Wow. I had about the coolest jog today, ’cause my roommate and best friend, Mike, came with me. He’s been in “the Iraq” for four months and just came home yesterday. I always wondered if jogging with a buddy would be difficult, especially ’cause I didn’t know if anyone would want to do my intervals with me…. We did 1.4 miles, 2-1, and made 15:55.
Add comment Exercise Journal 05/20/2008 at 07:01 ET
Forgive me, it’s been seven days since my last exercise…
Actually, I changed the name from “Jogging Journal” to “Exercise Journal” because I was going to write in all the different exercise-related things I was doing. Even when it’s just walking around Animal Kingdom with my grandmother. Yet, alas, I haven’t been doing that. It’s not actually that I haven’t done any exercise, but I haven’t gotten up or come home from work, put on my jogging shorts, and started my interval timer…
Today I did 1.6 miles (I decided to up it, even though it was hard) and did my 2-1 intervals in 15:55, which isn’t horrible, really. The other day I saw a commercial for New Balance that kind of summed-up my jogging “program.” Their new campaign is love/hate. The commercial is all about each time you set out to go jogging you have this love/hate feeling about it. I’m totally there. The beginning is mostly hate, the end is mostly love. Do you think the ends justify the means?
Add comment Exercise Journal 05/18/2008 at 09:41 ET
So yesterday Andrea called me and left me a message about going to the Daily Grind. This seems like an innocuous phone call, except the Daily Grind is the coffee house from college. I haven’t been there since 2001 and, as far as I knew, it’s almost 900 miles away…
So she called me later in the day to go out that night and I went over to her house. When I got there she was still talking about the Daily Grind. Trying not to sound like a complete ass, “there’s another coffee house called the Daily Grind and it’s in Orlando,” I said. “No,” replied Andrea, “it’s the Daily Grind from college.”
After a little more dialog (which I won’t make more awkward by trying to write it down in a blog post) I finally found out that the guys who started my favorite coffee house in Winchester, VA, had turned their business into a franchise and there was, indeed, one in sunny Orlando.
I recommend everyone go there. The coffee I’ve been drinking for the past seven years is so acidic and bitter. The coffee I had last night was delicious. Check out www.dailygrindunwind.com for more info! Or, just stop by 807 N. Orange Ave., Orlando, FL.
Add comment My Life 04/27/2008 at 11:12 ET
I first did it a few days ago, but tonight I beat Portal. Here’s a screenshot of my accomplishment…
Ya’ll know I’m a computer geek and a music kid, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that the part I’m going to absolutely rave about is the closing credits. WOW! For anyone who has a little intellect and a fair amount of patience (call me if you get stuck in one particular part or another), you should play and beat this game just to see the end credits. This kid Jonathan Coulton wrote an amazing song “Still Alive” for the game and I was just…wow. I bought it on iTunes. It was worth $0.99.
Add comment Computer Geek 04/10/2008 at 22:23 ET
Today I’m helping a friend of a friend with her computer. As I’m sitting here watching xcopy backup most of her data onto my computer (temporarily) and pondering resizing her hard drive partition (non-techie-types can read that as “hopefully fixing the problem but running the risk of deleting her whole computer”), a thought floats through my mind. Does anyone remember undelete?
I think this is an especially poignant question for me these days as I’ve recently bought a new computer with Windows Vista (crappy Microsoft) and I’m quite sure that I have no idea how I would go about accomplishing an undelete. My friend’s friend’s computer has Windows XP (crappy Microsoft) and I don’t think I’ve ever undeleted a file on XP either. I don’t even know if NTFS (Windows 2000 Professional or later) supports the same kind of un-delete operation that FAT (Windows ME or earlier) did. When was the last time I seriously tried to undelete a file?
Actually, I know the answer to that question. It was when I was working on my website: my webhost runs everything on Debian Linux and I’m not as snazzy with *nix platforms as I am with Windows (crappy Microsoft). I deleted a whole folder by accident and then spent a few hours searching for a way to undo the operation. After a lot of Google research, I decided that even if I knew what I was doing, the files were probably gone, so I gave up.
There’s definitely the command-line factor. Who remembers DOS? That’s when undelete reigned supreme. It was really easy to type something and accidentally delete a file you didn’t mean to. With a graphical interface (thanks Apple, even if you’re overpriced) I think mistakes are a lot less common.
I also think it says a little about the evolution of the relationship of the computer to the operator. As we become more familiar with computers and they become more familiar with us, mistakes requiring undelete are a lot less common. I know, I know, there’s the trash can (or recycle bin — crappy Microsoft), but who really uses that thing, anyway? I think I have it turned off on two-out-of-three computers I regularly use.
So I’m sitting here thinking about the evolution. What would young Jed, writing MS-DOS-based batch files to create boot menus, think of OS X anyway? Would he even know where to start? What does that say about how computing technology has progressed, and more importantly, what does it say about how computing technology has pushed Mankind to progress?
Add comment Computer Geek 04/05/2008 at 18:15 ET