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Last Run7.1 mi 00:58 /08:14 pace
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 If your safety protocol dictates having a matronly security guard herd people through a constantly alarming metal detector and then place their excessive luggage through a 1970′s era x-ray machine you might ought to consider having someone stand next to said machine to actually watch the images of their stuff go by. I’m not an expert on these things but it’s my general understanding that the process of irradiating luggage alone does not render threats inert without some sort of human interaction. Also, the whole “don’t bother sending the keys and change through the machine thing” stopped working when John Malkovich shot Clint Eastwood back in 1993.  A core member of our team is stuck in Japan. Does this portend the end to echoplanar’s 48hr hopes? FEEL THE FEAR.
PS. It’s in San Francisco. Or was, before it flew off to Hong Kong. UPDATE: I’ve been told it’s a spider attack rather than swine flu that’s causing the quarantine situation. I don’t know why this amuses me so much. Echoplanar has mad dancing skills. This video is part of the continued hype-laden amp-up to our 48hrs rocktober smash-a-thon. Music by Sunset Rubdown (from Montreal!).
Just back from this week’s long run. Uneventful for the most part, colder and windier than last weekend with no euphoric episodes to lift me up. I left the dog brake at home so didn’t have anyone to talk to – running alone is considerably more boring and the two of us get infinitely more nods and smiles than I do alone. One concerning thing – there were several firetrucks and rescue swimmers packing up at Ocean Beach as I went by around 3pm. They all looked serious, grim, no smiling or laughing. There’s nothing on the Emergency in SF twitter feed or google news at this point so it’s not clear what went down. Maybe it was just a drill but given recent events it’s easy to assume something bad happened. It’s never safe to go in that water. The Youth Run4Fun fundraiser crossed the halfway mark this week, up to 54% thanks to the FBCA old people. Thank you for that.
 world’s cutest baby nieces – AT-AT x-ray – terrifying insectizoid LHOTD – stupie kitteh – fitz be wantin’ to join cap’n cartman’s crew, arrrrr – Oakeshottian uncertainty – sexy sexy Tesla – earth day on The Big Picture – back to brazil – all the single ladies flash mob – attempted coup in lesotho via Lady V – VA should props – auto-tuning katie couric – coastal graffiti UCSF is having a little photo contest. The theme (education) is not particularly appealing to me in terms of visualization – too abstract, too diffuse, too high school graduation-y. Any ideas? We’re talking big bucks here.
Bear Hugs!? Totally want one! The only thing that comes to mind (when looking around for inspiration) is the short-lived, defunct blog Library Finds. Of their photos the ones I like best are macros of bindings or typography. Here’s their flickr stream.
 Our screening information for the 2009 48 Hour Film Festival (Boston). Are we still Echoplanar? Yes, yes we are. Group E, Screening on Thursday, May 7th, at 7pm New Mediafriend, from The Atlas of Biology. The whole album is available for download, just click through Music.  1am: I’m awake since all times are EST. Let’s start this race! Technically, CNSHMB are currently tied for first place. I’m not sure how this live blog’s gonna work seeing as how I’m 3000 miles away. If you’re at the race and you see my peeps please let me know when and where and how they’re doing. Rock on. 1:09am: I snuck out of work last year to watch the race and some random chick I had met once shows up and starts yapping at the back of my head. PLEASE. I cannot scan the crowd with your constant jibber-jabber and if you make me miss my damn sister I’m gonna be PISSED. Then I made this video. 2am: Still awake. Here’s Hondo from last year’s race. Hey, a bunch more from the photoblog. 2:04am: SMHB, from two years back, and again last year.  2:28am:Oh man, who are these dorks? I guess it’s good to have fans who can spell. Ok, brief sleep interlude, back with updates before the estimated 10:30am bandit start wave. I have to say I’m glad it ain’t me doing this tomorrow. 6:43am: Got a last word from Hondo, ‘feeling great and stretching’. That’s better than ‘freaking and foaming at the mouth’. 9:58am: The wheelchairs and elite women are off, elite men and wave 1 will be starting in two minutes. 