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My legs were telling me not to go, but did I listen? No. I rationalized that since I was taking a shorter route that it would be a nice easy run. My short route, however, is my hill route. I ended up punishing my calves a bit too hard as

Yesterday evening I went back to the gym. I haven’t been in a while for a variety of reasons, but I guess mostly because it’s easier to just put my shorts on and run if I want a workout. It was a pretty abbreviated visit, but I touched

Actually, my plan was for four runs: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Friday. Instead I ran Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday. Total miles this week: 17.65. I watched my pace slow as the week went on, so for next week I think I’ll shorten two of the runs and maybe make

http://implicit.harvard.edu/ The Implicit Association Test measures how easy it is for us to associate concepts to one another and provides measurements for our automatic preferences. The results may be shocking as they may reveal the effect of strong cultural biases that the subject is either unaware of

There once was a time when Quark XPress was the gold standard of design software. The Quark loyalists (and I was one) wouldn’t go near a competing product even for a favorable interview in Communication Arts. Adobe kept on putting out «Quark Killers» with new features in PageMaker and

On and off I’ve been reading both Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits and a book about unconscious judgments called Blink, written by Malcolm Gladwell. Covey’s book cautions that one should not expect change without hard work and rigorous, honest self-appraisal. He specifically writes that it may be useful

Yeah, navel-gazing. I’m reading more from Covey’s Seven Habits and he describes this wonderful thing we have that animals presumably don’t, called self-awareness. He says that we are superior and have dominion over the earth because of this ability to observe our thoughts and feelings and understand