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My shoulder left its holder
Thanks for posting this, folks. I just got back from the ER after dislocating my shoulder.... hurts quite a bit!
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at 3:11 PM on September 28, 2008
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Be gone podcast!
If you have a touch, you might wanna check out Podcaster, a native app for the touch / iphone. I've been beta testing it and it works pretty well... kind of. It's getting there. There's been a bit of controversy around it lately due to the fact that apple rejected it from the app store for some reason, so the developer is going "ad hoc" with it.
The idea, though, is amazing. It can download podcasts via 3g/wifi with a variety of sync options, no itunes required.... [more]
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at 12:08 AM on September 19, 2008
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"Pullin' for Palin?" Really?
I would bet dollars to donuts that the individual in question also owns a "FBI: Female Body Inspector" hat.
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at 8:08 AM on September 14, 2008
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Live Strong
He took second in the Leadville 100 mountain bike race a few weeks ago... a pretty remarkable performance on a tough course.
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at 6:07 PM on September 9, 2008
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Why shouldn't I buy the Asus EPC?
I have an older 701 and I love it... but I'd go crazy if it were my main computer. It's like a great, portable net / media device with a long battery life, but if you wanna do anything, like, "serious" with it, it'd probably be a bad choice. It's awesome for watching movies on the plane and traveling with, though...
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at 7:40 PM on September 7, 2008
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Chariots of Fur
First of all... clever title.
Second -- I just want to take this moment to publicly challenge anyone in Arizona to a canicross battle. Seriously, I know some great loops where we could run something like this.
Here's the deal: Gus and I, we've been running like 35 miles a week, competing in "normal" races for awhile. I feel like we might be the fastest running human / dog team in the area, because no one really seems to step up as... [more]
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at 5:46 AM on September 5, 2008
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Dumb, drunken credit card problem.
This kind of happened to a friend of mine in Vegas... they made him put his thumb print on the receipt at the time.
So... uhh... watch out for that.
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at 8:36 AM on August 27, 2008
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Getting back to training after mid-plan overtraining symptoms?
You're still pretty far out, so I wouldn't stress too much about it. As you probably know, you're gonna have good weeks and bad weeks. 'Course, you wanna listen to your body on this one...
If I'm feeling a little "off," I generally do some kind of cross training -- biking, rock climbing, swimming, hiking, etc... Really, swimming is my current fave, but anything you're gonna do athletically is going to benefit you, albeit maybe not as directly as running.... [more]
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at 12:14 PM on August 20, 2008 
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What, you know him too?
Bob should team up with Dennis, my now former(?) coworker... we were gonna start an awesome blog dedicated to him. Maybe we still should.
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at 10:41 AM on August 15, 2008
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Haha! Let's make things worse.
Uhh... wow. So much controversy over so stupid a question. (Yes, I'm the guy who posted it.)
Anyway... Matt's pretty much right.
Zimbabwe, apparently, has an abundant supply of a resource I want (banknotes) at a very, very cheap price. I'm willing to pay several times the official exchange rate if need be -- a scenario which can only help the person from whom I'm buying. If it's true that 100 billion ZBW won't get a single US dollar, then it's... [more]
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at 12:45 PM on July 31, 2008
Yeah... sorry for the confusion. I was referring to mathowie's comment about my motivations for wanting to purchase an abundance of Zimbabwe dollars.
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at 1:05 PM on July 31, 2008
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Learning to love solitude
I think you'd be amazed at how common this is... It's kinda remarkable, the stories you hear when you get divorced. I dunno... at least for me, it opened my eyes a lot. I also went through this awhile go, being single (and eventually divorced) after living with someone for pretty much my entire twenties. Lots of good advice here... and of course, you will get through it. Once you get into the swing of things, it's really fun and satisfying living alone. (I say... writing this in my underwear.)... [more]
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at 11:48 AM on July 27, 2008
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We secretly switched their operating system....
Yeah... I'm kinda the same way, Zambrano. I mean... I'm also a Ubuntu user and whatnot, but on my laptop, it's vista and it's fine. I mean... it's an OS. What is there to get excited about one way or another? I wouldn't necessarily upgrade an existing machine to it but if a box came with it, I sure as heck wouldn't through XP on it instead.
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at 6:21 PM on July 24, 2008
That's what you think! It's really vista configured to look like Windows 3.1
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at 10:25 AM on July 26, 2008
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Should This Feat With No Feet Be Defeated?
I'm also a fairly serious runner and I'd compete against this dude... and, in fact, I (literally, I guess) run across runners like this during marathons pretty regularly, albeit not in Olympic / super high level competition.... let's make that clear...
Anyway, this guy is clearly part of the track community and has been for some time. He's not some mad scientist who amputated his legs, he's just a super hardcore athlete that kept going, despite a major setback. (Having... [more]
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at 7:25 AM on July 17, 2008
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Exiled
The War Nerd just released a book... nothing groundbreaking if you read his columns, but pretty cool, having it all in one place and on paper 'n' stuff.
