Warmup

Had to do at least one practice run prior to the half marathon. Well,
Other than the 10 miles on a treadmill a month ago. So, decided to go for a run around Boston to freshen up the legs for next Sunday.

Ran the route shown (9 miles). Figured I had to run up the hill to Harvard and let that stand-in for John Harvard know just what I think about him, his school, and Harvard graduates. They are as fake as the sculpture of their supposed founder.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvard_(statue)

Then crawled down Cambridge to the science museum and went back up the Charles river esplanade and back to the hotel. Stopped along the way for a pic of a bridge our Duck driver had driven under the previous evening.

Little sore. Even in the heat, Boston is a nice place to run. Harvard and Cambridge street reek of trash, so next time I will stay along the river. My class hatred needs no further stoking.

Team building with magic shrooms

Pretty funny what people will go through to try and improve morale . . . . 

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Paintballing The Boss: Office Team-Building Exercises Gone Bad
by Yuki Noguchi

NPR - July 8, 2014

Who can forget that game of Twister played in a skirt? Or the failed "trust fall" where the boss ends up on the ground?...

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/08/329527787/paintballing-the-boss-office-team-building-exercises-gone-bad?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

His only mistake was . . .

Assuming doctors are smart.

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Do doctors understand test results?

Doctors have a poor grasp of statistics, an expert says, making it hard for patients to make the right treatment choices.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28166019

Companies have more rights than people

First free speech, now religious freedom for corporations.

I suppose something that only exists on paper is allowed to believe in other things that only exist in paper.

But on another plane, at what point do you just admit that the USA is a total plutocracy?

If that's what we are comfortable being, fine. Just open up and admit it.

I'm not fine with pretending that we
are a democracy. We are at best a (very) loose representative democracy with an extreme addiction to capital.


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Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/28093756

Hahahahahahahhaaaaa!!!!!!

Greeks lose with a man advantage for a whopping 54+ minutes!

What a great way to watch them lose. Hopefully they'll go home and finish burning down their pathetic country.

Ahhhhh - Awesome. Made my day!!!!!

Greeks . . . Disappointing as usual

Watching their World Cup game. Apparently they can only score when there are only ten people on the other team.

Not surprising. For a bunch of Nazis.

Gotta hand it to him

Frank has got a point . . .

Zombies are real

They play in the World Cup. If he was a dog, they would put him down.

I saw this story on the BBC News iPhone App and thought you should see it:

Suarez needs treatment - Valcke

Luis Suarez must seek treatment after being found guilty of biting an opponent for a third time, says Fifa's Jerome Valcke.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/28058345


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Have you met my friend frank?

Tell him and his bunny friends to get off my lawn . . .

Lost Decade

Today is day I don't know.  I've lost track.  But for the first time in a long time, I'm starting to feel like my old self.  The sharp edge is returning.

To be honest, I forgot how much I enjoyed it.  So much so that when I randomly took center stage at the end of a meeting today and told people exactly what I thought, the room stopped.  Jaws dropped.  And I felt good.

And I used to be such a nice person.  Or, did I?

Who and where have I been all this time?  Dulled senses cleared, I remember the positive sides of clarity.  I can look in the mirror and see what's there.  And I have no choice but to accept it and choose my path.  Swim in it, down in the dirt. 

Almost nothing I like better.

Coming up on seven years ago is when things got a bit off track.  Thus the graphic.  A select few will know what I'm talking about.

It's not like that was the first time.  Grad school was pretty much an opening act to what happened at the Rock.   More of a warmup, really.  That's what school is for, right?  Getting you ready for the real world?

And my education was, in other than academic respects, excellent.

One year of nothing afterwards and three of being elsewhere.  Then, for some reason, I had to go back to the Rock and paint my PM masterpiece. 

Now, like some sort of failed transfusion, total rejection of the PM lifestyle and back to technical work.  Sort of but not quite like what I was doing in the events leading up to 09.11.07

Only now there's no one to fight.  Except myself.

I can see now that like so many others I was trying to forget.  But now I don't want to forget.  I want to remember every detail and savor it in my own special way.

"I can see the sunlight coming over the horizon . . . . "

The coming plague gets a step closer . . .

A rather messy solution to global warming, don't you think?

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I found the following story on the NPR iPad App

West Africa Is 'Overwhelmed' By Ebola
by Marc Silver

NPR - June 20, 2014

The sheer number of places where Ebola is popping up — in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia — puts a strain on medical workers. They're still trying to control the outbreak that began in February.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/20/323985117/west-africa-is-overwhelmed-by-ebola?sc=ipad&f=1001