Martin Remy

  • Why I love Softpro Books in Denver

    I want to give a copy of Revolution in the Valley as a gift to a bright young programmer and Apple fan that I meet with a couple of times a month.  I love reading stories about the chaotic founding days of world-changing companies or products, and I think he would too.  But it turns… Read more ⇢

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  • Seamus Heaney, “Digging”

    Every spring when I turn on the sprinkler system and begin another season of mowing the lawn every week and pretending that one day I’m going to do something about the garden, I think of this sonorous number by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney: Read more ⇢

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  • Worldwide WordPress 5K

    Today is the official day for the Automattic Worldwide WordPress 5K.  Think distributed run for a distributed company, and everyone is welcome to join.  One of my favorite entries is from fellow Automattician Karim Osman, who did a 5K dance. I ran my WWWP5K yesterday, it happened to be race day at CMRA.  The Bluffs… Read more ⇢

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  • Minimal Running Shoes

    This is my story of becoming the Imelda Marcos of minimal running shoes.  I’ve been running for about a dozen years, mostly in Adidas Supernovas: Over the last few years, I started to have increasing pain in my knees during and after a run.  More and more often, I’d have to skip a day until… Read more ⇢

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  • The Parking Lot Movie

    Through the magic of Netflix I came across this amazing documentary last weekend.  The Parking Lot Movie is a 79-minute meditation on capitalism, sociology, management, class war, and of course, cars. The Corner Parking Lot in Charlottesville, VA, is staffed by unlikely attendants — graduate students in philosophy and theology, for example — which gives… Read more ⇢

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