A favorite holiday clip
>> Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Extreme profanity. You were warned.
Full Metal Jacket, Rudolph style...oh yeah.
My octopus is smarter than your honor student
Veined Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, showing sophisticated tool use behaviour. Footage shot by Dr Julian Finn of Museum Victoria.
Finn, J.K., T. Tregenza and M.D. Norman. (2009) Defensive tool use in a coconut-carrying octopus, Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 23, R1069-R1070, 15 December 2009
David Cook
Who the hell is David Cook??? And why the heck is his team beating Team Steve/Pothier/Free Beer Fairy!
Register or donate! This "David Cook" is a wanker. Let's kick his ass for Beer Fairy, not only in fund raising, but beat the fool in the run!
Register to run it, or donate money, even just $5! Seriously, $5. If 1,000 people donate $5, that's $5,000! You can't say you don't have $5 to spare.
And all donations are tax deductible!
Do it. And spread the word.
Busy
>> Tuesday, December 15, 2009
I'm a little busy right now with a ton of stuff, so blogging is a a lull, but I leave you with this fantastic web site a friend told me about: http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/ People send in secrets anonymously on a postcard. Some are funny, some are sad, some make you think. It's in my Reader.
Read more...Book: "I Run, Therefore I Am Nuts!" by Bob Schwartz
>> Sunday, December 13, 2009
Todd, whom I ran JFK with, gave me this book after we finished JFK. It's a comical view of all the idiosyncrasies of runners. I recommend it if you are a runner, you may not get much of it if you don't run. Or read it if you're starting to run.
The passage that hit home most for me was the start of chapter 27, "The Idle Truth". This fits me to a tee:
"My recent revelation might be aptly titled The Laziness of the Long Distance Runner. I have finally given in to the truth that I am part couch potato hiding within a well-conditioned body. I'm a running contradiction. I'm often an indolent individual who does intervals, a laggard who does long distance, a sluggard who does speed work. I am a runner and I am lazy."
Parts of the book were lame with him changing lyrics to songs, or telling too long of a story. It's a very quick read though.
I have started reading, "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. GREAT read so far, but sadly I really only have time to read it on the train.
Roku
>> Friday, December 11, 2009
Best. Thing. EVER!
If you have Netflix, get one. Stream Netflix directly to your TV.
The train
>> Thursday, December 10, 2009
I haven't blogged much about my commute from Baltimore to DC each day, but as I sit on the train now, too tired to read my book, I figure- perfect time to blog!
The commute is going fairly well, though I had my first, "train made me late to work" day the other day. We had a bunch of rain the night before and that morning, but I didn't think that would be considered severe. But, my express, only stop at two stops after mine, train, became a sluggish, stop at every damn stop along the way, train. Crap! And not only did it stop at every stop, but the people wouldn't move into the train, away from the doors, letting more people in, so we sat there waiting for people to pull their heads out of their butts and let people on. The conductor even got on the intercom and told them to move out of the way and let people on.
The fellow passengers are pretty cool. We don't have much of a conversation, or haven't to date, which is fine with me. 6am isn't exactly chat time for me and at the end of the day, I'm too beat to converse with strangers.
The conductors rock! We have the same guys on the same trains, in the same cars, each day. I wonder if they recognize me yet? Not that I really stand out, again- the whole converse thing. This evening when the conductor was coming by he was singing. And what was he singing? Guns n' Roses, "Paradise City"! I love the conductors!
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