http://blog.nateoman.com Nate Oman's personal blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:59:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Out of bed at 6:30am. The sun is just above the trees and as it burns off the nights haze the sky turns golden. I lace on my shoes. The neighborhood is alive with runners and dog walkers. A quick drive to Jamestown Settlement, and at the entrance to the ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5805 So Apple has added a new feature to iTunes that allows you to share your music tastes and the like with your friends.  It's the latest move in the Facebookization of every online service on the planet.  I have no plans to use this one, however, notwithstanding my prodigious capacity ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5803 I am finally getting around to reading Michael Pollin's The Omnivore's Dilemma.  So far I am enjoying it, but I have to say that there are some huge holes in his discussion of agriculture policy and farm economics.  His story goes something like this: farming got really productive in the ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5799 I am writing this on my laptop as I sit in a beautiful fall afternoon on my front porch. A duo of spectacular monarch butterflies are chasing one another through the crate myrtle trees and my daughter is happily peddling her tricycle around our cul de sac, which is fringed ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5794 I grew up listening to NPR and I always thought that their coverage was pretty good, if predictably liberal in a kind of passive-aggressive, Volvo-driving kind of way.  It's been a while since I listened to them however.  Of late, I have been getting my news via the iPhone in ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5793 Here is the flyer for the conference on D&C 42 at SVU next week. Download now or preview on posterous Mormon Theology Seminar Poster ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5787 Blogging use to be fun for me.  That was back when I did a great deal of it.  Now less so.  In part this is because I am simply busier, but it is also because blogging has changed, or at least me interaction with it has changed.  The result is ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5785 In the spirit of Hurricane Earl coverage of the Outer Banks, I offer this picture from my visit to Duck, NC last fall. Also, I want to see how Posterous handles pictures. http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5784 I just finished Born to Run by Christopher McDougall.  It is a fun read and I think that I kinda sorta buy his central argument.  The book is about ultra running and the Tarahumara, a Mexican tribe of super runners that live in the canyons of the Sierra Madres.  (Note: ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5781 A while ago I was reading some sermons from the 1880s in the Journal of Discourses. The 1880s, of course, is the decade when the anti-polygamy crusades were at their most intense. Thousands of Mormons were incarcerated, the Brethren were in hiding from the law much of the ... http://blog.nateoman.com/?p=5774