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.

My vacation[summer, 2013] ended and I continue to evaluate and tinker with plans to create a standardized deployment across my laptops; I am finding what I once thought was a sure thing isn’t. I currently run OpenBox on my Arch install, my desire to keep minimal system along how much I enjoy many aspects of Crunch Bang I thought OpenBox would be the clear winner. Yet Cinnamon is starting to emerge as a strong contender, I am starting to grow fond of the environment.

According the the Arch MacBook wiki page, the MacBook’s iSight camera should just work out of the box since kernal 2.6.26. Well that maybe the case on new hardware1, older hardware2 doesn’t have the iSight camera just work. One must first do some work, like finding the drivers AppleUSBVideoSupport. The driver can be found on any Mac OS X system, however it must come Mac OS X pre-10.6, so just just google it.

This week I was lucky enough to enjoy a week off from work. I am half way thru the vacation and wanted to post a stats report on my vacation[summer, 2013] project. While I do love Crunch Bang, I would like move my MacBook (4,1) to Arch. I’ve been successful install Arch on my MacBook (2,1) yet before I wipe away my ‘stable’ install I must first resolve a few issues/bugs1.

I’ve had issues getting avahi (zeroconfig) to work properly on my first arch install. I was, I think, finally able to make everything work properly by doing the following. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and make the host line look like1: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns Finally run: # systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service Testing metric: ping -c 1 `hostname`.local avahi-resolve -n `hostname`.local getent hosts `hostname` More info on what mdns4_minimal and mdns can be found on the nss-mDNS website.

Just in case I run up against this again…. sudo pacman -Syy sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux sudo pacman -Scc

A few months back I installed Ubuntu; shortly after that I moved to CrunchBang. For the most part I’ve enjoyed my experiences with CruncBang. The few things I haven’t enjoyed where directly related to it foundation, Debian. However, I stuck with it and even upgraded the Macbook (4,1) replacing the HD with an SSD and doubling the RAM. I enjoyed the experience even more. Yet I keep feeling like the Debian base was holding me back.

Each year, month, week and day we are moving awway from the classic personal computer paradigm and closer to some hybrid sci-fi paradigm geeks just lusted over as adolescents. With the rise of smart phones and cloud computing we will soon find ourselves at a cross road wondering what to do with all of our data. Now I could go on and on about data portablity. I think a bigger issue exist, the storge of our data.

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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.

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Flipboard — finally on the web The Keurig 2.0 DRM Freedom Clip How metro Detroit transit went from best to worst What’s Up With That: Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much? Measuring feline capacitance Stronglifts 5×5 — the site feels a tad slimy Whiteout Mail Open Payments

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Energy Gel Comparisons A Comprehensive Review of Recovery Products GOrun 4 Reviews 1 Run Blogger Believer in the Run Happy Feet jamiepang.com Coach Caleb Giraffes may be headed for extinction I don’t think I’ve hidden the fact I’ve turned into a huge fan of the Skechers GOrun lineup. While I haven’t seen nor tried the GOrun 4’s I must admit I am skeptical at what I’ve initially seen trickle out prior to the NYC Marathon.

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USATF ‘Age Grading’ What Coke Contains The month started full of anticipation and optimism; vacation was right around the corner. As the month progressed the optimism mood slowly turn to melancholy then grim. The low lights of the month included my TV dying, bed riden with back pain for part of my vacation and more agonizing the death of a long friendship. As a result I haven’t given this site much attention.

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I use hostsblock to block all the unwanted ‘annoyances’ online. It also blocks the Google Sync Servers for both Chromium & Chrome. The fix is fairly simple if you know the sync server address, just check the source code. # hostsblock-urlcheck https://clients4.google.com/ Yes I’m trying to move away from Google Services, yet I’m using Chromium with sync services.

