Obama Stoops to New Lows, Republican Job Plans and life at 100

Workout notes Yoga, then 6 miles (plus) of running. I warmed up for 20 minutes (felt better than expected), did 9 goose loop laps (3.24 miles) via 4 x .5 harder, .22 easier, then .36 harder: 4:26, 4:16, 4:12, 4:10, then 2:59. 29:06 was the total. Then I walked about .25 miles and then jogged 1.2 miles back to the car. I felt ok, though I had some knee ache just about when I stopped. Funny, but when the knee starts to hurt I have to SPEED UP; what brings on the pain is when my legs get stiff and my legs get a bit too straight.

When I got home, I did some one legged squats, step ups and Achilles tendon exercises.

Thought
Yes, this 100 year old guy, Fauja Singh, finished a marathon. It took him 8 hours (though he did 5:40 as a 90 year old!). Well, I remembered that back in 2005, it took me about 8 hours to finish the last 26 miles of the Leanhorse 100 (29:34 was my total). The surface was a groomed crushed rock bike path. I was exhausted, sleep deprived and my feet were a sea of blisters due to the rocks that had gotten into my shoes and an improperly trimmed orthotic pad. I felt as if I were barely moving at all.

In other words, how I felt in the last 26 miles of a 100 miler is the way that a 100 year old feels all of the time! Oh my…

Today: a picture is worth 1000 words day!

How do we “know” stuff? Well, there you have it. Yes, these guys (in this New York Times article) are well intentioned, but the moment you start accepting “facts” without evidence you are on the road to trouble. These guys don’t seem to understand that the “unreasonable” evangelicals are the logical extension of what they are.

Republicans: PROOF THAT OBAMA STOOPS TO NEW LOWS!!!

Yes, the Republicans have a jobs plan.

Perspective. Ok, I am not even close to being in the 1 percent; statistically speaking my wife and I together are about the upper 15 percent. But while both of us have worked for our modest amount of success, both of us have had some lucky breaks along the way and have had some opportunities that are being denied to others.

Really, this shirt says “I am a hot woman and therefore can make a man act like an idiot anytime I want; hence I can get what I want”. Yes, there is evidence of that:

It seems all it takes for 75 percent of hackers and IT security professionals to hand over their personal online information is the seductive ways of a woman.

One would hope that IT workers on the frontlines of cybersecurity, as well as the technically adept hackers they battle, would know not to disclose personal information to a stranger they meet online. But that’s not the case, according to a new study by the security firm Bitdefender, which found that both groups are likely to hand over their personal details to the right online “friend,” especially if that friend is a woman.

Bitdefender researcher Sabina Datcu used a sample pool of 100 people, half from the IT security industry and the other half online criminals she found on underground cybercrime forums. To test how susceptible both groups were to scammers trolling for their online credentials such as passwords and phone numbers, Datcu created a fake profile of a 25-year-old woman, and then tailored it to each target group.

So while the fake woman’s photos and information remained the same, for the IT experts, the woman’s interests included security, psychology and literature, PCWorld reported. For the hackers, the woman was interested in psychology, reading news, “trying new things” and, of course, hacking.

After engaging the IT professionals and the hackers in an ongoing conversation online, Datcu’s test subjects began to trust the “woman” they were chatting with, and, eventually, the woman duped 75 percent of the survey subjects into handing over personal information such as addresses, phone numbers, details about their children and their parents’ names. Thirteen percent of the IT experts even sent the fake online woman various passwords to their online accounts.

Of course, Fox News uses this to their advantage:

Off to yoga class. Got back from yoga and a run; It wasn’t quite like this though these are poses that we do…of course this is a park district class and features mostly older parents and grannies and grandpas (myself included). But there are a few MILF’s and GILF’s there.

Best part: 3 minutes into it an onward, IMHO. Here is a screen shot from that period:

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