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| Friday, November 16, 2001 |
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And I'm ugly too 
| | Just came from the Y, which I joined so that maybe, eventually, I could get in something like "shape." |
| | "How long has it been since you worked out?" the girl behind the counter asked. |
| | "Actually, thirty-nine. I quit lifting weights when I was fifteen. Started when I was fourteen. Worked out until I could bench-press my own weight." |
| | "I'm about one-eighty now. And climbing. Actually, widening. That's why I'm here." |
| | "Have you used any of the Cybex machinery? Been to our weight room?" |
| | "Okay. So you're going to need a fitness evaluation." |
| | "I can give you one. I'm shot. I think I need to start by pumping cloth. Maybe I could pump iron after working my way through some of the lighter elements. Start with hydrogen. Then helium... " |
| | She finally laughed. That helped. |
| | Anyway, I start next week. Wish me sweat. |
Weblogs R Us
The Blog assimmilates Weinberger
| | At last David Weinberger has joined the Blogger Nation, so let's give him a hand. Or at least a link. |
| | JOHO the Blog is the name of the thing, and I think it's lookin' pretty good. |
| | I was gonna quote some of its really good stuff to whet ya'll's appetite, but I see RageBoy has already done that. So I'll roll two co-author's with one link by pointing up to the current top of RB's blog, where he posts the good news that his new book, Gonzo Marketing, got lumped in with three relatively standard business books in an Amazon Editor's Choice list. Salud! |
Borg of silence
| | We're sorry, but MSN Music currently requires a PC system running Internet Explorer 4.1 or higher installed if you want to browse the site or a PC system running Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher with Windows Media Player 7.0 or higher installed to listen to music. |
| | I'm sorry too, but that's not "Internet radio." It's a closed-circuit system that happens to use the Internet's pipes and specialized Microsoft clients. |
But let's not make a federalated case out of it
| | Don't know about you, but when I saw Presidents Bush and Putin talking to assembled (and no doubt highly screened) students in Texas yesterday, I had the cringing sensation that our prez would say something that either made no sense (e.g. "There aren't enough countries in Europe") or required what he once called an "apologism." I also thought the Russian translator tasked with interpreting President Bush might need to be equally fluent in the language this Salon piece calls Bushonics. Since there probably isn't an equivalent dialect in Russian, it's safe to assume that President Putin has no idea how decoherent President Bush's speech often is. Thanks to Paul for the link. |
Incoming!
| | I'm an astronomy freak, so I am going to be extremely bummed if it's overcast the next couple of nights. Because real astronomers are predicting a spectacular Leonid Meteor Shower. It probably won't equal the 100,000-meteor/hr. shower of 1966, or the legendary showers of 1833 and 1799, but it'll be big, and ya never know. |
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