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Tyler
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Tyler
OLPC could be sold to the public.
Apparently the public will be able to buy the “One Laptop Per Child” machine. You’ll buy two, you get one, and the other is sent to a child.
Done and done.
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Tyler
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Tyler
WTF
Rapper The Game threatens David Beckham? WTF?
Id kick David Beckhams ass on any given day. Id just pick the ball up and kick the s**t out of the stadium, game over. Wha?
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Tyler
I like this quote.
From a buddy of Dean Karnazes:
“The human body has limitations,” Karnazes says. “The human spirit is boundless.” Your mind, in other words, is your most important muscle. As a running buddy told him: “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!”
Cite: Wired
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Matt LeQ
That article was sick. The thought of running back to back marathons makes my shins ache. The thought of running 50 marathons back to back to back to …ad nauseum, makes me feel like the fattest, laziest man on the planet. But also makes me wanna get on the treadmill tonight.
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Tyler Weir
I liked his goal of “being able to run a marathon as any time.”
Lofty to say the least.
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Matt LeQ
I love the evolution of the Marathon. The legend says the first runner ran approximately 26 Miles to warn of invasion, delivered his news and promptly died, the rulers of the day decided that this would make a kick ass sport, and today thousands of people emulate this feat.
And now, we’ve got people that go, 26 Miles is not hard enough, I’ll run back to back marathons or run one in the desert or strap walnuts to my feet and run one on the face of the sun. How will this sport progress in the future?
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Tyler Weir
Evolution: Running a marathon….THROUGH TIME!
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Tyler
Greed wins yet again.
It happened again. A woman went buck-ass insane on Deal or No Deal and walked away with $500. Could have had $84,000, but no, you had to suck instead.
Burn!
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Tyler
Who fartleked?
Hahah… man, that was gold. Anyhoo, the past two Ultimate games have showed me that I’m a bit out of shape. I thought that the training regiment I was on was good enough. Couple that with the 18 lost pounds and I thought I was all set. Not the case.
I went on a search to find a better method of conditioning. All that I was doing was running on an elliptical for 45 minutes 3 times a week. To be fair, sometimes “3″ was “1″ but that’s when I was sick and tired. And lazy as well I suppose. After searching around in the internet, I came across Fartlek training. It’s basically interval training, except it has an awesome name. It’s from Sweden, so it’s efficient and can be flat-packed for easy storage*.
Today was Fartlek run number one and it beat my ass. It was similar to indoor Ultimate… strange. Hopefully, this will improve my conditioning, as sucking wind sucks.
* Ikea joke? No? Alright.
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Matt LeQ
My good colleague has had a pretty consistent running regime for the last 2 years. He hit a plateau at the point where the amount of time that he had to run maxed out with the speed at which he was capable of running. To switch things up he started doing hill intervals. The program from Men’s Health (http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=fitness&category=cardio.activities&conitem=c4b7b6c832597010VgnVCM100000cfe793cd____) will kick your ass, and is also pretty short on time consumption.
I also have a fairly large dispute with the eliptical trainer, as it only seems to make you good at doing the eliptical trainer, rather than a bike/treadmill/stair climber, that trains your body for more practical activities….that’s just me.
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Tyler Weir
I feel the same about the elliptical trainer. I used to use it because of my shin splints. Now that I have them under control I’m switching back to the treadmill and stair climber.
I’m going to look at that hill climb plan, thanks.
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Laura
Very much enjoyed the Ikea joke. Giggled out loud, enough to make people walking by think I’m making fun of them….niiiice!
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Tyler Weir
Nothing but the best from me.
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Tyler
I rock!
I was distracted watching the Liverpool/Chelsea game and I deleted a ton of pdfs, music and source code.
No problem, I’ll just load up my backups…. oh wait, what backups? Dammit.
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J
Just restore them from the recycle bin ;)
J
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Tyler Weir
I don’t even have one of those!
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sugar
What about your handy dandy trash bin?
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todd
You should bought one of the LaCie external drives from dell when they were $89!! Mine is sweetness!
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Matt LeQ
You have an $89 Lacie drive from Dell too? Wow, let me just check with D, to see if she has one….YUP…she’s got one too. Wow, you really dropped the ball Ty…I mean, seriously, $89?!?!
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Tyler Weir
Up in your Ivory Towers casting stones at mortals eh?
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Tyler
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Tyler
Application Idea for the iPhone
If I had the chance to build an app for the iPhone, I’d build an old-timey rotary dial.
That’s hot.
Matt LeQ 3:51 pm on January 26, 2007 Permalink
In related news, fallen MC Ja Rule announces he’s going to punch the sun.
“Straight up, sun be hatin fo years, and I’m tired, ya heard, I’m straight tired of that sun, naw mean? If I see him on the street, he best be heated or I’ma drop him…straight gangsta.”
Poignant words from the warrior poet.
Tyler Weir 3:58 pm on January 26, 2007 Permalink
I find The Game’s comments so absurd. If another MLS player made that comment, sure, makes sense they play each other. But a hip hop artist calling out a footballer? Just a publicity grab I think.
Matt LeQ 4:08 pm on January 26, 2007 Permalink
Same thing with Ja Rule and the Sun…I mean if Mars was all up in the Suns grill, it’d make sense, but Ja? I mean seriously, do you think he could really punch the Sun? Maybe…I dunno.