Pete's Log: run, run, run
Entry #526, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
I love running. I went running today before going home. Today was the first time I got to stress test my new lap-counting "algorithm" ... since I am unable to keep track of laps in my head if I run more than two of them, I've been trying to figure out a good way of keeping track. But simply counting them on my fingers was annoying, it made running less comfortable. So I developed a way of counting laps on my fingers which is comfortable. So I now keep track of laps on my right hand and miles on my left hand. The overflow level for this means of counting is eight miles. I'm not going to worry yet about hitting that overflow. Today I ran three miles. I decided to also do more speed laps. Usually I'll make my last lap be a quick thirty second lap, but I've decided that's not enough. So today I ran two at that tempo. Of course, the second one was a bit slower, and I had to insert a slow lap between the two of them. But I really like doing the fast laps, because I enjoy the speed and the pain they involve. And when I'm going that fast my brain truly shuts off and I am left with only one thought: "need ... more ... oxygen!"
Yesterday's zen moment, courtesy of comedy central's The Daily Show, was footage of Madeleine Albright "dancing" to some music being performed by north korean kids. Luckily being able to dance isn't a requirement for a good secretary of state...
One of those things in life I don't really understand is web sites that set a test cookie to see if your browser supports cookies. Because all of the sites I've seen that do this always try to set more cookies afterwards regardless of whether or not you accept the test cookie. And additionally, you won't have that cookie set the first time you go to the site anyway, so how do they really know anyway?
I listened to my Civ cd today. I've not listened to it in some time. It's quality punk. I really like it. But it has the misfortune of being in my cd binder thing. And there's a much lower probability that cd's that are in the binder will get played. Which isn't a good thing, because among the things that I bought long enough ago that they made it into the binder are two rancid cds, an op ivy cd, a suicide machines cd, a less than jake cd, several bosstones cds, and much more really good stuff that I should listen to more often than I do. I need to go buy jewel cases and start migrating cds back out of the binder.
after a long time of good stability, netscape has crashed on me six times today. of course, each time was when I attempted to access a specific page, so it's not like six random crashes, but it's still frustrating.
I'm nearly complete with the mandatory portion of the comp arch midterm. So soon I can begin work on extra credit. Woohoo!