Tell me, would this be inappropriate to wear to work? For some reason I think this might end up on an annual review. However, given approaching birthdays that might be a risk we’ll have to take.
Via Coudal.
Last Run5.3 mi 00:42 /07:58 pace Treadmill despite nice night out, just wanted to turn legs over without thinking too much today. posted 8 hours ago
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There are no STL Highlights. STL is for those who chose to not have highlights. They do have gangs though. A five-part series from Ross Kemp. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5:
After this weekend, I’d like to add bachelor parties to the list of activities more exhausting than mass genocide.  I’m ashamed that I’ve lived in my place for almost a year without realizing the quality of life improvement that can be derived from extending my westward loop a bit to circle the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. This is a gorgeous turn-around that lets you forget about the rats and drunks and type a-holes turning right on red into a full crosswalk. Currently I’m favoring this choice over going through BU and looping the Charles (though easier to set random lengths there). Other practical advantages to Chestnut Hill include the homestretch being mostly downhill, and avoiding the slumerlandic regions of lower Allston. I spent tonight cleaning as a hedge against inflationary clutter. The one great find of the night was the aforementioned ‘great summer list.’ The list itself is clearly some years old, improvised from a Harpoon UFO beer coaster and bearing a number of different handwriting styles. Forthwith - 1. Seattle Although I’m not sure I understand all of this, it’s clear that whoever wrote this clearly had their priorities straight. 
Ever since my little buddy and I parted ways, I’ve been a lonely on the animal chaos front (maija being insufficiently motivated to cause hijinks and antics). Fortunately enough, friends from around the globe have their own problems and like to share. NP’s in Paris and under cat attack, JP’s in podiddle Texas and hanging with persistent lizards, and Southern Sudan has got monkey troubles (courtesy of SMHB the senior). There was a little monkey named Jamma, He lived near the bald missionary with the brown hat. Now Jamma was a good little monkey but he was very curious. One day when the man with the brown hat was away, Jamma came and found an open window. He went into the house and found all kinds of interesting things. He was fascinated with the computer and the little white plastic stick beside it. He held it, tasted it, and playfully ran away with it. He found nails, screws, plastic wall mounts and played with them. Many of them fell to the ground but George carefully placed the rest safely on top of the wall so no one else would mess with them. As he playfully jumped about the house, he left dirty footprints on the walls. The footprints had fresh egg juice from the kitchen floor. When Jamma heard a car enter the gate, he jumped out the window and watched from the roof, eating an onion from the kitchen. Jamma watched and listened as the man with the brown hat came into the house. He heard him exclaim about the tiny human-like footprints on the walls and discovered the mess in the kitchen. Little by little the man found the screws and staples high on the walls. The next day the man with the brown hat looked and looked for his computer memory stick. He looked on the table and in the computer bag. He looked in all his pants pockets and suitcase. He looked under the bed and inside his tent. The memory stick could not be found. The man prayed to Jesus for help to find the memory stick. That night as the bald man lay in bed, praying and thinking, he remembered the monkey and the hidden screws and staples. First think the next morning, the man went to look on the other ledges in the house. Sure enough there was the memory stick. Curious Jamma heard the man with the brown hat give thanks to Jesus for the memory stick which had been found. 
If you’ll forgive a bit of promotion – The Winterpills are playing tomorrow at the MFA, with Erin McKeown. These guys are fantastic, please check this show out. A while back we shot their live show at WMBR’s Pipeline (two of the videos can be found on Echoplanar), and it occurred to me as I saw this announcement that I promised to mail them the DVD of this some time ago yet completely forgot. Tomorrow, everything gets mailed: a box of random crap to Kristin in Vanuatu (inset), tape of Escape From Wrentham to Jeff for the Best Of Open Screen coming September 6th, and a stack of DVDs to the Winterpills. If you want, you can listen to an audio stream of their full set on Pipeline. To the postal service!
