dinking out of cups!

So did the layout of the blog change, or is my computer funky? Did I like it better before? Probs...

PLEASE ALEX!!

alex you should try and make one of these movies: download some animated movie and then begin to develop a sound track rooted in the sounds produced from the movie--along with your own arrangement of noises too!!!

What weve all been waiting for... (sorta)

Boondock saints 2, unfortunately it doesn't look like its gonna be as good...

wow.

this is why raven may not appreciate the blog...

My dad showed me this video, he said it reminded him of Michael

My solo hike

On Monday I went on my first solo hike in the Olympics. I was looking at a map of the Olympics and I realized that despite having gone hiking there every year since I learned how to walk, I still have not been on the vast majority of the trails. There is still so much of the Olympics that I haven't even seen. So rather than sit around like I've been doing most Monday Tuesdays, I decided to go hiking. My trail was a 7 mile trek up to Royal Lake located in the North-East corner of the park where I would camp and than come back the next day. I expected it to be rainy, so I packed everything in plastic bags. On Monday morning, as I started driving out, it was rainy. But after I crosses the Hood Canal bridge, it lessened up, and even stopped. At the Ranger Station in Port Angeles I got a Bear Canister and the Ranger told me to be careful of snow on the road and the trail. As soon as I started hiking it became apparent that neither was going to be a problem. The path was a little soggy, and as I got higher, it even started to snow a little bit. Must have been one of the first snows of the season. The higher I climbed the more the snow stuck to the leaves and grasses until it was even on the path. I met one guy coming down, the only other person I saw, and he seemed disappointed with the weather, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I got to Royal Lake earlier than I expected, I didn't have a watch, but there was still a lot of light, so I continued up the path hoping to find a campsite with a better view. But the snow just kept getting deeper and the trees sparser, so after enjoying the view I want back to the lake. That night was cold. I guess my sleeping bag was inside out or something because I could not stay warm. I spent most of the night fantasizing about turning on the heat in the car. The next morning everything was frozen. The path crunched underfoot and there was a skin on all the puddles and part of the lake. The sky had also cleared up and much of it was blue. I enjoyed a leisurely walk back to the car and promptly turned on the heat. I posted the photos on facebook, you guys should all go look at them.

Sweet Song

Alternitive to Girl Talk

Click the photos to get a larger picture!!

have you seen the vid??

Aesop Rock--Coffee

amazing little kids.

they can do some of the same stuff those ripped black guys can.

thomas edison: the original stunt cyclist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZjd9pBmLoU

Truth probably doesn't exist

I had a philosophy debate (for class) today, and was on the side of epistemic relativism, arguing against epistemic realism (which holds that there is absolute truth). We didn't get to choose our sides, which was probably good, cause I learned some neat stuff and it's good practice arguing things you don't necessarily agree with. While I was preparing for the debate and debating, I wrote/said the following:

Generally speaking, I think we can agree that the accumulation of knowledge is dependent upon our sensory apparatus. Something happens in the outside world, we actively or passively gather information about it, our brains process the information, and the end result is conscious perception. Implicit in this argument, and throughout society, is the concept of causality. Causality says that there is a cause for every effect/event. While the concept has proven convenient for survival, the existence of causality cannot be substantiated. In gathering knowledge, we are stimulated by something we consider to be external; however, if there is no causality, there is no stimulus, and no evidence of an external reality.

Now, there is substantial evidence for causality, and we base our actions on its consistency in our every day life. However, if we accept causality, we have to ask where Truth comes from; if the response is "we created it," then it is necessarily relative to the self, because realism argues that truth and reality exist independent of individuals. This argument is self-defeating, as causality necessitates a cause for every effect/event/existence. If you make an exception for Truth, then causality goes out the window, because a true theory requires 100% consistency. So there is no truth independent of the individual.

So it leaves you with two options, each with rather large implications. I think it's a pretty successful argument against either A) absolute truth or B) external reality. Thoughts?

such a great vid--Passion pit.

The Waking Life

This is a pretty sick/trippy movie about lucid dreaming and other neat things. It is kind of a mind fuck at times, but a very good experience while high. I recommend that everyone watch this (stoned) if you get the chance

THE WAKING LIFE

meet up nov 7 weekend

hello all - travel plans.
I am thinkin trying to make it western on the weekend of the 7th. is anyone thinking of coming down or do western people wanna meet halfway? possibly olympia or portland? or all the way to eugene? lets talk about it. it took about 3 hours to get portland via thumb and charlie powers attersted to the ease of getting from western to olympia. also corbin said that you can catch two buses for two dollars that can get you too seattle. point being that we could make this happen without chris's car if need be and that this could happen without having to deal with greyhounds or amtraks and such.

free information

if anybody is interested, today i got my hands on a u of o student's doctoral thesis on the history of oregon forest defense 1980 -2005. its a fat pdf so if anybody wants it, i can send it via email. i would highly recommend it, even just as a reference

Sprint Triathlon

Ive decided that Im going to train for a sprint triathlon over winter break instead of an olympic in the spring. Presently I spend 2 to 3 hours a day running 2 miles biking 8-15 and swimming 1/3 of a mile. this is about a third of an olympic and 2/3 of a sprint. While what I am doing is physically sustainable, and satisfying besides, it would be a seriose time commitment to do the 5 hours a day nessisary for an olympic. on a side note im finding strength training is waaayyyyy easyer for geting quick easy results... If the sprint is gratifying then I can continue/increase my regimin for a spring. otherwise F dat S all I need is fluffy muscles.

