The Official Treehouse Articles Thread

[Mick!]

Yeah, I see people talking about this "mindfulness" on FB from time to time.

Gives me a good laugh.

 

[FireFighterZero]

You run out of mouse cadet or maybe too much?

 

[Levi]

 

[Mick!]

First one, then now, the other

Mindfulness seems to be this weeks Ice Bucket Challenge/Gangnam style/polenta/Wasabi sauce/Ashanti yoga.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I agree some of it seems kind of hokey.

The cat I read about has been teaching this stuff to firefighters since the early 90's.

 

[cory]

Mindfulness has been around for centuries afaik, and according to the OP link.

Anywho, I googled the author in the OP, pretty interesting life. And I found another longish, very well written piece imo (in one article on him he said he tries to write so that every sentence will be read; I know, duh, but still an interesting thing to say, and I think his writing reflects it).

I think tree guys and ranchers will get a kick out of this piece, its about a guy who lived in the woods in Maine for 27 years straight, sheltering only in a tent, and survived by stealing from local cabins. They call him the North Pond Hermit.

http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

Edit: Im still reading it but lol he freakin loved Lynyrd Skynrd.

He said when the temps went below -20F, survival was brutal.

 

[stig]

What a life.

 

[cory]

It is amazing he wasn't discovered in all that time, camping close to civilization. Btw, Belgrade Lakes is a really beautiful area, we got a meal there this summer.

It does make you wonder why he did it. Humans a capable of such extremes of behavior, it's pretty incredible.

Yesterday I read a lot about a blind guy who lives a nearly normal life by means of sensing his surroundings through echolocation- he clicks with his tongue and listens and processes the sound as it bounces off nearby objects etc. Lets put it this way- he regularly rides a mountain bike on rough trails this way, he's 100% blind.

 

[Mick!]

Cory, I'm calling you out on that one, man rides around on a mountain bike clicking like a dolphin to visualise the surroundings.


Link please.

 

[cory]

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-to-see-20120504

 

[Levi]

Yep, that's real.

 

[cory]

This is on the Indians of Colorado, how and when they got there,how they lived and survived, and why they left. And how a lot of Indian names were given to Colorado sites

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/romo/buchholtz/chap1.htm

 

[cory]

On how Texas shale oil has kept fuel prices low and battled Saudi efforts to raise prices. Includes a nice vid on exactly how fracking is accomplished.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...-oil-has-fought-saudi-arabia-to-a-standstill/

 

[MasterBlaster]

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-to-see-20120504

Fricking amazing!

 

[cory]

An interesting article about a fishing obsessed dude who became a fly fishing guide to celebs and using the funds to try to save habitat. Interesting also that his personality led to his doing many non fishing things.

http://www.mensjournal.com/features...ishing-for-monsters-with-oliver-white-w205424

 

[cory]

Fricking amazing!

Good on you for, um, clicking on the link

 

[MasterBlaster]

I click on every link, everywhere.

 

[cory]

 

[cory]

On a far ranging wolf in OR and CA

http://www.takepart.com/feature/2014/12/17/or7-wolf-journey-california-oregon-endangered-species

 

[MasterBlaster]

I Am The Interwebs...

 

[cory]

I think I posted this somewhere awhile back, but in case not, this is a very good article on an "American Shaman"

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/american-shaman-the-incredible-story-of-lucas-weiss-20160201

 

[cory]

"There's winning and there's learning". A good article on one man's mma/ufc journey

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/6/3...ommentator-kenny-florian-winning-and-learning

 

[stig]

On a far ranging wolf in OR and CA

http://www.takepart.com/feature/2014/12/17/or7-wolf-journey-california-oregon-endangered-species

-Excellent article.

I just don't understand the part about " long quixotic trek", what the hell is quixotic about going walkabouts?

Personally, I'd rather see a hunting season on cattle than wolves.
There is way too many cows in the Western US














So, this ought to wake Jim up!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Well, wolves do taste like shit, and not much meat.

Wolf season is on in Montana at present.

 

[stig]

Jim, I wasn't planning on eating those cows, I'm a vegetarian, remember.