For a while now I've thought about how jingle bells seem to make such a good, and unlikely, contribution to hip hop songs. Some examples:
Fun fact: Both of those songs sample Average White Band's "Schoolboy Crush."
Good stuff. Real talk.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Vermont
Location: Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont (N 43° 15.302' W 072° 53.703' elevation: 1,659 feet)
Local time: 7 pm
Today's drive took me west through northern New Hampshire and into Vermont. From what I've seen, Vermont and New Hampshire are beautiful. Once in Vermont I went south along the border and then turned west again into Rutland. I stopped in Rutland for a bit to get something to eat and find an internet connection. The visit to Rutland was a success on both accounts. Maybe it was just luck or some different attitude on my part, but I found the people I came across in Rutland to be very friendly. Naturally Arrow attracted the most attention.
I've gotten a lot of reading done in the last couple days. I'm now more than halfway through Game of Thrones. I also listened to all the Joe Rogan podcasts I had stored. Even though Brian Redban is annoying the podcasts were pretty good overall. When you get right down to it, though, it's just some guys getting together and talking. Many times I found myself thinking, “hey, I wouldn't mind doing one of my own.” Something to marinate on.
June 21 miles: 204
Total miles to date: 3,573.1
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Location: White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire (N 44° 20.009' W 071° 13.024' elevation: 1,305 feet)
Local time: 7:15 pm
I traveled from Newburyport, MA, today and will be spending the next couple nights here camping with Arrow. I stayed in Newburyport this weekend with a good friend from college and his wife (and their dog). Newburyport is a picture-perfect New England town, and it was a good weekend. Driving up here there were a lot of bikers going south from some kind of bike rally in New Hampshire (I think the name of the town is Laconia or something like that). I would Google it but the White Mountain National Forest is sorely lacking in the wireless internet department. The next couple days here will hopefully be relaxing and give me plenty of time to catch up on reading.
Miles traveled while in Upstate New York, and to Newburyport: 894
June 19 miles: 129
Total miles to date: 3,369.1
Friday, June 10, 2011
The 'chester
Location: Rochester, New York
Local time: 12:00 am
Back in Upstate New York. While I'm up here I'll see some friends and family, and that's about the extent of my plans at this point. One of the first things I've done is visit one of my undergraduate professors. Before becoming a professor he was a lawyer, and aside from wanting to catch up with him in general I wanted to talk to him about how he decided to be a professor coming from being a lawyer. I got some great advice from him. Two main points stuck out (I'm paraphrasing here):
1. Think about what you want your day to be like. This seems to me to be a good way to look at the big question from a practical perspective. Do I want to spend my days in an office or outdoors or some combination of the two? Do I want to spend my days working alone? I think answering these questions will help me analyze things from the bottom up.
2. Figure out what specific characteristics of a job I want, and those I don't want. This is another way of looking at the big question from a different perspective. I had been asking myself what jobs or career I might prefer, which now seems to me to skip over an important step in the analysis: what are the specific characteristics I like and do not like. After figure those out I can move on to looking for what has the characteristics I like.
I still don't have any answers, but I think I now have a better means of figuring them out.
June 4 miles: 335
Total miles to date: 2,346.1
Local time: 12:00 am
Back in Upstate New York. While I'm up here I'll see some friends and family, and that's about the extent of my plans at this point. One of the first things I've done is visit one of my undergraduate professors. Before becoming a professor he was a lawyer, and aside from wanting to catch up with him in general I wanted to talk to him about how he decided to be a professor coming from being a lawyer. I got some great advice from him. Two main points stuck out (I'm paraphrasing here):
1. Think about what you want your day to be like. This seems to me to be a good way to look at the big question from a practical perspective. Do I want to spend my days in an office or outdoors or some combination of the two? Do I want to spend my days working alone? I think answering these questions will help me analyze things from the bottom up.
2. Figure out what specific characteristics of a job I want, and those I don't want. This is another way of looking at the big question from a different perspective. I had been asking myself what jobs or career I might prefer, which now seems to me to skip over an important step in the analysis: what are the specific characteristics I like and do not like. After figure those out I can move on to looking for what has the characteristics I like.
I still don't have any answers, but I think I now have a better means of figuring them out.
June 4 miles: 335
Total miles to date: 2,346.1
Thursday, June 2, 2011
New York City part 2
Location: Manhattan, New York
Local time: 4:30 pm
Today I finally made it to The Cloisters (my enemy, the subway system, having prevented me from getting there on my first attempt). I expected this to be an interesting place so I made sure to bring my camera. Despite this shocking feat of planning and foresight, I managed to forget the memory card for said camera.
This is where I'd show pictures of my favorite things I saw there, knowing that pictures could do a better job than me trying to describe the things. My favorite parts of the collection were the illuminated manuscripts, most of which were over 500 years old. Marinate on that.
The other highlight of this little field trip out to the country (read: 190th Street) was Fort Tryon Park. The weather today was absolutely perfect, and the park was not even close to crowded. It was like something from a Norman Rockwell painting. I half expected to see kids playing marbles and rolling one of those hoops down the street with a stick. After some excellent soft serve ice cream, though, it was back to "where all the lights are bright": downtown.
Local time: 4:30 pm
Today I finally made it to The Cloisters (my enemy, the subway system, having prevented me from getting there on my first attempt). I expected this to be an interesting place so I made sure to bring my camera. Despite this shocking feat of planning and foresight, I managed to forget the memory card for said camera.
This is where I'd show pictures of my favorite things I saw there, knowing that pictures could do a better job than me trying to describe the things. My favorite parts of the collection were the illuminated manuscripts, most of which were over 500 years old. Marinate on that.
The other highlight of this little field trip out to the country (read: 190th Street) was Fort Tryon Park. The weather today was absolutely perfect, and the park was not even close to crowded. It was like something from a Norman Rockwell painting. I half expected to see kids playing marbles and rolling one of those hoops down the street with a stick. After some excellent soft serve ice cream, though, it was back to "where all the lights are bright": downtown.
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