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He was talking about dark side of the moon.
>Listening to: Fountains of Wayne
Sunday morning,
6am: Wake up, after 4 hours of sleep
6:15: Get in cab, cab over to east village. Outside temperature 10 degrees F. Theo tried to stop for starbucks, but they were still closed.
6:30: Get in cab with Jesse and Theo, take $50 cab ride up to the middle of the Bronx. Finished my bottle of water, realized I forgot to eat breakfast.
7:15: Dash over the the registration booth and do a last minute registration for the race. This time i actually prepared and wrote my NYRR member number on my Nike+ shoe sensor, so i could actually properly register this time.
7:45: Start to do some pre-race prep, mainly discussing how incredibly cold it is, and considering perhaps just ditching the race and going to Denny’s for the lumberjack slam.
7:55: Line up in the starting area.. we initially got in around the 7minute/mile area, but Theo kept wanting to move up to the front.
8:00: Race starts, temperature 15 degrees F.. its freaking cold, and we didn’t bother to warm up or stretch, so we’re basically running 13.1 miles from a standstill
9:55: I finish the race.. not really pushing it there, but got a good sweat. The grand concourse in the bronx at mile 6 was freezing, and then again at mile 11 it got really cold in the shade.. my legs began to freeze up. Theo ran the race fast, and jetted off directly afterwards. Jesse and I went to the gym and sat in the hot tub for a bit before getting on with the day.
Good race, despite the bitter freezing cold.. its always fun to do stuff like that, a character building experience.
Listening to: The Sounds of Nature
Listening to: The Buddha Machine
Check this out! Last night I was in Flight001, a travel store near my house which I love. I found this neato little sound machine, called the Buddha Machine, made by FM3. It has a speaker and a dial and a button. You turn it on and turn up the volume, and it plays any one of 9 different ambient audio loops.. just trippy and serene background sounds.. bells in the distance, alternating hums, etc etc. It’s pretty nifty, and it compliments me and Nat’s recent purchase of the 5 disk box set of “Nature Sounds”. Sitting in my cube right now with the nature sounds, I feel like I’m on the coast…
Buddha Machine from FM3
>Listening to: The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
Ah, as much as I have been hating Sony lately, I am pulling for their blu-ray format to win. In recent news, they are actually declaring blu-ray the winner… Link to Video Business Online Article
>Listening to: Cubik & Origami – S/T
I’ve been freaking saying it for ages… the layout, design, and usability of MySpace is absolutely completely worthless. Terrible design, and it’s a wonder why its succeeded. I strongly thing that Facebook has a vastly superior interface, and smoother overall experience, although yes, MySpace does offer more in the way of user customization. This article from Baseline Magazine offers up a pretty good analysis of MySpace, and why it actually succeeds… a question I’ve been pondering for a while.
Web Design Experts Grade MySpace
>Listening to: The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Ahh, a breath of fresh air.. just read this morning at the better format, Blu-ray, is finally pulling ahead of the other, lesser hd-dvd. Nielsen just reported their data, and it looks like Blu-ray is selling 2:1 over hd-dvd. This is great news,and I really really hope we can resolve this format war, and that the industry realizes that blu-ray is the better format.
Cheers
Listening to: The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Ahh, a breath of fresh air.. just read this morning at the better format, Blu-ray, is finally pulling ahead of the other, lesser hd-dvd. Nielsen just reported their data, and it looks like Blu-ray is selling 2:1 over hd-dvd. This is great news,and I really really hope we can resolve this format war, and that the industry realizes that blu-ray is the better format.
Cheers
In December of 2006, accompanied by a local guide and my longtime friend Sean Safdi, I sailed the southern Nile river in an ancient Felucca sailboat. Although an ancient design, the boat sailed easily, and was maneuverable in the variable conditions and rapids of the river. A few photos from the journey.
After discovering Israel, Sean and I continued into Egypt to ride a combination of local commuter trains, busses, and sailboats south through Egypt towards the Sudanese border. A few pics from our journey south:
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In December 2006, I traveled to Israel with Israel Outdoors on a Birthright-sponsored trip. A few pics from my journey: