Michael Livingston

Aug

6

Project LJ: Stage 1

2007 | Filed Under Project LJ (Jeep) | 2 Comments

Project LJ Stage 1: Cheap improvements with big upside (items covered in detail below).

$153 — JKS Quicker Swaybar Disconnects.
$113 — Rocky Road Outfitters 2″ Budget Lift Kit.
$45 — Auto Ventshade Bugflector II.
$40 — Miscellaneous tools.
$10 — Homemade window pouches.
$5 — Homemade tool roll.

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Total for stage 1: $366.
Quicker Swaybar Disconnects
If you do one thing to [...]

Aug

6

Project LJ Defined

2007 | Filed Under Project LJ (Jeep) | Leave a Comment

Jeeping and Me
I’m proud to say that responsible Jeeping runs in my family. A native of Colorado, I grew up going on camping trips that inevitably involved some four-wheeling in the Rocky Mountains or in the nearby semi-desert canyon country of places like the Canyonlands. Decades before every soccer mom drove an SUV [...]

Aug

6

What Else I Did This Summer

2007 | Filed Under Homelife | Leave a Comment

There’s an old Merle Haggard song called “Colorado,” which has the following line in its chorus: “And if God doesn’t live in Colorado, I’ll bet that’s where he spends most of his time.” (See full lyrics, and guitar chords, here.)
Well, if God does live (or at least vacation) in Colorado, I reckon He spends the [...]

Aug

6

Student Successes

2007 | Filed Under Student Successes, Teaching | Leave a Comment

Melissa Smith has had her paper “At Home and Abroad: Éowyn’s Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings” accepted for publication in Mythlore. This paper was written for my course “Tolkien: The Myth and Epic of Middle-Earth” at the University of Rochester in the Spring of 2006.
Matthew Gryder had his essay [...]

Aug

5

Wii Are Sore

2007 | Filed Under Homelife | 1 Comment

It didn’t really need confirmation, but now I know I’m out of shape. A few hours of playing Wii Sports — especially the boxing — and my muscles are actually a tad tired.
I am truly out of shape.
On the plus side, I can report that the Wii is a ridiculous amount of fun. [...]

Aug

5

We Got a Wii

2007 | Filed Under Homelife | 3 Comments

I’m not a gamer. Not really. Sure, I’ve played my share of PC games — Civilization IV, Neverwinter Nights, and Half-life 2 have all found an oft-used home on my drive these past couple years, and there was a whole semester of my college life where I basically didn’t sleep (or study, I [...]

Aug

3

Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop

2007 | Filed Under Fiction | 2 Comments

A Medieval Astronomer?
I’m a medievalist. Not one of those dress-up-and-play-swords folks, but an academic who specializes in the Middle Ages. I study medieval castles; I don’t want to live in one.* So it surprises some folks to hear that in the summer of 2007 I became one of the twelve writers chosen [...]

Aug

2

Testing 1, 2, 3…

2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Does this work?
And how does this look?
Good? bad? Who the hell am I talking to?
It looks like this will be my new website.  I’ll be slowly moving things over from the old one for a few weeks. Hope to see some folks hanging around here!

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