Author: splicer

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

I went to the Apple store today. I want­ed to look into get­ting my iPod ser­viced. The bat­tery life is less than stel­lar, espe­cial­ly when I wear it run­ning. The bat­tery drains a lot faster when I’m mov­ing around a lot. Also, one of the sides had popped out, which I thought must have hap­pened when I got attacked. I was afraid that the unit had been dam­aged and that I would­n’t get war­ran­ty ser­vice. I also want­ed to look … Read the rest

Ran anoth­er 5.25 miles this morning.

That makes my aver­age for the year so far 0.47 miles per day. Not that that real­ly means any­thing. But I don’t run enough and should be doing oth­er things on top of run­ning. So I fig­ure I’m get­ting about one-fourth the work­out reg­i­men I should if I want to see the begin­nings of changes. That’s discouraging.

I don’t know how all you peo­ple make time in your lives for … Read the rest

Both par­ties to this con­tract, by enter­ing into it, are giv­ing up their con­sti­tu­tion­al right to have any such dis­pute decid­ed in a court of law before a jury, and instead are accept­ing the use of arbi­tra­tion. Both par­ties also agree to give up any right to pur­sue on a class basis any claim or con­tro­ver­sy against the oth­er. —€”from Blue Cross HMO Exclu­sions and Limitations

OK, I can appre­ci­ate that they are attempt­ing to pro­tect them­selves from the «ever … Read the rest

ham­mer­head and I are here at the HP Pavil­ion watch­ing the Sharks play Col­orado. My first hock­ey game! Damp­house scored with 9 sec­onds left in the first peri­od and the Sharks lead 1 – 0.

Yo, flux­ions, Matt says hi.… Read the rest

My busi­ness cards arrived today, so I now have a job title.

“Project Man­ag­er.”

God, how embar­rass­ing. I’m MANAGEMENT now. Except I don’t even have any­thing to man­age. Yeah, the PROJECT, but, um.… I DO the project. And most of the time it seems unman­age­able. Ah well. I guess noth­ing real­ly changes with the arrival of print­ed busi­ness cards.… Read the rest

Yes­ter­day morn­ing: 186 pounds

This morn­ing: 190 pounds

Heh heh heh… ugh.

My Idea—Voice Farm… Read the rest

Five miles today. I tar­get­ed a heart rate of 150, was clos­er to 155 through most of the run. I fin­ished in 59:49, just bare­ly faster than 12 min­utes to the mile.

I can’t say I like going that slow­ly. It feels just as dif­fi­cult as 9 minute miles but with­out the extra fun. I guess the point of this is that even­tu­al­ly I should be able to do 9 minute miles at 150 bpm and then … Read the rest

I won’t say I actu­al­ly swam in the Bay; I spent 15 min­utes stand­ing in the Bay up to my waist before I plunged the rest of myself in. Then I spent about five min­utes splash­ing around a lit­tle. I did­n’t make it out to the buoy that marks the begin­ning of the swim.

I did notice that my upper body was more affect­ed by the cold than my low­er body. If I could have gone in with an upper-body wet­suit, … Read the rest