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…and I ran it in 34:45.

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

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First ride of the season left my legs feeling like shredded lettuce.

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

Runkeeper is a slick app to track your outdoor activities; the iPhone app is dead simple and the metrics on the web site are fairly deep. The best part is if you upgrade to the paid membership friends and family can follow your progress, which means if I end up in a ravine they can easily recover my body.

The saddest aspect of the iPhone location tracking bug is that it reveals I go nowhere.

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Track yourself.

Vacations are painfully expensive.

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Just a scant nine days away and it was like a giant vacuum cleaner stuffed into my wallet.

I want to remain here and let the tides and sun wrap about me.

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

The tides pull in first light.

My netbook is absolutely great when I don’t have to use it.

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Um. Ow?

See that knot? The one that looks like I had been stung by a bee? That is from spending the last two months working full-time (meaning 10+ hours) on a cramped, tiny, crappy, little keyboard. I have no idea what it is but it sits right on two tendons and while it doesn’t hurt per se it makes typing, guitar playing, chopping vegetables, shuffling cards, and raking the yard really uncomfortable. It rolls around like a marble causing the tendons to “pop” when they stretch.

So the pro’s of this netbook are:

  • Killer battery life (~6 hours)
  • Light (maybe 2.5lbs)
  • Fast wakeup and shutdown (SSD helps a lot)

The con’s:

  • IT WILL TRASH YOUR WRIST

At the moment, the con is completely outweighing the pro’s. Really looking forward to my laptop arriving.