Archive for July, 2009

Hash Runs

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If you are someone that likes (or can stand) the taste of beer, doesn’t have an aversion to running or walking, has a healthy tolerance for lewdness and drunk people, you would probably love hashing.

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Futurama Will Not Be Recast

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Please, people, enough is enough. Futurama is coming back and it will sound exactly the same.
As you should know, Futurama ran from 1999 to 2003 before becoming yet another popular show canceled by Fox. Four separate movie releases later, we started hearing rumors about a possible return to air. Fox then broke the happy news, [...]

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Bike Rides (Part 1)

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Today I learned a valuable lesson: Those cycle machines at the gym, while being good cardio equipment, are nothing like riding a real bike. First, some backstory.
As you know, I am participating in a triathlon soon and I do not own a bike. As this can be problematic when part of a triathlon is riding [...]

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The Triathlon Experiment

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About a month ago I agreed to participate in the Carpinteria Triathlon with some coworkers. Only doing the ‘Sprint’ length, we will be swimming 1/2 km, biking 15km and then running 5km. While I was already in amazing shape what with my being able to walk a mile on occasion, not swimming and my bike [...]

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