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now that i'm sosh'n'shit i'm finding it hard to write in sentences, so if you'd like you can follow me on twitter. meow.

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a recent round of pruning at MyCo released our Social Media Maven, and guess who's been fingered as his replacement. YAH because i'm so social, bitches. now in addition to my own responsibilities (refilling the printer paper, plunging the toilet and other stuff), i'm trying to get up to speed on business models that piggyback off social networking, or someshit. in my travels i found this video

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so everyone who was in the GM job bank's now on the dole, Macy's stores are closing and michael phelps is too poor to buy his own dope. i could live with all that. but to be greeted by this on a sunday afternoon is totally unconscionable:obama, quit dicking around and DO something.

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windoze is crap.crap.crap.crap.crap.crap.and Stinky Tuna Man i have no great love for you either.BRING ME MORSELS. i require them.ohfuckme.is an internet connection too much to ask?

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the phrase "president obama" hasn't lost its luster. hearing it is like someone dropping a warm blanket over me when i didn't realise 'til then that i was cold. don't get me wrong -- i didn't drink the koolaid and i'd be happy with "president hufflepuff" or "president whickyclickclickwhirratweet"... anything that's not "president bush." but how lovely to have a president who can speak, who

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one more day on the trainer and i may go insaner.

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loucypher wondered if his 11-year old daughter appreciated the historic importance of this day.- do you know what today is, annie? why it's so important for our country?- cos a man from delaware will be in the white house?das what i'm sayin'.cokie roberts mused on Morning Edition how this peacefully staged transfer of power, literally from the hands of the outgoing POTUS into the new, is unique

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one of my favorite professors died on tuesday. as a poet, De had a powerful vocal presence, and he taught an enormously popular class in reading poetry out loud. i remember reading 'the wild swans at coole' in class and after 15min of De's coaching, my final reading ended with a long silence, then audible sniffles from all over the classroom. when De took a sabbatical i lived in his house for

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returned to the running racing circuit this weekend. legs are quite certain of this, my iliotibial bands and calves plangently so. i feel like i ran a marathon though it was only 10miles. the highlight of my warmup was being chased by a yappy and tantalisingly puntable yorkie, leash trailing behind it. i gave its owner a WTF look as i ran by; he just chuckled tolerantly. o funny dog, the things

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- yo guys - F addressed the ether - does anyone have a working login for Getty Images? i need to buy a photo, like NOW.i shook my head; loucypher and quasar were clamped under headphones, inaccessible.- you can use my login - the mayor (my boss) volunteered - it's 'largewealthypenis.'- i wish i could make a girl laugh like that - F said to the mayor as they walked out to lunch.see teho, not a

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socked in again by work, the only notable interruptions a flurry of IMs triggered by riley's invite to 'check out this tat i got last night' and Loucypher's Daily Lament. the subject of today's Lament was how the parents of his daughter's best friend seem to think chez loucypher is a daycare service where they can drop their child off and leave her for days, trusting she'll be fed and washed and

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it's been nearly three months since dr. ken cherry of UVA installed Pipes 2.0 via a patch of my left external iliac artery & an inguinal release. rode 60miles sunday, ran 10 hilly ones yesterday and flirted with low 6's pace his morning: nary a squeak of claudication. i can run sub-7 pace comfortably now when before surgery my left side from hip flexor to calf would shut down at 7:40 from

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don't think because it's a new year it's a new me. fat chance, esp when the idiocracy's still running full steam. today's scenario: i'm working in visio, via windoze XP running in virtual mode on the Lapple, when visio throws an alert telling me this particular operayshun requires a plug-in i'm missing and would i like to download it. sure, say i clickity-click, and am delivered to this page

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happy new year and all that jazz. i hope 2009 brings peace & prosperity to you & yours blabbity blah blah enough about you, let's talk about ME. let's talk about how for the past 5 days i've lived on jello and chicken broth (note no mention of WHISKEY) and you can still see the seams of my mum's sofa on my ass. this was the fallout from an unfortunate xmas eve gathering at the HoTH. here's a

