There she goes, my beautiful world
All over SF MUNI now there are Big Brother-like posters telling us to watch out for anything suspicious. “It’s probably nothing,” they read, “but why take the chance?” My understanding is that it’s San Francisco’s latest ploy to get some more federal money in their coffers: put up Homeland Security posters and get paid for it.
The one that gets to me though is not one of the MUNI posters, it’s on BART. It shows a young professional-looking man waiting for … Read the rest
dracunculus surprised the hell out of me a few weeks back by referring to me, in front of others, as a superhero. Not as a fan of superheroes or as a reader or even creator of superhero stories, but flat out called me a superhero. I was flattered beyond my ability to express, but it’s stuck with me, and I have kept it in mind as I’ve lived my life and tried to strengthen myself on the physical and moral … Read the rest
http://www.bridgetobridge.com/results12k.asp
Official time: 1:06:54. I came in 1387th out of 4114 12K finishers. Just shy of the top third, but solidly in the top half.… Read the rest
I think these are the best, but here’s the bunch:
http://brightroom.com/view_user_event.asp?EVENTID=4395&PWD=&BIB=2723
Perhaps you have a different opinion. Don’t know how long that link will
stay good for.
I should have my official time by Friday.… Read the rest
Very slow start to the Bridge to Bridge run this morning. It was very congested and hard to get past anyone. My split for the first two miles was 21:06, and the field cleared only very gradually from there. But I still hit my mark overall, coming back to a (by my watch) 1:05:26 finish, averaging an 8:46 pace over the whole 12K course. That’s an 8:07 pace … Read the rest
Since I haven’t run all week and because tomorrow is the Bridge to Bridge run, I wanted to get a run in today just to get back in the swing of things, but not to burn myself out. I usually follow (more or less) the LSD (long slow distance) method, but today I wanted to just get out and burn fast.
I picked a flat course (Urbano Drive) and chose a target time of 30 minutes. I ran as fast as … Read the rest
If he can’t face John Kerry without breaking down in gibbering terror, what the hell makes you think he can stand up to Usama bin Laden?
I mean, sure, Kerry had some key advantages, like not sleeping through his debate classes because he was too hung over. And having an IQ higher than 80. So I guess it wasn’t a fair fight.
I don’t pretend it will help Kerry win, though. I seem to be out of touch with American values. … Read the rest
In the last few years, I’ve seen George W. Bush do and say a lot of things. I’ve seen him tell bald-faced lies in the State of the Union address, I’ve seen him fumble over simple sentence syntax, I’ve seen him deadly serious and having wacky fun.
Before tonight, I’d never seen him whine like a beaten dog.
He’s gonna be elected President for four more years; I’ve got no doubt of that. But it was nice, for once, to see him … Read the rest
Like everyone else on the planet nowadays, I get unsolicited commercial email. It seems to come in waves, and I get the same sorts of subjects over and over and over.
Two things make me think that spammers are not the most savvy of marketers:
1) OK, if I’m gonna be cheap and cut corners and risk getting some nasty fake copy of the real product I want to get, I’m gonna try that with something that doesn’t matter. Cheap … Read the rest
Wow, right now Clive Thompson is rocking my world. Rarely have I been so interested in what someone has to say unless I know them personally or ahem want to know them personally, if you get my drift. But I’m totally addicted to collision detection, his blog.
This thing is great: SineClock
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/000977.html#000977
It’s a constantly-changing tone generator that provides some feeling of the passage of time even in an office cubicle. I can see how some … Read the rest