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Month: December 2006

  • Movie: First Ascent (2006)

    This is the first DVD I’ve ever bought for myself. I’d only seen the trailer, but it hooked me. I don’t regret it. The movie is well filmed, and pulls off a remarkable trick: it manages to scorn sport climbing without being at all pretentious. Make no mistake, this is about first ascents of TRAD…

  • Friendsgiving

    It’s not easy to put together a big holiday meal, or to make time for friends during the holidays. Our earlier attempt to do so was canceled when people were just too busy. Today we tried again, and it went off swimmingly. Everyone brought or cooked something, most of it organic and all of it…

  • Movie: Earth (1998)

    The middle edition of this Indian trilogy is a little hokey in spots, but edifying. The setting is Lahore during the 1947 partition of India, of interest to me because my grandfather started a hospital in Lahore a few years later. The movie clearly portrays some of the social distinctions between Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Christians,…

  • Black Powder Trail

    Looking for a quick midday hike we drive up the Poudre Canyon to the Milton Seaman Reservoir to hike the Black Powder Trail. This turns out to be just what we wanted – short, but a good climb to a nice view. I’d never actually seen the reservoir until now because it’s tucked away too…

  • Book: Where Mathematics Comes From / Lakoff and Nuñez

    This book represents the second of two reading epiphanies I’ve had this year (the first was The Omnivore’s Dilemma). I pulled this book from the shelf at the library looking for a good follow-up to The Mathematical Experience. That book pulled the carpet out from under my mathematical education, and much of my personal philosophy…

  • Compare Everytrail and ActiveTrails

    I’ve uploaded my last outing to both Everytrail and ActiveTrails to do a little feature comparison. You can follow the links and play with each yourself. I come out leaning towards ActiveTrails, which has a nice simple interface and does things like printing with grace. Everytrail has a few more features for editing content, and…

  • Moody Hill Snowshoe

    Ejected from Redstone Creek, Doug and I continue up County Road 27 to CR 44H, which sports some hopeful forest service signs. We’re a little short on time at this point, but we soon see a parking area and a steep forest road heading into the trees. As we’re getting ready I also see a…

  • Trail Reconnaisance: No love in Redstone Canyon

    I want to see if there is any hiking to be had on the west side of Horsetooth Mountain, in Redstone Canyon. The topo maps show an unlabeled trail heading west, and a trail called Bardwell Trail climbing east toward Arthur’s Rock. Redstone canyon is full of gorgeous, deep red sandstone rock faces. And NO…

  • Live Music: CSO and Julia Albers

    Tonight we are treated to a sampling of classical staples. The appetizer is the overture to Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. Perfect to whet the appetite. Next is Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major. The cellist, Julia Albers, is built like an athlete, but gives us a performance that is both strong and…

  • Movie: Fire (1996)

    What most impressed me with this movie is how it managed to tell a story of Indian women rejecting tradition, while drawing parallels the entire way with the traditional folk tale of Sita and the Fire. It’s a passionate love story that also provides a good look at daily life in India.