i prefer pi http://www.ericaricardo.com/bANNERs/ericaricardo_200w_75h.jpg When you can't walk, you will still walk. http://www.ericaricardo.com http://www.ericaricardo.com/blug/#blug111022 Another post that's a long time coming. Topics covered: cycling, pie, Gladwell, Hawking, tromobists, a dirty joke in the title tag, actualization, fear, stories. Lots. [more] http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/ericaricardo Hi folks! For the next three weeks I'll be in Iceland. Starting 9/19 my lovely boyfriend Tall Jason and I are going bicycle-camping around Iceland's Golden Circle (~180mi). Read all about training, gear, and the trip on my Crazy Guy on a Bike blog, linked above. 'You're not a guy!' you're saying. I'm not. But we both know that the operative words in that title are 'crazy' and 'on a bike,' and in fairness, most of the people on the site are dudes. White dudes, actually. Also middle-aged, and divorced. But 'crazy white guy in his early 50s who uses a bicycle to soothe the loneliness inside' isn't a very zippy handle. If you're sensing some hostility and alienation from me in this RSS post, dude. I'm totally somewhat hostile and alienated. And it's dum, because the Crazy Guy community is actually very friendly and open-minded to all who pursue the two-wheeled arts. Anyway. I'll be blogging over there! I love their simple bare-bones interface. It's like craigslist. And you know how I love posting to craigslist! Scroll to the bottom of the profile linked above to get to my 'Niceland' blog :) http://www.ericaricardo.com/blug/#blug110901 Huge post! Huge post percolating for a long time about Tarantino. Also: in which I compare 'The Little Mermaid' to 'Citizen Kane' (oh yes). It's a blow-by-blow of 'Death Proof' which, if you've seen it, and you love [over-]analysis, and you're one of the few, the proud, the be'loved RSS feed-readers, you're likely to enjoy reading this post as much as I enjoyed writing it. Booyah kashah. [more] http://www.ericaricardo.com/blug/#blug110804 Contemplative post. Paragraph redacted from the final version (special bonus content to m'RSS feed readers): when I lived in The Cottage in San Francisco I saved many spiders by covering with a glass, sliding an index card underneath, and shaking them out into the backyard garden wilderness. They were usually big spiders, which made me more inclined to save them. The little spiders that I sometimes see crawling on the wall or tooling around on the bathroom floor here at the Courtyards Apartment seem less worthy of rescue. Once, when at a particular nadir of the soul, when it felt like connection with other living beings was particularly impossible, I saw a tiny spider on the bus. I let him walk around on my hand for a while and then after I de-bussed set him down on the ground. In other cases I've squished spiders just as delicate and harmless. And that about sums up the point of this blog post. [more] http://www.ericaricardo.com/blug/#blug110721 So originally this post had a lot more swears, a lot more dick jokes, and a lot more references to my personal body hairs. I've toned it down. As my friend said, 'you're out for blood with this blog post.' Take heart: this post is no longer out for blood. Or sweat. Or tears. It's just coolin out. This post is about getting older. Also, you think that I don't know that I interrupt you all the time and it annoys you SO MUCH, but I know. I totally know. I silently thank you for your patience every time. [more] http://www.ericaricardo.com/blug/#blug110615 Long awaited post about maturity. Not that I have any solutions to maturity (yet). Still searching. Also I balance the preachiness of this blug post with a revealing and humorous personal anecdote, so it's got /that/ going for it. Enjoy! [more] http://www.ericaricardo.com/blug/#blug110602 Ok, ericaricardo RSS feed readers! This is special content JUST FOR YOU! I gottabouta FOUR hot posts enqueued. Future topics include: "The Death of Television, the Future of Love and Money"; "The Five Moves of Love"; "Art, Cool, Magic, Love [Crazy Sexy Cool]"; and "On Selling Out, and the Sellers That Sell." In the meantime, here is a HOT post about grammar, craziness, nerds, socializing, law, and America. I hope you enjoy it :) [more] http://ericaricardo.com/musics/#ulysses This song was written about the events of fall 2009. For those of you who knew me in 2009, it was a more or less constant, craven search for the next Mr. or Mrs. Erica Dreisbach. After a long string of romantic misadventure 2009 came to a glorious end with at last, someone who could be bombarded by my personality and just glow. I remember being on that plane from San Francisco to the East Coast, thinking, "do you know how hard I'm coming to get you? Do you know what you're in for?" The answer was yes. Yes, Dear RSS Feed Readers. Yes. [more] http://ericaricardo.com/design This design portfolio was a long time coming, Dear Readers. I feel good. [more] http://ericaricardo.com/tshirts/fontnerds.html Here are two boring stories about Erica and fonts: the first is that one of my worst bosses (the one I'd've had indicted for inurement had I known at 22 what I know now about law and self-assurity) (using the organizational credit card to take out dates, that kind of thing) had a default Outlook font of bright green, 18pt, comic sans. Unethical behavior, default comic sans bright green. I spy a correlation! The other story is that when I worked at the corporation there was a crack team of in-house videographers led by a magical documentarian pulled out of retirement with the lure of an exorbitant salary. His team billed $1,000 per hour to make our little corporate films about video games. And every single member of his team had an email signature in a different jewel-toned shade of Papyrus. It was a real self-aware, f***-you Papyrus. Like, 'hey font nerds, this bother you? That'll be $10,000 please!' If you wonder why I capitalized Papyrus and not comic sans, you probably won't get the joke printed on this t-shirt, but that's ok. Thanks for reading these stories! I repeat them a lot, so you'll probably hear 'em again in case you love them and then forget later. [more] http://www.ericaricardo.com/blug/#blug110326 Boyfriends who use pun have girlfriends who use pun. [more]