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I am a runner and enjoy running fast, but there’s a certain speed limit to what you can do on two feet. That is why go-kart racing this weekend kind of twirled my Nikes. Photo Credit: gokartracer.com I promised this outing to my dad and my brother-in-law, Steve, at Christmas as a manly-men-doing-manly-things sort [...] The Ferris Files has a new set of eyes. For my birthday my girlfriend gave me a digital camera, which is practically* the first I’ve ever owned. All week I have been cuddling and stroking its burnished silver skin. The Canon PowerShot SD1000 is capable of 7.1-megapixel resolution. That’s so many pixels that I could [...] I’m happy to report that a story of mine, “Getting Lucky,” has just been published at SMITH Magazine, an online literary publication out of New York. The subject: Is your luck just your luck, or do you earn it? To answer this question, I tell about a trip I took in November 2005 to climb [...] Photo Credit: www.farm4.static.flickr.com On Christmas Eve, I trained by hiking to Rose Peak on the Ohlone Wilderness Regional Trail, which is in its pristine prehistoric state, except for the occasional menacing gang of cows. I suppose there is nothing to fear from a cow. That is easy to forget, however, when you’re on foot [...] Welcome to The Ferris Files, the real-time journal of David Ferris, a writer, fitness trainer, running coach, and curly-haired galoot with an appetite for words and for venturing outdoors. I hope you learn things about the world you didn’t expect. Things that excite your imagination, that inspire you to get outside, to move and explore [...] |
 David Ferris is a journalist who writes about eco-business and eco-technology for publications like Popular Mechanics, Sierra magazine and Forbes. Learn more. |
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