Author: splicer

1.) Do you believe in the super­nat­ur­al, and if so, do you fol­low any par­tic­u­lar reli­gion? How have your beliefs changed over the years?

I do not believe in the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the super­nat­ur­al. I believe that there are things that are beyond my under­stand­ing, but I don’t for a moment doubt that they are a part of the nat­ur­al order of the Uni­verse. There is more under Heav­en and Earth than lies with­in my phi­los­o­phy, Hor­a­tio, but being out­side … Read the rest

I’ve already com­mit­ted to myself to get myself ready for the 2005 Escape from Alca­traz Triathlon, and start­ed train­ing for that, but one thing stands out as prob­lem­at­ic: I don’t know if I’ll be able to get in to the 2005 Escape from Alca­traz Triathlon. I was not select­ed in the 2004 lot­tery, and appar­ent­ly about 3000 peo­ple are turned away every year. ham­mer­head got lucky this year and was select­ed in the lot­tery, but I was not and there’s … Read the rest

Last Fri­day I had an appoint­ment with my train­er at 6 a.m. I got to the gym at around 5:15 a.m. and stretched out and did a quick run on the tread­mill while I wait­ed for him.

When he had­n’t appeared by twen­ty min­utes after six, I asked to have him called at home. There he was, sleep­ing in. He’s been late before, and he gave me a free ses­sion for being ten min­utes late recently.

So he apol­o­gized … Read the rest

After repeat­ed­ly ignor­ing my phone mes­sages and emails, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of SGI final­ly answered the phone when I called Fri­day, and gave me the answer to the ques­tion I’ve been look­ing for:

An Irix 6.5.22 license is avail­able to me at US$600.

The sad part is that I’ll prob­a­bly pay it. I have this old Indigo2 Impact sit­ting here use­less because I don’t have a user­name or pass­word for it, and because I don’t … Read the rest

Watched the begin­ning of Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca last night.

Some­times, unex­pect­ed stuff trig­gers me. Last night was an exam­ple of this. I was all excit­ed to reex­pe­ri­ence this series, which was one of my favorites when I was nine. it does­n’t seem to get much rerun play, even with the Sci-Fi chan­nel remake that came out late last year. So when the open­ing cred­its start­ed to roll, I felt a lit­tle chill. And the open­ing mono­logue, “there are those who believe…” racked … Read the rest

My Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca DVD boxed set arrived this morn­ing. Very excit­ing. It’s almost worth not eat­ing this week.

dra­cun­cu­lus and I are going to start watch­ing from the begin­ning tomor­row night. She’s nev­er seen any Bat­tlestar Galac­ti­ca and she’s in for a treat.

Of course, my mem­o­ries of it are from when I was nine. So it could total­ly suck. Who knows?

I keep on hav­ing my own per­son­al ver­sion of Bauhaus’ Nerves run­ning through my head. Instead of “Nerves like nylon/Nerves like … Read the rest

3 oz tenderloin
3 cups of white rice
3 cups of broccoli
some but­ter for the rice and the broccoli

1220 calo­ries.

First: who the hell knew that rice had so many damn calo­ries? Sec­ond: who the hell knew that but­ter had so many damn calo­ries? OK, well, 3 cups is a moun­tain of rice and 3 cups is a moun­tain of broc­coli, but the broc­coli does­n’t amount to much.

It’s all OK; I’m still short of my dai­ly caloric allot­ment by … Read the rest

Today I ran 5.2 miles in 50 min­utes. Felt a lit­tle guilty hog­ging the tread­mill next to the sign that reads, “max 30 min­utes on all car­dio equip­ment” but I pushed through any­way: 45 min­utes at 6.5mph plus a five minute cooldown.

I think I need a heart mon­i­tor. I don’t trust the grips on the tread­mill. I was run­ning at what I think is a rea­son­able pace and as I entered the cooldown peri­od … Read the rest