Author: splicer

Thanks to the inspi­ra­tion from a_flaneur, I began car­ry­ing my cam­era with me again today. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, since both of my cam­eras are so old, I don’t have an easy way to get any pic­tures off of either of them on my Mac. I think it’s time I got a new camera.

I used to do some inter­est­ing (or at least I thought so) exper­i­ments with col­or sep­a­ra­tion, and I have some ideas for pro­gram­ming Post­script to break apart my … Read the rest

I did it! Actu­al­ly fin­ished my first tri yes­ter­day morn­ing. I fin­ished over­all #775 with a fin­ish time of 3 hours 23 min­utes 22 seconds.

First was the 1.5K (0.92 mile) swim, which was cer­tain­ly the hard­est part for me. The water was cold, and it gave me fits try­ing to breathe. Even in a wet­suit (and THANK YOU to ham­mer­head for lend­ing me yours!) I fre­quent­ly can’t get my face in the … Read the rest

Today I’ve seen too many peo­ple who are deflat­ed and dis­ap­point­ed by the elec­tion results. Of course, I share your dis­ap­point­ment. I felt despair myself as I watched the red stain spread across our nation last night. This morn­ing I felt some small twinge of hope as I saw that Ohio had not yet been decid­ed, but it still looked grim. With Ker­ry’s con­ces­sion, of course now it’s all over.

But today I feel no defla­tion. This is not an ide­o­log­i­cal … Read the rest

As elec­tion day nears, I’m remind­ing myself of a few impor­tant things that the Repub­li­cans would like me to ignore.

First: Believ­ing that Sad­dam Hus­sein should have been removed from pow­er is not the same as believ­ing that an essen­tial­ly uni­lat­er­al first strike was called for. I believe the first, but not the sec­ond. As I believe that democ­ra­cy works only when cit­i­zens par­tic­i­pate, I believe that inter­na­tion­al treaty orga­ni­za­tions like the UN can only func­tion when mem­ber states, and … Read the rest

From http://www.pigdog.org/ (the quote gen­er­a­tor is kin­da ran­dom, so you won’t see the same quote that I saw):

Behind every pathet­ic worth­less los­er of a man is a woman who fig­ured his sor­ry ass out and stabbed him in the back.
–The Com­pul­sive Splicer

Some­times my bit­ter humor hor­ri­fies me.… Read the rest

Trou­ble sleep­ing again last night. It’s strange; almost all my life I’ve had trou­ble get­ting to sleep and trou­ble wak­ing up. Even as a child, I remem­ber watch­ing the hands of the clock go an hour or two after I was put to bed. Every morn­ing there was a strug­gle between me and my par­ents to get me out of bed and ready for the day.

This is why, although I’m pay­ing atten­tion to my recent trou­ble sleep­ing with some con­cern … Read the rest

I ran my five mile Twin Peaks route today in 47:01. I was hop­ing to do the hill run in 45:00; I’d like to be run­ning nine min­utes to the mile even on the hills. But that might not be real­is­tic right now. I pushed real­ly damn hard and that was all I could do. My legs were hurt­ing pret­ty bad up the hill, prob­a­bly because I ran yes­ter­day and then fol­lowed that up … Read the rest

Slept eight hours, from 10pm to 6am. Got up and did 20 min­utes of sit­ting med­i­ta­tion. On the scale at 176 pounds, which some­how seems safer than yes­ter­day’s 174. Maybe psy­cho­log­i­cal, but los­ing sev­en pounds in nine days is less scary than los­ing nine pounds in eight days. I’m chalk­ing those oth­er two pounds up to dehy­dra­tion and call­ing it a day.… Read the rest

Start­ed with bare­ly eat­ing yes­ter­day. I guess I only ate break­fast the day before, but my stom­ach has been tied up in knots and I haven’t been hun­gry. I’m hav­ing to choke down Clif bars just to get by. Of course, liv­ing on Clif bars is con­ceiv­ably enough to cause my stom­ach to be tied up. Must look up “causal­i­ty” in the dic­tio­nary some day.

I slept OK Mon­day night, but last night I went to sleep at about 11pm … Read the rest