Author: Zane Selvans

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

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Tweets for the week of 2010-09-26

  • Wow… downtown is so quiet. Quiet, but not empty. Must be @BoulderGreenSts #
  • Occasionally doing laundry is as easy as sorting through the dirty clothes, and deciding I've been overly aggressive about cleanliness. #
  • I'm clearly going to need a longer bike ride tomorrow. Anyone up for Flagstaff-Magnolia-Ned-Boulder? #
  • Being honest about my ambiguous and contradictory internal states just seems to get me in trouble. #
  • Sleeping near Lake Isabelle tonight, and under Lone Eagle Peak tomorrow. Back Sunday PM! #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-09-19

  • I think I may have some kind of lotus hangover… #
  • Foolishly trying to resist the urge to build myself a loft bed. You know, to save space or something. #
  • I'd forgotten how nice mornings could be! #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-08-29

  • Biked on Boulder's paths all night with a mischievous girl in the moonlight and a waffle iron in my panniers. #
  • Anybody up for another playa "training ride" tonight? Would it be absurd to try and ride to New Belgium and back by moonlight? #
  • Way up north it's the perfect temperature for moonbathing and stargazing with the crickets, cicadas, and toads. #
  • Helping Kerry put up onions and tomatoes and other garden fruits for the long harsh winter. #
  • How could I be anything but happy to have inspired someone else to go on a bicycle date? #
  • Indulging in a little camouflage and para-aramid fiber lust, fashion bedamned! #
  • Thank goodness for coffee, waffles, dynamos and LEDs. Headed out to inspect 18km worth of bike lanes for @bouldergobldr on @burningman time. #
  • Right. So I'm supposed to be all packed up and ready to go in 24 hours. Uh huh. We'll just have to see about that! #
  • Just about packed… gonna nap until grocery and hardware stores open, or thereabouts. #
  • I think it's time to get out into that dusty, dusty Bat Country… #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-08-22

  • Found a bunch of Boletus edulis backpacking. Dried some in the field, carried the rest home. Didn't get here until uh, 5am? Need to sleep. #
  • Ugh! Finally made it out of bed. Must… Turn… Off… Gobi! #
  • Why is it that every time I go hiking with someone I end up feeling like I need to send them a stinkin' bibliography? #
  • I'm all packed up for a bicycle picnic at the Boulder Reservoir tomorrow, sleeping under my laundry drying on the clothesline. #LotusEaters #
  • An extravagant bicycle picnic. Decadent in a sustainable 19th century way. #
  • Ever wish you had super x-ray eyes to see through all the PR bullshit? Check out Poligraft from the @sunlightnetwork http://bit.ly/aT4Nsm #
  • OH "Gah, now I can finally stop masquerading as a respectable human being." #
  • Another bicycle picnic scheduled for tomorrow. Should it be wine, or iced coffee? It's a hard life. I may have myself a fainting spell. #
  • I go out of my way to take 13th through @downtownboulder because it feels so good. Please make more of these human streets @bouldergobldr #
  • When I woke up I thought "Crap! What day is it?" Then I realized I didn't actually care. #LotusEaters #
  • Waylaid by the Boulder farmers market. Again. Irregular peaches and tomatoes at the end of the day. Bread. Persian garlic. I am weak! #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-08-15

