Here’s the wind pattern in the Denver, CO area. For those who don’t know, Denver sits adjacent to the Rocky Mountains making the city’s topography flat in comparison. Given that, you’ll no doubt make the connection between the wind pattern and landscape features. It’s fascinating to see how the wind screams down the mountains and …
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Snowfall
We’ve had a weird first half to the 2024-2025 snow season in Denver. Cumulatively, this season’s 15.7” of snow isn’t far off the recent historical average of 18.6”. Variable differences, right? No biggie. But let’s take a closer look, shall we? Here are the average snowfall amounts, in inches, 1991-2020. September .8 October 3.9 November …
Another Day, Another Rush Anecdote
My go-to band, Rush, is never far from my daily existence. Spotify obviously has me pegged as a fan, Peloton rides will surprise me with a song from their catalogue (more of that please!), they pop up in movie soundtracks, and some lyrics have a knack for being spot on during particular situations. Most recently …
Heavywinter—Young Edition
This site has been around since 2004, though technically I got the domain in 2003. But I consider 2004 the true year I began to blog. I don’t write much anymore, but that’s gonna change (you’re in the presence of the proof yo!). The Wayback Machine has snapshots of the blog even after I deleted …
Ladies and Gentlemen, My Wife
All I did was switch out my jeans for sweats after I got home from work. An innocent wardrobe change. I had a brick red button down shirt and the sweats I pulled on just happened to be red too. I walk downstairs, my wife looks over, and announces “you look like a dirty pad.” …
Trump
One of Trump’s latest tweets… Kellyanne Conway went to @MeetThePress this morning for an interview with @chucktodd. Dishonest media cut out 9 of her 10 minutes. Terrible! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2017 His conclusion is hypocritical, of course. As a public figure who uses Twitter to communicate with the public, he is …
My First Concert
I headed to my first concert three days before I turned 20 to see PJ as they were breaking big on MTV. Because I designed promos and ads for the events council at CU I was able to get in early and free. I stood right in front of Stone Gossard (he’s the one with …
Trust Us, We’re Experts
A site that purports to teach HTML/CSS has a buy button with an HTML/CSS bug.
Car bumpers are stupid
I was in a fender bender last weekend. An SUV backed up into my Accord denting the hood with its bumper. Question: what’s the point of car bumpers if they don’t meet at a standard height?
Life After Grad School
My MBA program ends in four weeks. In no particular order, a short list of my immediate plans: Read a book of my own choosing Help myself to a hell of a nice bottle of wine Once again go to the gym, snowboard and rock climb Nothing, absolutely nothing, just sit there and have no …