Born To Run (book)

September 1st, 2009

So I just read Born to Run.

Best book I’ve read in a long time. It definitely makes you want to go for a 100 km trail run barefoot. Of course I felt the same way after Anna Karenina, but that was because I wanted to die. This book makes me want to LIVE.

excerpt:

“A team of Harvard scientists had once verified exactly that point by sticking a rectal thermometer in a cheetah and getting it to run on a treadmill.”

Turkeygate?

November 21st, 2008

Sarah Palin Turkey Incident: Does TV Interview While Turkeys Are Slaughtered In The Background (VIDEO)

so rad.

migrating from livejournal

November 14th, 2008

Well it appears that I managed to migrage from livejournal to wordpress with my posts & comments intact.  LJ’s export feature sucks (no comments, only 1 month at a time), but I followed these fine instructions from Voices from Catland (!!):

http://www.inmostlight.org/2005/12/migrating-from-livejournal-to-wordpress

Mad props to them, LJarchive, and Wordpress for making the export/import so easy.  Otherwise I probably would not have done this at all.  I had to touch windows, but otherwise it was painless.

bookmeme

November 14th, 2008

This meme seems random enough to be entertaining:

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

well:

“Other pictures, of horses, of cats deceased but unforgotten–like “poor Boobs,” who had died not long ago and most mysteriously (she suspected poison)–encumbered her desk.”

from In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Rad, my pick includes slight meme recursion. And boobs.

thanksgiving in IL

September 20th, 2008

w00t

FLIGHT INFORMATION

Outbound flight: Zurich – Chicago (OHare Intl Arpt)
Sat. 22.11.2008 12:55 ZRH – 16:00 ORD LX 8

Return flight: Chicago (OHare Intl Arpt) – Zurich
Sat. 29.11.2008 19:20 ORD – 11:00 +1 ZRH LX 9

who I'm voting for

September 5th, 2008

would be interesting to know how many people have not actually decided who they are voting for yet. i’m guessing it’s about 12.

countdown to pizza

August 7th, 2008

I’m flying into Midway at 7:40pm on tuesday august 19.

plane tix aquired

July 25th, 2008

Leave Zurich Friday August 15 @ 10:00
Arrive San Diego Friday August 15 @ 18:29

Leave Atlanta Saturday August 30 @ 16:35
Arrive Zurich Sunday August 31 @ 07:55

Somewhere around August 19 I’m coming to IL as well. Not tix yet though.

tastic

July 21st, 2008

yay, wordpress on my own domain!

120

July 16th, 2008

holy crap, i can post to my livejournal from google docs.

i don’t know why that is surprising.