Gesture Deja Vu…..I haven’t read Steve Gilmor for a while now, so I kept having to check the post date on his Gesturesphere post. I swear I read the first 3 paragraphs more than 2 years ago. Perhaps, like Don Sobol, Gillmor re-uses a handful of intros with each gesture.
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Goal: 5k, Actual: 5k, Time: 30:52
Good run for the first K and a half, held a nice 7 mn/mi pace. It was a fight to keep going after that and while I reached 7 again at the 3k mark, I finished with an average 9.75 mn/mi. The interval runs to this point have been a barometer to see where I …
Goal: 5k, Actual: 5k, Time: 30:32
Pretty hard run. Thankfully, the dust was gone. Unfortunately, it was replaced by 96F heat. iTunes isn’t remembering my Nikeplus.com account info – so none of the workout data is being sent to the Nike site. Definitely not the seamless integration advertised. Maybe I’ll look into this after I cool down. Update: Not sure what …
I dug a hole in my old Nike Presto’s wit…
I dug a hole in my old Nike Presto’s with a utility knife to hide the Nike+iPod bug, a fun hack. Now, if only the outside temp would drop below triple digits so I can try it out. 09 July 2007 Update: After destroying my knees and ankles last night, I’ve retired the Prestos and …
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How the iPhone Unexpectedly Impressed Me
I stopped by the Roseville Apple Store this afternoon to diagnose 2 recurring problems with my year old MacBook Pro; 6 month old battery barely holds a charge, and bottom quarter of the LCD screen is all multi-colored stripes – completely unusable. It’s just a few weeks outside of it’s one-year warranty, again proving to …
Chatter – Friendly Tumble Blogging
“Garrick knocks Pownce … what will he think of Chatter?” – Bruno Bornsztein Finally, a web app that knows how to handle a new account – Bruno sends me an invite via email. I click the link. Chatter asks me my name – then emails me a password. That’s it. Beautiful. If you’re building or …
Goal: 5k, Actual: 4.5k, Time: 25:02,
A pretty good run. I’m still doing intervals to build up endurance (run a song, walk a song, repeat until you’re home.). I could feel a good rhythm underneath a thicker-than-I’d-like surface layer of dust. That underlying feeling kept me going. I’m using the Nike+iPod kit to track my distance and time. Like Audiobooks and …
Pownce.com – In Need of a Special Purpose
Pownce.com feels like the bastard child of Basecamp and MySpace. Four kinds of things (messages, links, files, events) all going into the same bucket. No tagging or grouping or other categorization – aside from the information type, all sent out to everyone as email notifications not including the message. Just a link back to the …
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The Better Beatles
Over the weekend, we picked up a little stuffed IKEA octopus (technically a pentapus) for C. On the drive back, I remembered of working the strawberry fields listening to the Beatles on a cassette Walkman over and over and over again (an irony I only now see). Discovering and rediscovering each album. As I tried …
Twittergrams: Guarding the Rhino
(photo CNN) In Swahili the tick bird is named ‘askari wa kifaru,’ meaning ‘the rhino’s guard.’ The bird eats ticks it finds on the rhino and noisily warns of danger. Although the birds also eat blood from sores on the rhino’s skin and thus obstruct healing, they are still tolerated. Take a look at what …