Monochromatic Outlook

Auf Der Maur 7/2/04 Slims San Fran­cis­co, CA

Also play­ing NYC the week after I’ll be there to see Devo. Ooops! Did I men­tion that I’m going to NYC? It’s a big secret. Don’t tell anyone.… Read the rest

I packed my first box today. I’m a bit wor­ried about this move. I have a lot of work to do to be ready for it, and I’ve only a few week­ends between now and the move-in date. It’s becom­ing clear that there is no way I can fit all my stuff fill­ing up this one-bed­room apart­ment into my sin­gle bed­room. I’m going to have to get rid of some of this stuff.

Ulti­mate­ly, that’s a good thing. There’s no rea­son … Read the rest

One more thing about this neigh­bor­hood I won’t miss: the “church” of rent­ed space over the laun­dro­mat with open win­dows and loud­speak­ers. I don’t know why any­one needs loud­speak­ers that can be heard three blocks away to preach to every­one in the same room.

I’m used to church­es being good things to be near: yeah, maybe some­times the choir is loud and some­times the park­ing is bad, but gen­er­al­ly they tend to be good neighbors.

Not here. Here the church­es are … Read the rest

I have a pic­ture of myself here, it’s an ID pho­to for gain­ing entry to one of San Fran­cis­co’s jails from the days when I used to do out­reach in the jails. Damned if that picture—a pho­to tak­en by the Sher­if­f’s Department—doesn’t look real good. It’s not nor­mal for a pho­to ID tak­en by a munic­i­pal employ­ee to look good.

But here’s the thing: I was tak­ing care of myself and not in the half-mea­sures way that seems to be avail­ing … Read the rest

The lin­er notes read, in a mono­spaced type­writer font: idol@well.sf.ca.us.

So Bil­ly chose the Whole Earth ‘Lec­tron­ic Link for his con­duit to the online com­mu­ni­ty, back when it was a com­mu­ni­ty, and used it for his swan dive from fame to obscurity.

1993 was before the Web. I’m imag­in­ing Bil­ly Idol brows­ing Gopher sites search­ing for tfiles and read­ing Mon­do 2000. That was cer­tain­ly before PPP, but maybe he was dialed in with SLIP, or maybe he was … Read the rest

Clean­ing off my files on my ISP as I’m like­ly to be mov­ing my sites when I move my self, and I found this:

http://www.p90.net/mockups/rev_0906/

It’s a DHTML mock­up of a web­site that was nev­er launched. As far as I can tell, it’ll only work on MSIE, but I’m look­ing on a Mac, you might have bet­ter luck on the Win­dows side of things. OTOH, it may have been com­plete­ly bro­ken by MSIE 6. I was … Read the rest

Me and ham­mer­head sur­round­ed by many of the rea­sons to keep on running…… Read the rest

Ran a new route this morn­ing. Start­ed near my office at Pow­ell and Jef­fer­son, out past Aquat­ic Park, up the hill from the Munic­i­pal Pier into Fort Mason, down past the Mari­na Safe­way and out the Mari­na Green to the entrance to Chris­sy Field and back. It’s a beau­ti­ful day and run­ning with Alca­traz and the Gold­en Gate Bridge to look at is not a bad thing.

How­ev­er, today was a mis­er­able run. I don’t entire­ly know why. I was a … Read the rest

http://dserunners.com/gallery.html

(Mis­sion Rock 5K)

OK, I only think that’s Poindex­ter.… he’s fac­ing away so it’s hard to tell. But that looks like his hair. But that had bet­ter be me tak­ing the water bot­tle off of my bike!

Oh yeah, http://dserunners.com/results/2004/mission_rock_5k_race.html

44^th place out of 55. Woo!

Kin­ca­jou (Duck! Aster­oid)—Ban­co de Gaia… Read the rest

Today I want to find my max heartrate.

I’m read­ing a book about fit­ness myths, and the author cites the “220 minus your age” for­mu­la for deter­min­ing maxHR as one that has neb­u­lous roots in sci­ence. She cites a 2001 arti­cle in the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Car­di­ol­o­gy that says 208 minus age times 0.7 is more accu­rate, but can pro­duce results only accu­rate to plus or minus thir­ty beats per minute.

So since I’m thir­ty-four, my max­i­mum … Read the rest