Author: Zane Selvans

A former space explorer, now marooned on a beautiful, dying world.

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Tweets for the week of 2010-11-28

  • Strangely, I'm kind of looking forward to a hermit holiday season. #
  • I've never had control of the thermostat in a truly cold place. I'm sure I'll lose this game of chicken eventually. #
  • Saturating my net connection with a panoply of shared digital memories for local manipulation. Trust me… 2+2=5. #ideotrope #
  • 50,000 images spanning more than a decade. Enough metadata wrangling for one day. #
  • Giving thanks that our server hardware and data have survived so much neglect. Geeky but true! #
  • William Gibson's "The Road to Oceania" http://nyti.ms/eosLkq comes to mind in these strange days. @wikileaks #
  • It's a good sign when tasting the soup inadvertently becomes eating out of the soup pot. Tomato, butternut, broccoli w/ caramelized onions. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-11-21

  • Happy to finally get around to demonstrating that the no-knead bread works in Colorado, too. Twice in one day, no less! #
  • Leaky, uninsulated, uncomfortable tub with no cover. *sigh* Sometimes I do miss お風呂. #
  • This weather is good for coding… but not so good for drying laundry. #
  • IEA says Peak (conventional) Oil was 2006, w/ world on track to stabilize CO2 at ~650ppm, or 3.5°C of warming: http://bit.ly/c842Zt #
  • Does using my laptop to keep bread dough warm and rising overnight even though the heat is off count as being energy efficient? #
  • Sliding into some electronica mediated nocturnal database manipulation. Yeehaw! Thank you Software Carpentry. #
  • You know your software is out of date when the only docs you can find are 4 years old, 3rd party, and already referred to it as out of date. #
  • We all have (inaccurate) internal copies of our shared memories, but how do we decide who "owns" the ones we've externalized? #ideotrope #
  • An evening of bike pr0n hosted by a local welding shop, afterparty at potato vodka distillery. Whoa. She had a penis on her forehead. #
  • Off to see what the last farmers market of the year has to offer. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-11-14

  • Grocery shopping on the last day of (indian) summer. #
  • Boulder peeps, the city needs your input on proposed sustainability plans: http://bit.ly/9gJ5rG Please share with others! #
  • My winterbike workshop outline: http://bit.ly/a2d0mJ Let me know what you think! #
  • Oh man, that stuff falling outside is definitely not rain. Not even close! I'm gonna go downstairs and get studded. #
  • Great to see the city talking to planners from Amsterdam. I hope we can learn from them. Thanks @bouldergobldr for arranging the visit! #
  • Headed out to the @communitycycles wheelbuilding party. I'll be stoked if I can finish 2 in 5 hours. We'll see. #
  • Insomnia. Reading "7 Rules for Sustainable Communities" at suggestion of @worldchanging but even urban planning won't put me to sleep. #
  • Unlike Pasadena, I guess it *will* eventually get cold enough that I *need* to turn the heat on here. If only I lived in a PassivHaus! #
  • Every war has more than one side, and less than one victory. Some thoughts from Mark Twain: http://warprayer.org #
  • Right. Interacting with people is complex. How did I forget that? Out of practice, if ever I was in practice to begin with. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-11-07

  • Today is a work day. Going to generate xmp sidecar files from exif and text data. I know, it sounds exciting, doesn't it. #
  • Reorganizing my external memory. I wish old photos didn't make me cry. Part of why I put off this DB migration? http://plixi.com/p/54449616 #
  • Taking Jane Jacobs to downtown Boulder for some coffee and a little livable streets research. #
  • On being car-free in Boulder, how it's different from SoCal, and how the advocacy might be different too: http://bit.ly/ccKSxO #
  • Bioneers so far seems aimed at homestead and not city scale systems… The 18th and not the 21st century. #
  • Saddened by Dark Green dismissal of 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, I salvaged 15kg of organic grapes from a dumpster. #
  • Shocked and appalled by the breadth and depth of anti-urban sentiment in America. *sigh* #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-10-31