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yesterday Man-Who-Wears-Socks-On-Head and i shared a ride to a client meeting.- ready for christmas? - i asked, in the way you'd make smalltalk with co-workers you don't know.- oh, we don't celebrate christmas.don't smirk. MWWSOH is white and doesn't wear a yarmulke. you'd have made the same mistake.- whyyyyy not?- i'm a jehovah's witness.- oh my.did you know that JW's believe in christ, but

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i'm sitting at the kitchen table rolling rumballs in granulated sugar when D shuffles in. - my toe hurts - he announces. - what did you do to it? and can you bring me the rum please? it's right there. - i didn't do anything. the bottle of cruzan black strap materializes. - and a glass? he sighs and dodders to the cabinet and back. - i have an ingrown toenail, i think. - and pour? - i say,

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an auspicious start to a 60hr workweek when my e-machine had a complete system-meltdown. but Parallels on the Lapple purred right along and after tossing my PC off the balcony i worked off the laptop. all this is to say i may not be the most objective person in the room, but i know somebody else.here's trent razor* on Apple's MainStage, the software used to mix and meddle with the Lights in

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and here's what i need for xmas.3 pls.

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Dear World,Sorry for all the shit we put you through for the last 8 years. We'll put some of that to rights soon. Thanks for your patience.Dear Dubya,It’s not you, it’s always someone else who needs to changeWhat about you, this narrow view has left you so estrangedDo you see, a real man rights his wrongs, then walks awayNot you – you’re not wrong – no way.**Jackass.Dear Obama,Get busy child.*

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stopped by dunkin donuts this morning for a cuppajoe and to stare longingly at the maple-frosted donuts topped with candycorn. you think in china they put candy on top of donuts? in europe? fuck no. that's why america is awesome. plus we're the WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS, or so trumpeteth the early edition papers stacked by the counter.- good morning! - says the one other customer, a slight

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lately i've been haunting the local football messageboard, don'taskwhy, and it is harder than you might think. first of all, i cannot keep my big piehole shut even if i know SFA about highschool football; and second, because students frequent the board and you get booted if you talk about drugs or use bad language, i have to use the TourettesCheck to make sure no shitfucksuckcunts slip out and

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To: all@MyCo.comFrom: HeapusBigusBossusSubject: More ActionsWe ended Isabella’s contract today. Isabella helped us for approximately 5 months. She had some success, liked MyCo, and we liked her. Unfortunately, she did not help us enough to keep at this time.To: loucypherFrom: finnSubject: Re: More Actionswho's -- oh nm.-------------------------------congrats go out to fastmammycat for

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- have a good walk? - D asked last night when the dog and i got in just before dark. - yes. a couple people stopped and said what a good-looking dog.- were they guys?- erm... yeah.he snorted.- what?- total pickup line.- i don't think so. he IS a good-looking dog.that, and clad in an XXL Hate '90 shirt and court shorts down to my knees, cradling my sore swollen belly, bruises pooling from wrist

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i found this evidence in the sink last night:if we're feeding the cats Fancy Feast in fairness the dog should get kobe tenderloin prepared nightly by wolfgang puck.about the VP debate i have nothing to say except i can't believe 2004 might happen all over again. my only solace is that this time 'round i have the perfect jameson glass.

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the cats needed food so yesternoon found me in the catfood aisle, which always makes me grumpy. why should i spend MY money on animals that, when they're not sleeping, are puking up half-digested small mammals, fighting in the middle of the night or shitting in the flowerbeds? where is the return on investment here?standing in the catfood section inevitably brings up these sorts of existential

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To: all@MyCo.comFrom: HeapusBigusBossusSubject: New HireSundesh Palekar starts Wednesday as another developer. Sundesh comes with good experience in [gak spithle gork]. She seems to be flexible and smart, and really liked our environment (“perfect”) as she put it. Let’s see if it ends up that way for both her and us – please help her as appropriate.Please welcome Sundesh tomorrow. She

