by Jeremiah Bell on June 9, 2009
Geocaching: Using multi- billion dollar satellite technology to find Tupperware hidden in the woods.
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In preparation for a course that will undoubtedly put me in the woods for the better half of the summer, I decided to pick up a GPS and have some fun. Namely through the sport of Geocaching.
What is [...]
by Jeremiah Bell on February 11, 2009
Squash – that’s not exercise, it’s flagellation.
- Noel Coward
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I have been playing squash on and off for about ten years now and although I have never been very good at it, I love the workout. If you haven’t played before, then it is like playing tennis against a wall. But the ball [...]
by Jeremiah Bell on December 30, 2008
Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Well, today marks the first day of a 40 cm snowfall that will hit us here in Southern Ontario over the next few days. I was up relatively early doing some shoveling this morning and [...]
by Jeremiah Bell on November 15, 2008
“There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.”
- Mark Twain
Climbing may not be for you. You tear up your hands, hang onto small holds at alarming heights, and get rope burn right [...]