5 Mile Run: Neighborhood

Late afternoon run before we go to see dinner and goto Delirum, a Cirque de Soleil event. I listened to the Daily Source Code by Adam Curry and ended the run jamming to the Gin Blossoms. Data: Distance: 5 Miles Time: 49:11 Heart Rate: 158 Pace: 9:48 Weather: Clear skies, 75 degrees

3 Mile Run: Neighborhood

The wife has been ill, so a not so early run as I had to get our son ready for school AND take him to school. Normally, we share these tasks. A good run nonetheless. I listened to the Daily Source Code and The Vines. Which made me think of some irony. I bought The Vines because of an iPod commercial. Yet, I don't own an iPod as it would require me to re-rip or convert music I have ripped already. I don't want to spend any time recapturing music I have already captured. So, I bought the Creative Zen Sleek because it supported MP3 and Microsoft's format. [side thought: I remember purchasing LP's to given them a thorough clean and deionizing to record onto cassette. Good clean sound, little wear and tear, and portability. I already repurchased and re-ripped much music once] It doesn't end there though. I was recently listening to a podcast of Peter Coffee, eWeek based podcasts. He correctly noted that the recording industry just doesn't get it. The more they invest in suing customers and making DRM so onerous that we can't easily get music, we will just do it illegitimately. I don't support stealing music (file sharing copyrighted material) AT ALL. I buy CDs, rip them, put them on my MP3 player and share with no one. Why? Because, I can BUY the music and get it how I want it easily. In fact, I have purchased 1 song from iTunes. I couldn't legitimately convert it to something I could use. The end of iTunes utility for me. I went and bought the CD (yes, for just 1 song). I recently tried to buy a song from other sources that I could put on my player. Every single site I found wanted me to install their "jukebox'. Are you kidding me? I don't want you f**king software. I want the music. I already have more jukeboxes then I know what to do with. Fortunately, I realized I had the CD already. I just hadn't ripped it. Hint to music industry: give us a easy, reasonable, legitimate way to pay for music without sneaking software (sometime insecure software) on to my machine. Don't try to corner me into a single provider for hardware or software. To do otherwise, makes us both consider doing things that really doesn't help either of us. Get a f**king clue. OK, the irony turned into a rant. EXCUSE ME! (Not) Data: Distance: 3 Miles Time: 29:04 Heart Rate: 156 Pace: 9:40 Weather: Mostly sunny, 52 degrees

10.5 Mile Run: Brownell - Shades Creek Greenway

Started off quite cold, but I ended up peeling and draping layers over the belt of my mp3 player's holder. Over all, a beautiful day. I neglected to note that during last week's long run, I had a nose bleed. Seems like something that should go to the log. I started the run by finishing Adam Curry's latest "Charlie"(show 360). And, I must admit after listening I have go to godaddy.com. During the show he referenced the latest Playboy which apparently features the "godaddy" girl whom Adam describes as drop dead gorgeous. Well, I went and there is a girl on the main page, but I'm not blown over. She is attractive, but not enough to even get close to being on "the list". OK, I don't have a list, but if I did... No insult to her intended. Just wondering what is the brouhaha. She must not be the one. Looked a little further and found GoDaddy's TV Commercials (look under Go Daddy Girl). Now, I see what the brouhaha is. Morality still has to stop me, eh? I also listened to the latest Phedippidations. Well, Steve is struggling with some shin pain which may ultimately prevent him from running Boston this year. Dang, I sure hope not. All runners know what it is like to train and plan for such a big event only to have to cancel in the end. It is a HUGE let down. Steve, I wish you the best man! By the way, he mentions going out while in some pain to run 12 or 20 miles depending on the level of the pain. My experience has been that if the source of the pain is not DOMS (delayed onset of muscle soreness), then running through it makes it worse in the end. But, running through some pain works for some runners. I am pretty much a "if it hurts, I don't run". I concluded the run with the The Foo Fighters, There is Nothing Left to Lose, and Jack Johnson, In Between Dreams. I love this Foo Fighters CD, but for some silly reason hadn't ripped it despite the fact that I have owned it for so long. Rectified that problem this week. I bought 2 Jack Johnson CD's after hearing one on them during the cool down period a recent session of the MuscleWorks class I attend at our gym. Great CDs. Data: Distance: 10.5 Miles Time: 1:41:52 Heart Rate: 157 Pace: 9:42 Weather: Most clear skies, 35 degrees to start, 47 degrees at the finish Route: Gmap

3 Mile Run: Neighborhood

A short afternoon run to get the mileage in. Once again, I got caught on Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. These more frequent postings of his show have just about murdered all other mp3 listening on my part. Data Distance: 3 Time: 29:04 Heart Rate: 154 Pace: 9:41 Weather: I can't remember as it took me too long to get to log... (I ran on Jan 10th, logged on 12th)

5 Mile Run: Neighborhood

Another early morning run, and it was cold. I had almost forgot about running in the cold. I listened to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. Data Distance: 5 Time: 49:59 Heart Rate: 152 Pace: 10:00 Weather: Clear skies and 35 degrees.