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back from a week away; message on the answering machine. caller doesn't identify himself but doesn't need to. it's the voice i heard over my shoulder in mrs. mitchell's pastels class, so young he was back then, we all were but him even more, before his time with the dog and ours with him. gabe in fucking south dakota, WTF.hey um sorry to be calling in the middle of the night, but i saw her,

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just saw the first sally in microsoft's much ballyhooed new ad campaign. MS dashed many account managers' wet dreams when it passed over the major players to hand its $300 million consumer branding budget to Crispin Porter + Bogusky, an agency that primarily uses... macs. bogusky then enjoined jerry seinfeld (another mac advocate) to front the campaign. if you haven't seen the first ad --

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palin:"Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and [obama]'s worried that someone won't read them their rights."obama's response:"My position has always been clear: If you've got a terrorist, take him out. Anybody who was involved in 9/11, take 'em out."[via]next: revamping a thoughtful definition of Evil to appease the dumbfuck masses who want it chased to the

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you got a postcard – D said – from england?? -but it doesn't say from who. wordlessly i take it from him: oxford's Bridge of Sighs at night under the soft glow of gas lamps. of course. this weekend is tad's birthday, when the bottom would drop out of kim for a bit and gabe would shore her back up.i turn the card over in my hands, noting the softened edges and striated ring marks from the

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just added:11.06.08Atlantic City, NJHouse of Blues (map)on sale: TBApresale: TBA[j/k. i was neverout.]had a CAT scan this morning. taking a look at the old pipes, so i got a bag of contrast dye shot through. techs warned i might feel some warmth, and i did, my goodness did i, a burning hole in my arm where the IV connected and then a tunnel of warmth gulfing down my body, pooling in the "

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running single-track last night, losing light and the outlines of trees and shapes of reaching undergrowth moving faster on either side, pushing to the event horizon where everything shuts down, ducking through a corner blindly and. suddenly on the ground. stunned. a hand skinned, an elbow grazed, hip thudding. looked up; a huge shape between me and the sky, curving horns black against blue.

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i have to ask - PK wrote - is that pic of palin on your blog real?no it's not, it's just a good 'shop job and if i were a nicer person -- if i were ethically nuanced, for example -- i would take it down to avoid any misconceptions but i'm not so it stays. what i will do is point you to the original photo on Flickr, where you can also follow the unfolding story as the manipulated version hits meme

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sarah palin continues to bubble to the surface of conversations around here. - Macain picked a Hottie for Vp! - laf texted me soon after the official announcement and the buzz hasn't evolved much since.- oh, she's a total hottie – D agreed - compared to laura bush?? she'd be the hottest first lady maybe EVER. a long jon stewart pause. - you mean, VP. - yeah. what did I say. - you said first

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Lights in the Sky tour29 august 2008subhangi described NIN shows as a pilgrimage. if you've not experienced one, go. the band's toight, the lightshow's ridiculous and the music pummels you but rests sometimes too. if you're in the seats you won't get bruised, squashed or groped by strangers during Closer. but where's the fun in that?? floor's where it's at.parked next to a car with license

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fast & furious reactions to mccain's selecting 44yo alaskan gov Sarah Palin as his running mate. i got as far as this one before i gave up:This woman should be at home taking care of her kids, not running for Vice President. I mean, she has a four month old Down Syndrome child. He requires constant care. Why why why would she be neglecting her family to run for VP?I was planning to vote for

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Lights in the Sky tour27 aug 2008much WorkToDo so this will be a quickie micky. setting it down in verse to remember. no proselytising. opening act Does It Offend You, Yeah looked like they were having fun, even when some asshole lobbed a cup of beer onstage. if you don't like the opening act just sit tight, it's a short set. don't scream YOU SUCK and don't throw shit. have a modicum of

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a beautiful day yesterday. slept in instead of swimming and in the afternoon blew off a RBRBRBR BTW workout to watch delcastle scrimmage against howard & st george's. i'd sidled in on utter whim but immediately became part of the scene, folded into a mix of siblings, parents and teachers who'd collected in the stands on a perfect day in august to watch a bunch of high school kids score a

