After taking last year off from any serious training (only completed a century ride around Tahoe and a marathon) I’ve started to get back at it again and kicked off the year with a century ride. My wife, Kerry, had been training with Team in Training (TNT) for the Solvang Century and I decided I’d [...]
I was invited to visit Brightworks in San Francisco by my friend and Founder, Gever Tulley. Back in 2005 he founded Tinkering School, a summer school for children based on the belief that they can build anything, and through building, learn anything. He’s written a book, 50 Dangerous Things (you should let your children do) and [...]
A few weeks ago while I was in Toronto I connected with Rob Spence, a one-eyed film maker (see if you can notice his bionic eye in the photo) who is making a documentary on today’s cyborgs as part of a promo for the new video game Deus Ex Human Revolution. He wanted to interview me [...]
This last week Kerry and I were in Canada for our best friends wedding at Balsam Lake, Ontario. While there we got to play in boats on the lake and after my success knee boarding the other week I was up for giving anything a go. I’d never wake boarded, even when I had two [...]
At the weekend I got to do something I’ve never tried before…knee boarding. Now I’ve water skied a few times, prior to losing my hand and figured trying to get pulled up on skis behind a boat with just one arm might be a bit tough so had written off the idea of doing anything [...]
