Oct 4 2005
Today Sam uttered his 7th word. He grabbed a candy bar in the supermarket, thrust it towards Gina, and uttered, "Buy."
Meanwhile, Ana was exhibiting her consumerism in a more sinister manner. Upon getting the groceries to the car, she showed Gina a package of Halls that she had swiped. "See?" she said impishly. Gina marched her back inside, and made her say sorry to the grocery clerk (who was having trouble holding back the laughter.)
Sep 24 2005
I had the 97th fastest swim in the 2005 Vancouver Sprint Triathlon--or 58th slowest, depending on how you want to look at it. It took 17 minutes for me to swim 750 meters, 38 minutes to bike 19km, and then 22 minutes to run 5km. Overall, I finished 27th. It was lots of fun, and has me psyched to do more triathlons next year.
Sep 12 2005
I ran 20 miles today, my longest run ever. Everything's shaping up well for my marathon on October 9th. Unfortunately for Gina, she got bad shoe advice from the Running Room. After a single 10-mile run, her arch started to collapse. She's been unable to run for a week, so her marathon ambitions have been dashed. She's still hoping to run the half.
Sep 7 2005
From Forrester Research: IT's inability to market effectively cements its cost center role in the enterprise: communicating status but not value, fulfilling requests but not solving problems, and partially deploying technologies but not delivering expected results. IT organizations need to embrace the concepts, terminology, and process of marketing -- creating marketing plans, executing campaigns, and boosting brand equity. The result will be delivery of the right projects for the right audience, accelerated time to benefit, and increased trust of the IT organization. The firms that embrace the marketing of IT first will be those with customer-facing technology, shared services, and strong process discipline.
Aug 25 2005
DG pointed out to me that every single picture on my blog has someone with their mouth open. This one won't disappoint. Guess we're a family of Big Mouths.
Aug 18 2005
I had a meeting in Whistler yesterday. On the way back home, I stopped at
Browning Lake and tried out my new
19 Riptide wetsuit. My only other wetsuit experiences were with old, ill-fitting wetsuits that I borrowed. This one fits like a glove and is designed specifically for triathlons. It practically did the swimming for me! It gives me a little more confidence that I can do the swim portion of the
Vancouver Triathlon next month without drowning.
Aug 11 2005
Understanding sarcasm is this huge mental feat. From "The Guardian Weekly": "First, the language centre in the brain's left hemisphere interprets the literal meaning of words. Next, the frontal lobes and right hemisphere process the speaker's intention and check for contradictions between the literal meaning and the social and emotional context. Finally, the right ventromedial prefontal cortex--our sarcasm meter--makes a decision based on our social and emotional knowledge of the situation." Wow. Just the thought of hearing a sarcastic comment exhausts me.
Jul 28 2005
If you don't have a GPS, try the
Google Pedometer. It's a hack of Google Maps, and it lets you trace out any route and get a distance calculation. It was put together by a marathoner from Britain.
Jul 26 2005
Sam has been drooling since he was born. People always ask me if he's teething. If teething means getting new teeth, I guess he'll be teething until he's twelve.
Jul 25 2005
I've been working on redesigning my training schedule for the
marathon. This month's Runner's World talks about the
FIRST running program, which has you doing just 3 intense running workouts a week plus 2 cross-training days. Another great site is
McMillan Running--check out their
calculator for figuring out how fast you could run for any distance. And to find an event in the Lower Mainland for any weekend you want, see the
BC Athletics Calendar.