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crue-fest @ holmdel, NJ23 aug 2008 when nikki sixx and mick mars got together to write tracks for the new motley crüe album, saints of los angeles, both agreed to abide by certain exacting standards. don't be trent, for instance. "Mick just said, 'I want to hear a lot of guitars, and I want to hear snotty lyrics,'" Sixx says. "And I was like, 'Exactly where I'm coming from, dude.' I don't want

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while i was in belgium MyCo hired 3 people: Mr. Crutches, Madame Screechyvoice and my current favorite -- Señor Tuberculosis. the first time I heard his wet, hacky cough i stared at loucypher in disbelief. - i told you it was bad - he whispered.- is he dying? more importantly, is that contagious??he shrugged. i popped the rest of a plum in my mouth and sucked the pit, resuming my work.approx

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a month ago i was moaning to fatmammycat about the preposterous conceit of running 16miles at worlds when i could barely manage 3 on the treadmill. preposterous is just another fancy arsed word for ludicrous - she responded - and we KNOW ludicrous is easily bitch slapped senseless when up against reservoir deep. she was right.long course du worlds18k run – 78k bike – 9k runif you're a cyclist,

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- when i say, we are running away to belgium, you don't ask any questions just pack your bags.- Just say the word. I can sell the house and ship my stuff from Europe.AJ speaks french and i can learn flemish so we'll do just fine in flanders, where the food, beer and cycling is fabulous. imagine a place where drivers yield to bikes, stopping in the middle of roundabouts to let bicycles cross.

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tuesday i leave for belgium; long course du worlds are next sunday.car rental: booked. hotel: booked. well, mostly.bike: packed.race course pored over,entry list scrutinised,schedule memorised: hah! as if.this is good progress considering that a couple weeks ago i woke up in the middle of the night in a panic because i realised that i had no travel plans, no place to stay, no idea how i'd

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talked to me mum last night; my parents are soon off to a hiking trip in austria.- we got waterproof covers for our backpacks. we got crampons. oh, and we got our stimulus check. - sweet. just in time. - just in time - she agreed - and you know what we did? we took it to the bank and cashed it for euros. - way to stimulate the economy, mom.- i just despise that man. i cannot disagree and

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thought of you - the mayor wrote when he emailed me this pic.why?because-- instead of camping in the poconos over the 4th of july holiday, i will be working. still.-- instead of watching the last day of swimming and track & field olympic trials on sunday night, i will be entertaining an infant, a 3yr old and a bipolar retired history teacher whose favorite subjects are hitler, napoleon and US

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no running.no rhythm.no end of work.no sleep.no patience.no joy.i do have kumquats tho. that somewhat eases the slings & arrows of outrageous fucktardery. so does slayer.

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got a call from nina yesterday afternoon.- finn, i've got petey tonight and he wants to go to PetSmart. i need reinforcements.last time nina took her nephew to the pet store, he decided all the animals wanted to be free. that day petey learned that setting a hamster free isn't necessarily irrevocable whereas “freeing” a fish kinda is. he also learned that "oh, bitch" may be an acceptable

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here's NIN rehearsing 1,000,000. toight. like tiger. i can almost forgive the Lack of Lohner.Lights in the Sky tour kicks off in a month. huzzah.UPDATE:and here's Letting You. josh freese is a madman on the high hat.UPDATE-2TEH-UPDATE:saving the best for last: echoplex. how can you NOT like nine inch nails after suchasthis.

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this story about 3 local cyclists arrived in my inbox this morning. names have been changed.it's reason to:1) hug your friends2) throw over your fears and strike up a conversation with that person you think you've no business approaching3) drink that bottle of rioja you've been saving for the "right" time4) if something's making you unhappy, change itMelanie, Les and I were heading south when we

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this is my bone stimulator,this is my gun,this is for healing,this is for fun.this is my bone stimulator. it uses ultrasound pulses to heal fresh and established breaks, and purportedly it decreases by 38% the time it takes to heal a stress fracture. 20 minutes a day will do it – the rep told me then held up a hand to stop the question she knew was on deck – and you can do it twice a day, but

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you know, the more i look at iPimp's xray below, the better my foot feels. i think it is like the picture of dorian gray. i hope it's making you feel better too.

