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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 227
by[get Friday Inspiration posts in your inbox by subscribing here (and get a free ebook!) ] I can’t find the words to say…
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Traversing The Sangre de Cristo Range
by[NOTE: 2020 is the tenth year of my blog at Semi-Rad.com, and since I started it, I’ve been fortunate to get to do some…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 226
by“I just love dealing with books. You know, why wouldn’t you want to work with something you love? If I didn’t make any money…
A Bicycle Crash
byIn my memory of the house, which is from when I was much smaller, the retaining wall was always around three feet high. But…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 225
by[get Friday Inspiration posts in your inbox by subscribing here (and get a free ebook!) ] I love imagining where the idea for…
A New, Almost Completely Unrealistic Multi-tool Design
byWith all due respect to the makers of real and useful multi-tools, and with no constraints of what would actually fit in a multi-tool,…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 224
byAfter I first watched this video last week I thought it was too weird for my Friday Inspiration post, but then I watched it…
Should You Do It In Jeans?
byThe bumper stickers about politicians skiing in jeans were first created more than a decade ago, but skiing in jeans has a much longer…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 223
by“My wife is very angry at me” —Jayesh Kale, who has collected 2,371 old cell phones and keeps them everywhere in his house (video)…
A Bike Ride Across America
by[NOTE: 2020 is the tenth year of my blog at Semi-Rad.com, and since I started it, I’ve been fortunate to get to do…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 222
byI can’t imagine how much time/effort it took to create this video but it asks almost nothing of the viewer and provides fun (video)…
“No Friends On A Powder Day,” But For Other Times In Your Life
byYou’ve heard the saying “No friends on a powder day,” so you know that it means “Sorry, everyone, my primary focus when the snow…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 221
byA fun and super-scenic short about mountain biking in Newfoundland: (video) Great story in Sports Illustrated (!) about Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison’s…
How To Show Up
byI looked at the menu at a booth in Morg’s, a diner in Waterloo, Iowa, on a cold morning this past January, sure of…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 220
byIf you have 60 seconds for something cute and goofy and oddly touching, please enjoy “Dinosaurs Fall In Love.” (video) The Pudding analyzed 30,000…
6 Charts About Weather
byMore charts like this on my Instagram and in my book, Chart Imitates Life. —Brendan
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 219
byHerman Hoops, battling cancer and hauling five oxygen tanks with him, takes one last river trip through Desolation Canyon, and reflects on a lifetime…
Winter Running Tips For Masochists
byWinter is the prime season for lots of fun activities: skiing, snowboarding, ice climbing, ice skating, curling, and sledding among them. But you’d rather…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 218
bySam Morrison edited together 1,272 photos crowdsourced from Instagram to make a 58-second hyperlapse of New York City and it’s incredible (video): Run your…
Three Days On The Arctic Haute Route
by[NOTE: 2020 is the tenth year of my blog at Semi-Rad.com, and since I started it, I’ve been fortunate to get to do…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 217
byDanny MacAskill’s latest edit does not disappoint, and as usual, some of the best stuff is in the last two minutes (video)(thanks, Sophie!) “A…
7 Techniques To Make Sure You Never Have Lip Balm While Skiing
bySure, lip balm is great for keeping your lips moisturized during the winter, especially when you’re doing a lot of skiing. But what if…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 216
byThis one will make you think (video) Has Listening Become a Lost Art? The L.A. Times profiles the book clubs springing up based on…
Stock Photos Of People Using Laptops In Nature
byMy friend Justin Simoni tweeted this screenshot of a guy in full mountaineering gear working on a laptop the other day: This stock photo…
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Friday Inspiration, Vol. 215
byHow Yung Lenox became a well-known rap illustrator at the age of seven, and the questions his parents have about whether it’s the right…
18 Things Much Easier Than ‘New Year, New You’
byNew year, new shampoo New year, new shoes New year, new tattoo New year, new houseplant New year, new mildew New year, new…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 214
byA fun short film using more than a million digitized Ed Ruscha photos of Sunset Boulevard, with Ruscha reading an excerpt of On the…