ultimate Road Trip Mix
Road trips need music. Some songs are better for the long open road than others and if you can string together a playlist that harmonizes with the emotional tenor of your adventure then you’ve got a...
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Bear-Proof Expedition Quality Kitchen
One of the dreariest chores that goes along with car camping is stashing your cookware and supplies in the bear-proof cupboard at each campsite. You’ll never have to do that again with these...
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How to Avoid Blood-Sucking Vermin (Ticks, Not Lawyers)
If you hike then sooner or later you will have to deal with ticks. These cunning relatives of the spider wait on the ends of leaves and grasses for an unsuspecting mammal to brush past and then climb...
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German Hotel for People Who Want to Pretend They Are Camping
Do you love camping but hate mosquitos and…well, everything that has to do with the outdoors? Welcome to Hüttenpalast, an affordable (30 euros per person, roughly $43), hotel near Berlin that brings...
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Come Home Alive – There’s an App for That
Christopher Van Tilburg talks on Outside Blog about a search and rescue operation that went far better than usual because the stranded hikers had a smartphone. Rescuers were able to get detailed...
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