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To fly or not to fly the Confederate flag

So there is a lot of debate about the Confederate flag. Southern states are debating about removing it from being displayed on capitol grounds. Retailers are removing it from their stores. Pundits are arguing over the meaning of the flag and, of curse, the First...

Spartan Race – Breckenridge Beast

On Saturday, June 13th, 2015, I ran my first Spartan Race, the Breckenridge Beast. I had a lot of fun, learned a lot about the Spartan, and met a lot of great people. Before the race, I said this would be my one and only run at it, but I can now see why people do...

Challenges ahead

On June 13th, I'll attempt to do the Spartan Race Beast -- a 13 mile run with 30 obstacles thrown in. A week later, I'll take part in my ninth century ride. These are two big challenges, but they don't compare to the challenge of finding a cure for cancer. Since my...

Best of Denver – Summer 2015

After a pretty normal winter and a realllly wet May, Denver is definitely ready for summer. There are a lot of summer activities and finding them all is quite a task. I have picked some of the best links to find lists of your top items in various categories. Of...

Cutting out sugar and junk carbs

Last fall, I decided to reduce my intake of sugars and "junk carbs." It has been about 8 months since I started and I have learned quite a lot about myself and the foods I eat. I'd like to share some of that info with you. Hopefully it will help if you decided to make...

Is CrossFit bad for you?

It happens all the time. I mention that I do CrossFit or that I go to a CrossFit gym and many times the response is about how dangerous it is or how it is ineffective compared to some other brand of working out. It gets old after awhile, especially when those...

Axistence Athletics

 [metaslider id=1303] Let me tell you a little bit about one of the gyms I go to -- Axistence Athletics (home of Bushcraft CrossFit). I've been going there the past year or so and I highly recommend it. This place has top notch trainers, creative...

John Oliver on Standardized Testing

John Oliver gives one of the best overviews on the problems with standardized testing in our education system. These tests are suppose to hold the schools accountable but instead just stress out the kids, teachers, and parents. Large corporations like Pearson have...

Webserver backup guide

My webhosting is on a virtual machine that is hosted by Linode. Although they have great uptime and a good backup system, I also do my own backups to a local Linux server. It isn’t that hard to setup, uses only free scripts, and is completely automated now. Why? Why...