Lalalalala
Oooh, I like this. This sounds really good on the Sennheisers.
Edit: apparently some people hate it because it “ruins the simplicity of the original version.” Are they aware that part of the purpose of a remix is to give a song a different vibe?
Don’t like it, don’t listen. More for me, haha.
Today involved:
Twenty miles of running.
Five pitas.
Two hours of sleep.
One can of Monster.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
(I am a responsible adult, I swear.)
(I made sure to drink the Monster while I had the pitas.)
Hey, I live there!
I’m actually surprised it’s gone to the Conservatives since its creation, actually, mainly because it contains the U of C. But I guess we’re in ‘Berta, so everything tends to swing Conservative here.
I’M SO EXCITED TO VOTE NNNNNNNNGH
Leeeeeeeeet’s ULTRA!
Today was PERFECT running weather so I ended up doing a 50k.
I think the plan this year will be to do at least one ultramarathon (50k+) per month, weather permitting. I missed February because weather did not permit, but I think I got January and I know I got last month.
So yeah.
OK Love
So this isn’t my favorite OK Go video, but the song is a major earworm.
I absolutely love the line, “how marvelous just to be anything.”
OK Bye
Connect Again: Colorado Rockies
The Rockies have a new City Connect uniform! Check it:
Apparently people don’t like this one, but I dig it. It’s definitely better than their “we just took the state license plate and put it on a shirt” City Connect from a few years ago. They’re very 80s.
I think this would go in the “S” tier with the Padres and the Rays.
I Have a Runner’s Body
Features include:
- Janky toenails
- Missing toenails
- Weird seasonal tan lines
- Garmin tan line that will never, ever fade
- Chafing tape residue
- Callouses in places that I never thought could have callouses
- At least one Band-Aid somewhere
- Shaved legs for AERODYNAMICS
- Backwards hat for AERODYNAMICS
- Extremely high heart rate spikes when I realize I can’t outrun an angry goose on the path
- Scars from embarrassing falls
- “Running is my whole personality” personality
- The existential angst I keep thinking I can outrun
- CALVES
Learning About Letters (and being terrified of the letter “V”)
I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about this before, but we had this on VHS when I was a kid and it’s still in my head somewhere.
Comments:
- The hair on that lilac Muppet at 1:51 always made me super happy. It looks like such a nice texture.
- “‘C’ is for Cookie” is a banger.
- The deadpan delivery of “Harry the Horse” at 9:05 is great.
- In Bert’s defense, “linoleum” is a pretty awesome word.
- That story for “V” (19:50) terrified me as a kid. I’d leave the room every time, haha.
- That segment from 21:09-22:38 was always one of my favorite parts.
Woo!
Do You Run? Do You WANT to Run?
Check out this little wiki by Jonathan Savage (“Fellrnr”).
There’s a lot of really good info in here about running and everything related to it. He’s also got a pretty good sense of humor about things, too. For example, the third “Possible Cause” in the “Fatigue and sleepiness” ultramarathon problem:
PMLE: It’s Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
Well, I guess it never left.
It’s not something that just goes away, from what I’ve read.
Which is why I had suspected that I never actually had it in the first place, because I had no symptoms of it over the past few summers.
But cue my first run in the early April sun today and guess what happens?
PMLE symptoms! The itching, the redness, the basketball texture on my forearms. The eruptions. Very reminiscent of…whenever the last time was I had symptoms.
I strongly suspect that this thing has been “dormant” the past few years because a) I have been consistently wearing my long sleeve sun shirt thingy on my summer walks, and b) most of my summer runs have been at like 2 AM where – surprise, surprise – there is no sunlight to trigger the eruptions.
So yeah. I’m assuming that will happen now when I’m out in the sun for a while, at least until my arms “harden” or I start wearing my sun shirt. I guess we’ll see.
Fun times.
Paint-A-Thon
A new one!
If there’s anyone who can make watercoloring a tedious process, it’s me, haha.
Two Wiki Words
Hey y’all.
Two quick Wikipedia articles today because I happened across both of them in search of…something very different, haha.
FIRST UP: Cyanometer
It’s an “instrument for measuring “blueness” and was initially developed to measure the color intensity of blue in the sky.
Why does it exist?
Because humans are weird little creatures who like to quantify everything.
Because one of its creators, Horace-Benedict de Saussure, believed that the color of the sky was dependent on the amount of particles suspended in the atmosphere, and differing shades of blue corresponded to different approximate amounts of particles.
SECOND: Contronym
A contronym is a word that has two opposite meanings, such as clip (which can mean “attach” or “cut off”), cleave (“to cling” or “to split apart”), or buckle (“to fasten” or “to break”). There are, of course, a fair number of English contronyms, but they show up in other languages, too.