  • Had a successful first hosting of someone from http://CouchSurfing.com 1 request per day is too many though. I need a more focused profile. #
  • I wonder if I know anybody in Boulder who would enjoy a day of thrift store shopping… #
  • Joined @egocarshare saw Body Worlds in Denver w/ @somer_andom did some thrift store shopping and babysitting. Sweet day. #
  • Sweet! I've got tix for da Bike Film Fest Sep. 9-11: http://bit.ly/a8k3jm to be preceded by New Belgium's Tour de Fat: http://bit.ly/bHTHSE #
  • If you know it, tell me your address on the Playa. I'll be near the Pink Mammoth at 8:30 & G w/ a bunch of other Ultramontane Lotophagi… #
  • Avoided fainting, but only just. Why does the loss and sight of such a tiny amount of blood feel so much? #
  • Who would like to go on a midnight bike ride to a dark place for the Perseids? Left to my own devices… Brainard? Other places also good! #
  • Mkay, how can I resist an underwear themed bike ride… @happythursday #
  • And the first stop: boulder 303, a vodka distillery. Good lord. #
  • Ride has coagulated out by CU research park. I'm heading for the hills and aiming for the stars. #happythursday #
  • Okay okay, Flagstaff/Walker Ranch, not Brainard. #perseids #
  • Visceral, wholesome transcendental pleasure of falling asleep under an ecstatic naked sky with your lover. #
  • To all the generations of Egyptians, Greeks and Romans that turned Cucumis melo from a bitter desert gourd into the cantaloupe: Thank You! #
  • Heading up to the Pierre Lakes and Capitol Peak near Carbondale for the weekend for some alpine sky. Should be back in Boulder late Sunday. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-08-08

  • Heading out with the Community Cycles rolling bike clinic for a day of bicycle fixation. #
  • I have a special place in my heart for cantilever brakes with irreplaceable sun baked plastic parts. Not. #
  • I am in love with this Fascinating Modern Age We Live In. Thank you for existing. #
  • Another day, another hike at dawn. I think I must be a good 30-50% underslept since moving to Colorado. #
  • Headed northward to build some bikes for Community Cycles… #
  • CO plate 699 VNW parked blocking bike lame on south bound 19th just north of Edgewood. #
  • Bike building and beer, cool ride downhill from north Boulder, lightning flashing in the east, blowing kisses on the wind. #
  • Due to an unforeseen lack of coffee, this morning will be delayed by an hour. #
  • While reading "Born With A Bang" to Ada (6 yo) I found it hard not to get teary eyed. #
  • I hate finding a sex-crazed coke fiend in my kitchen… especially when they're chopping garlic and chiles on my silicone baking sheet. #
  • Leatherman multi-tool: $27. Silicone menstrual cup: $23. Look on the checkout clerk's face: priceless. #
  • It seems that zero hours of sleep plus a ride up Lee Hill is really quite a bit less rest than two hours of sleep. #
  • Waffles at White Russians for breakfast at 4:20pm? And now heading down to Denver for 1st Fridays and some of that so-called "culture". #
  • They should really pedestrianize Santa Fe for first Fridays in Denver. It's a crazy people zoo! #
  • #TEDxBoulder was okay, not awesome. I wonder what the speaker selection process was like. Did inspire good conversation w/ @86redshoes tho #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-08-01

  • I've got the heart and lungs to run a couple of miles barefoot at 5400 feet. If only I had spring-a-ling legs to match! http://bit.ly/d7hB9D #
  • 3k barefoot night run + 15k hike to ~4000m at 6am == slow shuffling and no love of stairs. But then again, what did I think would happen? #
  • I think maybe I am finally caught up on sleep. Now if only I had some massage oil and a masseuse for these ridiculous calves. #
  • My current digs: http://bit.ly/abEs5z And a typical Colorado Monday in summer: http://bit.ly/9ZjW6E #
  • RT @bouldergobldr: We need 2 more volunteers 4 the bike parking count on Fri. 7-8pm & Sat. 11am-Noon. Contact hagelinc@bouldercolorado.gov #
  • Awesome morning ride to Ward via Lee Hill: cloudy up, sunny down, Sichuan dan dan noodles and good conversation at the top. Thanks Lincoln! #
  • Heading down to Lakewood on the GS to play some Celtic tunes. And I'm running late of course. #
  • Bryan, Stephanie, Mike, Susan, Isadora, Liz, me, waffles, uh, is there *anybody* out there working today? 🙂 #
  • Local atmospheric Raleigh number spiking. Nap time must be over. #
  • Is there really ever such a thing as TMI? http://zaneselvans.org/#location #
  • Okay, an hour of phone futzing in bed is plenty. More than plenty even. #
  • Headed to the reservoir to go swimming. #
  • Counting bikes for the DoT in @downtownboulder #
  • Estamos jugando Scrabble en espanol, pero no hay enye aqui! #
  • Off to count more parked bicycles w/ @bouldergobldr in @downtownboulder Today during the Farmer's Market. #
  • Is it hot in here, or did I just send an incredibly awkward e-mail? I both hate and love computers. And sometimes, I just don't know. #
  • Not sure what that was, but in any case, it was enjoyable, and involved bikes, beer, and Boulder, so how can I lose? #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-07-25

