http://blog.cjpais.com/ Recent content on CJs Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/wish/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/wish/ wish inspired by taylor. found his site somehow, saw he had a slackline on his wishlist and I was happy to give him one that I had leftover. Actvities/Hobbies/Interests Cycling Bontrager Elite Bottle Cage Pannier Rack Panniers Better Lock Better Light Surfing Surf Wax 5/4/3 Wetsuit Retro Fish Surfboard Kazuma Long Classic 9’0” or 9’2” Custom Climbing Bicolor 70m Rope this this this Camp Dyon Carabiners in different colors Slacklining/Highlining 5mm (3⁄16”) Amsteel Blue - Green Color 25+ feet 6mm (1⁄4”) Amsteel Blue - Blue Color 25+ feet [Splicing Tools]() 33+ Meters of Eclipse Webbing w/Single Sewn Loop BC Roller Straight Gate Line Grip G5 Line Scale 3 Hiking/Backpacking Thermarest NeoAir Xlite Regular Small Gloves? http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/the-circus/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 12:15:00 -0700 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/the-circus/ It was a slow day slacklining at the park for me. I was on the line, playing around, listening to music and generally just having a good time. Every now and then I would catch someone’s attention, but some reason most people seem not to notice me floating a few feet in the air. Some walk a few feet away from me without even acknowledging the line exists at all. Not to mention there is someone walking on it. http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/trt2023/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:30:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/trt2023/ Video Photos Background My experience backpacking is quite minimal, I can think of 4 trips I have done total, 3 overnights, and one 3 day trip on the Lost Coast. This trips occurred over a span of 5 years. Before Lost Coast I hadn’t backpacked since 2019. The Tahoe Rim Trail (TRT) is a 170mi loop around Lake Tahoe in California/Nevada. I had planned to do some long backpacking trip after I got back from Japan, but I had not decided on the trail before I left for Japan or even when I got back. http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/community/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:00:00 -0700 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/community/ The below is a raw empassioned excerpt from my notes about what “community feels like” building community. what does community feel like? Well since I got the news of adam’s passing, that is community. The fact I found that out through the community. That he was part of this community, that he contributed to it. Community is when things are happening, being invited to things. It feels like getting invited to a weekly bike ride, a weekly highline, inviting people to slackline, being able to wander down the street and run into a friend. http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/weird/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 12:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/weird/ some videos and photos i want to put somewhere of me being weird the last few months and maybe some friends too http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/woodson/ Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/woodson/ So I’m going climbing at Mount Woodson on Tuesday with a friend Patrick who I’ve not seen in a while. We’re both crack addicts you might say. We love crack. Specifically climbing cracks. I’m very excited to get out there with him, and well, now is the time for me to find a few climbs I want to do, and maybe reminisce on some that I’ve done. Mount Woodson is a cool place. http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/todothings/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/todothings/ thx jon for your list im poaching some ideas, probably even more to come get a tour of a nuclear reactor (w jon?) surf Baja California with jon scuba license canyoneering learn angle control in disc golf learn how to snowboard go paragliding full-man a 50m highline get back into mountain biking go bikepacking visit the space station / spend a night in the first orbital / moon hotel go to city council and get more involved in the community bring my dad to space buy a home and rent it out while giving equity nearly equal to rent amount http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/pants/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/pants/ I love this pair of pants, they are by far my favorite pants I’ve ever worn. If you know me, you’ve almost certainly seen me wear them. I was probably looking like a tree I initially was going to say I don’t know how long I’ve owned them, but actually I can look that up. It looks like I’ve owned them since December 8th 2018. I guess this is a little over 4 years and coming up on 5. http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/synth/ Wed, 31 May 2023 15:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/synth/ I bought myself a synth for my birthday. It’s a Korg Volca Bass. I didn’t really buy this thing with the intention of making music at all. I really only bought it for the purpose of play. I just wanted to know what it’s like to play some kind of instrument again. I’ve played drums in the past and that was nice, but never deeply resonated with me. I don’t know if a synth resonates with me either, but I’m curious. http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/music/ Tue, 30 May 2023 15:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/music/ Damn. Hearing music after being on the Lost Coast Trail was jarring. And maybe jarring isn’t quite the right word, but oh my did it ever jump into the ears. Feeling more alive than ever, but yet an aliveness so different than the songs of the birds and the ocean we’d been hearing for the past 3 days. In a lot of sense it felt like the antithesis of the natural environment and when juxtaposed with it, absolutely unnatural. http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/transition/ Mon, 29 May 2023 15:17:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/transition/ I just got back from the wonderful Lost Coast Trail after many hours of driving and backpacking with Chiaki. So many lessons learned along the way, many ups and downs as you might expect from an intense adventure. This writing adventure over the next week or so may all be lessons from the trip, but I am not sure yet. It looks like a lot of details are going to be left out of this story for now. http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/simple-goal/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:09:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/simple-goal/ I want private data capture and storage with primitives to work with it. To create expressive UI from data that is secured. What is a protocol that can fit this? It should be adaptable to a variety of forms. File System Database Key Value Store Graph Logging http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/simple-fs/ Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:11:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/simple-fs/ I want a simple file system like thing. Every file storage thing I use has a bunch of different quirks. S3 works, but it’s a pain to use for small use cases. IPFS is nice, but it has a bunch of data availability concerns, and everything being content addressed can be nice in some cases but awful in others. arweave is cool, but getting tokens is a problem in the US? http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/soft-shackles/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 20:55:00 -0800 http://blog.cjpais.com/posts/soft-shackles/ Amsteel Blue Soft Shackles I just love these little buggers. They have to be one of the coolest pieces of gear I’ve come across yet. So incredibly light, but also strong. A little cord that can hold so much. Those little fibers getting all snug with one another. Thousands of pounds held for a few grams of weight. Soft and packable. No-triloading! Crazy