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well guess who went and ran when they shouldn't have and turned a 3rd metatarsal stress fracture into a full-bore break: NOT ME!!! that's my teammate iPimp's crack. it's doubly ironic, like rain on your wedding day AND your first communion, that we should suffer the same injury in the same foot, verily on the same bone. only iPimp REALLY fucked his ship up and now he's Booted 24-7 and and

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it's for this simple line of code:rsync -Cavz --delete ./Volumes/backup/musicenter that in Terminal from a directory you wish to back up (that folder with your 250G of toonz perhaps), and the hamsters behind the scene will sync (not just brute overwrite) the second directory with the first, spitting out a verbose output so you know exactly what's going on.next step is figuring out a chron job to

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yesterday morning i get on the bike early, before the heat index reaches triple digits, and end up in Big Sky Country. out there amongst the horse farms it occurs to me i might be near dr. fellows' house. i could stop by and say hello and it isn't inconceivable that i could be invited in for breakfast... or at least a bloody mary. only, i've never actually been to dr. fellows' house and at

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subtle, eh?today's earlingmorny progressed much like yesterday's only with -1 mile and +2 smiles. foot still quiescent; hooray!! dunno tho; is a motley crue sticker on your red pickup a deal-breaker?happy friday. and here's a reason to celebrate (FMC look away):New Hints that Red Wine May Slow Aging (free NYT reg. required)

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while we're (okay i'm) on dudes with buzzcuts, you can download more free stuff at nin.com: samples from bands opening for the upcoming tour plus graphics & wallpapers for those of you who're total tools (okay me).reason #3430313 why i love mac:** we have fixed the download to accommodate those of you living in the 80s running Windows! XOXO

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went down like thiseats 1 doubleshot latte handful of jelly beans NO advil!!! 20 min on EFX Canterbury Tales on ipod jackshep rowing.eep 4 miles on treadmillTool on ipod 1 mi ez 2 miles @7:19 lovely to open up (a little).window reflectingjack's 4 sets of pullups.nearly fall off tready. finished w/6x30sec @6:20ishrepercussionsso far justhappiness.[note: pic is Not My Fault. must have

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dr foot proactively quashed all my protests and denials by kicking off yesterday's appointment with a display of my MRI results. kinda hard to deny in black & white. that's the 3rd metatarsal, the bone that runs from the middle toe to the ankle. flanked by his technician and a doctor-in-training, dr foot put me up on the table to assess the damage. his fingers poked into soft tissue crevices,

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I kept seeing him on my ride this evening, maybe because it was getting late and the dropping sun played tricks on me. I'd see his long shadow on the road as he pulled up on me, but it was just a car. I'd see shifting movement over my left shoulder but the road was clear. The days are getting warmer and longer and I know the Snakeman is playing somewhere tonight. Like Betsy's mom said.Betsy

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friday's Happiness lasted approx 8 hours, or until dr foot called to say my x-ray and MRI reveal a stress fracture. before confining me to Das Boot for 4-6weeks he wants to see me tomorrow so he can confirm. know how you confirm a stress fracture? (you learn a lot when you are injured.) you ring a standard-issue tuning fork and apply it to the bone-in-question.- if there's a fracture, you'll

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the 4th alternative to running is.... running!!  hooray!  for this morning i ran 4 miles on the treadmill and the foot held up.  even better, a 7:30min mile felt gratifying easy after pushing through water for 3 weeks.  and after a week's absence, jack shepherd was back on the treadmill this morning.  oh frabjous day.  i am happy like a meerkat, like a marita.  this cannot last.  but while it

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- i solved the flotation issue! – D announced last night as he maneuvered a case of wine through the kitchen door.- what flotation issue?- you know, you. in the pond.so it's back to this. undeterred by the massive prehistoric creature he coaxed from the pond's depths (and reinstated!!) with a bass lure, D has still got a bee in his bonnet about setting me up to run in there. all his man