  • Every single shoe store in Boulder is sold out of Vibram FiveFingers. WTF? Must be that paper in Nature. #
  • The first photographic installment of my ultramontane lotus eaters propaganda campaign: http://bit.ly/diTKMA You will move to Boulder… 🙂 #
  • Two summers later, I am *still* having transcendental habañero flashbacks (hot sauce from the freezer). Those plants were unreal. #
  • How can I be this hungry and tired? Oh right, a day spent half running from rain/hail/lightning between 2800m & 3500m in RMNP will do that. #
  • Awesome misty morning talk & hike to Royal Arch w/ Megan. Cautiously optimistic about T-mobile. Going to install a kickstand for a friend. #
  • When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Or, well, amateur — in my case anyway. I'm not in this for the money. #
  • Weeding a friend's garden is like watching their kids. Bite-sized responsibilities and rewards, and everyone benefits. #
  • Torrential sunshower, hallelujah! #
  • Well that was fabulously entertaining, in a curiously high school kind of way… #
  • Bryan snoring after 15hour bike & Longs Peak odyssey. I hiked to Divide, walked to dinner. Wonderful sunset. Need to sleep. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-07-18

  • Getting a little altitude with a fellow slacker for the day… #
  • A long hot day of walking and talking. Like finding a long lost branch of your tribe, which you didn't really know existed. #
  • Supposed to be 37°C tomorrow. I think I'm gonna tube down Boulder Creek. Woo hoo! #
  • Somehow, it's more fun to persistently not get quite enough sleep while retired than while working. #
  • Lounged with a friend amidst the towering cairns in cool Boulder Creek through the heat of the day. Ah, burritos, spices, girls & bicycles. #
  • Made it to aikido at Boulder Aikikai tonight. Sweaty, but sweet. #
  • Supposed to be roughly body-temperature in Boulder Saturday. I think I'm going to get high: http://bit.ly/9tsxdg #
  • I have a red rug from Quchan, Iran, near the Turkmen border. If Allah wills it, one day I will visit by bicycle. #
  • Intelligence & wisdom are really different things, and it seems like wisdom only comes with having already screwed things up at least once. #
  • Biked Boulder-Jamestown-Ward-Gold Hill loop. Stopped to rest in shade on a climb. Butterflies landed on me and drank my sweat like nectar! #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-07-11

  • Had an unexpectedly awesome weekend in the mountains. Apparently being friendly isn't nearly as hard as I thought, in the right context. #
  • Today's bad idea: going to the DMV w/o having had any coffee. Ugh. #
  • Bleah. Woke up with a funky stomach. Still nibbling unenthusiastically on breakfast 6 hours later. #
  • Good for romance; good for night vision. It's been a long time since I had a den of my own. #
  • must stop referring to the humans in the third person. #
  • Why is it that sometimes, right when I think that the weirdness is totally maxed out, someone goes and cranks it up to 11? #
  • It's good to occasionally remember that the fact that everyone else is crazy doesn't necessarily mean you are sane. #
  • Sounds of happy inebriated people laughing on Pearl in the cool breezy Colorado night from my bedroom window. #
  • If *Bryan* doesn't want something anymore, it's a good bet that no thrift store wants it either! #