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The object-oriented version of spaghetti code is, of course, 'lasagna code'. Too many layers.
-- Roberto Waltman

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The #MaineGearLibraryNetwork.

"The Maine Gear Library Network exists to share resources and knowledge in order to grow equitable and low-barrier access to outdoor gear for communities across the state.

Gear libraries statewide:
Adaptive Outdoor Education Center – #BrunswickME
Katahdin Gear Library – #MillinocketME
#KindlingCollective – #PortlandME
Maine Bound Adventure Center – #OronoME
#MaineGearShare – #BrunswickME
Skowhegan Outdoors – #SkowheganME
#OldTownME / #OronoME Gear Library – In Development

Partners:
#CurtisMemorialLibrary of Things – #BrunswickME
#Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness – #BangorME
Maine Office of Outdoor Recreation – Statewide

The Maine Gear Library Network is a growing coalition of community organizations working together to make outdoor adventures more #accessible, #affordable, and #sustainable.

From #tents and #backpacks to #snowshoes and #kayaks, gear libraries around the state are helping more people get outside, regardless of income, experience, or zip code. By sharing resources and knowledge, the Maine Gear Library Network is building a culture of collaboration and sharing, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to explore and enjoy Maine’s incredible natural places.


What is a Gear Library?

A gear library is a community-powered lending program that provides low-cost access to outdoor equipment, such as kayaks, #bikes, backpacks, snowshoes, and more. Their models may differ, but these gear libraries share a common goal of supporting equitable access to the outdoors by removing the barrier of gear ownership, inviting more #Mainers to connect with nature."

FMI:
https://www.mainegearshare.org/maine-gear-library-network

#SolarPunkSunday #BorrowDontBuy #SharingEconomy #SpendTimeInNature #Kayaks #Hiking #Maine #GearHub #GearLibraries #SpendTimeOutdoors #BikeTooter #Biking #Kayaking #Camping

#Maine - #Queer #GearLibrary - #KindlingCollective

"Kindling Collective is a queer-centered gear library creating an accessible pathway to outdoor experiences in Wabanaki Confederacy Territory / Maine.

We aim to build community and support people in nurturing and sustaining relationships with the natural world and each other. At Kindling Collective, members can check out the gear they need for #camping, #hiking, and #backpacking adventures. You don’t need to be queer to be a member; you just need to be on board with supporting and affirming queer people’s access to the outdoors. Our guided trips and events are designed by and for queer people.

You don’t need to be queer to be a member; you just need to be on board with supporting and affirming queer people’s access to the outdoors.

Membership perks:
- Unlimited gear loans for up to 7 days.
- Advice, tips, and guidance from our staff and volunteers.
- Invitations to member appreciation and community events.
- A welcoming and inclusive community.
- Access to additional gear and equipment supplied by #MaineGearShare through interlibrary loans.
- 25% off monthly membership at Portland Yoga Collective
- 15% off room reservations at the CoHo Hostel in Conway, NH
- 15% off gym memberships (monthly & yearly), a discounted day pass for $17, and a discount off of the "learn the ropes classes" at Evo Rock & Fitness
- 10% off at Portage Eats "

Sliding scale memberships available.

FMI:
https://www.kindlingcollective.org/

#SolarPunkSunday #GBLTQ
#GBLTQEvents #SafeZoneEvents
#QueerEvents #SolarPunkSunday
#BorrowDontBuy #SharingEconomy
#SpendTimeInNature #Kayaks
#Hiking #Maine #BIPOCEvents
#QueerFriendlyEvents #SpendTimeOutdoors #GearHub #GearLibraries #BorrowDontBuy

#BlueskyArtShow #Summer

Kayaks for rent at Lake Tahoe, California

#ECK #LakeTahoe #Kayaks #SierraNevada #Beach #LandscapePhotography #Photography #WestCoastKin #Vacation #ForestFriday

History teaches us possibilities. It shows us that the new battles are old.
-- Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #TeriKanefield #History #Potential

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By "educated" I would mean what Jefferson meant...having read the major works of literature, having an understanding of the broad periods of history into which the world's past is divided, perhaps speaking another language or at least being aware of other languages and having some competence. But I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
-- John Keegan

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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
-- Zig Ziglar

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I define legacy system as any system that's been up long enough to work.
-- Clement McDonald

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If one has talent it pushes for utterance and torments one; it will out....There is nothing in this thing of learning out of books. Here, here and here [the ear, the head, the heart] is your school. If everything is right there, then take your pen and down with it; afterwards ask the opinion of a man who knows his business.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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kayaking

