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Disney Shorts Inside Disney’s radical plan to modernize its cherished theme parks. The perception of Apple Watch vs. MagicBand Inside the Apple Watch — Technical Teardown Weather Underground — The arrival of man-made earthquakes. I have a trip to Disney World in a few days, I registered for the Dopey Challenge in January, and I’ve been thinking about buy an Apple watch. The bits above highly reflect these thoughts.

Last year was the first year I ran this event. Mentally I felt down for most of the race, physically I felt a bit off; I ran my fast official half marathon it was also the last race I ran. This year, I was in a good place mentally but a tad unsure physically. When I signed up I wanted to better last years time, my goal time was 2:10.

I’ve enjoyed rolling my own Rack server on Heroku. Yet, it always seemed to be a functional hack. Then I finally posed a seemly simple question. Why am I deploying to Heroku, what are the benefits? The reason I initial reason I was deplying to heroku for Jekyll plug-ins, beeing different, and the learning process. The only tangitable benefits hosting with Heroku offers me… crickets…wait I have the ability to control site routing via ModRewrite.

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I’ve been enjoying my new toy over vacation thus far, and a vacation[winter, 2015] posting is in the works. What is this toy? This toy will essentially ensure my old MacBooks will get the boot as I have purchased a Raspberry Pi 2, running Arch Linux ARM. I really don’t know what I’m going to do with the Pi yet… a fileserver or media center are the top contenders. I do have few quibbles regarding the current state of Linux on the Raspberry Pi.

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Last year I had many plans 2014, running wise. After the Dopey Challenge I didn’t do much and only finished one other event. For that event, Let’s Move Festival of Races, I didn’t do any training. I also entered Kona Running Company’s Kona Run, a massive fail. A few days earlier I had eye lid surgery, I miss-calculated the drive time and missed the start of the race partly due to to the eye lid surgery.