Thursday, May 29, 2008

RedBull air race

check this out!

The race is this weekend on the Detroit river.
They are practicing right now while we all work in the ren cen!
Here is more info on the races . 
Here are more pixs as well :  



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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Urban canoeing

I'm going to put forward a proposal here, and we'll see what you guys think of it. First some background. Last weekend I went canoeing on the Minnehaha Creek. Now this was a fun thing, not just because we brought a cooler of beer along for the ride, but because the creek itself runs through the city. While at some points your environs become secluded enough to make you forget that, at others it becomes quite obvious. Hell, we even made a pit stop at Taco Bell. The whole experience is quite different from a canoe trip through the wilderness. It made me think of this:



For a long time I've thought it would be cool to do a trip on the Rouge River, and now that I'm thinking more seriously about it. Miles of senic parks feeding into a mass of demonic industry and eventually the Detroit river, what could be better?

It wouldn't be that hard, just a day trip thing (although camping out on Zug Island would be pretty sweet). I don't know how high the water has to be or how long a period of the year you can feasibly canoe the Rouge, but I do know people do it, so at least it's possible.

So I'm just trying to check interest here. Who's with me?
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Mood: saucy

Songs I like right now:

Don't You Evah, Spoon
M79, Vampire Weekend
Girls In Their Summer Clothes, The Boss
Half A World Away, REM
No One's Gonna Love You, Band of Horses


My favorite picture right now:






















My favorite animal right now:

















Kyle and his brothers had this for lunch in Belize. It's called a gibnut.
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Let's start off with a gastrointestinal headache...

Kyle was rummaging around for the ibuprofen late the other nigh, but never found it. The next morning he asked Dee where the ibuprofen bottle in their medicine drawer went.

Dee: "You mean the one I filled with Alli?"
Kyle: "Umm..what?"
Dee: "We filled that bottle with Alli for the cruise trip"
Kyle: "Oh. Well, that actually explains some things."

And thus, Kyle realized he had (1) not been treating his headaches for the prior 4 nights as thought, but (2) had instead been taking a diet drug that prevents fat digestion and absorption, resulting in rather unpleasant excretions.
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