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recovering from a 3day weekend of par-tays. to honor those who've died for our country, on memorial day weekend we merkins consume belt-popping quantities of potato salad, coleslaw and variations on beef, washed down with lite beer and wine from boxes. good times.caught up with kel at coach's Miller Lite fest. in july she's heading west for the Badwater ultramarathon -- as in 135 miles of

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d went fishing for bass in the backyard pond. he caught a teensy catfish, and this:whoozall thinks i should take him up on his pond-running idea? how about tossing the snorgoyles in? do i hear a Yea? what's that? you say it is MFBT? and a 3-day weekend??Let us go then, you and me,Where the whiskey is spread as far as we can seeTil we're patients etherized upon a table.

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foot still hurts; can't run; bailing on next weekend's half-ironman.so i'm riding more -- which isn't so bad: i have E and laf and options for group rides justabout every day of the week. but cycling by nature offers challenges you won't encounter running trail through White Clay Creek SP.- why is that man so angry? - i asked laf as we rode past a gesticulating driver waiting to turn onto rt 4

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today i gather perspective like morels.[note: Wrong does not neces imply Bad, unless it is a wrong about my foot]THE WRONGSoh lessee... my foot?and waking up with the Bumblebee Tuna jingle on the mental jukebox, after having suffered through air supply's "All Out of Love" for all out of yesterday.ThingsIDidLastNight.com [ok is a snarf]dude who ran the delaware marathon this weekend:windows not

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it should be fairly obvious from the presence of Frankenfoot that i cannot run. the Oracle has worked around this obstacle by prescribing pool-running. if you've never done or seen it, pool-running is strapping on a flotation belt and contracting your legs to move at top speed down the lane of a pool, travelling at the pace of a hungover snail dragging a brick. ever had that nightmare where

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here's a pop quiz: can you identify global brands (like Gap, Starbucks, Microsoft) by the tag clouds associated with them?what would you guess?? see, you are good at this.noah brier's Brand Tags project is based on the theory that if you ask enough people to define a brand in a word or phrase, and then make a tag cloud out of the results, you'll end up with a picture of what the brand

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toilet tanks won't sweat anymore, pasta will always be al dente & gluten-free, and jameson will come out of my kitchen faucet.also, we won't see crappy powerpoint presentations like this anymore. in fact, ppt will just go away. so will MS Turd.and when obama wins, shit like this won't happen:there. i've made a deal with your devil.what else?you go to here now.

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- finn i know you're there, hon. pick up...sigh.- i talked to laf and he hasn't heard from you either. so whatever, it's back but it'll leave eventually. you always forget that part. anyway. i talked to your sister. yes, your sister. she called me because she got a letter from your grandmother's trust, about the money, and she said there was a note from you. and get this -- she wanted

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from nin.com:Click HERE to get the new full-length nine inch nails record: the slip.(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one's on me)it's GOOD, like an evolution of Year Zero.[still at the end of every hardearned day people find some reason to believe]

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SC du nats richmond, VA 10k run -- 40k bike -- 5k run went to duathlon nationals this weekend with the goal of qualifying for short-course worlds in rimini, italy. the Oracle predicted a podium finish; instead i finished way out of the running in 8th place. he was baffled.- i looked at the results and i saw your first run and i thought 'what happened?' then i saw the bike, and i said 'oh, no.

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countdown to short-course du worlds qualifiers: 6 daysstatus of legs: shit so muhammed went to the mountain.[finn]just out of curiosity, did your legs ever feel like crap for a week? if so, how did you deal mentally/physically? being Perfect, the Oracle was probably never this pathetic, but i am fed up.[the Oracle] The answer is: Yes. I was trying to think up a nice, technical answer for

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[finn]i just looked at results from powerman alabama and got myself into a State. there is no way i can run that fast -- sub 6?? but i am not dashing to you to cry -- much -- because i know you've better things to do and i'm not 5 years old. [the Oracle]I only looked at this quickly, and don’t understand why you’re in a “state”. Who ran sub 6’s? The way I see it, you would have been 2rd