The trip of course didn’t start as planned. The schedule flight out of DTW to MCO was canceled the previous morning due to weather conditions. I quickly called the airline and the earliest flight I could get to MCO was scheduled to land at 755pm; the expo was scheduled to close at 8pm. The initial question of how do I get to Disney was replaced with how do make it to Disney in time to pick up my bib.

My 2013 goal was to complete the Goofy, and I meet my goal. I was nearly sure I would running the Goofy in 2014 as I felt I could have done better. Now Disney has announced the Dopey Challenge; 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon for a whopping 48.6 miles for 6 medals. I think I now have a new challenge. My room is booked.

The trip of course didn’t start as planned. The schedule flight out of DTW to MCO was canceled the previous morning due to weather conditions. I quickly called the airline and the earliest flight I could get to MCO was scheduled to land at 755pm; the expo was scheduled to close at 8pm. The initial question of how do I get to Disney was replaced with how do make it to Disney in time to pick up my bib.

My 2013 goal was to complete the Goofy, and I meet my goal. I was nearly sure I would running the Goofy in 2014 as I felt I could have done better. Now Disney has announced the Dopey Challenge; 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon for a whopping 48.6 miles for 6 medals. I think I now have a new challenge. My room is booked.

I ordered my first fitbit, the classic, on March 8th 2010, each day I wait in anticipation for production to ramp up. Finally on May 18th my fitbit shipped. Sadly my fitbit died a few month later, as I completed my first half marathon. I found out the hard way the fitbit wasn’t water resistant at all. The fitbit also didn’t seem very durable construction wise, but I didn’t exactly wear it as directed.

I was listing podcast the other day where they where talking about HIIT, High Intensity Interval Training.; more specifically the Tabata and Little Methods. I wasn’t able to sleep last night and figured I would look into the Little Method more. Only to find the infographic above from the same source I linked to the other day, http://greatist.com/, they my soon have a place in my daily reading line up. Oh, and I plan on using Little Method when I visit the gym for a short 30 minute run this evening.

I’ve been putting of creating a plug-in that would take my images from flickr and embed them on pages here… was able to make a local working plug in fairly quicky. However, everytime I tried to push the site to heroku everything would fail with an error, Liquid Exception: No API key or secret defined! Well the solution was simple and I kept glossing over it heroku labs:enable user-env-compile Yes, thats right.

Once again I’m taking inspiration from Jonas Forsberg and Deploy to Heroku from Github. However, I just couln’t get the thing to work. So I backtracked to the orginal project github-heroku-pusher and everything now seems to be in working order. I think I will circle back around to his method eventually, but for now, while I build out the site I’m going to follow the don’t fix what isn’t broken mantra.

Prose is a web-based interface for managing text-based content in your GitHub repositories. Use it to create, edit, and delete files, and save your changes directly to GitHub. Prose

I’ve been putting of creating a plug-in that would take my images from flickr and embed them on pages here… was able to make a local working plug in fairly quicky. However, everytime I tried to push the site to heroku everything would fail with an error, Liquid Exception: No API key or secret defined! Well the solution was simple and I kept glossing over it heroku labs:enable user-env-compile Yes, thats right.

I the course of building and deploying this site one particular site has been truly helpful, Stack Overflow. Today I was finally able to give back and answer a fairly simple question that had me perplex when I first encountered it, Jekyll on Heroku listing additional (internal?) posts I haven’t created. The probelm: Jekyll on heroku publishes mysterious pages, and they all relate to your project someway, somehow. The solution: Let’s call the directory where Jekyll is installed & running from the root /.

Once again I’m taking inspiration from Jonas Forsberg and Deploy to Heroku from Github. However, I just couln’t get the thing to work. So I backtracked to the orginal project github-heroku-pusher and everything now seems to be in working order. I think I will circle back around to his method eventually, but for now, while I build out the site I’m going to follow the don’t fix what isn’t broken mantra.

