Susan Blackmore is scaring me.:
Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what?

There was a nice idea in the NYTimes today: the Decade in Review, with 10 authors reflecting on individual years.  It was incredibly good,  incredibly bad, and disappointingly milquetoast at different points.  By far, the most powerful was Richard Ford's reflections on 2000, an excerpt of which is below:

". . .if we’re gauging a year’s importance ( Read more... )

Long Run:     well?
Steve:          Fuck. You.
( and then the final scene: )

 Merry Christmas.

Resolved: After getting a fluke second-chance and running into the same girl later in the day, and asking the girl out only to be TURNED DOWN --- ugh --- I will NOT get bummed out about this, but will accept with a slightly humored stoicism.

r e s o l v e d .
in unrelated matters:
Ran 7.2 miles today (3.6 at race day tempo / 3.6 at 90% L.T.) and ( Read more... )

Will begin NOW, whilst reeling in the throes of being a complete and total idiot...

Resolved:  When a girl I am interested in mentions that she's not doing ANYTHING on a given day--and I'm reasonably suspicious that she might be interested in me--I WILL suggest that we change that, and I will suggest that immediately.

Resolved times a thousand ( Read more... )

12/23/09 - 1/3/09:  Uninterrupted, unfettered, me-time.  

 I reckon at this point, Sisyphus has probably adapted better to the boulder than the gods have adapted to forever ensuring that he hasn't stopped.  It must be a pain in the arse to keep checking up on someone over and over again, lest your decrees not be followed and thus, you are no longer a god.

Ran 10 miles on an empty stomach and learned ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I pick back up with the training but with something in mind other than total miles.   The psychological aspects of training for this thing--in the long term--might actually be harder than the physiological.  I would never have suspected this. Then again, I've never really thought about it before.  Running to me has always been purely ( Read more... )

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