You know it's a good workout when... You know it's a good workout when your shoulders get tired holding the steering wheel on the drive home. The maintenance crew missed the 3am hot-water deadline, so now everywhere I go at work smells of chlorine.
Brain Calcification The iPad's arrival has me revisiting a pet hypothesis: that brains calcify to new ideas past a certain age. Which brings me, inevitably, to the iHaters. Why does it bother them so much that some people found a thing they like?
I love warm It's finally warm. I nearly sweated through my afternoon walk, and now I can leave the windows open day and night. It makes the whole working-from-home thing more enjoyable, the fresh air and the lack of fluorescent light both.
Snow What's the deal with all the snow? I thought we, as a planet, had decided we were done with cold weather. And I was on board with this plan. Stupid snow.
Of Gum, Skating and Nuclear Power Plants How does anyone convince themselves it's acceptable to spit gum into a drinking fountain? Speed skating, meanwhile, is the coolest-looking Olympic sport, with all the appeal of Nascar. And Georgia is getting two nuclear plants, a comfortable 150 miles away.
Guns and Cats I finally tested my new Beretta 90two, and it was everything I'd hoped, even at a hundred yards. I spent the first half hour at Chestnut Mountain imitating a broken record about keeping the gun pointed down range. Next on the list: a suppressor.
NKotB There was a New Kids on the Block music video playing at the gym tonight, and not a vintage one either. A new one. Scary stuff. The dude on the right looks like he's doing a Ronald McDonald impression.
Braiiiiins There's a live video feed of some guy's brain being sliced to pieces. Slowly. Note: the guy is dead and the brain is frozen.