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Flashmob Freeze

Thanks to Ian Smith for bringing my attention back to flashmob like activities. He is the one of the first people to get me interested in complicated computing by imagining the models you could create to analyze fish swarming, or bird flocking. I know, only geeks think that is cool. but it [ READ MORE ]

Tweeters from Denmark

  • June 18th, 2008
  • Posted in tweet

don’t like the twitter per post thing. So, I’ve manually created a weekly digest. Need to ask alex to add that as an option. I don’t twitter enough for a daily digest, but weekly might be cool. Anyway, I’ll unpost those tweets and here they are for reference. If you [ READ MORE ]

1130 sunset again. Solctice s…

1130 sunset again. Solctice stay your advance. I must savour the love of the sun. [ READ MORE ]

Blood Love

Click here to listen to this song. 01-rock-bottom-riser I was listening to this song as I wrote this post, so you should too when you read it. Its rock bottome riser by bill callahan aka smog, if you like it you should buy it. There is Christ Love. And their is the love [ READ MORE ]

Danish Film Festival in Austin

  • June 3rd, 2008
  • Posted in Review

So we watched Reconstruction last night. It had my second favorite Danish actor – Nikolaj Lie Kaas as the main character. It was avant-garde and romantic. Very non-linear narrative, like a dramatic romantic version of Stranger than Fiction. Still. One of the major problems I had actually “loving’ this film was the [ READ MORE ]

Get me younger Quick.

Okay, so its been longer than a week since I went running. So I thought I’d try to take a class of yoga to stretch me out and prepare me for this morning’s run. It was a beginner class, morning Yoga. So beginner that it was “Free” for all to come. [ READ MORE ]

My First Ever Real Race

Golly Gee! Results here I ran a race. Before I saw the sign for the 1st mile marker I thought I was doing pretty good. My pace was up, and I felt like I was about half way through. After that disappointment I resolved to stop thinking about how far I had to go [ READ MORE ]

SmokesBeerandWork are also Drugs

Running is a drug, but smoking, working, drinking…these too have powerfully addictive qualities. I went 5 days without running last week, then we did our thing with the Texas round-up which involved a little bit more training but then I went off to Seattle to work, and only managed to actually run [ READ MORE ]

Running is a drug

So, just back from Copenhagen, where I rode my rented Bike everywhere (I wonder if Markus – my friend there – ever returned the bike for me, cripes, that would be a lot of rental days unused!) Anyway. So being back on the bike made me feel POWERFUL. I wanted to replicate that feeling so as [ READ MORE ]

Driftwood and Saltlicks

For a vegetarian I seem to have a hard time resisting barb-b-q. We went down to Driftwood from Austin today (about 15 minutes) to one of the coolest places I have seen in Texas. It was a river/creek that flowed through an amazing ranch.campground where they’ve been hosting the “Old Settler’s Bluegrass [ READ MORE ]