wooden bike

January 27th, 2008Tags: , ,
| art, bike, green, invent | chris | 0 comments

this is definitely note-worthy.

this 16-year-old from canada built this bike. not normally a big deal, except this one is made completely of wood. a free wheel, working bike, made 100% of wood. if you aren’t impressed, click here to see the article and feast your eyes on this genius piece of work. from spacers and pins in the chain, to the wheels themselves.

sweet.

another cycle down

January 25th, 2008Tags: ,
| crazy, food, good stuff, school | chris | 0 comments


don’t worry, i’m still here.

things have been quite busy with this last class. culinary skills 2 has been a whirlwind of cooking methods, stocks, sauces, and all sorts of dicin’ fun. this week has been all sorts of crazy with written tests, knife tests, product identification tests, and food prep up the wazoo.

today we got to cook up a banquet for ourselves. i would say overall it was a pretty good time. there’s something about the way the kitchen feels when everyone is working hard and fast to meet the objective.

click here to check out a few photos from the day. i wish i would have got more pictures of the prep, but was really too busy to make that happen.

the next three weeks i’ll be back in the classroom with a couple more of the gen. ed. required classes. i could use a few days in a laid back classroom.

happy new year!

January 12th, 2008 | family, friends, good stuff, moving, portland | chris | 1 comment


heres our new years letter.

hope you all had a beautiful 2007! enjoy!