“How do you get 30,000 steps a day? That’s like running a marathon.” This was a question that I received from a co-worker earlier today. To give you context, the company I work for subscribes to the Virgin Health Miles program–which is a deal where you wear a pedometer and register your steps and as […]
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A Message From Monday
It was a Monday, you know? Nothing terrible, really. A morning session ran late. Lunch was a bit on the run. I was pretty productive in the morning overall, though, and the afternoon’s sessions were at least interesting. I admit I hit a motivation wall about 3:30 that I fought through. The evening included a […]
Read More ...Dare to Disagree
Okay, I admit it. I have a weakness for TED Talks (and a few others). When I have quiet time alone I’ll often “waste” it there rather than on TV or whatever. I find the ideas people put forward there are always interesting, even if I don’t really agree with them totally, or perhaps even […]
Read More ...Basic Writing Equipment, Part The Second
A few days back I wrote about how pens have been going out of style, and how pencils (especially those of the mechanical variety) once held a place of high value across my family–well, at least between me and my dad. And now here comes an ode to the eraser that I found kind of […]
Read More ...Eat Like A Gold Medal Winner
You just have to love some headlines, eh? Such as this one: Why Some Olympic Athletes Need to Gorge. The answer is obvious, right? They need to eat thousands of calories because they burn thousands of calories. Well, duh. On the other hand, these athletes are the ultimate example of what I mean when I […]
Read More ...Crusher Jones
It’s definitely time to plug my bro a bit. Definitely. For those of you who are newish to ths place or those whose memory doesn’t hold onto a few very esoteric comments here and there that I’ve embedded in other posts in the ditant path, Jeff is a really great guitarist who set out west […]
Read More ...Three-Card Health Care?
Thought for the day: the thing that has me most worried about the health care debate in the US is not whether ObamaCare is terrible or whether the punishment for not buying insurance is a tax or not. It’s that the politicians and health care providers seem to have us exactly where they want us–arguing […]
Read More ...People Staring at Computers
I read this a few days back off someone’s Twitter feed. I can’t remember who, so sorry I can’t attribute it properly. It’s long, of course. But it’s interesting on a lot of levels–anything having to do with privacy and “hackers” (meaning anything done with computers and a sufficiently creative mindset) and the secret service […]
Read More ...The Artifact?
Someday, a long time from now, an archaeologist is going to open up a dig and find an ink pen. It won’t work, of course. Unless it’s being depicted in a bad science fiction film. In that case it will be a magic pen complete with … well … let’s not give away my next […]
Read More ...Wife = Awesome
File this under: “My wife is Awesome” The set-up — I write all morning, and then we go work out together. Walk to the club, 45 minutes hard at the weights, walk back. We’re both pretty tired when we make lunch and veg out a bit eating it. About 1:30 or 2:00 I look over […]
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