What we as American taxpayers have suffered financially since Bush assumed office is 165% of what the debt was for the previous 200 years of the United States. When Bush took office the debt was $20 Trillion. It...
Last year's drastic reduction in Chattanooga's recycling services (for those from out of town: our curbside pickup went from once a week to once a month) has been a disaster for a community that likes to call itself "the environmental...
"History is full of people who out of fear, ignorance, or lust of power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again." -Carl Sagan...
Seen at Ballot Access News: I'll bet that Clinton got at least 3 percent more votes than Obama simply because she was listed close to the top [of the ballot]. -- JON A. KROSNICK, Professor, Stanford University Oh, yeah. I wanted Obama...
Now is the time to start thinking about the snow starting to melt and the warmer weather coming around cause before we know it Summer and vacations will be here . So if I happen to come across a really great...
Today was a whirlwind and it's not over yet so this will be a short post. The soreness in my legs is slowly but surely starting to subside only to be replaced by more of the same in my...
For a long time now people have been asking me if the boys are twins. They usually asked this when Jack and Ian were in the double stroller together. These days they really do look like twins and are close...
"Watch out! You nearly broad sided that car!" My father yelled at me. "Can't you do anything right?" Those words hurt worse than blows. I turned my head toward the elderly man in the seat beside me, daring me to challenge...
Seeing as I'm a sucker for big round numbers, I just thought it would be fun to announce that today at 4:20 pm Eastern standard time, the Unix timestamp officially hit 1.2 billion seconds exactly. Happy new 100,000,000 seconds everyone!...
2008 is George W. Bush’s last year in office and he set out this week to do what any self-respecting U.S. President does during his final moments at Pennsylvania Ave. No, not grant Presidential pardons…that comes later (or it already...
Laura's 15 Words or Less Poems is accompanied by a beautiful photograph that sends me to a pensive state of mind...what does it say to you?
Lofty dreamsA vapored driftSeek directionHearts to liftImaginationHope-filled gift...
The Death of High Fidelity - Kind of an old debate for audiophiles and engineers, but still a good read.
Andrew Olmstead Final Post - Posthumous blog post by an American soldier killed in Iraq.
Goldeneye Comes to Xbox Live Arcade -...
* new rock/creek site * Avenue 3, a new housing project on the Southside in Jefferson Heights * recruitment through reputation? Coptix mention in Business TN magazine * Coming soon to SoHo, the iCod * Artech does Architecture & Interiors * Main Street view from...
John Kerry is down in South Carolina today to endorse Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination. I think this endorsement cuts both ways, as Kerry is not especially popular in the party outside the halls of power, but he does...
75% Ron Paul66% Tom Tancredo61% Mitt Romney61% Fred Thompson56% Mike Huckabee53% John McCain51% Mike Gravel47% Rudy Giuliani44% Dennis Kucinich42% Bill Richardson39% Chris Dodd38% John Edwards34% Barack Obama34% Hillary Clinton28% Joe Biden2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
hat tip: 10,000 Monkeys and a...
On Tuesday Fuller and I went to see Esther, Luke, and Ben. When I mentioned the upcoming jaunt to Fuller ("Do you want to go see Luke?") Fuller wouldn't settle for anything until we were in the car and on...
For time:
Row 2,000 Meters
Rest your row time then:
Row 2,000 Meters
If you do not have access to a C2 substitute 1600 M runs!
Rest five minutes then:
Tabata L-Sits, 8 rounds.
Post times for each row to comments. Post L-Sit experiences to comments too!
Coach’s...
As a child of the evangelical movement, I have fond memories of a comic book touted in my church during the 1988 Presidential election. The comic is called Magical Mike: The Real Story of Michael Dukakis, created by Dick Hafer....
No, sorry we don't have any more amusing lists to post on the internet. We do, however, have about two months of work to catch you up on. We're not actually going to do that, but I should at least...
I kicked the RSS habit only to end up dabbling in Twitter. I blame foamee.com’s recent addition of coffee (which can also be foamee) and Till’s forthcoming Tweets Pepper. #...
"Cutie Pie" now has a home. After much snuggling with the kids last night, we handed her off to Scott Gast and he took her home to his family. They have a bit more room for her to roam and...
You may think the idea of a networked alarm clock with access to the internet is just plain silly, but hear me out …
This one (the SnūzNLūz - Wifi Donation Alarm Clock) donates a set amount of money to a...
Although I received the "levity" gene, I wasn't blessed with brevity. I'm well aware I use a thousand words for something that could be expressed efficiently and sufficiently by three.
I should've been born a picture.
Forgive me for my prolific verbosity...
[Sorry for my umpteenth recycling rant - I just can't help myself] This is for those of you who live in Brainerd and, like myself, have never seen the first cent of the city's $100,000 recycling education program. Recycling pick...
One thing every triathlon has given me is humility. Although I love passing people in the swim with crazy expensive wet-suits, and pass people on bike's that costs well over 2x what my bike costs and passing people on...
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