A new iPod Shuffle was released today. The hype? No buttons! Except… there are… on the headphone cord. Users who hate Apple earbuds and opt for something else? I guess we’re all lost customers. Old = Better. Stupid, stupid move. This will not sell well and we’ll see something similar to the previous generation come
[Retitled because my sister doesn’t like the word “gooey” unless it has to do with baked goods. She removed the word “fetus” from her most recent post for me, making this a fair deal.] I bought a nifty body-fat scale a few years ago, but never seem to use that function… The last time I
I’ve been 100% against the whole idea of sharing EVEN MORE of my life with the world via Twitter for a while now. I’ve got this blog for the big items and I’ve got Facebook for the quick updates. Unfortunately, being an uber-geek means resistance to something like this is futile. Similarly, I swore off
Another weekend, another race. As Ms. Caitlin was away, I woke up at 8:15 for this 10am race, grabbed a bite to eat, dressed up, forgot my watch, and was off. Temperature was right around freezing with very light precipitation. Unfortunately, the race was on a dirt trail that is on the perimeter of the
So a friend recently posted this on a message board I frequent. Since childhood, I’ve had some odd ability to do simple [operator] math in my head very quickly. The following test is exactly that: He claims they are giving this to potential office administrators and having a 50% fail rate (and, in fact, he
So Caitlin and I raced again yesterday. This time, we woke up at 5am and journeyed up to Columbia, MD, to represent our team (DC Road Runners Club) in the RRCA Ten Mile Challenge. We had no big plans (I was thinking 1:10, she was thinking 1:16:59) as this was just another part of training.