After playing with jekyll on Git Hub’s pages, I realized I needed something with a bit more zest. I needed plug-in support. I found Jonas Forsberg post entitled Jekyll + Heroku + Unicorn = Blazing fast blogging and basically followed the step outlined below. sudo gem install heroku sudo gem install bundler heroku auth:login git clone git@github.com:himynameisjonas/jekyll-heroku-unicorn.git cd jekyll-heroku-unicorn bundle install heroku create git push heroku master That lead to a complete fail.

I was never a Facebook fan. I get the general point of the service to easily stay connected to friends and family. However maybe its because I’m not an overly social person, I never understood why so many people view the internet thru Facebook, or buy so heavily into the Facebook services. As a result I was more of a Twitter users. I’ve preferred Twitter to Facebook because it had an open feeling.

When I first started to run I would run excessive at the gym, indoors on a treadmill. The idea of running outside, where the elements and nature could interfere with my feeble attempt at running horrified me. I knew I need help to start running, couch to 5k apps where all the rage. They where all relatively cheap and similarly priced at $2.99. I knew I would eventually outgrow the 5k apps, as I was targeting completing a half-marathon.

Isn’t it nice Apple has posted the exact dimensions for the cases makers? I’m not buying an iPhone5 myself anytime soon, however I just found the blueprints nifty.

It is that time of year when Apple is poised to release yet another version of the iPhone. I recall my first iPhone, the orginal, which I beat up fairly well. I bought it with the intent of jailbreaking it and running it of T-Mobile. I upgraded to the 3G a year later but this time I opted to sign up for an AT&T contract. When the iPhone 4 came out the 3G was slugish and I loved the ascetic look of the 4 and yes I did upgrade to the iPhone 4S, mostly for well I don’t know Bluetooth 4.

I don’t want to go dwell to much on the evolution of my online presence. For nearly two years this site has been built upon the awesomeness that is Jekyll. Over the two years I’ve learned a lot, I’ve also made may mistakes. I do feel in many ways Jekyll with GitHub is nearly a perfect platform for most users. Yet I wanted more and moved the hosting to Heroku. I had the inclination I still wanted more back in November when I started to ‘refactor’ the site design.

I’ve been putting of creating a plug-in that would take my images from flickr and embed them on pages here… was able to make a local working plug in fairly quicky. However, everytime I tried to push the site to heroku everything would fail with an error, Liquid Exception: No API key or secret defined! Well the solution was simple and I kept glossing over it heroku labs:enable user-env-compile Yes, thats right.

I the course of building and deploying this site one particular site has been truly helpful, Stack Overflow. Today I was finally able to give back and answer a fairly simple question that had me perplex when I first encountered it, Jekyll on Heroku listing additional (internal?) posts I haven’t created. The probelm: Jekyll on heroku publishes mysterious pages, and they all relate to your project someway, somehow. The solution: Let’s call the directory where Jekyll is installed & running from the root /.

Why is it I can never remember: rake post title="Hello World" or rake page name="about.md"

After playing with jekyll on Git Hub’s pages, I realized I needed something with a bit more zest. I needed plug-in support. I found Jonas Forsberg post entitled Jekyll + Heroku + Unicorn = Blazing fast blogging and basically followed the step outlined below. sudo gem install heroku sudo gem install bundler heroku auth:login git clone git@github.com:himynameisjonas/jekyll-heroku-unicorn.git cd jekyll-heroku-unicorn bundle install heroku create git push heroku master That lead to a complete fail.

Prose is a web-based interface for managing text-based content in your GitHub repositories. Use it to create, edit, and delete files, and save your changes directly to GitHub. Prose

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.

My vacation[summer, 2013] ended and I continue to evaluate and tinker with plans to create a standardized deployment across my laptops; I am finding what I once thought was a sure thing isn’t. I currently run OpenBox on my Arch install, my desire to keep minimal system along how much I enjoy many aspects of Crunch Bang I thought OpenBox would be the clear winner. Yet Cinnamon is starting to emerge as a strong contender, I am starting to grow fond of the environment.

