LSD Run: Come Help Us Finish Our UltraMarathon Training

Published on August 4, 2011 in running. Closed

This is the email sent out today in an attempt to drum up support/assistance/motivators for our run this Saturday. The most egregious private details have been removed for this public posting so if you’re interested in joining us and want more explicit information just message me from FB or drop me an email.

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to: undisclosed-list
date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:56 PM
subject: LSD Run: Come Help Us Finish Our UltraMarathon Training
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Calling all runners:

This weekend marks the end of week 12 in our Bulldog 50K ultramarathon training plan, culminating in a 26 mile run on Saturday and a 10 mile run on Sunday.  If we survive the weekend, scratch that, when we finish the weekend we will have our largest mileage week ever at 58 miles completed for the week.  I for one am quite impressed with what we’ve done in our training over these past 12 weeks, and can hardly imagine that come Sunday there are only a short 19 days until the Bulldog 50k.  Self congratulatory pats on the back to us!!!!! Continue reading ‘LSD Run: Come Help Us Finish Our UltraMarathon Training’

Pasadena Marathon Race Report

Published on May 15, 2011 in race and running. Closed

Well I should have knocked wood when I posted the weather forecast as not 20 minutes later a system moved through that drenched the streets for 20 minutes and moved off. It was an ominous sign. And sure enough, as if someone on high has a email reminder set up that says “They are about to start the Pasadena Marathon, turn on the rain” it started to rain as the coral lineups began just 10 minutes before the race. A smallish drizzle but it picked up and continued through the first 11 miles and we were totally drenched within the first 3 miles. I didn’t do a poncho or rain suite or jacket or Hefty bag, relying instead on simply keeping warm in comfy “stays warm even when wet” wool running t-shirt from SmartWool (best investment I’ve ever made). So I was wet but still warm, drippy and drooping clothes/gear but still with high spirits Continue reading ‘Pasadena Marathon Race Report’

GoDaddy Daddy Shoots Elephant

Published on March 31, 2011 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons Shoots an Elephant For a Good Cause. Too Bad He’s Wrong


We all shoot vacation videos, but most of us choose to keep them to ourselves—or, at worst, share them with our Facebook friends. Bob Parsons—the CEO of the Internet hosting firm GoDaddy.com, which you will know from its lame Super Bowl ads and absolutely nothing else—likes bigger exposure.

I’m not willing to embed the video here as I don’t condone the reposting of it for many reasons. However I think the discussion stemming from the video are mostly missing the point.

Where the TIME magazine blog got it absolutely right is in pointing at that it “doesn’t mean the best way to deal with [a problem elephant] is for rich foreigners like Parsons to make like Hemingway.

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Zite: App Review

Published on March 11, 2011 in gadgets. 0 Comments

On Tuesday, I picked up the new Zite app for iPad and began using it to see how it compares to Flipboard.  Though similar in it’s base operation, making a “magazine” of disparate content you’re interested in, they go about them from different perspectives.  Where Flipboard has you pick specific content sources to aggregate for you from their stable of providers, Zite says “hey! what are you interested in already? let me take a look and I’ll try to intelligently determine what you like and aggregate you new content from that.”

How does Zite determine what you’re interested in?  Quite simply, it just looks at your Twitter feed(s) and your Google Reader subscriptions.  Because you’ve already show interest in content by how you’ve tweeted and/or subscribed to tweets, and the subscriptions you’ve made in Reader, Zite has a pretty good basis for making some determinations about what you like.  

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