10:10am: As of right now only one findable photo is up on flickr with today’s date. Is this because Bostonians lack proper iPhone density or is it a failure of mobile tagging? Here’s the search if you want to watch them come in.  10:14am: Here’s part of the map of William Dawes’ ride back on the original 1775 Patriot’s Day, courtesy of his descendants via Allston02134. It looks like he crossed over the racecourse in just one place, at Beacon & Harvard in Brookline. That’s pretty cool how much of downtown used to be underwater, when Back Bay was back, under the bay. 10:32am: There’s been some speculation that Ryan Hall could finally be the guy who could break Robert Cheruiyot’s three year winning streak (and the 26-year American drought). According to the BAA live-blog Hall was out in the lead at 800 meters but dropped back at mile three. At five though he’s back, with the leaders running 4:48 splits. Just, wow. 10:41am: While the live flickr stream is a little lame the tweets, oh man, the tweets flow like wine. Some ideas: #bostonmarathon, #marathonmonday & #patriotsday.  10:52am: The guy behind runkeeper is, if I’m understanding this correctly, not only live-tweeting the race but also running it in an iPhone costume. 10:58am: Most of the realtime photos are going to twitpic but that doesn’t seem to have a search function. But twitpick is aggregating them for us. 11:30am: I’ve got a formally-sanctioned runner to track! Lucy’s running a 8:13 split past 10K for a projected 3:35 finish. It goes without saying this is faster than me. Los Banditos have still not been spotted but our eye in the sky is in place at Framingham and just texted she expected them shortishly. 11:38am: I don’t know exactly when CNSMHB started, but they’ll probably finish between 2-3pm. Here in SF today it’s supposed to be a holy-sweltering 88 degrees by then. Fortunately it’s cloudy and cooler in Boston, 47 degrees at finish time. Much, much better to run in. 11:45am: Yarr, SP says the battery’s shot on her borrowed iPhone so we may have to practice our delayed gratification skillz. 11:52am: Both of them are through Framingham, eight minutes apart! Go Team HB! Here’s a shot of the leaders back in Ashland… 12:40pm: I just got into work here and missed the elite finish. Deriba Merga for the men, Salina Kosgei for the women. Ryan Hall finished third. 12:43pm: Just talked to my old people who, very out of breath, were about to reach the mile 19 in Newton. We’ve traditionally watched the race at this spot near the top of Heartbreak Hill because SJH used to live nearby in Newtonville, and even though she’s moved on it’s still seems like the right spot to encourage some tired folks working their way upwards. 1:02pm: An interesting read on the race’s relationship with bandit runners and the Red Snakes. Finish director Tom Meagher comes across as a dick.
 1:20pm: SMHB is past mile 19! Let’s rough out his splits for fun – 19 miles, we’ll give him a 10:40 estimated start time, that’s an 8:25 split. Lucy’s last time point is 30K and her 8:15 split is pretty steady from what it was this morning. 1:35pm: I was remiss not to mention American Kara Goucher finished third in what sounds like a heartbreaking finish.
1:49pm: Hondo is past mile 19! My mom & dad and older sisters are there, said she looked strong but was shaking from the cold, wind. In other news, Sarah is the WORST UPDATER EVER.  2:05pm: Just spoke with the W.U.E., she said SMHB was by mile 20 at 1:22pm and Hondo at 1:53. According to projections that puts him finished in 4 minutes(!) and her a half hour past that. She’s now on her way down to Copley with champagne – what a great way to celebrate a finish! Sarah also said SMHB dumped his soaked long sleeve shirt at mile 20 – that’s a good friend right there, someone you can hand your sweaty dregs to without fear of icking them out. 2:26pm: BB on reverse marathoning (& back) via bicycle. 2:28pm: Lucy is finished, 3:30:29! This is a qualifying time for next year. Fan-friggin-tastic. 2:33pm: Hondo’s gotta be close now, just waiting on word… Estimating a 9:39 split for her (given time to mile 20) she should be finishing right around 2:50. So I’m guessing she’s within two miles, east of Coolidge Corner. 3:42pm: Done and done! Everyone sounded happy and fast. Dang yo I wanna be happy and fast. Congrats to all!!
For this week’s long run I added a southern loop through the Outer Sunset to my normal route. From the map I decided the Sunset Reservoir would be a good landmark but that was before I knew that it was on the top of a honkin’ big hill and it’s looks like this. Scenic! Actually the view is quite panoramic from up there if you can look past the acres of concrete.
Apparently it was recently retrofit to resist a 7.9 San Andreas earthquake. I think I’d feel somewhat uncomfortable living downhill from 90,000,000 gallons of water.
The new route prompts an unanswered question – are Noriega and Ortega streets named after Manuel and Daniel? My Youth Run4Fun fundraiser didn’t make much of any progress this week, still stuck at 34% of my $250 goal. Here’s my mileage – as expected a little short, thanks Red Sox. At least they didn’t get swept.
