Interesting web sites ~
The article in Outside magazine explains the guy ~
http://sifter.org/~aglisi
What is the difference between a duck?
Courtesy of some Rice students ~
http://www.betweenaduck.com/
Buy new artwork online ~
http://www.20x200.com/
Design your own energy bars ~
http://www.youbars.com/
Buy and Sell event tickets ~
http://www.stubhub.com/
Other people answer questions about your face ~
http://www.facestat.com/
Morph your face ~
http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Transformer
Scary political ideology ~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
Adventure travel for singles ~
http://www.oars.com/
http://www.theworldoutdoors.com/
http://www.backroads.com/
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Dave and Imogene
Dave from St. Louis - to distinguish him from all the other boys I know named Dave - visited this past Saturday - Sunday - Monday. I had not planned for us to get together with other folks but he ended up meeting almost all the important people here. We had lunch on Saturday with Laura Keith Ian Erik - lunch on Sunday with Ed - dinner on Sunday with Marco and Kevin - and lunch on Monday with Marco and Larry and Dom. I know a lot of boys. But he would have also met Kim and Cheryl had they not been out of town.
We also took the doggies to the dog park on Sunday morning and to White Sands on Sunday afternoon and for a walk on the flood control dam on Monday morning. Maddie and Bodhi miss their Uncle Dave.
Dave left on Monday and I started training for Imogene on Tuesday. Just managed to get in a 1-mile jog on the flood control dam before darkness fell. Wednesday I started speed work with a Yasso 800 [3:40] on the flood control dam. Then off to Primetime for a 3-mile treadmill jog. Thursday/today I did two Yasso 800s [4:24 and 4:17] on the flood control dam and will later get to Primetime for a 4-mile treadmill jog. Tomorrow may be three Yasso 800s and/or a 5-mile Independence Day fun run and/or a pilates class.
I must be diligent about training over the next two months as you can see from the course profile here -
http://www.imogenerun.com/profile.htm
What is a Yasso 800 you might be asking?
It is an 800-meter (about half a mile) repeat and the goal is to work up to 10 of them with 400-meter jog recovery intervals. Your average time across the 10 repeats in minutes and seconds is supposed to be a pretty good predictor of what your marathon time would be in hours and minutes. So my goal is to get up to 10 repeats with an appropriate recovery interval - today I walked an 800-meter recovery interval - and then hopefully I will be doing them at a suitable pace. I am not training for a marathon right now but your marathon pace is supposed to be a good predictor of your Imogene pace. And the Imogene run has cutoff times - another reminder that I must be diligent about training from here on out.
We also took the doggies to the dog park on Sunday morning and to White Sands on Sunday afternoon and for a walk on the flood control dam on Monday morning. Maddie and Bodhi miss their Uncle Dave.
Dave left on Monday and I started training for Imogene on Tuesday. Just managed to get in a 1-mile jog on the flood control dam before darkness fell. Wednesday I started speed work with a Yasso 800 [3:40] on the flood control dam. Then off to Primetime for a 3-mile treadmill jog. Thursday/today I did two Yasso 800s [4:24 and 4:17] on the flood control dam and will later get to Primetime for a 4-mile treadmill jog. Tomorrow may be three Yasso 800s and/or a 5-mile Independence Day fun run and/or a pilates class.
I must be diligent about training over the next two months as you can see from the course profile here -
http://www.imogenerun.com/profile.htm
What is a Yasso 800 you might be asking?
It is an 800-meter (about half a mile) repeat and the goal is to work up to 10 of them with 400-meter jog recovery intervals. Your average time across the 10 repeats in minutes and seconds is supposed to be a pretty good predictor of what your marathon time would be in hours and minutes. So my goal is to get up to 10 repeats with an appropriate recovery interval - today I walked an 800-meter recovery interval - and then hopefully I will be doing them at a suitable pace. I am not training for a marathon right now but your marathon pace is supposed to be a good predictor of your Imogene pace. And the Imogene run has cutoff times - another reminder that I must be diligent about training from here on out.
Friday, June 20, 2008
20 June 2008
1st day of summer
summer solstice
longest day of the year
(tomorrow - first full day)
hot hot hot
today might be the first day in a couple of weeks
where the temperature does not hit 100+ here
on Tuesday my car thermostat hit 110
a slight chance of rain today
fingers crossed
today is also Take Your Dog to Work day
fun
Bodhi got to come home yesterday afternoon
instead of having to wait until this morning
yay
summer solstice
longest day of the year
(tomorrow - first full day)
hot hot hot
today might be the first day in a couple of weeks
where the temperature does not hit 100+ here
on Tuesday my car thermostat hit 110
a slight chance of rain today
fingers crossed
today is also Take Your Dog to Work day
fun
Bodhi got to come home yesterday afternoon
instead of having to wait until this morning
yay
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Events Past and Future
May 11 - Happy Mother's Day
May 13-17 - I met the parents in Key West and learned that "conch" is pronounced "conk" and that if a bar advertises that it shows American Idol on the big screen then it is necessarily a gay bar
May 17 - Happy Birthday to Mom
May 17-20 - I met Ed in Santa Fe for the century bike ride on Sunday May 18
May 26 - Happy Birthday to Dad
June 1 - Dom and I registered for the Imogene Pass Run on September 6
June 14 - Raft the Rio - a SWEC event - plus the fire broke out in the Organ Mountains
June 15 - Happy Father's Day
June 16 - kayaking at Elephant Butte Lake
June 19 - today - Bodhi was neutered so no more "half Bodhis" (sperm are "half babies") - I thought I would love the peace and quiet of having the Bodhi Monster at the vet for 24 hours but it has been way too peaceful and way too quiet today
June 28-30 - Uncle Dave visits from St. Louis
approximately July 4-13 - hopefully South Padre Island windsurfing with Marco and Ed
late July - Marco moves to Mississippi for a job as Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department in Gulfport
mid August - Ed moves to Louisiana for a year at Stennis Space Center / NASA
September 6 - Dom and I tackle the Imogene Pass
May 13-17 - I met the parents in Key West and learned that "conch" is pronounced "conk" and that if a bar advertises that it shows American Idol on the big screen then it is necessarily a gay bar
May 17 - Happy Birthday to Mom
May 17-20 - I met Ed in Santa Fe for the century bike ride on Sunday May 18
May 26 - Happy Birthday to Dad
June 1 - Dom and I registered for the Imogene Pass Run on September 6
June 14 - Raft the Rio - a SWEC event - plus the fire broke out in the Organ Mountains
June 15 - Happy Father's Day
June 16 - kayaking at Elephant Butte Lake
June 19 - today - Bodhi was neutered so no more "half Bodhis" (sperm are "half babies") - I thought I would love the peace and quiet of having the Bodhi Monster at the vet for 24 hours but it has been way too peaceful and way too quiet today
June 28-30 - Uncle Dave visits from St. Louis
approximately July 4-13 - hopefully South Padre Island windsurfing with Marco and Ed
late July - Marco moves to Mississippi for a job as Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department in Gulfport
mid August - Ed moves to Louisiana for a year at Stennis Space Center / NASA
September 6 - Dom and I tackle the Imogene Pass
Favorite Quote
"Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the tops of mountains, but to improve the man."
