Year: 2007
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Exercise, 2007-Jan-19
Ran to work, 22:30. Task for near future = remove posts to the Exercise category from the main RSS feed. Those who visit the site itself (new theme, by the way) can follow my log, but I’m quite sure that this part of my sharing isn’t garnering new readers. Narendra, data ownership is keeping this…
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Catch-22 in packaging
Joseph Heller wrote an entire (astounding) book on Catch-22, but the always-fun This Is Broken website does it in one small photograph. Go look at “Scissors packaging at Staples.”
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For all the Swedes out there
From Seth: Preparation
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Exercise, 2007-Jan-18
Caught the lights and traffic right on the run home from work, and felt pretty good, so 23:00.
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Exercise, 2007-Jan-17
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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Exercise, 2007-Jan-15
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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My first YouTube posting: stop-motion fun for three seconds
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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Book: The Worst Hard Time
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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Exercise, 2007-Jan-13
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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Exercise, 2007-Jan-12
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.)