Looking forward to trying my new running shoes. My previous pair were some comfy velcro-enabled cheapest-possible-sneaker from Target or the like, that I bought just to have something less bulky than my steel toe work boots to wear on planes and vaycay. To recap my shopping process, I had looked through reviews to get a handle on what would be a good buy in my price range, up to $100, and a Runners World magazine review suggested the Saucony ProGrid 2 Kinvara as a superior value in that range. My fir... (...more)

Long long dreams, wish I'd jotted it down earlier... near the end, there was a mirror (ala Imaginos) who was also a black woman who painted herself blue, and she had another white friend who may or may not have been a mirror, and also painted herself blue. I wasn't fatally attracted to her (the first mirror) but she made no bones of wanting me.

on a shore where oyster beds seem plush as down, and ripe enough for the Luxor dream

If you can't provide text instructions on how to configure a service account, install software etc....

If you can't explain the key benefits of your product without scheduling a "webinar"....

...ur doin it wrong

(per twitter) session #40 (wow!): 3.3mi / ~50 minutes, cooldown, and some upper-body machine time. That's a really slow 3.3mi time for me, and it's because I kept thinking I would cool off and hit the Cybex equipment... but when I had cooled off, I felt like I hadn't done justice to the cardio portion of my workout, so I stepped the pace back up and got hot and sweaty all over again. At first I thought I was just going to do 30 minutes, cooldown and hit the machines. So I did a lap at 7.0mph, cooldown,... (...more)

Friday night into Saturday I got thoroughly fucking disgusted with all the people in my FB friendlist posting nasty statuses about how anyone who doesn't like "merry christmas" can "go home". That's exactly the kind of attitude that led Gandhi to observe, in not quite so many words, that Christianity would be a fine religion if it wasn't for all the utter twats who think their Christian identity is carte blanche to be a cocknugget to everyone who isn't. * * * Dear Facebook family and friends, especially ... (...more)