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Things I learned in '09, 3

My parents are becoming increasingly wrong While swimming through the year of molasses, I flirted with the idea of buying a house. An idea fueled mostly by my parents, it illustrated our different housing paradigms. When my parents were my age, they bought their first house with a yearly salary that was about 25% of their mortgage and they only saw wages increase from there. A mortgage for a...

Dec 30th

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Dec 30th

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“Think of the negative image the washed masses apply to dirt bikes. They’re...”

– Ten reasons why you should be excited about electric motorcycles - Hell For Leather

Dec 30th

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Things I learned in '09, 2

When one direction ends, find others. I.e. do lots of fun shit! My career may be mostly stopped dead, but having a steady cushy job has allowed me to push myself in other directions. I learned how to surf, I learned how to snowboard, I rode motorcycle trials, I went to Italy, I did track days all over the east coast, I socked away more freelance work than ever, all while somehow still managing to...

Dec 29th

digital camera specs as they relate to bicycle...

superdoofus-stratodrive: … now, one day i was told by the store’s owner that i was going to lead a group of 10th graders from a nearby school to ride the fort snelling riverbottom runs and that we were lending them demo bikes from the store’s floor. there was this one kid that got a raleigh m-40 ($295 low-level entry-level mountain bike) and i shit you not he muscled and kept pace up and...

Dec 29th

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Things I learned in '09, 1

Hard work only pays in academia Work hard, get rewarded, move up, go places. That’s what college teaches you in a prescribed year-by-year fashion. I was good at that game and breezed through unscathed. The workplace, especially a corporate one, doesn’t work like that and requires learning a whole new game. Work smart, not hard. I thought I had this down with years of experience spinning wrenches...

Dec 28th

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Things I learned in '09

‘09 was a tough one, no doubt. I came into this year with two goals in mind: Advance my career or move out. When the economy shit the bed, one became contingent on the other, leaving me searching for what I gained from these 12 months. In reflection, it wasn’t all bad and development is development. Over this week I will publish a few things I learned while wading through a...

Dec 28th

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