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.”
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.
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.
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
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.
I’m flying into Midway at 7:40pm on tuesday august 19.
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.
yay, wordpress on my own domain!
holy crap, i can post to my livejournal from google docs.
i don’t know why that is surprising.