According the the Arch MacBook wiki page, the MacBook’s iSight camera should just work out of the box since kernal 2.6.26. Well that maybe the case on new hardware1, older hardware2 doesn’t have the iSight camera just work. One must first do some work, like finding the drivers AppleUSBVideoSupport. The driver can be found on any Mac OS X system, however it must come Mac OS X pre-10.6, so just just google it.

This week I was lucky enough to enjoy a week off from work. I am half way thru the vacation and wanted to post a stats report on my vacation[summer, 2013] project. While I do love Crunch Bang, I would like move my MacBook (4,1) to Arch. I’ve been successful install Arch on my MacBook (2,1) yet before I wipe away my ‘stable’ install I must first resolve a few issues/bugs1.

A few months back I installed Ubuntu; shortly after that I moved to CrunchBang. For the most part I’ve enjoyed my experiences with CruncBang. The few things I haven’t enjoyed where directly related to it foundation, Debian. However, I stuck with it and even upgraded the Macbook (4,1) replacing the HD with an SSD and doubling the RAM. I enjoyed the experience even more. Yet I keep feeling like the Debian base was holding me back.

I must admit I haven’t said much in some time. I’ve nearly migrated my full computer usage from my Mini running OS X to my old MacBook running CrunchBang Linux, with a few modificatons. So far I’m liking the switch. Not because its free or any such ideology. This set up is must less computing intensive, and I feel like I’m living closer to the hardware. It a way I feel more conected with the technology.

I’ve been playing with Linux on two old Macbooks (4,1 and 2,1). The 4,1 system has Ubuntu while the 2,1 system is running Crunchbang. To me the stock Ubuntu install is a bit to much for me, and I much prefer the Crunchbang install. However I have EFI boot issues with the CB install. So here are a few quick links: http://blogs.gnome.org/diegoe/2012/11/16/efi-mode-boot-on-macbook31-with-debian/ http://www.kcore.org/?menumain=4&menusub=3 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UEFI_Firmware http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=21510 http://blog.realcomputerguy.com/2012/05/efi-stub-booting-without-bootloader.html https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=81120 http://wiki.

According the the Arch MacBook wiki page, the MacBook’s iSight camera should just work out of the box since kernal 2.6.26. Well that maybe the case on new hardware1, older hardware2 doesn’t have the iSight camera just work. One must first do some work, like finding the drivers AppleUSBVideoSupport. The driver can be found on any Mac OS X system, however it must come Mac OS X pre-10.6, so just just google it.

This week I was lucky enough to enjoy a week off from work. I am half way thru the vacation and wanted to post a stats report on my vacation[summer, 2013] project. While I do love Crunch Bang, I would like move my MacBook (4,1) to Arch. I’ve been successful install Arch on my MacBook (2,1) yet before I wipe away my ‘stable’ install I must first resolve a few issues/bugs1.

Part of a crash log report that caused my iPhone not to sync last night: Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000100700000 VM Regions Near 0x100700000: MALLOC_TINY 0000000100600000-0000000100700000 [ 1024K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV --> STACK GUARD 0000000100700000-0000000100701000 [ 4K] ---/rwx SM=NUL stack guard for thread 1 Stack 0000000100701000-0000000100783000 [ 520K] rw-/rwx SM=COW thread 1 Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

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.

I don’t want to go dwell to much on the evolution of my online presence. For nearly two years this site has been built upon the awesomeness that is Jekyll. Over the two years I’ve learned a lot, I’ve also made may mistakes. I do feel in many ways Jekyll with GitHub is nearly a perfect platform for most users. Yet I wanted more and moved the hosting to Heroku. I had the inclination I still wanted more back in November when I started to ‘refactor’ the site design.

I’ve been putting of creating a plug-in that would take my images from flickr and embed them on pages here… was able to make a local working plug in fairly quicky. However, everytime I tried to push the site to heroku everything would fail with an error, Liquid Exception: No API key or secret defined! Well the solution was simple and I kept glossing over it heroku labs:enable user-env-compile Yes, thats right.

