13 January 2011 Topics

Workout notes About 20 minutes of stretching, warm up, sit ups, and TWO sets of 10 on the Smith machine: 10 x 45, 10 x 135, “perfect form” squats.
Then 12 minutes on the AMT
25 laps of easy running in 30:03 (28:54 for 3 miles; 9:50, 9:40, 9:28)
1 mile cool down walk
hip hikes, stretches, etc.

Everything felt better though I had some piriformis tingles.

From the world of running: poor guy…..he didn’t see the race official trying to correct him; he lead at 25.99 miles into the race only to go off course. This was a “relay marathon”.

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Who says that science nerds don’t have a sense of humor? I love this mug even though I am not a cat fan.

Different sort of humor:

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Yeah, I got a speeding ticket (recently) but didn’t do this. Thank goodness….

Social Why do the wealthy feel as if they aren’t wealthy? One reason: they see who is ahead of them. But I love how Paul Krugman finishes this article:

The net result is a society of winners as whiners, where people who are not only doing fine but doing much better relative to the median than they were a generation ago nonetheless feel left behind.

A personal note: I’ve always found extreme inequality at the top rather relaxing from my own point of view. Robin and I are doing very well, of course, but others are much richer; the fact, however, is that especially in New York you know that no matter how much you make, there are other people making so much that your earnings look trivial. So what’s the point of evaluating yourself that way? Of course, it’s probably a lot easier to feel that way when you’ve gotten plenty of other ego-boosters.

In other words, he isn’t the richest, but he is far smarter and more successful than almost all of his critics.
Of course, not only am I not wealthy, but I also know that I am not on the same intellectual level with, say, professors in the MIT mathematics department or even the University of Illinois math department (by a long shot). But I am far smarter than, say, a Sarah Palin supporter.

President Obama’s Speech Reactions to it were pretty good. The contrast between President Obama and Governor Palin was stark and, to be frank, not at all flattering to Gov. Palin (and even less so to those who approve of her).

And please, don’t even start with “it is on both sides”; sure there have been some Democrats who said objectionable things but…

Now to be fair, one reason that the Republicans use more “hunting and gun” metaphors might be because many come from rural and “hunter friendly” areas where people actually relate to hunting and see it as a good thing; tell a liberal that we are going to “bag” a conservative and the image of taking a conservative out of a bulk bin in a co-op and putting them into a reusable canvas bag comes to mind.

But the fact remains that they use more violent rhetoric.

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