Category Archives: Legacy
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Here is some news from the department of Superhuman Achievement. There’s been an interesting development in connection with Across the Years, the race I love so much and help to present at the end of every year. We learned that … Continue reading
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Tagged Across the Years, Ultrarunner, Yiannis Kouros
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Icy Warts
… or maybe the title should be Eye Sea Wards. When I hear or speak words, I see them spelled out in my head. Similarly, when I read I tend to see the letters in individual words, so that when … Continue reading
Why Do I Write?
Recently I posted a comment to an excellent article written by a friend on Ergo Sum. What I wrote works well as a standalone thought, so I decided to post it here as well. Why do I write? One reason … Continue reading
Exhalations
I’m pathologically incapable of reading a sentence under the control of an editor and not editing it. In fact, I’m doing it right now! I’m having one of those experiences where an action produces a repeatable but seemingly unrelated reaction, … Continue reading
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Why I Hate News Groups
In earlier days of the Internet, I used to read Usenet news groups, now more commonly known simply as news groups. Today I will read some specific news group no more often on average than once in several months because … Continue reading
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Attending Professional Sports Events
I’ve attended one professional football game in my life, when I was nine years old. I went with my grandfather to a Chicago Bears game in December at Soldier Field in Chicago. We had cheap seats, I could barely see … Continue reading
Mastering Baseball
My wife and I have been married 27 years. In that time I’ve watched more than a few baseball games. We have also been to a few major league games and also numerous minor league games. Suzy usually pays attention … Continue reading
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Tagged Baseball, Bull Durham, World Series
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Rant on Writing
This diatribe was originally foisted upon a class of unmotivated and nearly illiterate university students. It was my job to attempt to teach them something about Unix and Linux, while also demanding, as a matter of school policy, that they … Continue reading
Pink Plastic Flamingos
HTML email is evil. It adds incredible amounts of bulk to mail and is potentially insecure. Some recipients resent it, and many email lists flat out forbid it, including one that I have helped to manage for over ten years. … Continue reading
Doing Nothing as Training
Sometimes training is doing nothing. Most serious runners realize that deliberate rest and recovery is as much a part of training as is running itself. Something that might not be quite as well understood is that the same applies to … Continue reading
Exercise As a Priority
Commendably, today (August 31, 2005), as the southern part of the Unites States is reeling from the devastation left by hurricane Katrina, US President George W. Bush opted to cut short his vacation in order to tend to business. It’s … Continue reading
Micro-Thoughts Redux
Don’t you hate it when people keep using words like redux? Before my life changed I was a composer. People sometimes ask me: “What kind of music did you write?” I wrote UN-popular music. Some titles: Neglected Concerto Unknown Symphony … Continue reading
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Where’s the Beef?
Some time ago I learned that Billy Joel has been busy composing “classical music.” What this term means to composers of popular music is generally something quite different from what it means to modern, mainstream, “serious” composers. To most pop … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Joel, Frank Zappa, Paul McCartney, Randy Newman
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Procrastination
Often I procrastinate over starting big or tedious projects, though once I start, I tend to stay on them relentlessly. One reason for this is that an undwindling list of to-do items that can sometimes grow to over 100 entries, … Continue reading
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Estimating Driver Attitude
Drivers in Arizona wear their attitudes on the outside. The ones to fear most are those who drive trucks. Several secondary factors act as additive attitudinal properties. Among them are: A hat. If it’s on backwards or a cowboy hat, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bumper sticker
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The Truth About Guys
So tell me — what are those girls underpants parties all about? I never have understood that. Guys don’t do those. Guys don’t say things like, “Say, Bubba’s getting married — let’s buy him some new Fruit of the Looms … Continue reading
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Double Dutch
Have you ever watched young girls playing double dutch? It’s become an art form. The white girls are always so square. They make me think of Peter Rabbit jumping rope, going hippety-hop, hippety-hop, while they chant: “Di-DAH, di-DAH, di-DAH, di-DAH; … Continue reading
Regarding Political Neutrality
Most people who know me are aware that I maintain a stance of political neutrality. After the US presidential election in 2004, a curious ultrarunning friend inquired: “Are you apolitical as in not interested in the just-finished election?” Most will … Continue reading
The Seven Twenty-First Century Dwarfs
If Disney were to remake Snow White, they would have to redo the dwarfs to make them more relevant to contemporary standards. Here’s a suggested list. Seedy Sleazy Greedy Lazy Grouchy Raunchy Disreputable It’s not much, but neither is much … Continue reading
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Life Is Dangerous
Life is getting to be too dangerous. My bathroom scale has a warning on it not to use if I’ve got a pacemaker. (I don’t.) My toothbrush and razor came with instructions on how to avoid electrocution while using them. … Continue reading
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Tatoos As Art?
Last year I read an article that began: The double Olympic champion didn’t know whether to laugh or cry after spotting Emma Fitch’s mis-spelt work of art [a tatoo] during a walkabout in Kent. I’ve seen tatoos justified as “art” … Continue reading
Micro-Thoughts
Some people have things to say and some people have to say things. There are c. 6.5 billion people in the world. If the average person lives 76 years, 27740 days, It means that throughout the world an average of … Continue reading
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Moon Travel As Recreation
Today’s CNN Quick Vote survey question is: If you had $100 million, would you spend it on a trip to the moon? Yes No Are you crazy? So far, of the 143977 people who have answered, 12569 have said yes. … Continue reading
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Tagged Moon
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Greetings
As a long-time denizen of the Internet (for many years before I even knew it was called the Internet), this is nonetheless my first attempt to create a blog. We shall see how it goes. So far there is nothing … Continue reading
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