  • Yikes, did I really just stay up until 5:30am writing about bikes and urban planning in Boulder? http://bit.ly/9hWrp0 #
  • If you bike or walk in Boulder and you like Ethiopian food, maybe eat at Ras Kassa's a few times while the 30th St. underpass gets built! #
  • Voted by mail last week. Hate the party-ticket feeling. Can't imagine propositions going any way but mine, but I've felt that way before… #
  • For richer or for poorer… how much is enough? http://bit.ly/cGAXuu #
  • Mmmmm… Farmer John and the Cyclist's Avenging Angel. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-10-24

  • This has been quite the morning… I think it may take me the rest of the day just to recover. #
  • As if I needed more reasons not to fly. Maybe I'll just take off *all* my clothes at security next time… http://bit.ly/8XEf8d #
  • I need to find a job. Then I can start growing out my winter beard! #
  • Khakis. Shave. Haircut. Gonna play like I'm a grownup tomorrow for a few hours, before heading out to absorb some moonlight. #
  • Two bike rides in one day with two friends, one old, one new. Also a four hour clusterfuck of a city planning meeting… to be continued. #
  • At Mountain Sun for post ride cheese fries… @bouldergobldr bike corral is totally full. Need more of them! #
  • This weather is *not* helping me get anything done in front of my computer. Is 330 days of sun a year too much? #onlyinboulder #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-10-17

  • Teaching a workshop on bike-centric car free living for the @350 #101010 global work party. Put the fun between your legs! #
  • Holy crap… I'm actually going to be publicly sequenced! #
  • Let that which does not matter truly slide. #
  • Enjoying sleeping around… in the most literal possible sense of the phrase. #
  • Tempting Uncle Newton on a big chunk of the fountain formation with a bunch of other Boulder lotus eating space monkeys. #
  • Sitting on top of the First Flatiron roped in to an anchor, and I'm still connected to the internet. Fascinating Modern Age indeed. #
  • It's not often I get to be involved in several simultaneous bicycle conspiracies. Or, well, actually… maybe it is. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-10-10

  • Spent 3 nice hours at Community Cycles helping people build bikes, which was considerably more time than I spent asleep last night. #
  • Rode 80km to Ward+Ned+Lunch & back, just missing the rain. Then gave Ada her first touch of Orwell. Two Wheels Good! Four Wheels Bad! #
  • Infected another person with the bike bug. Hopefully it will prove a chronic illness. #
  • Off to @Duzer fundraiser at @upslope for @CommunityCycles after long day of volunteer bike lane data entry monkey work for @bouldergobldr #
  • I should have known I'd find a way to make things even more confusing. It seems to be almost a running joke at this point. #
  • Gonna head on up into them hills and see what this 2nd amendment thing is all about anyway. #
  • Successfully returned from the mountains with my topology intact. Now on to an evening of awkward discussion. Better than awkward silence! #
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We are made to be destroyed

A quote from Charles Frazier’s Thirteen Moons that I cannot get out of my mind.  For me, it is relevant in the context of continuing to be optimistic that we can construct a sustainable civilization, even though the current Plan of Record is clearly to burn it all:

I decided that many of Bear’s stories and comments shared a general drift. They advised against fearing all of creation.  But not because it is always benign, for it is not.  It will, with certainty, consume us all.  We are made to be destroyed.  We are kindling for the fire, and our lives will stand as naught against the onrush of time.  Bear’s position, if I understood it, was that refusal to fear these general terms of existence is an honorable act of defiance.

Bear is a Cherokee chief that adopts Will, a bound boy working in a frontier trading post.  They spend winters alone together in a kind of meditative semi-hibernation with a small crackling fire in a tiny snow-covered lodge.

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Tweets for the week of 2010-10-03

  • Came home from Indian Peaks to a functioning shower… for the first time in like a month. Thank you http://ecohandyman.com #
  • Streets are public spaces too, and most cities have lots of them. Not all designed for humans though. #
  • Biking from Boulder up to the 4th of July trail via Flagstaff and Magnolia to camp overnight. Back Wednesday morning some time… Wheee! #
  • Just brushed someone else's teeth, read bedtime stories, and tucked little humans in for the first time ever. #
  • 20 light years is so cosmically close, and so utterly, humanly, far away. #
  • Pearl is mobbed with drunken crazies and it smells like some kind of Indian curry explosion in here. #