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2010-09-02

• 08:48 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-18 - Parking Lot Laps . . . . zz – === ~4.5 miles @ ~9 min/mi Torrential rains leave me with one pair of soggy socks when I arrive at work, so I decide to skip the morning run . . .
• 08:48 UTC (diff) (history) ZzzDrafts . . . . zz – 2010-08-18 - Parking Lot Laps - to own page
• 08:41 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-17 - Woodsy Loops . . . . zz – === ~5 miles @ ~9 min/mi | Breathing as I run: One two three four One two three One two One | Morning brings the urge to run, so four . . .

2010-09-01

• 08:36 UTC (new) (history) Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking . . . . zz – **[|The Thinker's Guide to Scientific . . .

2010-08-31

• 08:45 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-14 - Night Run - Karen's Loop . . . . zz – === ~21 miles @ ~13.9 min/mi Near the National Zoo a scruffy-looking possum startles us as it scampers across the trail in front of us. I lend . . .

2010-08-30

• 08:36 UTC (new) (history) Remo Williams . . . . zz – The 1985 movie **Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins** is silly fun, an action-packed romp with a surprising density of clever lines. The other day I . . .

2010-08-28

• 21:30 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-13 - Going Green Track Meet . . . . zz – My dinner at 6pm: greasy french fries dusted with Old Bay seasoning + chunks of milk chocolate + a leftover pancake found in the refrigerator + a couple of big glasses of Pepsi Cola. The not-too-surprising result ...

2010-08-27

• 08:47 UTC (new) (history) Commit to a Time . . . . zz – **Sneaky Management Trick #106**: ask the employee to name the date when a task will be completed. If s/he mentions events which might arise and . . .

2010-08-26

• 08:48 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-11 - Balls Hill and Back . . . . zz – === ~6 miles @ ~10 min/mi | Torque a nerve till tingles linger Tie taut tendons into knots Twist cartilage to mangled tangles Tear ligaments . . .
• 08:43 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-09 - Parking Lot Laps . . . . zz – === ~4.5 miles @ ~9 min/mi A jackhammer is busting up the concrete sidewalk, preparatory to replacing some slabs, as I trot out to circle the . . .

2010-08-25

• 08:39 UTC (new) (history) Rule of 200 . . . . zz – Want to make progress on a major long-term writing project? There's excellent inspirational advice in Erin E. Templeton's brief essay . . .

2010-08-24

• 08:34 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-07 - Gayatri's Loop Plus . . . . zz – === ~30 miles @ ~13.2 min/mi | http://zhurnaly.com/images/running/CCT_RCT_Loop_Plus_2010-08-07.jpg | "Vanity of vanity, all is vanity." . . .

2010-08-23

• 08:42 UTC (new) (history) Get to Work . . . . zz – A bumper sticker for managers: | %%Mission Happens%% | ... meaning sometimes you've just gotta buckle down an do the dirty job that you're . . .

2010-08-22

• 08:11 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-05 - Solo Speedwork . . . . zz – === ~5 miles @ ~9 min/mi A yellow-and-black caterpillar with an orange head humps its way along a twig; unfortunately, the twig is lying on the . . .

2010-08-21

• 08:38 UTC (new) (history) Cursorial . . . . zz – A vocabulary word to join [[Angus Phillips|crepuscular]] in the animal be scrahavior pbook: //cursorial//, referring to an animal specifically . . .

2010-08-20

• 08:41 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-02 - Woodsy Loops . . . . zz – === ~3 miles @ ~10 min/mi I'm not planning to run on this humid morning, but kind Stephanie pings me and drags me out for two laps on the paved . . .
• 08:38 UTC (new) (history) 2010-08-01 - Rock Creek Trail . . . . zz – === 8+ miles @ ~14 min/mi Caren Jew meets me at the Lake Needwood parking lot and downstream we head along RCT, taking walk breaks as needed and . . .

2010-08-19

• 08:37 UTC (new) (history) Boolean Satisfaction . . . . zz – Recently in the news: a purported proof that P ≠ NP. It's an important issue in computational complexity, one of the famous . . .

2010-08-18

• 08:40 UTC (new) (history) Weak Power . . . . zz – | The less power somebody has, the more they abuse it! | //**^z**// - 2010-08-18
• 00:47 UTC (diff) (history) 2 Comments on Who Moved My Cheese . . . . zz – Tnx, Caren! --- for some reason //**my**// boss really laughed at this review too ...(^_^) ... ^z

2010-08-17

• 16:13 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on High School Suit . . . . Caren – Nice picture!
• 08:42 UTC (new) (history) 2010-07-31 - Catoctin 42k . . . . zz – "It's not a race, it's a training run!" I tell Kate during the days before today's trot over the hills, across the rocks, and through the woods of northern Maryland. Officially we're in the Catoctin 50k race. But we both agree ...