- Walter Bonatti - Italian climber
- Walter Bonatti - Italian climber
Friday, June 6, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Interesting
Today is graduation day at Furman where I graduated 17 years ago on 6/1/91. I believe the commencement speaker then was the vice-president of the local telecable company. The speaker today is supposed to be the president of the country.
There is some understandable opposition to his visit and an eloquent statement of objection on the website below - I have also pasted the text of the statement below the link -
http://www.furman.edu/bushvisit/petition.htm
Under ordinary circumstances it would be an honor for Furman University to be visited by the President of the United States. However, these are not ordinary circumstances. In the spirit of open and critical review that is the hallmark of both a free democracy and an institution of higher learning, we, the undersigned members of the Furman University community, object to the following actions of the Bush administration:
Claiming a linkage between Iraq and 9-11, and exaggerating the threat of weapons of mass destruction, to justify a new and morally questionable strategy of "pre-emptive warfare" against Iraq - a country that did not attack us and posed no immediate international threat;
Classifying war prisoners as "detained nonmilitary combatants" to permit their detention and interrogation in violation of our own laws and standards of human decency;
Sowing fear and using "threat levels" to side-step the Constitution and justify the erosion of individual liberties, such as challenging the Fourth Amendment (wiretapping without authorization of law) and the First Amendment (denying access to information and restricting dissent to "free speech zones");
Suppressing or ignoring empirical evidence that contradicts administration ideology, such as denying global warming and then obstructing progress on reducing greenhouse gases while favoring billions in tax breaks and subsidies to oil companies that are earning record profits;
Installing lobbyists for the coal, timber, and mining industries as the chief officials in charge of managing and protecting our public lands;
Encouraging reckless over-spending (creating the largest deficits in history), expanding the reach of national government into local affairs (No Child Left Behind), and increasing our involvement overseas at the expense of domestic concerns (reconstructing New Orleans).
We are ashamed of these actions of this administration. The war in Iraq has cost the lives of over 4000 brave and honorable U. S. military personnel, wounded more than 13,000 military personnel so severely that they are unable to return to duty, killed tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, will cost more than 2 trillion dollars, and has severely damaged our government's ethical and moral credibility at home and abroad. Because we love this country and the ideals it stands for, we accept our civic responsibility to speak out against these actions that violate American values.
There is some understandable opposition to his visit and an eloquent statement of objection on the website below - I have also pasted the text of the statement below the link -
http://www.furman.edu/bushvisit/petition.htm
Under ordinary circumstances it would be an honor for Furman University to be visited by the President of the United States. However, these are not ordinary circumstances. In the spirit of open and critical review that is the hallmark of both a free democracy and an institution of higher learning, we, the undersigned members of the Furman University community, object to the following actions of the Bush administration:
Claiming a linkage between Iraq and 9-11, and exaggerating the threat of weapons of mass destruction, to justify a new and morally questionable strategy of "pre-emptive warfare" against Iraq - a country that did not attack us and posed no immediate international threat;
Classifying war prisoners as "detained nonmilitary combatants" to permit their detention and interrogation in violation of our own laws and standards of human decency;
Sowing fear and using "threat levels" to side-step the Constitution and justify the erosion of individual liberties, such as challenging the Fourth Amendment (wiretapping without authorization of law) and the First Amendment (denying access to information and restricting dissent to "free speech zones");
Suppressing or ignoring empirical evidence that contradicts administration ideology, such as denying global warming and then obstructing progress on reducing greenhouse gases while favoring billions in tax breaks and subsidies to oil companies that are earning record profits;
Installing lobbyists for the coal, timber, and mining industries as the chief officials in charge of managing and protecting our public lands;
Encouraging reckless over-spending (creating the largest deficits in history), expanding the reach of national government into local affairs (No Child Left Behind), and increasing our involvement overseas at the expense of domestic concerns (reconstructing New Orleans).
We are ashamed of these actions of this administration. The war in Iraq has cost the lives of over 4000 brave and honorable U. S. military personnel, wounded more than 13,000 military personnel so severely that they are unable to return to duty, killed tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, will cost more than 2 trillion dollars, and has severely damaged our government's ethical and moral credibility at home and abroad. Because we love this country and the ideals it stands for, we accept our civic responsibility to speak out against these actions that violate American values.
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