So I quickly learned CloudFlare isn’t for me as it add to much overhead for such a minimal ROI. Around the same time I noticed my Bootsrap base was no longer current, I stumbled upon jekyll-assets and bootstrap-sass which started to get me thinking why not use the two and customize it for my needs and serve it all up as one file. It works faily well, which then lead me to wonder if I should keep using Bootstrap or find something a bit lighter.

When I was spec-ing out a way to develop a site and return to the web my requirements where fairly simple. I wanted to avoid running or maintaining any of infrastructure. I first started using tumblr, moved to jekyll with github hosting, then to heroku. They are all fine options. I am however am finding, what I always knew, I enjoy the technical side far more than content creation. I think I’m getting close to setting sail on my time at heroku and take my toys to a bigger Digital Ocean.

Once again I’m taking inspiration from Jonas Forsberg and Deploy to Heroku from Github. However, I just couln’t get the thing to work. So I backtracked to the orginal project github-heroku-pusher and everything now seems to be in working order. I think I will circle back around to his method eventually, but for now, while I build out the site I’m going to follow the don’t fix what isn’t broken mantra.

Now that I have github -> heroku publishing in place now is the time to setup even more over kill, heroku offers a few (2)5 MB Memcache Bucket. I made the following changes to config.ru if memcache_servers = ENV["MEMCACHE_SERVERS"] require 'dalli' require 'rack-cache' require 'memcachier' $cache = Dalli::Client.new use Rack::Cache, :verbose => true, :metastore => $cache, :entitystore => $cache end To test that caching is working use ab aka Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool and run ab -n 500 -c 5 [hostname]

After playing with jekyll on Git Hub’s pages, I realized I needed something with a bit more zest. I needed plug-in support. I found Jonas Forsberg post entitled Jekyll + Heroku + Unicorn = Blazing fast blogging and basically followed the step outlined below. sudo gem install heroku sudo gem install bundler heroku auth:login git clone git@github.com:himynameisjonas/jekyll-heroku-unicorn.git cd jekyll-heroku-unicorn bundle install heroku create git push heroku master That lead to a complete fail.

I don’t want to go dwell to much on the evolution of my online presence. For nearly two years this site has been built upon the awesomeness that is Jekyll. Over the two years I’ve learned a lot, I’ve also made may mistakes. I do feel in many ways Jekyll with GitHub is nearly a perfect platform for most users. Yet I wanted more and moved the hosting to Heroku. I had the inclination I still wanted more back in November when I started to ‘refactor’ the site design.

Nothing to see here, yet. Just another amoeba learning to walk, look lively as you exit on the left.

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.

When I first started to run I would run excessive at the gym, indoors on a treadmill. The idea of running outside, where the elements and nature could interfere with my feeble attempt at running horrified me. I knew I need help to start running, couch to 5k apps where all the rage. They where all relatively cheap and similarly priced at $2.99. I knew I would eventually outgrow the 5k apps, as I was targeting completing a half-marathon.

The week was cold, the week was also a week of forgetting and loosing items. The cold, well check out the Dark Sky time machine data Jan 4th, Jan 5th, Jan 6th, Jan 7th. What did I loose? I lost my one good working AirPod on Flight of passage. I also lost, or misplaced, my MagicBand when packing my luggage the night before my flight home. I eventually did find the MagicBand a few days later shoved in the toe of my running shoes.

I ran a race in 2017. I didn’t think I would and I wait to nearly the last moment to register. I have four weeks of vacation to use or lose over the course of year. I try to spread them out over the year. Looking a head back in early January I had no plans of running any races this year. I did however plan my vacation time around local events that I could run if I so choose to.

