One Less Car - Pedal Power Part II

288.7 km pedaled in the month of October
14.3 km/hr average speed
54.1 km/hr top speed
20:08 riding hours

The snow has fallen and the studs are on, stay tuned for part three.

The boy with the Incredible brain

This is an amazing video with a person who looks at the world in a incredibly different way than normal people do. It goes to show you the untapped power of our minds when they are applied in ways other than ordinary consiousness. I see this as a fleeting glimpse of what we are theoretically able to do.

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Crank Up The Stress

Try to escape.

Feel nothing all you want... you can not disregard.
Your Demons, you are in it one-to-one.
The battle is yours, the fight in your hands.
If you bury it, you bury yourself. Your demons are you.
Bury everything, everything precious six feed under.
You are but a crippled shell of what you used to be.

You better start digging.

Electrowave Guest Appearance

This past week I was invited by long time friend Kostas to do a special on his CFUR 88.7FM radioshow Electrowave. I will be doing an hour long live mixed set Sunday afternoon showcasing entirely myself and my cousin, Matt Duchesneau's originally produced tracks.

The show will be on CFUR Internet Radio and 88.7 FM in Prince George this Sunday Afternoon from 1:00 - 3:00 pm

You can also download the set in its entirety here.

Or at this mirror.

Hope you all enjoy!

Until next time,

Peace.

Grizzly Den

Over the thanksgiving weekend Shane, Anton and I drove ~100KM east into the Rocky Mountain Trench and hiked up the Grizzly Den Cabin. We had beautiful weather as well as great opportunities for photos. So I took it upon myself to take some shots:







My Pictures
Shanes Pictures

Heightened Awareness

With the prospect of a hallucinogenic journey I find myself in a surge of raw emotion. Not only do I feel extricated from my hardened daily shell of determination, but I feel aware. Aware of a stronger connection to individuals’ emotions. A sense of shared understanding. A feeling of uncertainty and fear. Why is it this way?

It happens the moment I decide to strip myself of this existential self, to jump head first into a swirling mass of unified consciousness, of universal understanding. What I seek is knowledge, wisdom, personal insight and understanding. What I fear is the temporary loss of all I have: my love, my self image, all my worldly possessions, sociological significance.

Why is it such sacrifice must be undergone to achieve these gifts. Another route such as meditation may perhaps be taken but it is of equal difficulty. The sheer thought of hours and days of personal discipline, of letting go, of being consciously in the moment is not the easiest for even a moderately experienced person to envision for the extended period of time required to achieve an enlightened state.

It is not without great thought and contemplation that I choose the path I do. For I know, for I have experienced... what taking that leap of faith can bring. It is this knowledge that compels me to do what I do. It is the rational, logical, and egotistical self that brings forth fear.

Autumn @ The Fort

Autumn has approached rapidly once again and the fall colors are upon us.

This shot was taken up crabrooke hill behind the fort by Melissa,



View the rest of the fall colors set here.

Pedal Power

As usual, we uninsured our car for the semester in an attempt to save money with our limited funds. The old commuter bike was tuned up and prepared for another long cold winter of riding up the university hill and around town.

Since I've been been at UNBC I've done the same thing every year and with this being my last, I was curious about the distance I travel in say.. a month.

Well, I went out and bought a bike computer at the beginning of the month and reset it come September 1st and have been tracking my progress since. Here is an overview of my travels:

Bike Totals for the month of September

285 km traveled

14.5km/h avg. speed.

48.5km/h top speed.

Over 19 hours of riding.

In addition, I was curious to see how much gas I would have used to travel a comparable distance. Here are my calculations:

My 2.2L Chev. Cavalier gets 23 MPG or 9.78 KM/L in the city.

285km divided by KML tells me I used at least 30 liters of gas.

With gas hovering around the one dollar per liter mark that means I saved at least $30.00 on gas, and ~$120.00 on insurance this month. I can also happily know that I saved our collective atmosphere the pollutant emissions 30+ liters of gas produces during combustion. In retrospect, these values are actually quite minimal as I am sure we would have used significantly more gas if the car had been insured due to the ease of use. In addition, we both have used the bus service and had friends pick us up, which in both occasions had the car been insured it would have been used instead.