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Monthly Archives: February 2009
sink startle
Occasionally my sink behaves as though I have startled it by turning it on. Rather than just letting the water flow out as a normal, it jerks violently and goes “PLURGH!” and a big splat of water shoots out. It’s like it was just about to sneeze and then I crept up behind it and [...]
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Charles Harris 10k
Saturday I am shooting for a sub 50 minute time 10k at the Charles Harris run. It’s supposedly a pretty flat run so I should have a shot at it. I calculated my run tonight at about a 7:20 pace, and I only need 8:00 to get my sub 50 time, but I was totally [...]
Hungry
I know it’s time to go to bed because I’m getting pretty hungry and I don’t want to intake any more calories today. Tomorrow I can eat breakfast and drink coffee and not be hungry and it’ll be on tomorrow’s calorie total. I’m trying to break my 10k record of 53ish minutes with a sub-50 [...]
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RSS to HTML perl script rss2html.pl
Just finished hacking up rss2html.pl, a script I found to display RSS feeds in Perl. It now accepts a number of items to display and doesn’t require the Magpie RSS lib that makes getting RSS feeds easier with PHP. Apparently you can’t run two copies of Magpie on one page, which I found annoying because [...]
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Tundra Time Trial and Mercedes Half Marathon
I did a time trial this weekend called the Tundra Time Trial just outside of Atlanta. It was my first one and I learned that I don’t know diddley shit about time trialing. Before I started I saw David wandering about in his Faster Mustache jersey, so I went over to see what was up. [...]
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heart beat
I can feel my heart beating in my teeth. I’m judging it merely by feel to be around 60 bpm. I can feel it pounding slowly in my chest on each beat, and my right hand happens to be laying on my side and I can feel it in my hip. If I put my [...]
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stomach