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- hello?- neens? say when you were little you had this romantic notion of the person you thought you could be. and though you weren't really paying attention while you grew up, one day you took a step back and found you'd become that person. only, it turns out you don't like that person after all. what if you made a mistake? -and now you're wondering if you can change. can you start all

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fuck trees and flowers and springtime. i don't like it, o'connor. the cocktail of allergy medicines and jameson i prescribed for myself last night had me sweating through the sheets in a feverish state, and at 2am i was back on the isle of skye, clambering up a grassy dunvegan hillside toward the Duirinish stone. i stopped to look up the hill and the sun dropped suddenly. the standing

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LC worlds qualifier6 april, north carolina8k run - 53k bike - 8k runin early april i'm usually emerging from hibernation, dusting off the tri bike and slouching into speedwork. this year the first race of the season was the regional qualifier for long course duathlon worlds this summer. who knows the strange ways of USA Triathlon? not i. because of the rude beginning to the season, and

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- where are you going? - D grumped when my watch chimed at 4:10 this morning. - swimming.his arm tightened like a boa.- i thought you were laying off that until your race.- no, that's *whiskey*. two different things.- mmm. they're both vices.'tis true, though -- the hooch is on the shelf 'til sun nite.** last night i knocked out one final hard ride, and between now and sunday's race it's ez

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was on my way to the pool in the way early pre-dawn when i saw flashing red and blue lights reflecting off a tattoo parlor and adjacent billboard (Boulden heating -- we'll keep you warm this winter). drove by the scene as in a dream: no sirens, no sounds, no activity as far as i could see, just two firetrucks, an ambulance and a paramedic unit. floodlights turned the 5am darkness into harsh

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talked to nina last night. she's finally home from the hospital, where she spent a week and a half in ICU battling a pathogenic strain of streptococcus pyogenes, the same kind of bacterial infection that killed jim henson at 53. she's really weak and she lost a lot of muscle mass in those 10 days. - it takes me forever to get from the bedroom to the bathroom, and by the time i get back i have

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finally getting back into the training groove after a month flipped upside-down by 12days in scotland, an unplanned trip to baltimore and a flu that knocked me out for 5 days. feels good to be moving again.but this Quality Over Quantity school of thought The Oracle subscribes to demands a deep stock of emotional fortitude, mental focus and blind faith, 3 things noticeably absent from Finn's Top

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- how come you went in the other room to talk to vince?- huh?- why did you have to go in the other room?- um, cos i'm talking on the phone. i go in the other room when i talk to my mom too.- and i thought that's because you talk about private things.- i would go in the other room to talk to ANYONE. i just think it's the polite thing to do. i don't want to listen to your phone conversations.-

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July 25 Pemberton BC Pemberton FestivalJuly 26 Seattle WA Key Arena at Seattle Center July 28 Edmonton ALB Rexall PlaceJuly 29 Calgary ALB Pengrowth SaddledomeJuly 31 Winnipeg MAN MTS Centre August 2 Minneapolis MN Target CenterAugust 5 Toronto ONT Air Canada Centre August 7 Uncasville CT Mohegan Sun ArenaAugust 8 Worcester MA DCU CenterAugust 12 Knoxville TN Knoxville Civic

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yesterday i rounded the kitchen corner at mach3 with my mountain of fruit and nearly took out Inscrutable Chinese Man (who recently upgraded to 21 cats. WTF). he was more nonplussed by my apology than his close-call with a pomelo. - finn! your voice is different. - i'm sick. - it's sexy. - i'm glad you like it. the dry sarcasm was lost on him. he waved his hand excitedly.- go on. say

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lets see.theres this marc jacobs ad in this months elle:and this:alsohaving a training schedule from now til 4/6, andNOT having a fever.yes it was worth getting out of bed this morn.but jesus christ this office sounds like a fucking TB ward.

