I clean up OK

I wore my suit to Rich’s bach­e­lor par­tay tonight. One thing I’m learn­ing is that right after los­ing 50 pounds is prob­a­bly a bad time to have one’s suit altered. It seemed like a great idea at the time, but then after I put 30 of it back on I’m left with a suit that does­n’t fit. Ooops. So I sucked it in and walked around look­ing skin­nier than I deserve to.

But I got­ta say, the light-col­ored shirt unbut­toned … Read the rest

Double-digits or how I learned to stop worrying and love the pain

I did­n’t mean to, but I picked up a new trick in my run today. I start­ed out think­ing I’d run maybe a nice easy three miles. After all, I had not made it out on the road since Bay To Break­ers last week­end. I ran the first mile in just over nine min­utes. That’s pret­ty fast for me, so I decid­ed to ease back but go a fourth mile. The sec­ond mile was 9:55 but I felt … Read the rest

Peoplewatching on MUNI

Today I missed the street­car and went down to the under­ground trains to try to catch up. The under­ground trains don’t go near my office, but they do go up Mar­ket and are faster than the “His­toric F‑Line” street­cars, so I hoped I’d get up to Embar­cadero before the street­car I’d just missed.

On the Mis­sion Bay train I saw a fas­ci­nat­ing woman talk­ing to the man she was next to. Both were stand­ing on this crowd­ed train near a Read the rest

Why I like my job

Steer­ing the tech­no­log­i­cal infra­struc­ture of the future via IM…

My boss: the html and images are quite a drag
«Splicer» says:  LOL
«Splicer» says: Yes, if we did­n’t have a web­site, it would load reaaaal­ly fast
My boss: yep my thoughts exactly
«Splicer» says:  Of course, then the cus­tomers would have to guess what they were buy­ing. We’d have to pio­neer the use of TTTP
«Splicer» says: Tele­path­ic Text Trans­fer Protocol
My boss: yep
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Denied!

OK yes­ter­day, the Bay To Break­ers site said this:

Me San Fran­cis­co CA 40811 1577 1:58:40 USA

my place­ment being 1577. Today it says this:

Me San Fran­cis­co CA 40811 15772 1:58:40 USA

Sooooo, my new goal for next year is to make it not to the top 500, but rather into the top 10,000. This is do-able. A lit­tle bit dis­ap­point­ing, but I thought it was a lit­tle … Read the rest

Unofficial time: 1:37:15

I think the offi­cial time will be just under two hours. I start­ed my stop­watch when I crossed the start­ing line. The offi­cials start­ed their watch­es when I was about four blocks away from the start­ing line. ham­mer­head and I ran the whole way togeth­er, so his time is the same. It’s nice run­ning with some­one; I usu­al­ly run by myself. The 7.5 miles went by real­ly quick­ly. It was a ton of fun and check­ing out all … Read the rest

Hey Bush supporters!

Please tell me about how Richard Clarke is delu­sion­al or lying.

I’m seri­ous. Because he’s made some pret­ty dis­turb­ing alle­ga­tions, and I have no rea­son not to believe him. His book is pret­ty good, actu­al­ly. I mean it’s a real page-turn­er. Blix’s book was kind of boring.

Here’s the thing. I don’t want to be a “Bush-hater” as nnnuts says. Real­ly. I know just by read­ing the book I’ve paint­ed myself as a Bush-hater, but I real­ly and hon­est­ly want to … Read the rest