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Interests: Procrastinating, reading the newspaper, reading other people's blogs, sailing, rollerblading, causing trouble, biking, talking, and did I mention generally procrastinating.
Expertise: Acting like a cheapskate traveler, not getting upgraded while flying.
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3/10/2003
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| Training log,...They say keep track of your mileage on the bike, average speed and the like.
Although I was tempted by a light carbon fiber bike on ebay - (not one of those $5000 jobs, but a $2000 bike, which seemed be being sold at a bit of a discount) I guess I'll stick with the Italian thing I've now got 3000+ miles on the odometer,
today - 40.93 miles - 2 hours 49 minutes - average 14.5 mph.
total for the year - 1006.73 miles
total on the odometer - 3009.2 miles.
Am I getting faster??? hard to say... I know people who will average 16mph without a sweat, and there's probably guys in the saturday club who'll average 18. And the gearheads on the carbon fiber jobs, and the thousand dollar wheels, probably will easily do over 20... sigh...
Maybe my wife is right, I should buy the bike, if for the only reason that I might ride faster and get home earlier.
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| Word for the day - schadenfreudescha·den·freu·de ( shäd'n-froi'də)  n. Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. [German : Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from frō
, happy).] I suppose it's kind of sad and pathetic that I know what this word means, although the first time I made reference. A person who actually spoke German, told me that it wasn't exactly a nice word, and that there's a slighly evil connotation to it. Mostly right now it's used to describe what people feel about the crash of wall street.
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| Word for the day - BrobdingnagianBrob·ding·nag·i·an (brŏb'dĭng-năg'ē-ən)
adj.Immense; enormous.
[After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]
Currently the NY times was using it to describe the credit default swap market, or rather the size of the financial institutions currently going under. Bear Sterns was small, Freddie and Fannie, Lehman Brothers, now Merril... But AIG... as much as we all are indifferent or worse to insurance, the diversification of risk is part of the grease that keeps our economy going.
On the scale of this crisis, this is big...
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| Role models of your ethnicity.Okay this isn't the best post and not the most complete, but I tended to grow up in LA, where enough of the rest of my classmates were also Chinese, and pretty much American born Chinese as well. However for some of my friends who were raised in say... the midwest... it wasn't so easy to find friends who looked like you.
Angry Asian man goes on about not finding role models on TV. He looked up to Bruce Lee and got frustrated that every Asian, seemed to be a characiture of the landlord in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
When someone asked:
"Wasn't there a lack of people of your ethnicity, when you were watching TV, weren't you looking for a role model?"
My wife had the snarky response as follows:
"I don't have that problem, I was raised on a tv diet of Kung-fu movies and Hong Kong soap operas."
Long live the VCR,
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| A close one.....Almost involved in a plane crash today.... Really.
This isn't a typical day at Boston's Logan Airport...
09:44 -> AC356 pilot reads back landing clearance for 32L
10:07 -> UA 699: pilot reads back takeoff clearance
10:21 -> Tower: "United 699, we're going to cancel that. Abort the takeoff."
10:27 -> UA 699: "We're stopping the takeoff."
10:30 -> Tower: "Are you able to make that turn off to your right."
10:34 -> UA 699: "Negative. We'll have to take the next one at the intersection."
10:38 -> Tower: "OK United 699. Sorry about that."
10:40 -> UA 600: "That's alright."
http://archive-server.liveatc.net/kbos/KBOS-Twr-Jul-11-2008-1300Z.mp3
(transcript about 1/3 of the way through)
At least they moved us from 27 (the runway) to 33L (the other runway, which was intersecting), so we didn't have to get back in line to take off.
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