Year: 2006
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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…
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First day of school
I haven’t been in school for years, but I’m surrounded by the school calendar. And, honestly, I’ve never really let go. With Labor Day only hours past, summer feels officially over, even if San Francisco weather is never quite so convincing in its transitions. Today, the girl goes to school for the first time, the…
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Monday night links
Monday Night Football (regular season) hasn’t started yet, and book group is going on in the other room, so time for me to clean out the inbox with the various links I’ve been meaning to comment on. Jakob on log-log charts didn’t live up to the interesting headline “Data Visualization of Web Stats: Logarithmic Charts…
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Movie: Little Miss Sunshine
“You don’t talk because of Friedrich Nietzsche.” Steve Carell playing a suicidal homosexual Proust scholar in Little Miss Sunshine is funny, and he makes that line almost a howler. Trust me. He’s not alone in sparking laughs from material which by rights should not be so humorous. See this movie. The 78 from Metacritic feels…