Author: splicer

Today I went to my Triathlon Club run­ning work­out. Coach seems real good, and allayed my fears about my heartrate by refer­ring me to an arti­cle on his web­site. But I have real­ly jumped into the deep end here. I’m train­ing with ath­letes who are way above my lev­el, and that’s good. I have room to grow and these are all peo­ple that can help me along. Every­one’s a begin­ner at some point.

I kind of wish my high school … Read the rest

Dra­cun­cu­lus recent­ly gave me the advice to find a social cir­cle where I can climb to the top and attract the female of the species with my dom­i­nant social sta­tus and power.

Well, just to be ornery, I’m join­ing the Gold­en Gate Triathlon Club. I showed up for the meet­ing tonight and there were some tru­ly gor­geous women there. I am WAY out of my class.

Of course, the pur­pose of being a mem­ber of this club is to get sup­port … Read the rest

I’ve looked at near­ly 6500 pho­tos from Run Hit Won­der try­ing to find one where I can be seen. Appar­ent­ly there aren’t any with my race num­ber vis­i­ble, as search­ing on my race num­ber does­n’t help. But I’m still look­ing, hop­ing that I’ll show up in the back­ground of some­one else’s photo.

There’s only one pic­ture I found so far. At the begin­ning of the race I set the timer on my phone so that I would have some idea … Read the rest

Accord­ing to iTunes, these are my top 10 played songs:

Hot baths should be fol­lowed up with a large cup of ice water (crushed, not cubed) con­sumed on the front deck look­ing out over the lights of the city, seen bare­foot and only in one’s bathrobe as the cloud cov­er zooms past quick­ly, so low that one would con­sid­er whether it were low clouds or high fog.

Then sleep, accom­pa­nied by a grey stripey friend, fresh­ly brushed and purring softly.

That’s my sto­ry, and I’m stick­ing to it.

Kin­ca­jou (Duck! Aster­oid)—… Read the rest

Just had my first prop­er bath in prob­a­bly half a decade. Bath fizz with flow­er­petals in it and all. Now my skin is all silky-smooth and I smell flo­ral fresh. I kid you not.

New apart­ments are nice. Every­one should have one.

Kin­ca­jou—Ban­co de Gaia… Read the rest

I’m very very attached to my old RS/6000 Mod­el 250. It’s the first ever pro­duc­tion machine to run on a Pow­er­PC chip, a 601 scream­ing at 66 mega­hertz. IBM beat Apple to mar­ket with these work­sta­tions by about four months. I have the orig­i­nal press release from when they announced the roll­out, and at the time I want­ed one very bad­ly. At the time I was 23 years old, and a ten-to-twen­ty thou­sand dol­lar work­sta­tion was a bit … Read the rest

And here are my Run Hit Won­der results:

Nike Run Hit Won­der 10K
Year: 2004
Dis­tance: 6.2 Miles, 10.0 Kilometers
Date/Time: July 22, 2004, 7:00 pm
Spon­sor: Nike
Loca­tion: Cen­tral Park, NYC
Weath­er: 84 deg., 71% humid­i­ty, wind 9 mph.

Over­all Place: 3073 (of 4805)
Gen­der Place: 1740 (of 2254)
Age Place: 820 (of 1049 men 30 – 39 years old)
Fin­ish Time: 1:03:42
Net Time: 58… Read the rest

(apolo­gies for tak­ing so long to fin­ish this and get it online)

First, I had a great time.

Sec­ond, to all of you who wrin­kled your noses and declined my invi­ta­tion, it’s just as well. You prob­a­bly would­n’t have been into the show. I hate to write that out, but AdM is prob­a­bly com­ing back into town in Sep­tem­ber or Octo­ber, accord­ing to MAdM. That’s like­ly to be a bet­ter show.

Before I get into the rea­sons why, let me tell you … Read the rest

A won­der­ful week­end in New York and Con­necti­cut. There’s a lot about the East Coast that I miss, most­ly peo­ple. I’m hav­ing to remind myself that there are peo­ple and places back in Cal­i­for­nia that I would miss if I moved away, too.

One of the best parts of the trip was get­ting to talk with Xris about our careers. By that I mean both our jobs and our cre­ative endeav­ors as well as the endeav­ors we haven’t got­ten very far … Read the rest