PS! Check back tomorrow for my Boston Marathon Pirate live-blog…  Tumbl swarm(n): A new idea for a quick Friday feature – context free links to the best of my tumblr postings from the prior week. world builder – Tom Kennedy, RIP – Tweenbots – Pig carcass – Plastic claude – The awesome ‘What’s in the Box’ – Sno Splatter – Sex Pigeon on what’s next – Solar squirble – Pervy penguinsin Japantown – Hondo’s hollow logs – don’t let yourself be photographed in a bandanna  Six month’s ago my flickr photostream reached ten thousand hits. Today I noticed it crossed the thirty thousand views mark (currently, 30,067). That’s roughly 100 views a day since October, and it wouldn’t be honest if I denied deriving some amount of satisfaction from the fat roundness of those numbers. I’m sure this is rounding error compared to some people but I have depressingly realistic expectations. I was poking around at the bottom of my stats page and noticed of the roughly two thousand photos in my stream, I have ten with zero views. I’m not sure which ten – when I tried to sneak my way to the least popular by guessing URLs for the most views page I got down to a bunch of ‘one view’ shots, the last of which was the grass photo above. It’s a crap throwaway macro, but on some level I like it because I remember the context of posting it – NP and I were walking around at the Charles watching the regatta, taking pictures and shooting HOCR. My most popular recent photo (likely due to it’s mild salaciousness) is this one of sexy coneheads from Yuri’s Night. Flickr deems my most “interesting” photo overall to be this one of maija from leaf-raking day back in Burlington. I’m not so sure about that – I think there are better ones of her since we’ve gotten to California. At any rate, 30K. It’s like playing the stock market, but monotonically increasing! Definitely the highlight of my day. A little natural selection in action for today’s poll. Which of the following do you think survived today’s sand blast attack? THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
 Lucky me got to see the Red Sox get torn up tonight. The Oakland Coliseum is my fifth MLB park, following Kaufmann Stadium in Kansas City, Wrigley Field, Busch Studium and Fenway. Without naming names or giving too much away, it’s safe to safe that that dump ranks in the bottom 20% of those in terms of charm and atmosphere. Since the Red Sox were getting their hats handed to them, I spent the bulk of the game wondering why A’s has an apostrophe in it. If you can suspend doubt to believe what randomness there is to be read, it’s not possessive, not a contraction, but rather an appropriate pluralization of a single letter. Still, it looks ridiculous. I will never wear an A’s logo. Oh. And the Giants had a stealth bomber flyby in their game against the Dodgers. The A’s on the other hand had several commercials for fireworks that they’ll supposedly have against the Rays later in the season.  I don’t usually run with a camera. Running is a sweaty mess prone to being interrupted by rain and sandstorms and between managing the dog’s gopher-lunges, her collection of poop bags and trying not to lose my keys I’ve got enough junk to carry. But given that we were so very lazy today and didn’t get out for a planned photowalk I rigged up a contraption to bring the TZ5 with me. I was reading something in Salon the other day on the variation in range of human field of vision, depending on velocity.
Given my average running speed and bloodflow diversion I wouldn’t be surprised if my running field of vision is somewhere between 15 and 20 degrees. So it was nice to make a few conscious decisions to stop, look at things, try to make a small visual record. I have one of the most gorgeous running routes on the planet, yet over time I need to remind myself of that now and again. This week brought in another donation in my Youth Run4Fun fundraiser – thanks hondo! That donation was doubled, leaving me at 34% of my $250 goal. Here’s my mileage update – it was a good week! This will serve to preemptively counter next week’s inevitable Red Sox related decline…
 Because they both have incredibly short toes?
To verify we’ll need some sort of pre/post-amputation crossover trial design.  According to the homepage there are three competing Yuri’s Night parties in San Francisco to celebrate the 48th anniversary of the late/great Gagarin’s achievement tonight. One generic-looking one run by an eponymic YuriN, one at Kiva that doubles as a developer’s happy hour and one at the Thursday NightLife series at CAS. Tonight is not technically the anniversary of YG’s first space flight – that’s on Sunday the 12th (coincidentally, Easter). As fan friendly as the whole ‘manned space flight’ thing is, around here we’re more prone to celebrate the life and death of Laika, who entered orbit some three years earlier. Remember that come this November 3rd (coincidentally, election day).  ACL tickets went on sale today, $160 for a three day pass. Just playing with the idea at this point. Other people are suggesting All Points West as an alternative, which I’m down with despite Vampire Weekend being there. Also, I’m updating the site a bit. After two and a half years of cutline, I’m trying out atahualpa (which I’m also running on foglands). It’s going to take some time to get it to work like I’d like but it feels good to mix things up.  Dog and I took the day off today (marathon training-wise) and went hiking south of town today instead (with assorted riff-raff, etc). Hiking here is a relative term, more of a ‘hiking’, as the trail was pretty much a smooth paved path. Regardless of degree of difficultly, we ascended Sweeney Ridge to find the marker memoralizing the point where the first European looked east to see San Francisco Bay. From the NPS -
This week I specifically wanted to say thanks to both yjp and SMHB for supporting my fundraising efforts for Youth Run4Fun. Their donations this week were doubled, bringing us to 26% of my total goal of $250. Since the idea seemed to be a success, I’m extending the dollar matching offer another week to see what happens.
Also, in unrelated fundraising efforts, my people are doing walks for cancer and for cystic fibrosis. Just an FYI. |
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