May 2008 Archives

Today's long run is 16 miles. I'm doing most of the second half of the SF Marathon course, plus the mileage getting to my starting point and home from the race end point. I've run segments of this course many times in the past, but this is the first time I will do the Embarcadero - Mission loop and then continue on to Golden Gate Park. Usually I stop and go home when I get back to the lower Haight.

By the way, I don't just post these maps to brag (although the e-peen opportunities are appreciated). I'll actually have this page loaded in Safari on my iPhone while I run so that I can doublecheck the course when I forget where I'm going or get lost.

Today's run soundtrack: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré.
 

Today is the first day of the early access program for Age of Conan. I've spent the last couple hours installing and patching the game, and I should be in soon. For anybody else who might be playing, I'm planning to roll a guardian named Locnar on the Set PvE server. Although I was initially drawn to the dark templar based on its description in the manual, I theorized that tanks would be as scarce in this game as they are in all others, and since I love tanking in WoW, I'll step up and play that role in this game too. Signs point to guardians being able to do reasonable amounts of damage too, so hopefully leveling with a defensive spec won't be as awful as it is in WoW.

Anybody else planning to play AoC? Share your details!

I've been on Twitter for a while, but only recently started using it in earnest. I've got 'rific, have my Growl notifications up, and run a few Tweetscans through my feed reader to rush to the rescue of JRubyists in trouble. But I try to do something it seems most tweeters don't: I try not to crapflood my followers with useless bullshit.

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That's meant unfollowing people that tweet nothing but their travel schedules, where in the house they happen to be sitting, what great new product their company just released, and a load of other nonsense. That's meant not following everyone that follows me, especially if their primary topics include walking the dog and taking out the trash.

http://headius.blogspot.com/2008/05/culling-herd.html

Huzzah! We should form a club. We could call it the I-Dont-Care-How-Awesome-The-Band-You-Are-Watching-Perform-Right-Now-Is-
I-Dont-Want-Twelve-Tweets-An-Hour-About-It Club.

The Bush Administration has until May 15 to decide whether to place the polar bear on the Endangered Species list. Tell Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne that the polar bear, and its fragile Arctic habitat, requires protection from the effects of global warming. Sign the petition today.

http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/s/polarbears

Do it for Iorek Byrnison!