3 Mile Run: Neighborhood

Another run just catching up on Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. Sounds like Comic Strip Blogger and Adam are falling out. CSB sounds a little mean so not too surprised. Good run.

Data

Distance: 3
Time: 30:20
Heart Rate: 149
Pace: 10:07
Weather: Cold front coming in. Partly clouding and 46 degrees.

9 Mile Run: Brownell - Shades Creek Greenway

I listened to the latest Phedippidations which was a good show about a race Steve ran in. The race is held in remembrance of police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. The race is called the Boston's Run to Remember Half-Marathon. The show was done very well. For music, I concluded the run with 3 Doors Down's album titled "The Better Life". Great CD! Data: Distance: 9 Miles Time: 1:21:29 Heart Rate: 153 Pace: 9:03 Weather: Cloudy (occasional light showers), 45 degrees Route: Brownell to Brookwood Mall, to Shades Creek Green way, to the end with a 2 mile add on at the end see map.

ifilm Update

OK. Well, since I have been checking out the videos on ifilm, I might as well list some that not only caught my eye, but after watching made me think, disturbed me, and such. Some of these are graphic and potentially disturbing. I note so by each one that is particularly likely to be such. Watch at your discretion and be forewarned.

• Arab-American Psychologist giving ‘em hell: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2703896 and http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2706375 (note the MEMRI is biased forum thread contains some interesting tidbits to read.)
  
• Checkout this sniper (no blood & guts), just shows him shooting and you can hear his comments and radio chatter. It is amazing how matter of fact it is.
• A message for us from the enemy (the audio may be disturbing so watch and listen at your own risk).
• Palestinian children, clerics, parents talk of the glory of “Shahada” (suicide bombing). It is almost too much to believe.
• Suicide bomber in Baghdad has a bad day (I am warning you it is graphic, but only he got hurt and that real bad).
  

3 Mile Run: Neighborhood

A quick (well not for better runners) afternoon run. No CD's on this run, I got caught on Adam Curry's Daily Source Code.

I have been checking out some of the video on www.ifilm.com based on threads on www.curry.com in response to Adam's comments that we should see more coverage like that done in Vietnam in order for us to adapt an informed and likely anti-war position against the Iraq war. Personally, I thought it was a mistake to go to Iraq from the beginning. I think it is terrible that after we discovered that virtually every premise except that Sadam was an asshole proved wrong, we didn't hold the administration to acccount. And, no doubt it is a huge mess now. I did read in interesting forum comment (on www.ifilm.com no less) that it is amazing that an insurgence is being waged against us. That this insurgence continues to grow and yet, no insurgence against Sadam in his day. Hum! Can fight us but not him.... guess that explains why no one in Iraq danced in the street when we reach "Mission Accomplished".

But, the videos on this site all seem to be just as biased as those in the popular media. Truth is elusive from all angles. It is incredibly unfortunate that we humans can not find a better way to settle disputes and manage cultural differences. It absolutely sucks! It just makes me sick to my stomach sometimes to think of the suffering humans inflict on other humans regardless of who or what they are fighting for. It is a sick condition we should cure.

OK, enough ranting. I apologize.

Data

Distance: 3
Time: 29:21
Heart Rate: 150
Pace: 9:40
Weather: Partly clouding, 60 degrees

Podcast Update

• Daniel Steinberg, O'Reilly Media, talked about Advanced Audio Editing Techniques. As noted on the The Conversations Network write-up (contained at the page just linked), this is a very hands-on presentation. I found that without the ability to see what Daniel was doing during the presentation a lot was lost in this presentation. Still, he offers some good advice during the presentation that one can leverage especially in terms of protecting the context and flow of a recording even after editing.
• Christopher Thomas Scott, Stanford Program in Stem Cells and Society, talks with Dr. Moira Gunn about stem cell research and most particularly the alarming news about Dr. Wang's apparently faked research. The description at The Conversations Network didn't match what I heard during the presentation. He talked about how Hwang Woo-suk's research suffered from ethical problems and how some of the findings were fabrications. Very interesting!
  

