For the past year, I've immersed myself into the resurgence of Hula Hooping as a modern dance form and spiritual practice. I'll give an overview of the evolving landscape of Hoop Dance from the branches of fitness, spirituality, and performance. I'll give a few beginner tips, and show some photos of how people make their customized, adult-sized hoops. I'll talk about some of the therapeutic and healing benefits that people have experienced from hooping, and how people are fusing together insig...
Those who have watched my commanding stage presence may wonder if I was just lucky enough to be born this way. I wasn't. When I started teaching Perl classes in 1993, I was petrified with stage fright. Then a friend of mine dragged me off to a Karaoke Club one night, without warning. And that's where it all began.You will experience how I've used karaoke to win friends, influence people, and even create entire industries. And yes, I do win karaoke contests, regularly. I might even sing a bit.
Can you understand Morse Code? What if it's encoded as images instead of sounds? What if those images are cancelled postage stamps, and you have to first sort them based on their colors and the dates in each postmark?Puzzle hunts come in many shapes and sizes, but they all test players' mental agility by presenting information in unusual ways. I'll give a brief history of my involvement in this unique community, show some clues from past Games, and do a quick recap of the Portland "DASH" event...
According to Japanese legend, a ninja is the ultimate warrior, skilled in maneuvers such as espionage, scouting, and the art of stealth -- all useful skills when navigating the underworld of online dating. But when I created my first online dating profile in 2002, I possessed none of these skills. I was the antithesis of the Dating Ninja -- a rank amateur.I have spent the last seven years building my ninja skills on MatchMaker.com, Match.com, eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, Craigslist, It's Just Lun...
Honda's ASIMO can walk, run, and climb stairs, but why can't he do T'ai Chi? Our traditional models for robotic motion are all wrong; nature figured out a far more efficient way hundreds of millions of years ago. In a few years, the phrase "moving like a robot" will have a completely different meaning. Why is nature's way better? How is it more efficient?What can we take from this idea to have our own machinery work with greater efficiency and fewer creaks and pops?
During my various travels and diverse work experience as a project manager, water therapist, writer, programmer, teacher, among other endeavours I have had the great pleasure of working with many skilled and talented individuals. I have learned countless things by just being around people who excel at their work. And, I am always impressed by people who embody their work in such a way to elevate their labor to a place of Craft. Over time, as I watched people who honed and executed their craft ...
No matter how far or fast we dive into the information age, we will always have regular mail. Though, we may all be carrying around a smart phones or whatever the new communication gadget that has been recently been invented, we still greatly rely upon the mail or as it is affectionately has become to be known as, “snail mail”. Even with our mailboxes overflowing with junk mail, bills and catalogues, there is still the occasion that we get something that makes us feel good when we go through t...
My Work, Anthrodynamics, Is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior. I have expanded and built on the works of John Gall, Howard Bloom, Lawrence Peter, Robert A. Wilson and many others both recognized and obscure. Anthrodynamics asks the question, what are people doing? This is not the same as asking what do people think they are doing? Systems Theory meets Psychology at the corner of Biology and History. There will be unexpected ideas expounded here, some of these will be...
I was leading the perfectly normal, maladjusted life of your average, early-21st century chronic neurotic when a severe onset of Crohn's disease knocked me on my ass (you'll pardon the pun) and showed me the light. 11 days in the hospital, two-pints-of-blood-the-hard-way and a bona fide bedside epiphany later, I began a new life as someone who (again with the puns!) gave a shit. Always. So this? It's about how the shitty times (I know, I know) can, with a slight change in attitude and a teeny,...
Have something to say? Like to complain about what's on commercial radio? Do something about it...or just tuck away some information for a future MacGyver moment.DIY broadcasting is surprisingly easy and not much harder to do right (*and* stay out of jail). I'll show you how I've done it and how you can too.
