Fall Racing Plans

Ok, this should be “participation” plans as I am in no shape to race.

September 26: Quad Cities Half Marathon (course is open for 6 hours)

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October 9: Farmdale 10 mile trail “run” (I’ll walk; course is open for 9 hours)

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October 31: Mc-Not-Again 30 miler (11 hour cut-off)

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Plan: 19 September: walk 10 miles (McNaughton loop?)
3 October: walk 15 miles (McNaughton 10 plus a mini-loop, or 4 FPNC loops)
10 October: 10-15 day after race
16 or 17 October: 2 loops of McNaughton

Yes, I won’t be ready for a great effort on the 31′st, but I should be able to make the first 2 loops in under 6 hours.

This means I’ll need to get in long walks next week, on the 3′rd of October, 10 October, and 17 October.

15 September 2010 Rehabilitation

Last night: I had a good night of sleep; minimal pain that came on just before waking up. But:
1. I iced just prior to bed.
2. I didn’t lay down to read; I stayed upright until the last minute.
3. Naproxen at 7 pm, then 2 extra strength Tylenol at bedtime (9:30). I used the PM and will probably quit doing that as it makes me feel drugged when I wake up.

Knee: not a factor unless I lay on my belly; my knee still doesn’t like direct pressure.

Workout:
one legged squats: 15 x 45, 10 x 95 (smith)
two legged: 10 x 175 (smith)
leg presses: 20 x 180, 15 x 270, 15 x 360
sit ups (4 x 25 on various inclines)
extensions, curls (3 sets of 10)
toe (3 sets of 30)
twist crunches (30)
leg lifts (30)
back machine (2 sets of 10)
arm bike: 6 minutes
treadmill: run 2 miles (9:48, 8:45)
AMT: 1 mile (12 minutes)
rotator cuff, ice, stretch etc.

Dings; piriformis (slight), back (slightly sore)

14 September 2010 PM

Are facebook users mostly, well, dumb?

Mark Zuckerberg admits in a New Yorker profile that he mocked early Facebook users for trusting him with their personal information. A youthful indiscretion, the Facebook founder says he’s much more mature now, at the ripe age of 26.

“They trust me — dumb fucks,” says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas’s New Yorker piece. Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, “I think I’ve grown and learned a lot” since those instant messages.

Yes, he’s learned to not always say what he thinks.

Creationism and woo
If you think that creationists are idiots…well, these people are just as bad. Yep, these people adhere to geocentric astronomy…and not as a joke either. They believe that because, well, my guess is because the Bible is a geocentric book. So, while they are being stupid, they ARE being consistent.

There are those who wish to “marry science and religion” by, well, watering down religion. They do this by talking about “spirituality”; basically if you get emotional about stuff (e. g., get moved to tears by the beauty of, say, an insight), that is a form of “spirituality” which is taken to be, well, a religion of some sort? I have to admit that these people irritate me even more than the fundies and woos.

Civil liberties and snark
Randazza praises a school district that gives students an opt-out from the Pledge of Allegiance but goes a bit further:

I, for one, will be instructing my children that they will neither stand, nor recite, the pledge unless “under god” is taken back out of it. Even then, I don’t want my kids pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth. You pledge allegiance to a person, a group, or an idea. Fetishizing a piece of cloth is for uneducated zombies.