Every year, I have a tiny contest with myself to go the whole year without screwing up the date. I managed this feat in 1993. This year’s status: Failure on day 2. What is truly amusing is I thought I’d screwed up on day 3, but then I looked at my training log and realized …
Monthly Archives: January 2008
"A Series of Tubes!"
Please, run, don’t walk, to the site of Bold Headed Broadcast and listen to their remix of Ted Stevens’ famous quotation, “The Internet is a seris of Tubes!”
Resolute are We
I read a lot of skeptics blogs. This is good, and bad. It’s bad because some of them go way overboard in the casting away of anything unrational (not irrational, just unrational). A prime example of this is the New Year’s Resolution, as well as the whole concept of the western New Year. Some skeptics …
One Year Anniversary of New Eyes
One year ago today I underwent LASIK surgery (don’t click on the link unless you’re not afraid of close-up images of eyeballs!) So far so good! No issues. No haloing or dry eye any worse than what I had with contacts. I have my last post-surgery checkup next week.
Suspect Kills Police Dog
A man, being pursued by police, is taken down by a police dog. Then he lifts the dog bodily and leaps off a bridge. He is injured, the dog is dead. Should this man be charged with killing a police officer?
Atlanta Track Club Resolution 10k
Warning: Self-congratulatory post ahead. The Atlanta Track Club has a number of races as a part of their Grand Prix, which all ATC members can go to, for free (it’s part of the membership fees). One of them is on January 1st, at 12:00 noon, and it’s called the Resolution 5/10k. You pick your race …
New Years Day Silliness
I wake. I ache. I sit. I drink coffee. My head go throb. I race 10k. Silliness. I’ll let you know how it went in about two hours.