END!
We don’t have issues at all
It’s been a while, but Nate and I have finally played another game of Pictionary. Some highlights:
(That reads, “Dear Sir or Madam, plz no salt. Thx.”)
I’m not a psychopath, I swear.
Final
I’ve only seen the first three Final Destination movies, but apparently there’s a new one coming out in May. Maybe I’ll watch the remaining ones I haven’t seen yet in order to get sufficiently terrified of everything in the world and then watch the new one at some point.
I Think I’m a Saucony Ride Girl Now
For the foreseeable future, at least. The Kinvara 15s still aren’t available up here yet, and at this point I don’t know if I can trust the Kinvara quality. The 14s were really, really bad. The Rides are working well for me. I ran my first marathon in the 17s and everything felt good! These also seem like they’re more durable in the Kinvaras, meaning they’ll last longer and I’ll have to do less frantic shoe hoarding (or will I???).
I’m still a little sore in my knees and hips after my walks/runs, but I think that’s just because I’m so used to the Kinvaras. I wore them exclusively for about twelve years, after all. The Rides have a slightly different shape to their soles and I can tell they affect my gait differently.
Anyway. I know nobody cares, but that’s where things are standing with the shoe situation for now.
March Mileage Wrap-Up
March is DONE! Let’s mileage.
March mileage: 627.42
Monthly average mileage: 595.82
Current end mileage with this pace: 7149.84
Back above the goal of 7,000 miles! Let’s keep up this pace, huh?
Sorry, WHAT
This is like five different levels of nightmare fuel.
No seriously…this is something you’d see coming at you in an actual nightmare. It’s like those nightmares where something bad is coming toward you and you can’t get out of the way fast enough
Like…it is uncannily horrific looking. Is that just me? Am I unreasonably unsettled by this?
Yikes.
Hey, Adobe?
Why does the newest version of Adobe Acrobat have five – count ‘em, FIVE – AI-related tools available immediately upon opening a PDF?
Is this really necessary? Really?
*angry incoherent screeching*
I hate AI, I loathe generative AI with all my soul, and I weep for the future.
Another space thing, sorry not sorry
As I’ve said before (including in yesterdays’ blog, haha), I really like things that give us an idea of scale, especially when it’s a scale that’s really hard for humans to comprehend.
So here’s a model of the Solar System, where the coolest thing is the very clever inclusion of the closest star (apart from, of course, the sun):
Have I Posted This Before?
I don’t think I have. I had the intention to at some point, but I don’t think I ever did.
So here it is.
A simulation, obviously, but it gives you a sense of scale and space and I love stuff that gives us a good sense of scale and space, don’t you? It’s terrifying and beautiful and amazing all at the same time.
I honestly have no idea what the hell this is
So I’m finally trying to work through all those home videos we transferred from the old camcorder tapes a few years ago, right? Currently I’m just going through and making a list of all the things on each tape. Most tapes are the old spring and Christmas plays from St. Mary’s, videos of us opening presents on Christmas Eve and Christmas, and a good number of videos of me doing my dumb “I’m Stephen Spielberg, look at my amazing movies” stuff from elementary school and junior high.
But at the end of one of the tapes was this audio:
That is obviously me singing, but I don’t have any recollection of singing this (or writing it). I don’t know if I was trying to parody something or if I was just making a dumb “rap” and thought it sounded cool; in a lot of my other videos, if I’m making fake commercials or something like that, I’m parodying something that was on TV at the time (like the “I’m Bob from The Money Tree” or Hot Pockets commercials that were parodied in my “Fifth Grade Movie” thing).
For “context,” the other two things that were on this tape (which was labeled “Christmas Play” – super descriptive) were the St. Mary’s Christmas play/concert from 1999 and the first version of our video report on “Stepping on the Cracks” from fifth grade. So if I recorded this song around the same time as these other parts, I would have been…11 years old?
Sounds about right.
But who actually knows.
I sure screeched a lot, though.
BLEH.
Today was the last day of my French class.
It was also our draft day for fantasy baseball, but I could only stay for half an hour because I had to go teach at 3:30, meaning I wasn’t able to handpick my whole team and had to let the auto-draft take over after I was able to get…five?…six? guys I wanted.
So I’m lacking enthusiasm, because who are these random-ass guys and why are they on my team?
Bleh.
Calling
A federal election has been called! Will Carney prevail? Will Poilievre (whose name I still can’t pronounce correctly) win it for the Conservatives??
WHO KNOWS
It’s exciting and scary. But mostly scary.
At least I get to vote this time.
I saw someone’s dog die today.
It was sad.
That’s all I’m going to say.
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