Podcast Update

• Josh Knauer, Director of Advanced Development at MAYA Design, talked about InfoCommons. This was an information packed podcast that talks about how MAYA's Information Commons is remixing content from a wide variety of sources (read as web sites) to provide new and useful views of data and services. Lots of ambitious projects and innovative use of data. I highly recommend this one.
• Janna Anderson, Director of Internet Projects at Elon University, talked about Imagining the Internet. This was a very interesting presentation that reviewed some of the predictive statements made about the internet in its early days. Janna is a great presenter and this is a very interesting podcast.
  

6 Mile Run: Neighborhood

An early morning run during which I watched the sun come up. I love that, but find it hard to get out that early most of the time.

No CD's on this run, I got caught on Adam Curry's Daily Source Code. France may pass a law that makes it legal for users to convert DRM'd material for use on players that may not support the format purchased with the DRM controlled content. Go France! Additionally, they may set limits on fines for filesharing. Sounds like France is making things more rational then the music industry's scary stories of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't support stealing music (e.g., filesharing of copyrighted material). I do support the idea that if I buy a piece of music regardless of medium, that I want to use it for personal use in a large variety of contexts (i.e., running, driving, dancing in my living room, etc.).

Data

Distance: 6
Time: 1:00:57
Heart Rate: 151
Pace: 10:09
Weather: Overcast, 49 degrees

3 Mile Run: Neighborhood

A late afternoon run in cool temps. But, the sun is starting to hang around a little longer in the day. Yeppee! I hate running in the dark. I ran to Wilco today. Good CD, but a little mellow for running. I would still buy it, but reserve it for driving. Data: Distance: 3 Miles Time: 29:08 Heart Rate: 151 Pace: 9:43 Weather: Partly cloudy, 52 degrees

Podcast Update

Alex Lindsay, Chief Architect at PixelCorps, talks about The Next Generation of Digital Craftsman. Alex's positions remind of the next book I intend to read, Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat. Alex clearly believes that we should consider lowering our consumption to permit higher consumption for others around the world. I think he is right. Although, I am sure that I too would have to relinquish more then I do to be consistent. But, alas, ultimately it is about ensuring all can eat. It is not just outsourcing. There is a bigger picture. This is a good podcast that we should all listen too. And, then ponder how to be a responsible citizen of the planet. What is PixelCorps doing? Helping transfer knowledge to all parts of the world so they can build models to earn a living with digital technology. It does this using a guild model.

• Ben Lauri, Director of Security for the Apache Foundation, talked about Apache and SSL. It was interesting to hear him respond to Microsoft's assertions that IIS is so much more secure than Apache. Some statistics were thrown at him and he demonstrated how the statistics were questionable. He noted that Apache has always responded to threats within hours, while others take much longer. He also talked about Infocard and its utility for authentication. He seemed impressed and pleased in general. Although, he believes that InfoCard needs a C based module for true interoperability (a very interesting notion). This thought would imply that Java isn't every where we want to go! Great podcast.
• Paul Hitchman, Managing Director of PlayLouder, participated in a conversation as part of The Conversations Network's First Tuesday series. If you, like I, listen to Adam Curry's Daily Source Code and have an interest in the whole DRM, music download, peer-to-peer filesharing and such, then you would love this podcast. Paul has clearly been part of the digitization of music and the music industry's reaction to it. I get the sense that he believes that just suing the pants off of innovative companies ain't working. It ain't a matter of stopping digitalization, but managing it. Great presentation.
• Ray Ozzie, Yusuf Mehdi, and Gary Flake entertain a dinner crowd with a conversation about Microsoft. Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle kept them on their toes and asked probing and challenging questions. They did a good job of defending why some applications are not good targets for funding via ad words. They also demonstrated that Microsoft employs smart people. This was a lively and entertaining podcast. I highly recommend it.`
  

