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When I was younger, we did puzzles. I mean, BIG puzzles. A LOT of BIG puzzles. I could point to this habit as the one that started me down the path of a certain kind of nerd-dom. You know, the crossword-puzzle, documentary-loving kind (as opposed t...
CylonThreekoi and I started off just outside the hotel where we were staying in Houghton, MI. The derive started off slowly, with us following the path of least resistance: The Sidewalk. Oh, wait! What's that? Fraternity members playing shirtless b...
While poking around the Michigan Tech campus, ThreeKoi and I came across this structure. I immediately headed for the ladder, imagining a triumphant shot of me standing proud and tall atop the metal platform. What a view that would be, too, peeri...
Perhaps identifying "my" geological features feels so daunting because I'm so rootless. Geological features are anything but rootless. They're the go-to metaphor for immovability ("solid as a rock," "like moving a mountain"). So how to choose when mo...
In the Writing Center at my university, there's a board where folks can post their writing secrets, a la postsecret.com. It's a reminder that we all have issues with writing sometimes, even those of us who do it and study it for a living (*cough* *co...
Greetings! Welcome to the game, where having fun in snow is at least partially what it's all about. Conservative estimates peg "having fun in snow" at about 24% of the game, but there's been some significant scholarly work putting it at at least 36%....