Month: September 2006
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Looking for someone to play with a REST API
David posts the details on the OpenDNS blog, and I want to call attention to the opportunity. We’re looking to pay someone to work quickly to create a Thunderbird extension using the REST API for the anti-phishing website launching shortly. If you’re interested, or know folks who might be, please hurry… need testable code by…
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Great service at Kiantis Pizza & Pasta Bar in Santa Cruz
I can’t find a restaurant website, so the Yahoo! Local entry will have to do: Kiantis Pizza & Pasta Bar turned out to be an inspired (if totally fortunate) choice for dinner on Saturday night. Our walkable choices were not so inspiring, so we risked children’s fatigue levels and drove to downtown Santa Cruz —…
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2006 Santa Cruz Sentinel leaves me sore, but satisfied
I was sore yesterday, and I’m sore now, and we’ll see about tomorrow, but yesterday morning’s triathlon went well. The Santa Cruz Sentinel Triathlon is an Olympic distance race, which means it’s officially a 1.5K swim, 40K bike, and 10K run. Update: The organizers sent an apologetic email after the fact letting all racers know…
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Tuesday Track: 600m is even shorter
Sense a trend? First, there were 1200m and 1000m (evidence). Then, 800m. Yesterday morning, it was 6 x 600m. My friend’s taper continues, and I benefit. Of course, I suppose I am tapering, too, though I hadn’t ramped up much beforehand. At some point, I’ll have to challenge myself by seeing how fast I can…
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Movie: The Illusionist
It’s been more than two weeks since we saw The Illusionist, but it was worth the time (and money… big city tickets + surcharge + babysitter). Of course, I’ll give most anything with Edward Norton a chance. The finale tries a bit too hard to evoke The Usual Suspects (an all-time favorite), but the Metacritic…
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Ten
CHWIWY. (No, it’s not meant to mean anything to you.)
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Tuesday track: 800m feels nice
Three weeks after the last time I wrote about it, it was time for the track again yesterday morning. The welcome news? Shorter distance, since my companion is starting his taper for an October marathon, so aiming for faster/shorter reps. We did 6 x 800m, with the intention of dropping 2 seconds each rep. Not…
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Book: Beautiful Evidence
I pre-ordered Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence from Amazon. After reading two of his earlier books (I own Visual Display), I was looking forward to his first in years. Bottom line… the book is beautifully made, and two chapters shine, but this tome feels more like a collection of uneven essays than the tour-de-force of his…
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Book: Getting Things Done
The irony isn’t lost on me here. David Allen’s Getting Things Done (paperback) has been on my “to blog” list for several weeks. Finishing the book took several months, too, because I didn’t want to race through it, and I didn’t want to pretend to absorb it, or why read it? I’ve hardly studied it,…
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Book: Dinosaur in a Haystack
I kept the boy from noticing the title of my most recent book, Dinosaur in a Haystack, by Stephen Jay Gould. Just as well…I didn’t really want to read these out loud. The boy is reading, but Gould revels in employing each bon mot just so, and he stretches my vocabulary and cultural acumen often…