Month: May 2008
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“Official” Race Time… Not.My phone beeped at 6:30am this morning. It turned out to be my “official” race results from the Mother’s Day Classic. According to the SMS, my time was 56:00. WRONG. Check out the iPod data. I started timing it when I actually crossed the start line (and the electronic mats). I actually…
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Dude, CLEAR Converse All Stars? WANT. Just the perfect thing to show off your handknitted socks! (Link courtesy of passionknit.)
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My Mom said she was interested in getting the Wii Fit, so I took some videos today of me playing it. I’ve got them on the site here. (Sorry it’s hard to see the screen sometimes; I think the white balance is set depending on when you hit the “record” button.)
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Mother’s Day Classic 2008The Snook and I got up at the butt-crack of dawn this morning to head to the Domain for the 2008 Mother’s Day Classic 8K race. (That’s five miles for the non-metric.) We ran it together before in 2006, but the Snook wasn’t running this year; he was my support staff. We…
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Meteorologists don’t know nothin’. I sorta guessed that, but it’s nice to have it validated. Remember Opera in the Domain? Every weatherperson in Sydney said it was going to pour rain, to the extent that a bunch of people piked. And it turned out to be a gloriously sunny afternoon! (Link courtesy of PCJM.)
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“Want to be happy? Don’t have kids.” Of the trifecta of being married, having money, and having kids, a Harvard academic says being married makes the biggest difference to your personal level of happiness. He’s pretty harsh about parenting: “Parents tell me all the time that: ‘My child is my greatest source of joy’… My…
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I’ve given this blasted cold four days of rest, with no running or swimming in that time. Thursday I started to feel a lot better though, so today I decided enough was enough. I put on my new shoes, zipped up a hoodie for extra warmth, and headed out for a slow, easy run through…
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“Ask a Korean” tackles the issue of South Korean citizenship. Check out the section on “simplified naturalization”: 1. If one of your parents was a Korean citizen. (Emphasis on “wasâ€. It’s ok if your parent renounced Korean citizenship.) Hey, I think that includes me! My mom was born in Korea to a Korean woman, so…
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I LOVE WII FIT.I headed to EB Games tonight to pick up my pre-ordered Wii Fit kit, and I was so excited. I tried to get the guy to price match Kmart, but he informed me that Kmart sold out of ’em way earlier today. (They don’t match a price if there’s no stock.) Oh…
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Via the Snook: The Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis Explained. It involves stick figures and the F-word. Very enlightening.