10.5 Mile Run: Brownell - Shades Creek Greenway

Checkout the Gmap of the route! Just discovered this cool feature via a link at our local running club site. What a beautiful day! I started the run with Phedippidations. Well, Steve put another zinger in for Tom Cruise (something about the aliens in Tom's head). Made me chuckle. I started daydreaming about a celebrity death match (think MTV) between Tom Cruise and Steve Runner. One would have to find a role in there for Brooke Shields knowing she would love to get a jab in on Cruise. On the only slightly more serious side, I think Steve said something about a podcast that is frequently on his playlist when he goes out for a run. Whoooooooooooooooa! Steve, in the show about safety you implied we shouldn't listen to mp3's while we run. Are you violating this dictum? I concluded the run with the Black Eyed Peas, Bridging the Gap. It is a good CD but it isn't up there with Elephunk and Monkey Business for motivating the feet to move during the run. It is much more of a driving or listening CD. Good stuff, but not for running. I enjoyed anyway. What the heck, I could have changed the selection, but didn't. Data: Distance: 10.5 Miles Time: 1:42:03 Heart Rate: 160 Pace: 9:43 Weather: Partly cloudy, 66 degrees

Podcast Update

• Anne Thomas Manes talked about Web Services and Open Source. As she normally does, she did an excellent job of quickly, accurately, and thoroughly covering the topic. However, the presentation is from August 2003 and if you follow web services and open source, you can tell the material is dated. However, many of the issues the viral influence of the GPL and corporate embracing of open source are still current. Good presentation.
• Bran Ferren, CCO (Chief Creative Officer - cool title), Applied Minds, Inc., delivered a presentation titled Web2.0 High Order Bit. He built the case that really good devices are frequently specifically designed for their targeted use. And, that the notion that a general purpose device withy general input devices like the mouse dramatically limit the usability of the computer for many of its current uses. He is right! Try to draw a picture with a mouse. Or, how many of use have drawn something on paper to scan it in. I know I have done it. Great presentation.
• Daniel Golding and Trent Henry, Senior Analysts at the Burton Group, delivered a presentation on Security and Network Perspectives on Spam. This was a great informative presentation about what is happening to prevent spam and its influence on business and our mailboxes. They mentioned the Sender Policy Framework, an open source project for adding some safety by registering email producers and setting up some sort of reputation service accordingly. This presentation will be of interest to anyone listening to the Daily Source Code and gaining interest in this issue as a result. Adam Curry has started a thread in his podcast on this email issue and the economy developing around it. Great presentation.
• Danny O'Brien, Activism Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, delivers a geekish funny keynote On Evil. If you closely follow open source (and I do mean closely), this is a very funny presentation. If you sort of follow it, then you won't get many of the punch lines. The presentation was right on target for its venue, O'Reillys 2005 Open Source Convention. For the general techie that I know, I suspect you will have more questions about the material behind the jokes. No slight to Danny. I believe he did a great job and for this venue, this was a great presentation. I enjoyed and missed many of the punch lines. :(
• Dr. Moira Gunn talks to Scott Ritter, a former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq. This was a very interesting presentation. What I found most interesting was Scott's assertions that the Bush administration was not really interested in the "real" findings of the weapon search given is bend toward regime change. I think he also validates that Saddam didn't help but not disclosing information in a manner that easily garnered trust from anyone.
• Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Tiffany Schlain, founder of the Webby Awards. This conversation included reminescing about what the web was like several years ago and how that contrasts with today. Tiffany has clearly been intimately in line with the journey and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to her perspectives. It was also interesting to her defend why Al Gore recently received an award for his real contributions to the Internet. Apparently, he didn't fully deserve the ribbing he got.
• Jamais Cascio, WorldChanging, talked about Personal Memory Assistants. This is the best presentation I have listened to in some time. Jamais talks about how technology is creating a situation where we can basically have TIVO for our live not just our TV's. He alludes to Orwell's 1984, but points out that what is happening is that little brother and little sister are the ones really watching each other. He notes several happenings in recent times that demonstrate attempted misuse of video recordings that were debunked by the milieu of other recordings of the same event. He builds on this theme to build the case that the time may becoming when dishonesty will be difficult. What if your finance and google your "real" history! Great job Jamais.
• Joichi Ito talks about The Future of Blogging. This interesting presentation talks about how the edges of mainstream are taking on more and more importance. Further, he notes that people no longer want the information sources to come from centralized giants. They want to participate and view the information of other participants. I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation.
• Larry Magid, Larry's World, talks with Saul Klein, VP Marketing at Skype, about (OK, you can guess) Skype. It was nice to listen to a Skype insider talk about its emergence and future. Very interesting.
• Leslie Lamb, Risk Manager at Cisco Systems, talks about Managing Risk in an Uncertain World. It was an interesting presentation, but mostly if you are a risk manager. She definitely knows her stuff. She stepped to deliver the presentation as the original speaker, from Cisco as well, was doing volunteer work to help Katrina recovery. Cisco is a great company and this presentation demonstrated why in more then one way.
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3 Mile Run: Columbia, SC

Well, my travel home got interrupted by mother nature and flight alterations. So, I am stuck in Columbia instead of on my way home. I am staying in a hotel near the airport. I ran along the frontage road. Uneventful run and it helped ease the travel stress. I miss the family and can't wait to get home. I leave at 6:55 am. I jammed to The Wired CD.

