Highlights of a "Truly Important" Life
"[A]lmost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."
--Steve Jobs, 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University
Since
Posted December 3, 2010 | 12/03/10 02:03 PM ET
It turns out that it takes three hours and 40 minutes of sexytime to work off one Chipotle Steak Burrito.
However, a vegetarian
Posted November 26, 2010 | 11/26/10 03:49 PM ET
13 Posters: Buy Nothing Day. 13 Things to Do instead of "Black Friday."Posted October 1, 2010 | 10/01/10 06:50 PM ET
Boulder, Colorado: home sweet home.
Born and raised. I love it here.
Via Fidos:
Posted September 25, 2010 | 09/25/10 06:42 PM ET
Key Update: via the good folks at at Silk Soy:
[Dear Waylon]
Just wanted to chime in quickly regarding your [article]. We appreciate your level of objectivity, and the fact that...
Posted July 1, 2010 | 07/01/10 03:52 PM ET
Posted June 18, 2010 | 06/18/10 05:37 PM ET
Posted June 10, 2010 | 06/10/10 02:18 PM ET
It's his fault.
"This ad treats a serious tragedy like a football game or chess match, with points to be won merely by staying on the offense."
Posted June 8, 2010 | 06/08/10 04:35 PM ET
I want my Oil!
Posted June 8, 2010 | 06/08/10 03:28 AM ET
The only thing this bloody brilliant video gets wrong is that BP's not losing billions -- they're losing only a tiny fraction of what they make in a...
Posted June 5, 2010 | 06/05/10 02:00 PM ET
The Feng Shui is Whack
I'm not sure what my favorite thing is about this review: that the critique of this Boulder, Colorado café is highlighted by the charge that Atlas Purveyors is crowded (surely, a sign of success and doing things right for any business?) or that it's Feng...
Posted June 5, 2010 | 06/05/10 12:53 PM ET
Click above photo for the NY Times' slideshow.
A Sierra Club video and petition to move President Obama to act.
Posted June 4, 2010 | 06/04/10 03:07 PM ET
Posted June 3, 2010 | 06/03/10 12:27 AM ET
Via the Pepsi Refresh Project:
Looks like Mallika Chopra--
the founder of Intent.com, a fast-growing site...
Posted May 19, 2010 | 05/19/10 05:57 PM ET
It's Up to Us--Take Action Here, Today.
"Federal Defendants have spent the better part of the last decade treading water, and avoiding their obligations under the Endangered Species Act... We simply cannot afford to waste another decade." ~ U.S. District Court Judge James Redden to Counsel of Record in National...
Posted May 14, 2010 | 05/14/10 05:27 PM ET
"The Lord Buddha advised those who are ardent on attaining Nibbana to contemplate the body with its impurities..."
I'm a "Dharma Brat"--an American Buddhist. My parents met and fell in love back in '72, at a seminar...
Posted April 23, 2010 | 04/23/10 01:13 PM ET
This morning, in the eco-minded valley that is Boulder, Colorado, I drank some fair-trade organic coffee, hopped on my bike and, with my dog (who I adopted from the Humane Society), went downtown--where local, independent businesses proliferate.
Returning, I came across a sign on a neighbor's lawn that looked...
Posted February 25, 2010 | 02/25/10 01:28 PM ET
Yes! Woohoo! I'm psyched! That's just what I, as a citizen of Boulder, Colorado, say when waking up each morning.
As for this...
Posted February 19, 2010 | 02/19/10 05:41 PM ET
Tiger Woods: Mea Culpa, Buddha.
Emphasizing a return to his Buddhist tradition, Tiger vows to Bring Obstacles to the Path.
Sorry, Brit Hume.
Seems that forgiveness, humiliation, anger, adultery, raising a...
Posted January 20, 2010 | 01/20/10 05:39 PM ET
...Oh, right, PVC=cancer and other evils for our health, and that of our...
Posted August 29, 2011 | 08/29/11 05:43 PM ET