I'm definitely itchin' to try this shizz!!!

i love practical jokes... and this one, well, just watch.

My apartment could use some redecorating

now, if i could just fine these fabulous pieces...

Carl sagan's words: as important now as they were then

i finished reading carl sagan's the dragons of eden several weeks ago, but i've been consistently haunted by the hard-hitting foreshadowy warning he scribed in the very last pages.

he wrote (in 1977 mind you):

"There is today in the West (but not in the East) a resurgent interest in vague, anecdotal and often demonstrably erroneous doctrines that, if true, would betoken at least a more interesting universe, but that, if false, imply an intellectual carelessness, an absence of toughmindedness, and a diversion of energies not very promising for our survival.  Such doctrines include astrology (the view that which stars, one hundred trillion miles away, are rising at the moment of my birth in a closed building affect my destiny profoundly); the Bermuda Triangle "mystery" (which holds in many versions that an unidentified flying object lives in the ocean off Bermuda and eats ships and airplanes); flying saucer accounts in general; the belief in ancient astronauts; the photography of ghosts; pyramidology (including the view that my razor blade stays sharper within a cardboard pyramid than within a cardboard cube); Scientology; auras and Kirlian photography; the emotional lives and musical preferences of geraniums; psychic surgery; flat and hollow earths; modern prophecy; remote cutlery warping; astral projections; Velikovskian catastrophism; Atlantis and Mu; spiritualism; and the doctrine of the special creation, by God or gods, of mankind despite our deep relatedness, both in biochemistry and in brain physiology, with the other animals.  It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack of intellectual rigor, an absence of skepticism, a need to replace experiments by desires."

and now i ask you this: HAS ANYTHING CHANGED???????

Victory, sweet victory

my top 4% finish at the chicago marathon sunday was as exhilarating as it was mind-blowing. running at the front of a pack of 45,000 people was something i had never done before and being treated to the neverending cheers from 1.7 million spectators gave me the energy to fly without much perceived effort... until about the 23 mile mark, where i conveniently asked myself: "whose legs are these?!?!"

nevertheless, i kept pushing. hard. then harder. then HARDER. until i crossed the line with a dizzy disposition.

it was a little too warm for my liking, so my time wasn't as good as i thought my legs were capable, but finishing at 3 hours 20 minutes and 49 seconds was good enough for a top 4% finish and a to-date personal best time at the distance.

next up: two 50K trail races (one in texas and one in indiana in november and december respectively), then on to houston in january for another sub 3:15 marathon attempt.

as one of my best buddies would say: HOT MUTHAFUCKIN DOG!!!

Lolzy lolz lolz

This woman could have the head of a rabid wildebeast...

... and i'd still make her my wife.

probably.

maybe.

let me think about it.

(image via hcibs)

also, i'm pretty sure i've posted this pic before. oh well.

Inquiring minds wanna know

the world is full of shit that can get ya down (politics, religion, the kardashians)... but sometimes  we have to just be happy with what we have.

and today you can be happy that **THIS** exists.

ENJOY THE LAUGH ON ME YO!

!!!

That ain't no "candy dispenser"

growing up with six sisters, i certainly visited my share of women's restrooms. for those of you fellas not in the know, they are (generally speaking): MUCH cleaner; EXPANSIVE; FULL of furniture, including couches, daybeds and chairs; and YES, they have these... things... that LOOK like candy dispensers.

but they ain't.

just sayin'.

(p.s. our graffiti art, men, is far superior)

What i'm doing

if you're reading this between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. chicago time, well, this is what i'm doing. i'm running like a madman through the streets of my beloved city. in fact, miles 20 through 24 take you right through my neighborhood.

this is either going to be the greatest running achievement of my life thus far or a colossal failure... either way, i'll tell ya all about it and not get too hung up if things don't work out the way i want them to.

HOLLLA!

DISCLAIMER: this is NOT a slam on steve jobs

steve jobs was an exceptional visionary -- a man who stood on the grounds of indvidualistic thought and eschewed the dreary caverns of blind-faith delusional dogma.

that being said, this little promo for what the 4s siri can do is a little over the top for my liking.

to me, it says that we are perfectly okay with being lazy bastards.