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Week One Report: Ass badder, no narrower
Okay, let’s break it down by the numbers: Starting weight: 225 pounds Current weight: 225 pounds Number of brunches consumed yesterday: two Time spent looking at fecking hipster in introductory video for nike+, reading FAQs and reviews: 45 minutes Workouts last week: Four (including inaugural “why bother?” session on treadmill: “Fitness test, level five, twenty…
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Ass-baddening commences! Day one report!
Now that I’m, you know… a marathon runner [see previous post, re: the Portland Marathon], my schedule looks like this: Monday and Wednesday Nights: Feed cat at night, so he won’t scream bloody murder all morning. Pick out work clothes, fold them and put them in a bag. Hey, look! I found my watch! It…
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Late-summer shotgun update
We had a great time at the beach, hanging out in the little beach cottage, eating cereal on the screen porch, etc. I didn’t touch a computer all week, for the first time since 1996. To maintain my Ridiculous Geek status, I helped Lydia to swim in the ocean using an orange Pelican case as…
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Robin Staebler: a man’s man, and a nerd’s nerd.
We came back from vacation (which was wonderful, but more on that later) to the sad news that my stepfather Robin Staebler has died of cancer. It’s not unexpected, but it’s much sooner than expected, and I’m very sorry to lose him. Robin (who Lydia called “Grumpy”) was a bastion of macho in the Baldwin…
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At the beach all week!
We’re going to be at the beach all week, in Jamesport, New York, which is somewhere exactly right here, with Genevieve and Francesco and Samson. That’s a good trio of names for weeklong beach companions. We’ve stocked up on suntan lotion, Lydia has new flowery flip-flops, and I’ve got my beach reading picked out. In…
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Look at me! Look at me! OH GOD YOU’RE ALL LOOKING AT ME.
So the webcast story is up at abcnews.com. I’m kind of hypercaffeinated in the audio. You can see the spot here: abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2161271 It’s funny the mixed feelings you get when as a card-carrying “look at me” blogger, you suddenly get a small dose of for-realz media attention, and suddenly you get all hypocritically embarrased. This…
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See one underground lair, and you’ve seen ’em all.
Since BoingBoing linked to my Flickr photo set about Anthony Abela’s free tech school, there’s been a lot of traffic. I got a call from ABC News this morning, who asked me if I’d like to come record some audio for a podcast. Would I? Would I? So I spent ten minutes talking into a…
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“Young man! Do you want to learn
electrical engineeringthe seven passwords of the Gnomon?”My employer had its annual Community Service day today: this year, hundreds of bright-eyed, well-scrubbed, enthusiastic and keenly competitive marketers convened on a public school in the South Bronx, there to accomplish a number of one-day jobs from stenciling quotes on the walls to repainting the gym to reorganizing the library (We’ve done this for…
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My first PowerPoint slide from now on.
From medicine-show huckster T. P. Kelley’s opening speech: “You are dying, every man, woman, and child is dying; from the instant you are born you begin to die and the calendar is your executioner. That no man can change or hope to change. It is nature’s law that there is no escape from the individual…
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Back from NYC
We’re back from NYC, where I spent a week in a 16th-floor training room bathing in the glow of a Proxima projector learning Adobe Flex 2, and Lydia and Kate did the following: Visited every playground with a fountain south of 23rd street Were told by a mommy at one of the playgrounds in conversation…
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