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I was at Ironman Florida, as you might recall. Jef Mallet of Frazz was also there, and he was a competitor! He turned in an 11:02:53 which is a time to which I can only aspire, right now. While it would have been cool to sit down and talk to some of the top triathletes …

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One of the reasons I like this comic:

Congratulations to Jenn for finishing with a 4:54:27, which beats her marathon PR by something like eight hundred minutes!

I hope everyone is enjoying spending time today properly aligned with the Earth’s orbital plane. If you sit very still, you can almost feel the energistic miasma flowing around you. I feel like buying crystals today.

John Scalzi was at Dragon*Con this year, promoting his latest book, Zoe’s Tale. In his reading session on Sunday, he read the first chapter of High Castle. Hi-freaking-larious! I’m 100% certain that the chapter would not have been as funny if I had picked up the book at read it myself. John’s delivery was (can …

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This year, I arrived a Dragon*Con with an 8 Gb compact flash card in my camera. This let me do two things: Buckle to the pressure and shoot in RAW + JPG Not need to switch out the card during the weekend Unfortunately, it takes a long time to download ~7 Gb to by computer …

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Today is the last day pre-Dragon*Con which means there is plenty to do to get ready: Sleep – Won’t be doing much of that at the Con. I maintain about a 4 AM to 8 AM unconsciousness schedule Charge – We’re geeks, so we have a lot of electronic toys which need to be charged …

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I love this picture. I drove past this a few times while traversing the Lubbock, TX to Birmingham, AL southerly route (the northerly route goes through Oklahoma City and avoids this spot). This is Louisiana off of I-20.

Re: my last post, I’m very disappointed that no one has done anything interesting with roundworm.org. Somebody has purchased it and is willing to sell it, I’m guessing. I’ll be they snapped it up in hopes some medial firm would want it.