A sunrise.
Haleakala in Maui.

An open letter.
Dear Arnold,After having spent four days on your island, I hate you. Ok not really.But really. I hate you.I know your from all kinds of places, but I think this place fits you the most.With it's sweeping vista's, varied climates, half naked tan beach granola boys in big trucks, extraordinary weather, and excellent wildlife, Maui is awesome. People say to me "Dan, Maui is the most awesome place ever" and to them I say "Is it?" and usually they say "Yes. Yes it is." Even with all that, there are still cultural wars, giant horrible mosquitoes, waves that are too big or too small, jellyfish, and a myriad of other ailments that the island deal

oh, we weren't in a race?
There's something about cycling behind obnoxiously fit, spandexed-clip-peddled-helmeted road bikers that makes me want to race them. Today I was following two people in silly colors and tight clothes for no more than 10 blocks, going at least 50% faster than I would have if left to my own devices, purely because of the silent subliminal challenge that their gear was shouting to my competitive nature.

Chevron is catching on.
A few weeks ago I wrote about how encouraging people to take small steps towards fighting global warming (turn off your lights, carpool, etc) at the expense of the necessary solutions (calling your legislator, talking to your community about national global warming legislation) actually does more bad than good."If, in our zeal to educate people about the personal choices they could make, we cause them to believe that what they are doing is enough or that what they are doing is more important than the political solutions we have available to us, then we are running counter to the solutions that we ultimately want and need to implement."

I know nothing about the economy.
Finished "The Return of Depression Economics and the crisis of 2008" by Krugman a few days ago. He tries to simplify everything into analogies that are meant to be digestible by the average person, and succeeds on many accounts (I know more about how no one knows how to fix things now?), but mostly I got out of the book that I know less about the economy than previously thought.Curiousness about evolutionary psychology: fulfilledCuriousness about the economy: itching itching itching...