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at 9:15 AM on July 15, 2008
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Where should I start with the Frames?
You pretty much can't go wrong... Personally, I think For the Birds is just a remarkable recording. Steve Albini produced it, I believe, so it's just really... honest. Even though it's a studio recording, Albini does everything more or less live. It's just totally stripped down and beautiful. Also... to echo what the other folks are saying, Set List is actually, like, really good. It totally stands on its own, even if you haven't heard the studio versions of the other songs.
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at 6:10 AM on July 15, 2008
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AM I incorrect in still liking the Gin Blossoms?
billtron... the only thing your timeline was missing is OJ.
It's nice to see that other people are still pissed that Metallica was robbed. I wonder if Obama would get behind some kind of presidential decree to right that injustice.
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at 8:33 AM on July 13, 2008
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Just the facts Ma'am
Hulu has all the Dragnet awesomeness you can handle... online and streaming for free... as does Netflix Watch It Now. The best ones are when Friday confronts the acid temple gurus and pot heads, when their total squareness smacks right up against free love in the 60's.
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at 8:56 AM on July 10, 2008
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Your favorite band sucks.
Sun City Girls over Calexico for Arizona? I mean... whatevah! I actually stumbled randomly on a Sun City Girls reunion show the other day... I dunno about that project. I mean... it wasn't really, you know, listenable.
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at 10:02 PM on July 5, 2008
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It's 114 and I'm melting!
I hiked up Humphreys in Flagstaff last weekend... kind of a brutal climb, but it was 115 in the valley, 55 up on the summit. There's tons of free / cheap places to camp around there, since it's all BLM land. Dunno exactly what the rules are, but I've camped a bunch of places around there with no problems. Also, they run the ski lift during the summer at Snowbowl... I haven't taken it up -- I was with my dog -- but I bet it's fun.
Arizona Highways is surprisingly cool for... [more]
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at 7:51 AM on June 30, 2008 marked best answer
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You can't get that from here.
The convenience stores, especially the ones which aren't Circle K's, are full of mexican oddities that I wouldn't imagine have escaped out of the southwest. Like, have you ever had packets of flavored salt with your beer? A pickle in a hermetically sealed bag? Raiding the candy selection will yield some interesting results. Tamarind soda / candy is also pretty... special. (You either love it or you hate it.)
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at 6:46 AM on June 25, 2008
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Tips for running?
If you're hungry, eat. I mean... choose good food and eat a moderate amount, but I wouldn't stress about exact number of calories if you're looking to improve your fitness. That's your body telling you something... and listening to your body, that's the key to being a good runner.
If you wanna figure out the pound loss, just figure out how much you burn vs. how much you take in... but, also, your normal metabolic rate will probably increase, which is why you're hungry.... [more]
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at 9:38 PM on June 22, 2008
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Mall, or nothing?
Neat find!
I work over in a neighborhood where the mall is dying. Actually... it's all mall ya'll might know -- Metrocenter, from Bill 'n' Ted's Exellent Adventure. The whole area of phoenix is kinda shutting down... it's weird. In a place like Portland artists would take it over or something, occupy the empty department stores or something for awhile... but instead, the main tenants just keep moving out, only to be replaced with either nothing or a cellphone store.... [more]
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at 7:12 AM on June 17, 2008
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Is this a lockpick?
It looks like a lockpick to me... it's not the best made tool possible, but yeah -- something like that'll do the job on a normal old house lock in like 10 seconds. Accuracy, for a 20 year old kwickset or whatever, isn't really an issue. You really don't even need a tension wrench most of the time... (I'm also not a thief... just a guy who bought a buncha lockpicks at DefCon a few years ago and successfully broke into my own home...)
Now... how it got there, that's... [more]
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at 8:16 AM on June 11, 2008
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MetaFilter Solid 4: Wisdom of the MeFites
Chances are, the Retronauts podcast will probably cover it, if they haven't already... I wish they were a bit more organized about their discussions, but they're a bunch of really nerdy / knowledgeable / insightful guys who work in the game industry, so they generally do a good job of going through the history of the series and putting it all into some kind of context.
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at 6:18 AM on June 3, 2008
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"Nothing like a meeting you have to carb up for"
Yeah... that article was more humorous than helpful, but I dunno... I guess I'm retarded, but I chuckled a bit.
Speaking of being retarded, I'm also in the "no stretching" camp, and I've been running 40+ mile/weeks for years and years without injury. I do, however, warm up by starting slow and kinda easing into things. As a consequence, lots of people who look pretty confident that they're gonna beat me cruise by in the first couple miles of any given marathon,... [more]
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at 10:20 AM on May 29, 2008
autodidact -- I always tell people not to stretch. I mean... stretching... what's even the theory there? That it helps with flexibility?
For running, your body has all the flexibility it needs. More flexibility leads to overextension injuries.
The difference, man, between your pushup hating friend and us is that we DO do this stuff. Now, I'm not the greatest runner in the world or anything, but I'll probably beat 85% of the people in the San... [more]
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at 12:20 PM on May 29, 2008