2010-08-16

• 12:17 UTC (new) (history) Who Moved My Cheese . . . . zzz – **Who Moved My Cheese?** is a win-win-win little book: * if you like it, you're cool about change and flexibility at work—good job! * . . .

2010-08-15

• 12:57 UTC (new) (history) High School Suit . . . . zz – Mark Zimmermann in an official photograph, ca. 1970, John H. Reagan High School, Austin, Texas. My how times flies!

2010-08-14

• 11:33 UTC (new) (history) 2010-07-28 - Parking Lot Laps . . . . zz – === ~3 miles @ ~10 min/mi I'm ready to taper for the Catoctin 50k next Saturday, but colleague Stephanie wants to run so I meet her at 7:30am and . . .

2010-08-13

• 08:34 UTC (new) (history) Statistics - A Bayesian Perspective . . . . zz – If understanding uncertainty is important to good critical thinking, then so is Bayesian statistics. New evidence comes in: how does that change . . .

2010-08-12

• 16:52 UTC (diff) (history) [[rollback]] . . . . – Comments_on_JFK_50_Miler_2009 (minor)
• 16:52 UTC (diff) (history) 3 Comments on JFK 50 Miler 2009 . . . . zzz – Rollback to 2010-08-08 19:41 UTC
• 08:37 UTC (new) (history) 2010-07-27 - Woodsy Loop . . . . zz – === ~5 miles @ ~10 min/mi Passing thunderstorms on Sunday have left tree limbs and smaller branches strewn across and around the pathway. My legs . . .

2010-08-11

• 08:45 UTC (diff) (history) HomePage . . . . zz – update "What's New?"
• 08:42 UTC (new) (history) Up Your Mileage . . . . zz – After intermittent twinging for some months, my right knee felt fine during and after the 53.7 mile trek that Kate Abbott and I took together . . .

2010-08-10

• 08:52 UTC (new) (history) 2010-07-25 - Riley's Rumble . . . . zz – === 13.1 miles @ ~9.0 min/mi | After a mile my crimson shirt is sweat-soaked and comes off, to wrap around an arm. It's my first run in new . . .

2010-08-09

• 08:48 UTC (new) (history) House Moving . . . . zz – Last month my Father, Werner Zimmermann, drove my son Robin and me around the east-central Texas area he grew up in. A striking feature of his . . .

2010-08-08

• 23:30 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on GentlemenPreferBlondes . . . . comment move – 'Utilitarian' - sacrificing some happiness in order to marry a wealthy man or an attractive woman...? I thought maybe 'egalitarian' (no . . .
• 23:29 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on WidthIllusions . . . . comment move – Just guessing, based on //far// too little data: Maybe you're comparing the width of the bridge to the width of the highway. I remember the local . . .
• 15:39 UTC (new) (history) Yoga and Mudra . . . . Mark Zimmermann – A Dahn yoga ad caught my eye several years ago in a local newspaper, and I've been carrying around a ragged-torn copy ever since. Somehow the lotus position—calm, open, balanced, meditative, almost-but-not-quite symmetric—captivates my mind. ...

2010-08-07

• 08:31 UTC (new) (history) 2010-07-21 - LBJ 800s . . . . Mark Zimmermann – === ~8.9 miles @ ~10 min/mi As the sun rises I spy a big baggy pair of reversible black/white nylon shorts by the sidewalk on the way to the LBJ . . .

2010-08-06

• 08:37 UTC (new) (history) Consparancy and Transpiracy . . . . Mark Zimmermann – A slip-of-the-tongue by a lecturer a few days ago: "transpiracy" //(she pronounced it "trans-PEER-a-see")//. What might it mean? A transparent . . .

2010-08-05

• 08:43 UTC (new) (history) 2010-07-20 - Tangle of Trails . . . . Mark Zimmermann – The mountain bike courses have apt names: "Tangle of Trails" ... "Hill of Despair" ... "Severe Consequences" ...

2010-08-04

• 09:15 UTC (new) (history) Without Effort, Analysis, or Expectation . . . . Mark Zimmermann – **Finding the Quiet** by Paul Wilson is a thoughtful guide to mindfulness meditation. In the second chapter, the section called "The art of . . .
• 01:13 UTC (new) (history) 1 Comment on Like Any World of Gree . . . . Mark Zimmermann – I found a copy of the March 1966 **Worlds of Tomorrow** sf 'zine online, ordered it, and recently reread "Like Any World of Gree". Alas, the story is . . .

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