Lil Jon’s Lyrical Contributions To ‘Yeah!’
byI can’t remember where I was going with this one (maybe part of a series of graphs?) a while back, and then I…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 271
byA cool film from the folks at Arc’teryx about the idea of nature as a human right (including the voices + ideas of Shelma…
Chart: Winter 2020/2021 Or Rick, A Guy I Used To Bartend With?
byThanks for reading. These posts are able to continue thanks to the handful of wonderful people who back Semi-Rad on Patreon for as little…
Love Distribution
byobviously there is a not-insignificant population of people who identify with both sides of this diagram, and who drink 2-7 cups of coffee partly…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 270
by“I’d argue—hot take here—that music is only as good as the memories that are attached to it.” —Nathan Zed (video) The original Nextdoor…
10 Post-Workout Recovery Methods That Haven’t Been Proven To Work … Yet
byYou’ve just clicked the “Stop” button on your watch, or done your last burpee, or put away your bike. You’re catching your breath, a…
Winter/Guy In Shorts
byI shall never grow tired of spotting the Guy In Shorts in the wild in winter (More stuff like this on my Instagram)
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 269
by“The beauty of it is that as soon as you’re drawing a monster or a creature that you invented out of your brain, no…
Solitaire
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Scrabble Vs. Bananagrams
bythis is not a sponsored post or anything, I’ve just been getting my ass kicked in both of these games lately (More stuff…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 268
byReviewing cakes based on the climbing depicted on them (thanks, Regge!) (video) A look back at some of Bruce Davidson’s fascinating photography of the…
The Avalanche Doesn’t Care — A Poem
byAs the saying goes, The avalanche doesn’t care if you’re an expert On avalanches, or an expert on anything else, really The avalanche does…
Daily Duties
byNot today, software update. (More stuff like this on my Instagram)
New Year,
byI made this last year but I think it’s appropriate every year if you’re looking to change something starting in January as we…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 267
byA very joyful, short film about the birth of snowboarding, from Sherman Poppen’s invention of the Snurfer to Jake Burton Carpenter’s creation of the…
Make 2021 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm
byNote: I first wrote and published this post on December 29, 2011, calling it “Make 2012 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm.” Every year around…
Preferable Temperatures For Humans, Day Vs. Night
by(More stuff like this on my Instagram)
Mistakes and Tacos
byin case you are looking back on your year and need some perspective and/or tacos (More stuff like this on my Instagram)
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 266
byIf you have been sitting around wondering, “Is there a 1980s/90s action movie besides Die Hard that could just barely qualify as a ‘holiday…
Mistakes I’ve Made In The Past Year Vs. Mistakes That Have Been Tacos
byit’s a good time to reflect on this past year of wonderful tacos (More stuff like this on my Instagram)
The Things We Did To Get Through 2020
byA couple weeks ago, I wrote an Instagram post asking people to share some of the things they did to get through the strange…
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 265
byRyan Van Duzer and Scott Jurek tackle the Longs Peak Duathlon (biking from Boulder to the Longs Peak Trailhead + climbing Longs Peak), which…
The Best Semi-Rad Illustrations Of 2020
by’Tis the season for the grand holiday tradition of looking back on all the fun stuff we’ve done in 2020 and gathering up the…
To-Do List Vs. To-Procrastinate List
byMonday Motivation (More stuff like this on my Instagram)
Friday Inspiration, Vol. 264
byThis is not only an incredible story, but an incredible film about an incredible story. If you don’t have 11.5 minutes to watch this…
20 Haiku About 2020
by20 Haiku, written on Post-it notes, inspired by the weirdest year of many of our lives
Methods Of Snow Travel, By Amount Of Fun
bythis is not a chart about whether snowshoeing is fun; it’s a chart about postholing (More stuff like this on my Instagram)