archive for april 2009

What three guys think: On the passing of Nick Adenhart

‘What three guys think’ will be a running series on the 4+1 blog. It is exactly what it sounds like, derived mostly from group e-mail conversations between me and my two friends Yoon and Niel. I had a plan for unveiling the series more thoroughly, that will still happen. The tragedy of Nick Adenhart’s death [...]

scandalous: an incomplete history

I believe I found this from Andrew Sullivan a few weeks ago. I’ve been fascinated by it ever since then. I’ll just get bored during the day and google their names. You can read all sorts of wonderful rumors, stories, and conjectures about our past Presidents on the world wide web. Enjoy.
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How I became obsessed

I never used to be a bike person. I had a bike when I was a kid, and probably liked riding it. I only have a couple of memories that involve bikes. I remember the first time I learned to ride a bike, no training wheels or anything. My dad took me and my new [...]

books on my mind

Currently Reading: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
Just read: Money Ball by Michael Lewis, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
To Read: The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam, Elegance by Bruce Boyer
It appears I’m on a non-fiction streak right now. We’ll see if we can’t change that.

WANT: Our Legacy Postman Bag

It’s no secret around the Hinmon household that I have an unhealthy interest in bags. Luckily I’m financially constrained or I’d have more than I could ever really use. Lately I’ve been looking more into briefcase-type carriers, (maybe it’s this being a grown up phase I’m going through) and this Our Legacy Postman Bag is [...]

Dodger predictions 2009

You know it’s baseball season when you spend 20 minutes of a Saturday night texting a friend about whether the dodgers should make a hypothetical trade (Matt Kemp for Miguel Cabrera) in two months when (or if, I suppose) the strapped-for-cash Detroit Tigers have their 2009 fire sale.
Happy Opening Day everybody.
Usually I just call my [...]

Kicking Mule Workshop

I was up in Portland the other day and stopped by a little shop called Blake. I’ve been looking for a nice solid pair of jeans that aren’t too baggy or too tight (my legs aren’t skinny), and that aren’t so worn in that they’re going to fall apart on me in less than two [...]

What I love about the present

The other day my high school buddy and I were reminiscing about how we went bungee-jumping a couple months after graduation. This was in 1998. After we had spent a couple of minutes recalling the tremendous rush and our general manliness we were wondering exactly how we went about setting this up. How did we [...]

The game behind the name

We were living in the mountains of California at the time, in a little town north of Los Angeles called Frazier Park. Megan was pregnant with our second daughter, late summer was turning into fall. What a weekend it was shaping up to be. A four game series with the Padres. Late season with the [...]

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