Month: January 2007

From Seth: Preparation

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Caught the lights and traffic right on the run home from work, and felt pretty good, so 23:00.

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Just a chilly run to work, gloves and hat and tights on, in 24:30, and the short bicycle ride home.

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One gentle hour on the stationery bike on a sunny, cold day in San Francisco, heart rate around 130, reading The Atlantic, and then 30 minutes of weights. I need to get a bit more running in, overall, but felt productive all the same.

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Earlier this week, I played around with iStopMotion, from Boinx Software. Very simple and easy. Creating a stop-motion film entertains, although it can be a bit tedious, which is why I stopped at 3 seconds for this first effort. That’s 72 frames. Batgirl skid is where I posted the final result, although the boy tells…

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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan, made a phrase in history come alive. I knew that drought in the 1930s ravaged parts of the midwest, and I’ve read Grapes of Wrath like most American high-schoolers. But I did not comprehend that the…

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I went to the pool today, only to be shut out by a youth swim meet. So I jumped on the erg instead. Ten minute warmup, and then 5000m in 19:22. I didn’t try to kill myself, since I didn’t want to blow out my back or anything silly. Always tough to get on the…

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Just a normal 25 minute run to work, and a cold bicycle ride back home. (I’m backdating these posts to the day of the exercise when I’m behind.)

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Ran home from work, in the chilly-for-San-Francisco evening, in about 26 minutes.

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My wife’s book group discussed A General Theory of Love, by three Bay Area psychiatrists, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon. I read the book after getting a “you might like this… it’s about the brain” recommendation. After reading it, I have several reactions. They have some core ideas of interest, though I was…

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