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last night during dinner D looked out the window and frowned.- what the... oh. look. skankyAsshat's eating a creature.and so she was, nom nom nom, an indeterminate creature too far gone to save. still racked by a persistent fever with, as FMC put it so well, the strength of no kittens, i could only simmer with resentment at yet another wrong perpetrated by snorgoyles.- hates them... i

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she did not rise.

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yesterday my mom, aunt and i faced off against against chop-chop peggy and unctuous emilio -- picture an oily elderly jewish man and a smartly-dressed young black woman with staccato delivery -- across a vast conference room table at the druid hill cemetery. i stared out the window at the gulls pitching and pinwheeling in the 50mph gusts because if i looked at emilio again i might throw up my

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there's a documented issue with areas of iphone touchscreens going dead, and indeed when i returned from scotland and everything else in the world was going wrong, i discovered  a dead strip running horizontally across the touchscreen about half an inch down from the top. every time i tried to call D from my Favorites list i ended up ringing laf which was awkward to say the least.  so today i

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this morning i had breakfast with TR. i was eating haggis, for which i've developed a fine taste, and peaty scotch (for which i've cultivated an even finerer taste) whilst my companion enjoyed porridge and tea with milk, no sugar. the discussion turned to politics and whether or not obama's new world order will come to pass. i would like the world to be rid of cats, i said; he argued that

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off on a chumley adventure.back in a cpl weeks.you take the high roadand I'll take the low roadand I'll be in Scotland afore ye...

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when i started here, MyCo had 6 employees. now we have people who compose emails like this:Subject: The New MyCo Softball Team NameFrom: Mary MarketerTo: all@MyCo.comDear Marketing Consulting & Consensus Team Members,We are in the process of finalizing the MyCo softball team name: MyCo Reds. Consensus with no haters has been developed among the team members and now we need to generate

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last night i made D watch the You Sick at Photoshop 6 vid. i filled him in on the storyline so that #6 had a context, and dude was game but watched stonefaced while donnie's agony spun out. - didn't you think that was FUNNY?!? - i asked as he turned heel.- um, maybe if you're 5?? and like to talk about poop?- well, yeah. what's your point.- my point is that most people grow up.and he plopped

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my mom called this morning to wish me happy birthday and give me the latest from Sunset Assisted Living.- i called father rosenberg to see grandmother.he is so-called because when he showed up at the ER for my grandfather, rosenberg was wearing a dark sweater and white-collared shirt and grandmother was in such a state that she tried to confess to him. if we hadn't wrested her away rosenberg

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at his suggestion, sent The Oracle links to last year's race results and splits. this morning's response:I looked at a few of these, but not all yet—I’m still forming my thoughts on them. These are pretty impressive results, but you definitely have potential to do better. In your opinion, which races went well and why and which didn’t and why (if you know the whys)? Have you worked on speed

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first of all, congrats to fatmammycat and twenty major for representin (FMC in spirit) at the irish blog awards saturday nite. FMC took best post award; twenty snagged most humorous post and best blog overall. congrats to both, and to arseblog for winning best sport blog.now, let us speak of sport, which i don't do often because i know that playing with dust particles is more exciting than

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still buried like the wicked witch except that it's work not a house atop me and my shoes aren't nearly as cute. D off leading a XC ski trip somewhere where there is snow -- not here sob -- and whilst packing last night made a disturbing discovery.- i went down to the basement to get my skis and while i was there one of the cats walked past the litter box, right by me, and then squatted in the

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- you know this weekend would have been grandmother and pete's 66th wedding anniversary - my mom told me.and 8 years ago we put down finley. the nice thing about grandmother though is that her tenuous grasp on reality doesn't include pedestrian constructs like days, months, years or the finer details of losing someone. the gross loss is still there, but an anniversary isn't.- i took her to the

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last night on my way home from getting spindled, mashed and rebooted by denise the 90lb massage therapist i wondered whether the toxic bloom that'd closed the Y's pool that morning had been redressed and whether i should attempt to swim this morning, or sleep in. i want to call, but i don't know the number.so:1. i typed my Y's name into iphone's googleMaps, which by default searches around my

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