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Insanity Day One – The Fit Test

“This shit is bananas, yo!” And it really is.   I did the Insanity fit test today, which is only about 30 minutes worth of work, but it hurt. And I am tired. And a bit dizzy. This too shall pass.

I take the test again in two weeks to measure (hopefully) my improvement.

Being a Christian is supposed to be a simple matter

So, too, is being an American. At least at the heart of it. Mark Kelly delivers a simple, elegant, and forceful statement about what it means to be a Christian and an American.  Also featuring Stephen Colbert, so that’s all good.

And So, We Start Over Again

I took time out to write to my old friend
I walked across that burning bridge
Mailed my letter off to Dallas, but
Her reply came from Anchorage, Alaska

And she said: Hey [John], it’s about time you wrote…

 

It has been years.  Years.  Much has changed, even more has not.  But I think it’s time for an overhaul.  A reboot.

Now.

I think it’s every human’s job to inspire others, to feed one another’s senses. Inspiration begets inspiration times infinity. Imagine if the person that was inspired to create the phonograph didn’t share it with the world.

Jay-Z.  (via)

more on the WordPress Blackberry app

Still playing around with the WordPress Blackberry app… Its a very slimmed-down UI, which makes complete sense, I just wish linking was easier. When I tried to insert a link in the previous post, I meed with it a bit and then gave up. Today, I tried old-school mark-up (!) and thank God the app recognized what I wanted before I slaughtered the HTML.

So, this is a link. Precious, I know.

Sweet – How to take apart your Blackberry Curve.  The boys cracked the faceplate on Mary Reed’s almost a year ago, and since then I had one go bad on me at work, so have some spare parts available.  Now all I need is a t6.

Follow-up: Automated Flushers

I just can’t let it go, apparently.  Almost two years ago I mentioned a funny conversation I had with the CIO of my then-company about automatic flushers.  I’ll spare you the re-hash of the details, but not the photo of the male urinal above.

I walked into the restroom the other day and saw that the lid was off and the battery apparatus was exposed.  I took a picture and laughed and laughed¹.

1. Both about the subject matter in general, and about the fact that I had just taken a photo in a men’s room. [↩]

at Moes

Just a test of the WordPress Blackberry app (http://bit.ly/HieFj)… Waiting outside Moe’s to pick up dinner for the boys.

In Which My Blackberry Pretends to be My iPod

So, since the car-break-in-incident-of-2009, and the reduction of iPods in our household by 1 (to 1), I tried out running with my Blackberry (Curve, if you are interested) as media player.  Happy to say I am pleased with the performance.  I think the media player interface could be easier to manage (but not sure exactly how) – it was  a bit awkward changing songs and such… and I think that will only get more difficult once I get a handy-dandy armband in which to carry it while I run.  I hate carrying stuff in my hands.

Today’s treadmill playlist:

Young Adult Friction – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (site/via)
Italian Leather Sofa - Cake
Photograph - Camper Van Beethoven
Hopeless - The Wrens
Call Me Blue – A House
Dancing with Myself – Billy Idol
From Russia with Love – Girlfriend Voice
Show Me Mary – Catherine Wheel
Hold on Tight – ELO
You Were Always the One – the Cribs

So, Blackberry as media player worked out, I did 4 miles faster than I have ever done them before¹ (37 minutes, thankyouverymuch), and so on.

1. But not, alas, at my goal time – which is 36 minutes. [↩]