Here I go again

It's been a couple of years since I ran a 10K. Last one I did I finished, not precisely in record time, but I got to the finish line and survived.

Last week I saw that this Sunday one of the local papers has it's annual 10K, and figured I should take a shot. I thought and thought and thought about it, and finally signed up today.

So here I go again... 10K this Sunday. Just hope it doesn't rain =D

E for "enough"?

Sometimes it happens, you're rolling along and look down, to see that little yellow light has come on again. Darn. Last time you looked, the needle was going down, but it was still far away from that last little line.

In my car it's especially dramatic, as soon as the yellow light comes up, the needle drops all the way down and doesn't move anymore. You feel like any minute now the engine's gonna sputter and you're gonna have to walk the rest of the way to work.

It's never happened though. I always manage to get to the nearest gas station before that happens.

I don't suppose E stands for "enough"?

Yeah, let's try it the other way around

October 5, 2010



Yeah, these are the kind of things that make you wonder sometimes. I'm sure the dog was having a wonderful time for the first couple of blocks, but after that being leashed to a bike probably got real old, real fast.

Sometimes people mean well, I'm sure. They just don't take the time to think things through.

Maybe tomorrow they should try it the other way around. Might give the owner a better perspective on their idea.

It's HOW old?

October 4, 2010



There´s this jacket that I always wear around the house. It became a habit I can't even remember when. That day it was just cold, I found it stashed away in the closet and decided to use it for the day, and it worked... so it stayed with me.

Never really thought about it, until today. I figured I couldn't remember where that jacket had come from. Although I did have an idea in the back of my mind. Sure enough, looking through a couple of photo albums I had also stashed in the closet, I figured it out.

I got the jacket when I was in high school, back when I used to wear huge nerdy Bill Gates 1980s glasses, and a ridiculous pair of white tennis shoes with purple detailing. Not to mention a pair of pants that were generally a few sizes too large for me, with this god awful braided brown leather belt that looked like something out of an arts and crafts class gone wrong.

Oh, yeah... and I had hair back then too. And a Chicago Bulls cap I simply refused to drop. Although it was an improvement over the previous cap I refused to drop: one of those $2 K-mart ball caps with the white styrofoam front, that one had a big corvette on it that said, of course, CORVETTE. Damn shame I din't have a pickup truck and a shotgun to go wit it too... woulda just made my day.

Back to the jacket. Way back when, I somehow managed to find myself in the middle of a foreign exchange program heading to France. Which eventually led me to get the jacket, use it for a month or so and then stash it in the closet forever.

That would make it... more or less 16 years old. Wow. That's gotta be the longest lasting item of clothing I've ever owned.

Lankester Garden

Lankester is one of the local botanical gardens dedicated to the preservation and study of Orchids, and has cultivated over 15.000 different species. I was supposed to go do a shoot at the garden, but in the end it went belly up. In any case, I figured I'd have a look around... you never need a reason to look for good photos :)

You can see the full set here.

Note to self, bring mosquito spray next time...

The Mars Conspiracy

Ladies and gentlemen, difficult as it may be, I regret to inform you all that the Opportunity and Spirit missions were no more than a hoax, dutifully carried out by NASA. There was no Mars landing, there are no Mars pictures.

Somehow, NASA managed to obtain photos of my morning toast and superimposed them on a cheap Photoshop rendered background, and then sold the images to millions via the networks.

One does not need an engineering degree to see that a hoax is being perpetrated. For starters, there are no stars visible from the martian surface. Then, if there really was a camera on the rovers, it should have melted due to the high levels of solar radiation. And of course, the parachutes used would have been completely incompatible with a vacuum

I hope to type up my Mars Conspiracy story some time soon, which I will then print up and bind in my garage, and sell on the Internet for $20 =D

No rain

Yay... no rain, at least not in the early morning hours. Finally pulled out my bike today again =D

Which was a pretty good thing. It seems everyone decided to take their car out today. So there were insane lines of cars waiting at stoplights again and again and again.

I of course, followed Pooh. "Bother", I said, and took to the sidewalk. xD