Joseph Hill Whedon

Dr. Horrible is da bomb! And Neil Patrick Harris is da man! Hip-hip-hooray for Joss Whedon to come up with this entertaining thingy. Can't wait for Act II this July 17th.

ps: A very hilly bike tour awaits my participation next month. Shall I or shan't I register? I am soooo not feeling very endurancy this season. :-P

Yawn :-O

Gosh, I've been in a lull for too long now and am in need of some inspiration.

I woke up way early today to cruise online from some music to rekindle my workouts. Other than the grunge techno jams that I like to spin my peddles to, I've been in the mood for some folksy acoustic stuff. And as I'm a big Jason Mraz fan, I downloaded his latest album for a listen on the way to work.

I saw his latest video of "I'm Yours" on YouTube. However, more delightedly, I came across this official "Jason Mraz Bebo Competition" winner for his take on that tune. Now there's the witty inspiration that I was looking for. And it even wasn't a workout song.

Yay! Me smilin' now :-)

Firefox 3

My obsession for the week: Firefox 3 (RC2). Release candidate only. Nevertheless, they've sold me. [biting my nails and insanely smiling in anticipation for the official release. heh heh :-))]

Mike Beltzner, phenomenologist at Mozilla, offered this Flash presentation of Firefox 3's new features. Not bad for those web browser power users.

I've also pledged to get Firefox 3 during Download Day as an attempt by Mozilla to set the Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours. Might as well join in the fun.

Geez, talk about being such a bandwagoner.

ps: Oh, what about my cardio stuff? Uggh, dare I pick up my Tony Robbins book for some motivation? :-P

Gettin' ready for Bloomin'

So I finally put in 30 minutes on the stationary bike at the gym yesterday (RPE=12). Certainly not much, but it's something from all the previous days (weeks?) of doing nothing. Yeah, it's unfortunately because I'm letting my projects at work get in the way. Suckie.

The Bloomin' Metric bike tour (100k) on May 18 is what I'm working toward. Lot's o' rolling hills there, so I'd best do hill intervals in my workouts to keep up with my mates on the tour.

Have a Happy St. Patrick's weekend, all.

Everyone loves Pi!

Happy Pi Day!

3/14/2008

Ummm, let's see now... 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971 ...
That's all I can recite off the top of my head these days, very much unlike Daniel Tammet.

Misc

No worries, mate. A good workout is coming soon. In the meantime:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

6 inches or more expected

Yay, snow! And a 2-hour delay at work. Woo-hoo! Unfortunately, I left for the office AFTER they posted the message on the company hotline. C'est la vie. :-(

At least I get the worm, and a nice wintry work pic.

Je t'aime beaucoup, mon amour!

It's the day of Love. What more important theme is there?
Happy V-Day, everyone!

[The Simpsons: the Red Hot Chili Peppers are performing on Krusty's show]
Krusty the Clown: Now, boys, the network has a problem with some of your lyrics. Do you mind changing them for the show?
Anthony Kiedis: Forget you, clown.
Chad Smith: Yeah, our lyrics are like our children, man. No way.
Krusty the Clown: Well, okay, but here where it says, "What I got you gotta get and put it in ya," how about just, "What I'd like is I'd like to hug and kiss ya."
Flea: Wow. That's much better.
Arik Marshall: Everyone can enjoy that.

Ironman, anyone?

Alright, alright. It's a brisk 5 degrees F right now. But that's no reason for me to feel so sluggish about getting back into training. And I must admit, "nada" has been the word of the week, and for the last 3 weeks, mind you :-(.

To kick off the self-psyching, the 2007 Ironman Championship in Kona, Hawaii is being re-broadcasted this Saturday 2/16/08 on NBC @ 2pm EST. YouTube has a preview of it.

That and some litany hopefully should get me going. And so let's bow our heads and reflect on bended knee: Oh my dearest Greg Welch, patron saint of sub 5' 6" endurance athletes, pray for us.

Stressing less

"Keep the deadline. Change the deliverable."

Just as I'm feeling swamped with things that I HAVE to do and things that I WANT to do, a coworker says the above to me. And boom, his magic was done. I felt peaceful.

Thanks, JP.

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