Data:

Distance: 3 Miles
Time: 27:11
Heart Rate: Not measured
Pace: 9:04
Weather: Cloudy, 65 degrees

5 Mile Run: Columbia, SC

I didn't get into Columbia until after 11:00 pm and the hotel until near midnight. So, I slept as long as possible knowing that I had to be ready to dial into a meeting at 8:00 am. I started the meeting in sweaty running clothes. I jammed to Puddle of Mudd which is one of my favorite CD. Data: Distance: 5 Miles Time: 47:21 Heart Rate: Not measured Pace: 9:28 Weather: Clear skies, 51 degrees

3 Mile Run: Treadmill in Ramsey, NJ

So, send a southern boy to the northeast, park him next to a very busy highway with no alternative, but run at least 1/4 of mile on it, and watch him run for shelter! Yep, I went for the threadmill instead of those conditions in 34 degrees and dark external conditions. But, I did crank up the pace and enjoyed jamming to the The Cars. Data: Distance: 3 Miles Time: 25:34 Heart Rate: Not measured Pace: 8:31 Weather: Indoors

Podcast Update

You must be thinking "man, did this guy quit listening to anything except Adam Curry's Daily Source Code and Phedippidations?" Well, you wouldn't be far from the truth. I have listened to the following podcasts over that last weeks, but only a little at a time. For some, I simply can't say much about them as too much time has passed an my brain has grown fuzzy.

• Josh Bancroft talks about Podcasting from Mobile Devices. This was a good presentation especially if you are new to podcasting. Josh clearly knows his stuff.
• Omid Kordestani, Google, participated in a conversation where many topics were covered. While I don't remember all of the details, I know this was a good podcast. I do remember the Google 80/20 work week. Each employee gets 1 day a week to do what ever they want! Man, could I did that.
  
• The Prospects for AI panel discussion with
  • Neil Jacobstein
  • Patrick Lincoln
  • Peter Norvig
  • Bruno Olshausen
  
  I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this panel. They discussed how AI can help humans behave intelligently and how we need to keep studying the brain to gain insight into how it works. And much more. Highly recommended.
• SDForum's SearchSIG was another worthwhile panel presentation. The panelists were:
  
  
  • Doug Kaye, IT Conversations
  • Evan Williams, ODEO
  • David Marks, Loomia
  • Eric Rice, Audioblog
  
  
  My favorite line from one of these guys was something like, "it's not the search, but the find that matters."
  


• I have started subscribing to eWeek's podcasts. I have totally made up my mind about their utility yet. I like that they are brief. I do remember hearing about Microsoft's Sparkle (something like Flash) which I haven't dug into yet.
• Trent Henry talks about Enterprise Security Architecture. Man, it has been awhile. I am confident this is a good presentation, but my memory is just too faded to say much. I may have to listen again.
  

Rant - To Divide is Not Divine

The more I think about all of the seemingly senseless violence in the world these days, I keep thinking about how we humans seem to have the tendency to divide people into different groups. The type of division I am thinking about isn’t that which classifies people in ways that is edifying or trivial (e.g., bike riders vs runners). It is more in line with saints vs. sinners, Muslims vs. Christians, straights vs. gays, etc. I guess the divisions I am thinking are those driven by ideology, religion, politics and the like. The ones that are concerning me the most in this case are religion and ideology.

It seems to me that we should be able to more easily weed through the hateful and wrong religions and ideologies. By the way, I think there are many of them, but the level of hate and “wrongness” does vary in degrees for some of these. The first idea that came to me in this regard was prompted by some ideas I learned reading Brian Greene’s books about physics. I was particularly struck by his description of experiments that demonstrated that if one sends individual particles through slots on a plane you get the same effects as when you send many particles at one time. He compared this to the effect one sees when you see flowing water through a series of even spaced and sized slots on a plane. The water forms waves and the waves from each slot interact with each other. Sometimes the waves cancel each other out and you see waves intermixed with smooth parts. OK, remember I am not a physicist. Thus, I may not say this quite right, but I think I’m in the ballpark. The interpretation in the particle case is that the particles which were released 1 at a time could not have interacted with each other like the water did. Thus, any given particle once released individually has at any given moment infinite potential movements within the same kind of space as that which would appear if many particles were released through the slots at the same time.

