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Oh my.

2+2, 1st star of the game, 5-0.

First, I'd like to thank Tim for mentioning "Born to Run" in the comments of my first "Couch to 5K" post. I read the book and found it interesting.

I powered through the book in about four different sessions ((Reading for pleasure is a privilege I don't get as often as I'd like.)). Though reviews on Amazon and elsewhere mention the "dreadful" chapter 28, I found it one of the most interesting. Science has always been a love of mine and that chapter dealt with a lot of the science behind how we evolved the way we did, how our feet are incredible structures, etc.

I think the characterizations were probably well over the top. I guess I've heard that some of the people in the book said as much - their personalities and traits were blown out of proportion. That's fine. It hurt the book, frankly, but you almost started to expect it shortly into the first few chapters.

I'm amazed - flat out stunned - that people can run 100 miles. And they run them too - at 8:00 paces or faster!!! Incredible. The human body is an amazing, amazing machine.

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I tracked my run yesterday with RunKeeper. It appears that I walk at about a 13 minute mile pace. I run - or jog, at least - at about 8:15 or so.

I'm a bit disappointed, but frankly, I could run faster and will run faster when my cardiovascular system gets kicked up a bit. I'm not out of breath at the end of the jogging segments of Couch to 5K, and I could probably push it a little faster, but I'm trying to stick with the program.

Right elbow could flex a little faster. Few other little things. But otherwise I'm very pleased.

So the word lately among the long-time Mac folk is that the Steve Jobs biography - a book I'll get to in a few weeks if I'm lucky - isn't great. It's simply not written for me, it's intended for others, I'm hearing.

If you've read it, what do you think? Is this assessment accurate? If so, that's sad - it's the best chance we had at getting to know Steve Jobs.

I've heard it said that the opposite of love is not hate, but apathy.

Sometimes I'm not so sure about that.

I love it when directors or cinematographers or whomever do things like this. I always wonder how many of these types of things I've missed, too:

iTunes Match debuted today. I don't care that it's "late" because I'm not sure I care to pony up the $24.99. My only mobile device is an iPhone. Though I suppose I can now play all the music on my MacBook Air, too, without actually copying my entire library over there.

My entire library is 12,700+ songs. So it's well under the 25,000 limit.

I suppose whether I buy it or not boils down to this: do you get to keep the 256 kbps DRM-free "replacement" songs that replace your copies if you don't renew? Or do your copies of the song still hang around on your computer somewhere?

I'm guessing it's A. And for a one-time $24.99 fee that alone might be worthwhile.

When I lived on my own in Florida, I bought a set of silverware that I really, really liked, primarily because it was the heaviest silverware I could find. The forks have only three tines, too, which I like.

I still have the silverware, a decade later, but an unusually high number of the regular forks are missing. If you look at the back side of the fork, you can make out the words "RETRONEU" and "18/10" and "China."

It turns out, the silverware is called "Retroneu Contour" and it's currently made by Towle. For future reference, some links where I can get more of this silverware should more forks wander off into the abyss:

http://www.replacements.com/webquote/RTRCONT.htm
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?sku=12363150
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?SKU=100307

Of course, they pop up on eBay from time to time as well. But apparently that Replacements.com site is the place to go if you need silverware.

Now I can delete the screenshots I've had on my computer for a few months.

Saved DVDs
Foodfight!
The Tree of Life
Women

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The update took about three minutes on my phone. I still downloaded the full 700 MB update within iTunes. I'm looking forward to some better battery life.

Happy 11/11/11 11:11:11 everybody!

Analyzr Pro is coming along well, and this video shows a nice update that's right around the corner:

Love it! 🙂

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

- GK Chesterton

Ugh.

Yeah, I'm the only dumbass with his head turned way over that way. I remember that shirt, too. It was a tight "fur" style shirt. It may be the reason that I still dislike turtlenecks to this day