Archive for July, 2004
Tri Update
Set a new (recent) record for the mile. I started from a different place on the track where I run so that I could use the 100 yard markings to help set a 8 minute pace. I have also been using these markings to do interval training for the last few days.
1 Mile Run Time - 8:07
Prayer Outsourcing
Apparently joining the rest of the world in outsourcing everything to India, the Catholic church is transfering prayer requests and special masses (done for a certain donation amount) to the priests in India, that both have less work and income than their American counterparts.
I will resist the obvious commentary on this as I think most people should be about to see the several layers of mockery this makes of the relationship between man and God. I would like to point out the irony that I see when compared to many computer-related professions. I mean if your priest can charge you (much like a lawyer or accountant) for his time praying for you… shouldn’t it be reasonable for your techie friend to be compensated the next time he spends two hours fixing your computer?
Queer Eye for the KKK Guy?
This is a fake article from an Onion like site, but it is amusing non-the-less. I have extracted it from their site due to an abundance of popups and other annoyances.
By Jennifer Gardner May 27, 2004, 01:00 (http://www.glossynews.com/artman/publish/kkk-746.shtml)
In what’s being called a local wardrobe malfunction, area resident and Klansman Arnie Stevens showed up at his latest Ku Klux Klan rally in a pink hood and a pink robe.
“They say it happened because I didn’t separate my whites from my coloreds,” said Arnie. “That just goes to show you segregation is the way of the Lord. In laundry and also in life.”
“The little missus was at a Tupperware convention so I had to do my own laundry,” explained Arnie. A former bachelor, Arnie hauled his dirty Klansman outfit to the local washtub but what followed no one could foresee. Although the real culprit is probably a wayward Cincinnati Reds tee-shirt, Arnie tends to believe his washer was tampered with by some of the young African American men, or as Arnie called them, “homies” loitering around the shop.
Tri Update
I finally made it to a pool and I now I not as worried about running. I had discounted the swimming portion of the triathlon since I used to be able to swim over a mile nonstop (apparently back in my youth). Well that is no longer the case. I ended up doing mostly 1 minute intervals over a total distance of .38 miles.
.25 Mile Swim Time ~ 8:30 non-continous interval pace
4th of July
Happy 4th everyone! Isn’t it great that we live in a country with a enough money that we can blow things up for our own personal amusement/entertainment?
Win 98 on PPC
In a nice display of software/hardware hacking, you can now get Windows 98 to run on your Pocket PC. While it requires some effort, it shows just how far PDAs have come.
Tri Update
I have stepped up to the full distance on running. Not nearly the pace I want to set, but I’ll admit that I’m the most concerned about the running part of this little race. It’s my weakest event and I have to do it last.
2 Mile Run Time - 19:26
Fiery Rhetoric 9/11
Michael Moore, a Democratic activist, has just released a new movie called “Fahrenheit 9/11″. Fox News has an article about some of the “artistic licenses” Moore took in his piece. In addition, President Clinton’s press secretary has come out and countered Moore’s attack about President Bush’s response to the news while in front of Florida classroom. According to him not only did President Bush handle the situation properly, no one else could have handled it any better. A statement that the 911 commission agrees with.
I was most dishearted to read in my local paper some quotes from movie goers. Things like “Well, I thought that President Bush did a good job with 9/11, but then I saw this movie and I can’t believe how bad he did…”. Guys its a MOVIE. A MOVIE! I just went and saw Spiderman 2, but I don’t really think that Peter Parker saved the city from fusion reactor explosion — sheese.
I think I liked it better when Democrats simply bought votes or had dead people voting for them. I mean sure it’s more corrupt to do such things than to simply sway people with your media machine, but at least it isn’t as depressing as realizing how many people can be completely swayed politically by what they saw in a movie.
Real Personal Network
Adding to their BORG reputation, Microsoft has just patented a technology for using human skin to conduct power and transfer data. Which is both cool and scary.