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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It is almost always possible to present an intellectually honest and engaging account of any field, using a minimum of technical apparatus. This is seldom done, however, since most priesthoods are inclined to hide behind a wall of mystery and to commune only with their fellow priests.
-- John Allen Paulos

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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#SilentSaturday

📍 George H. Sparks Reservoir, GA

#dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #rescuedog #photography #FujiFilm #park #pixel10Pro #lake #ducks #birds #sunrise #kayaks #fishing #family #fatherandson

The war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
-- Roland Barthes

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.
-- Lou Holtz

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Popular theology ... is a massive inconsistency derived from ignorance.... The gods exist because nature herself has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men.
-- Cicero

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No young man should go into politics if he wants to get rich or if he expects an adequate reward for his services. An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.
-- Harry S. Truman (Diary, April 24, 1954)

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The diagnosis helps the doctor, the story helps the patient.
-- Carl Gustav Jung

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

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I had fallen victim to the fallacy of the 'growing edge'; the belief that only the very frontier of scientific advance counted; that everything that had been left behind by that advance was faded and dead.
-- Isaac Asimov

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
-- William Butler Yeats

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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
-- James Thurber

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All or nothing at all by Taz !

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#miami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #water #kayak #kayaks #kayakers #dawn #morning #daybreak #hummmm #zenmoment #reflections #sea #ocean #atlantic #beach #sun #reflecting #iphone #iphoneimage #iphone13 #haze #hazy #fog #foggy #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll ("The Creed")

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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift

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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
-- W. H. Auden

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In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
-- William Osler

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Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
-- Bertrand Russell

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard

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Checking out #GearLibraries just makes sense

Sharing equipment makes #OutdoorRecreation more accessible, equitable and #sustainable.

By Amy Paradysz, Winter 2025-26

"We're all familiar with the principle behind #libraries: The community shares a collection of books so we can all access media without having to buy, own or store it. Gear libraries are built on the same notion: Sharing equipment makes outdoor recreation more accessible, more equitable and more sustainable. And sometimes it just makes good sense: Do you really want to own that pull-behind ski chariot that you might use once or twice?

"Thanks to a new coalition called the #MaineGearLibraryNetwork, it’s becoming easier to access a wider variety of gear throughout the state. For example, although #KindlingCollective in downtown #PortlandME doesn’t have enough space to stock a wide variety of outdoor apparel, their members can borrow what they need through #MaineGearShare in #BrunswickME at no additional charge.

" 'The network is a growing coalition of community organizations that are working together to make outdoor recreation more accessible, especially for rural, low-income and historically excluded communities,' said Maine GearShare Advancement Manager Emily Mackeown. 'This means that more Mainers can enjoy the outdoors in all seasons.'

"The lending or renting model varies greatly across the network. At some gear libraries, members can check out items for free—and membership may be as simple as having a card to your local library.

"More commonly, there’s a fee to check out items, but gear libraries that are nonprofits or under the auspices of a public library or university can charge less than a for-profit rental business would.

"Sometimes there’s a sliding scale based on socioeconomic factors; basically, people with more resources subsidize gear for those with fewer resources. At some gear libraries, groups like school outing clubs can save a great deal of money by purchasing a membership that covers hundreds of 'participant days' worth of gear, eliminating choices of what gear, exactly, they can afford to borrow."

Learn more:
https://www.greenhealthymaine.com/blog/gear-libraries

#SolarPunkSunday #BorrowDontBuy #SharingEconomy #SpendTimeInNature #Kayaks #Hiking #Maine #OutdoorRecreation

IGOC Chlausfahrt Reuss/Aare, Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2025

Kommenden Sonntag, 7. Dezember, organisieren Berta und Peter Brack wieder die #IGOC Chlausfahrt auf #Reuss und #Aare für #Kanadier und #Kayaks.

Anmeldungsschluss ist morgen Montag, 1. Dezember!

Weitere Details hier: https://www.ig-opencanoe.ch/chlausfahrt.html

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-- George Eliot

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#Introduction.
Since 1995 I’ve worked as a professional #musician (mostly #saxophones and #flute). I started the band #Antibalas. You can also hear me on lots of other #records.

I’m a #dad. I live in #Berkeley and work in #Oakland. I make #art with my partner #CourtneyDesireeMorris.

I like #bikes #kayaks #mushrooms #cooking #foraging #vinyl #standup and #reading.

Latest work: original score for #PBS #AmericanMasters #RobertaFlack #documentary