-from Smashing Magazine.  I updated my flickr account to a Pro package today. This is the first half of a two part plan towards having better access to my photo collection. Stage 2 (as of yet unrealized) involves a ~500GB NAS storage device for my home network (possibly this SimpleTech STI). I suppose it would have been more noble to have set a benchmark to earn the account, but I couldn’t find the internal drive to devote much time to updating a free flickr account when all pictures are downsized to a maximum of 1280 pixels.  Taken from the highway at 90mph like all good sightseeing photos are after 4 days on the road. I spent a while this morning messing with Flash with the idea of putting together a slideshow of Z’s cell phone photos. You can, after much mucking about, export a .swf file, edit the controlling .xml file, upload all the properly formatted pictures, install and delete a couple of swf plugins trying to find one that works with WordPress 2.2, etc. Or, you can just use a single line of code and have flickr do the work. Carlos is apparently an extremely popular bike-riding-type guy who has for some reason given a group of enthusiastic new friends my email address. I got all of these within a twelve hour period. Hey Carlos! I can’t remember when you’re leaving for Africa. Something tells me you go in mid-August. I hope you have a fantastic journey. What you are going to do will be so soul enriching. You are going to earn a shitload of good karma. Your soul will have an even better go of it next time around! I am so impressed by you, Carlos. You seem to be operating on a higher spiritual plane than most people your age. I am so happy that I got to meet you and spend a little time with you. Keep in touch. I am very curious about how this experience is for you. Good luck, Patti, formerly of Alpine. Hi Carlos! It was great fun to have you with us on the ride. I am sending you the pictures we talked about. Contact Ricardo @ Revolution Cyclery on Resler, where we met sunday morning before the ride. He can give you some more info. Tell him Evelin sent you. You can also speak with Gilberto Porras @ Bicycle Company on Mesa (north of the University). He owns 2 Pegoretti’s and I believe he still has the one for sale. Take care, and I hope that you will join us on the bike soon again. Hey Carlos, That was some ride we had Sunday. The plan really was to take it slower than we did on the rollers. Then came those other guys and blew that idea. You rode fast!! Wednesday night I usually hook up with some faster riders. Feel free to join us. Sat. at 7 a.m. I wil ride with “the fast dudes”–my name for the group–at River Run. They usually develop a plan as they ride, but usually they go north to La Mesa and sometimes some go all way to Mesilla. Last Saturday we did a ten mile climb on the way to la Mesa. They were part of the group that rode the rollers with us Sunday and they turned downhill at Vado to go to La Mesa. This group ould be a faster option for Saturday. etc. I am not Carlos.  Z, best of luck with the cross-country road tripping thing. I’m guessing you’re gonna need it. To do:
 If you’re running the BAA Half Marathon and are interested in joining my group on facebook, that’d be cool. I don’t know that there’s any particular point to joining per se, it’s just something to do, don’t get all existential.  SSS’s odometer is amusing. Here’s mine from yesterday. I believe that although the top of the linked image is cropped, it’s clear that I am a FASTER (read: better) driver than others. Also my car is approximately 11111 miles shinier. Plus, everyone knows the number five is lucky.
It’s really hot, but eventually we’re going to have to expand beyond the little loops. Things have been pretty exhausting around here, and some people get tired before the longer river loop is done. Friggin dog brake. For fun, I’m testing out automatic cross-posts of all maija related content from hevelonian, with the WP-o-Matic plugin. And yeah, this theme is too narrow for it’s own good (and I’m not downsizing pictures or video – it’ll get fixed or it’ll stay broke, one of the two).
UPDATE: I had to stop it. Too many, too much. No more cross-posting without foresight. JP isn’t the only one with numerical difficulties. Gail MarksJarvis either is horribly misquoted here or she’s as bad at math as she is at hyphenating last names.
Actually, after 5 years at 10% you’d be at $322. It’d take 15 to hit $835. I guess that’s close enough, give or take a decade. |
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