Adventures in University and the great outdoors.

"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
Any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And you are the one who'll decide where to go ..."
- Dr. Seuss



Great Adventures
Chic Chocs 2002 X-C Skiing Trip Report

Chic Chocs 2003 Telemark Trip Report

Patagonia Cycling Trip 2004 (Posted by Nick and Andrew)

European Cycling Trip 2005

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Bio
Who: Benjamin Heumann

Where: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Why: Graduate School

Major Malfunctions: Snow, Telemark Skiing, Snoeshowing, monkeys, Winter Camping, Back Country Skiing, Hiking, Cycling, monkeys, Sea Kayaking, and Rivers (river monkeys).

e-mail:benjamin.heumann [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Current Reading:The Star Diaries Lem
Books of Note (Recently Read):
The Futurological Congress, Lem
Before Mao, Patrick Lescot
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Plot Against America, Phillip Roth
The Great Shark Hunt Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, R.I.P.
Stranger in a Strange LandRobert A. Heilein
Give War A Chance PJ O'Rourke
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Animal Farm
Reefer Madness
Cadillac Desert
Ender's Game (again)
Kingdom of Fear
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Links
School
Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre
Homepage

Other Internet Readings
McGill
The Sardonic Subversive (Matthew)
Redneck With Books (Evan)
Dithie
Former McGill GIS Lecturer, Matt Stevenson
Oriana aka O-town

Michigan
Common Monkey Flower (Murph)
Esther
Ann Arbor is Overrated
Arbor Update

The Pros and The Like
Crooked Timber
Live From the Third Rail
Beyond Brilliance, Beyond Stupidity
The Drug War Rant The Agitator
Geography Links
Map Room
Geography in the News
Canadian Geographic
Ski Maps!
Flight Maps
EU Pipeline Maps
Money Maps
Ancient Rome Maps
Ancient Greece
Recent Earthquakes
Atlas of the Biosphere
McGill Geography Undergraduate Society


Current Terror Alert(!?):

"When you think of how many kids died drinking alcohol, I feel I've saved millions of lives," -Tommy Chong

 
LATE NIGHT NEWS:
I'm not really one for television. I really only watch a few shows regularly, such as the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, or House and Battlestar Galactica which I download for commercial free-season long watching. In particular, I very rarely watch television news when in Canada, let alone the US. Although I do enjoy The National on CBC on occasion, I find I can read about the stories that really interest me in greater depth than any news program can provide. Furthermore, I never watch the late night news. However, I did catch the first 10 minutes of the 11 o'clock news from Detroit last night (I'm staying with my grandma for a few days...when in Rome...). In five minutes they covered two murders and a baby that died from strangulation in a car window. I had forgotten how dark the Detroit late night news was and yet the lily white news casters manage to still smile and continue on. Its depressing to watch a city/state die.
Monkeys invaded Ben's brain at 10:59 AM