The Core Dump

It updates the blog, or it gets the hose again.

Exercise for the middle-aged fat guy

An exhortation to exercise for my fellow middle-aged fat guys.

Photo safari to Cleator and Watson Lake

Nic is dragged along on a photo safari to rural Arizona.

Book roundup, part three

Includes The Drop, Ready Player One, Moon Called, Among Others, Excession, Inferno, The Paleo Solution and I am Ozzy.

Review: Blue HR heart rate monitor strap

If you have an iPhone 4S, the Blue HR is a solid device.

Movie roundup, part 18

Nic watches movies. Included are Contagion, Drive, Conan the Barbarian, Fast Five, Hanna, Priest and Bridesmaids. Can you guess which one Nic hated?

The dragon flies at night

It’s 1989. Nic moves to Louisiana and discovers there’s such a thing as black culture.

O Tannenbaum

Christmas is behind us and it’s time to get back in the saddle.

Merry Christmas!

It’s once again the winter solstice. It’s time to sit back and relax.

Clouds over a CostCo parking lot

Arizona experiences winter rain storms and Nic commits photography.

On azcentral.com outsourcing comments to Facebook

Nic outlines some of the risks of ceding comments on news stories to Facebook.

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