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VIDEO: Twenty Four Hours in Beijing Part I
I woke up on Friday in an incredible amount of pain. My ankle, which I injured the night before during a particularly vigorous game of trampoline-dodgeball, had swollen the point that it looked like a bruised potato with toes dangling off. Even the slight pressure of my blankets sent rushes of pain through my foot.…
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Who Are You Listening To?
Tomorrow I’m going to go check out some granite slabs so that I can replace my particle-board RV counters with granite. In preparation for the new counters I’ve ordered a new sink and faucet, and will be taking a look at a stove on Friday. The faucet came in today. I got home at midnight,…
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The Most Excessive Small RV Ever?
Whenever I pass by a Home Depot in the RV, one thought pops into my mind: are there any projects I can do? I love working on my RV. Since the last update, where I put in maple and marble floors and improved the kitchen, I’ve done quite a bit more. Following is a list…
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Get Rid of Half of Your Stuff
I had to double, and then triple, check this, but apparently I’ve never written a post on minimalism before. Then again, I live in an RV smaller than your walk-in closet, so I don’t suppose this post will come as a surprise to anyone. Still, it’s probably worth writing a few paragraphs about it for…
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Friends on Pause
I land in Narita Airport, Japan, pull two thousand Yen out of the ATM, and get on the train for Tokyo. From memory I walk down familiar streets until I get to the New Zealand Embassy in northern Shibuya, where my friend Elliot lives. I haven’t seen him in almost two years, and have only…
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I Got Twitter.com/Tynan!
Fresh off my eleventh hour victory in buying Tynan.com, I turned my sights at my next vanity obsession, the @tynan Twitter username. I was late on the Twitter train, and by the time I climbed aboard, @tynan was taken. I settled for @tynanbtyb, which made sense back when my site was called Better Than Your…
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The Five Year Battle With a Domain Squatter for Tynan.com
First off, let me say this: BOOM! I got Tynan.com! YES!! Okay. So back when I was in high school, I had the idea that maybe this internet thing was going to work out, and I might want to own Tynan.com. I put www.networksolutions.com into trusty old Internet Explorer 3.0, searched for tynan.com, saw that…
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Defined By Your Worst
I’ve had a rough week. No deaths in the family or anything seriously bad, but it’s been a bit emotionally draining. Finally got in touch with the guy who owns Tynan.com, and he refused to sell to me at any price. A writer I was really hoping to work with decided not to contribute to…
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How to Build the Smallest World Class Camera System
I spent $1800 on my first high quality camera. I was on the brink of Life Nomadic, and I justified the purchase with two ideas. The first was that I would be seeing a lot of things for the first, and possibly the only, time. Second, the particular camera I bought, an Epson R-D1s, seemed…
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No Filter
Today at lunch a waitress sat down with my friend and I. We go to this particular restaurant often and are chatty, so we’re friends enough to sit together during her break, but not enough to make plans outside of the restaurant. She told us that she was raped in the past. Now, this…