So I just wrote an email to Ben and realized this portion of it might be a good brief update on the trip so far:

I flew into Mumbai a couple days ago, stayed with a guy I met on couch surfing, and flew to Delhi yesterday morning. If one word were to encapsulate India so far it would be paradox. It is the most beautiful, ugly, human, inhuman, sweet smelling and stinking place I have ever been. The list could go way, way on. It also fills the outsider with paradox: mine right now is feeling immensely poetic and utterly speechless. Another way to describe it, more succinctly, would be fucking insane. I couldn't begin to say more than that. It's only 1 in the afternoon, and I've already ridden in four autorickshaws, two cyclerickshaws, a donkey, and a horse carraige (not costing more than a dollar), and walked entirely lost through an endless labyrinth of alleyways lined with shops selling everying on the face of the earth, pushing my way through a shouting throng of men and women and children, stepping over and around dead dogs, human feces, children playing dice, beautiful women in spotless saris crouched in the mud spinning cloth, legless half starved men staring blankly through gaunt eyes muttering unintelligibly and holding up fingerless, filthy stumps of hands...

sick nasty

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/news/trip-jennings.html this guys moved out of the coops this fall. puts andrew shurka to shame. trip jennings

two more for perspective

quality.

this is crazy

this hammock looks simply amazing--saw this on a website ben shared with me earlier today--www.newtribe.com

pickaxe

the main guy in the title sequence dropped by the lorax last night - check out this movie it has ten parts that you should watch in succession - also the oft refered elliott forest defenders are all current loraxers. this video is amazing. when you have some time please watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPELRGjuEB0

Insight

"There is a myth about such highs, the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved while high are real insights and the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we're down the next day... If I find in the morning a message from myself the night before informing me that there is a world around is which we can barely sense, or that we can become one with the universe, or that even some politicians are desperately frightened men, I may tend to disbelieve; but when I'm high I know about this disbelief. And so I have a tape in which I exhort myself to take such remarks seriously. I say, 'Listen closely, you sonofabitch of the morning! This stuff is real!"

~Carl Sagen

This is from a book I just read.

dante versus nathan

thats wassup

Anderson silva triangle chokes !the shit! out of george pussy saint pierre

just so it can be known---Dante 1---Nathan 0
time: 2:37
by way of triangle choke

I AM NOT GOING TO CALIFORNIA

REPEAT: I AM NOT GOING TO CALI

I WOULD BE DOWN TO GO TO WESTERN

CALL ME ASAP

-MICHAEL

WEEKEND OF THE 10TH -update-

alright everyone--i have been making phones calls today and it looks like for the weekend of october 10th i will be heading back down to bainbridge on thursday to say goodbye to tevon. on friday i will leave with michael and chris to go to bellingham and on sunday they'll head back to the island. Alex that means that i will see you on the island on thursday and thursday night and that chris and michael will be back on sunday to hang out too!!

Alex Watch This

The Avengers Promise (Promissum Vltoris) from Nick Mikula on Vimeo.

Osho on 'Fuck'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7rWLzloOI

anyone watch the movie!???

music

Hey whats everyone listening too? I am interested to see if you guys have found some new stuff - looking for suggestions. Been super into Hieroglyphics and the Roots. What about you?

Matt porn

So me and dante were talking about merits of cross fit vs more conventional training and dante cited matts body, specifically upper body, as a reason why crossfit is better. He mentioned that it has a very unique build. Needless to say I find it hard to believe that your physique using crossfit could be any more spectacular than it was previosly. please post a photo (pants optional)

MUST SEE!!!!!

matt chris ben --you guys MUST watch this video all the way through--it's a documentary on netflix and it is VERY insightful you can stream it


please watch and let me know when you have

the union: the business of getting high

WFR

I don't know who may be interested in this, but I am strongly considering taking this course over winter break. It is a little less than ideal in terms of matching up with western's break dates, i.e. it is 10 days long and runs right to the end of it.

HAHAHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss8LDBNcsWc

the real mgmt

the original video is soo much better

I don't know if all of you have seen this, but it comes out on the 9th, and we are all seeing it.

there you go nathan

see what i mean