Talk about a late posting. I had this done for months just waiting to publish. I slacked off all year and failed to up-date my 2015 year in running. In late 2014 to early 2015 I decided I wanted to run the Dopey Challenge along with the inaugural Dark Side Half Marathon at Disney World. I tried to make my 2015 supportive of these goals. I registered to run my home town half marathon early in the year along with the fall full marathon in Grand Rapids.

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.

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.

The trip of course didn’t start as planned. The schedule flight out of DTW to MCO was canceled the previous morning due to weather conditions. I quickly called the airline and the earliest flight I could get to MCO was scheduled to land at 755pm; the expo was scheduled to close at 8pm. The initial question of how do I get to Disney was replaced with how do make it to Disney in time to pick up my bib.

My final vacation for the year is just around the corner, which of course I’m looking forward to. I have spent the last week thinking of different projects I want to tackle over the week. I of course want to fin down some of the details to my January vacation plans… the quantitative self side of things. I played my order for the Magellan Echo, which I plan on using all four days of the Dopey Challenge.

I was a huge watch person in the later years of high school and most of my college life. Then sometime in my senior year I stop wearing a watch. It wasn’t until early this year I start wearing a watch on a semi-regular basis. But first let me back track, once I decided I was going to make an attempt at the Goofy Challenge in `13 I wanted to find a way to track my effort in a quantitative way.

I think a good deal of my current running related knee pain is related to weak strenght in my hip flexors along with hip flexibility and mobility.

This may sound like a horror story at first but I assure you it isn’t. I wanted to find a lightweight shoe comfortable to wear daily, with a low toe to heal drop. However this shoe wasn’t intended to be used for daily use but as a gym workout shoe. Over the winter I’ve been eyeing up Sketchers GOrun 1 line from a distance. Just a few weeks ago I stopped by my local Skechers Outlet, and picked up a new pair of shoes.

My 2013 goal was to complete the Goofy, and I meet my goal. I was nearly sure I would running the Goofy in 2014 as I felt I could have done better. Now Disney has announced the Dopey Challenge; 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon for a whopping 48.6 miles for 6 medals. I think I now have a new challenge. My room is booked.

I started writing this post on the plane home after completing my first marathon in January. Then it sat in my draft folder, and sat some more; the time has come to finally publish. In 2012 I ran the Chicago Rock ‘n’ Roll Half along with the Walt Disney World Wine and Dine. The Chicago Rock ‘n Roll went far better than I could have expected, while the Wine & Dine went far worse than I could have imagined.

When I first started to run I would run excessive at the gym, indoors on a treadmill. The idea of running outside, where the elements and nature could interfere with my feeble attempt at running horrified me. I knew I need help to start running, couch to 5k apps where all the rage. They where all relatively cheap and similarly priced at $2.99. I knew I would eventually outgrow the 5k apps, as I was targeting completing a half-marathon.

I was never a Facebook fan. I get the general point of the service to easily stay connected to friends and family. However maybe its because I’m not an overly social person, I never understood why so many people view the internet thru Facebook, or buy so heavily into the Facebook services. As a result I was more of a Twitter users. I’ve preferred Twitter to Facebook because it had an open feeling.

Each year, month, week and day we are moving awway from the classic personal computer paradigm and closer to some hybrid sci-fi paradigm geeks just lusted over as adolescents. With the rise of smart phones and cloud computing we will soon find ourselves at a cross road wondering what to do with all of our data. Now I could go on and on about data portablity. I think a bigger issue exist, the storge of our data.

I think a good deal of my current running related knee pain is related to weak strenght in my hip flexors along with hip flexibility and mobility.

I was listing podcast the other day where they where talking about HIIT, High Intensity Interval Training.; more specifically the Tabata and Little Methods. I wasn’t able to sleep last night and figured I would look into the Little Method more. Only to find the infographic above from the same source I linked to the other day, http://greatist.com/, they my soon have a place in my daily reading line up. Oh, and I plan on using Little Method when I visit the gym for a short 30 minute run this evening.