You must be thinking, “where is he going with this?” Here: what if the Divine behaves in ways that is consistent with the same principles governing the phenomenon we observe. For example, what if any given human released into the world has infinite potential movements in Divine space. Thus, it is invalid to classify Muslim or Christian as religions as more or less divine then the other. The seemingly deterministic, legalistic, “extreme” points of view that say if you dogma isn’t exactly like mine then you are damned or you are fodder for extermination and abuse are WRONG.

So, the critical question becomes what defines Divine space. I suggest that we can judge Divine by its objectives. When these objectives are seemingly focused on killing people of label X, it is not divine. When these objectives are to abuse people who don't believe like you, it is not divine. When these objectives are focused on convincing yourself or others that others are damned because they don't think like you, it is not divine. It seems to me that right now there are a lot of groups that are not focused on making anything better as much as they are focused on simply making them worse for someone else. That is not divine. No one is perfect, but we should all strive for the divine.

By the way, I put the NATO-Caliphates war I referenced in an earlier blog entry in this non-divine category. Identifying 2 sides from which one can choose to join to fight is not the answer to our woes. It is not divine. It does not even exist. There is strife. There is hatred. There are horrible things happening that result in the deaths of those who don't deserve it. Failing to accommodate the times and seeking the divine will only make it worse. Let's stop dividing into Jew, Muslim, Christian, ... for non-divine purposes. He hurts us all and helps no one.

9 Mile Run: Brownell - Shades Creek Greenway

Adam Curry's Daily Source Code was especially long today. So, that took up a good portion of the run even though I had started it yesterday. He had really gone off on the appearance of his opponents in his recent law suit and this one included an ex-employee of the EFF. Adam believes they should take a larger interest in cases like the one he just fought. He got an audio comment that basically said all of Adam's concern with his own appearance and remarks about his shabby opponents' appearance were of little value as appearance meant little to the judge. Adam, of course, disagreed. Adam is certainly right that everyone is influenced by appearances. But, I think Adam may give it too much credence.

The recent conversations about the efforts one must go through to get white-listed by large ISP's is quite interesting. Basically, if you send an email to a lot of folks and likely other observable characteristics, AOL, MSN, and others put you on their blacklist under the guise of protecting their users from spam. For an opening price of a mere $80,000 you can get them to list you in their white-list and your emails will go through. I would have to agree with Adam's sentiments. This is highway robbery.

Also, listened to the latest Phedippidations. Another good show. Steve went off on Tom Cruise a little. I mentioned it when I voted for Phedippidations on Podcast Alley. Steve emailed me. I hope I didn't help create any real guilt for him. Tom Cruise deserves grief for his silly statements about psychiatry and depression. And, I have to admit that when you cut to the core, I agree with Steve's perspective on Tom. Tom should stick to acting.

Data

Distance: 9
Time: 1:21:41
Heart Rate: 154
Pace: 9:04
Weather: Clear skies and about 45.

6 Mile Run: Neighborhood

This was a slow run in the dark on a warm night. This was a busy day and I was not able to hit the pavement until after 6:00. I hate running my neighborhood route at night as it includes 4 miles on gravel with no lights. But, I have alwasy survived. I felt tired early in the run. Thus, this was a "mental run". A mental run for me means I ran because my mind said so. My body said no. This was not due to any true pain hinting at injury or anything. Just the result of a hard day and general tiredness. I have always found the results are better for me if I run. Not running just makes it worse. I listened to Adam Curry and his wife discuss his suit with the gossip rag on the latest Daily Source Code. While I agree with Adam's position 100%. I thought he went over the top discussing how people looked. He hopes the judge sends a clear statement that violating Creative Common licenses is not acceptable. Me too! I did get some music time on the run. I listened to Nickelback's "The Long Road". I hadn't listened to them in quite a while. Man these guys rock! Data: Distance: 6 Miles Time: 1:01:54 Heart Rate: 155 Pace: 10:18 Weather: Clear and 66 degrees