"Let's start with a premise that I don't think a lot of Americans are aware of. We have five percent of the world's population; we have 25 percent of the world's known prison population. There are only two possibilities here: either we have the most evil people on earth living in the United States; or we are doing something dramatically wrong in terms of how we approach the issue of criminal justice," - Jim Webb whose criminal justice reform bill has won some encouraging support on the right.

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The nice thing about..

The nice thing about being the only one here for another 40 minutes or so?

Complete control over the light switches.

AKA One man dance party.

"I just want to dance with my shirt off."

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin

exercise

I swore to break 50 pushups today.

I did 20 25 pound curls on each arm.
I started off with 40 and my arms crapped out.
I ran half a mile to the train tracks.
I did 40 pushups and my arms crapped out.
I ran half a mile back home.
I did 10 burpees and had to call it quits.

I swear I will do 50 consecutive tonight, but fuck is it hard.

edit:Advanced move - don't know how long this would be useful for... Hyperventilate beforehand, get the blood filled with oxygen. The failure is in the muscles running out of gas. This will have to do until the piping to the area upgrades.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
- Jay Leno

Two dreams remembered from this weekend.

One involved my playing Battleship and deciding I could just put one ship on my board with only one peg on the board - the rest hanging off the edge.

The other, much longer dream involved my car being stolen and replaced with a junker van. Then some girl infects my life with a virus - it intercepts all communication with people I know. She feels bad that she infected my life, but can't say no to me. I'm talking about a life glitching as if from a virus. My host file was replaced so that all attempts to contact no individuals resulted in talking to strangers. Also, I could fly. Not unusual in my dreams, though.

Idea to work on

Children's shows for adults. How would Mr. Rogers help adults deal with the world?

Dear blog.

Dear blog. I'm sorry I left you for Facebook. I will likely be back shortly since they deprecated hard returns.

New dream setup

So now that my brother has taken back his monitor, I'm stuck with an unused video output for my computer.

I can get a 24 food HDMI cable for 30 bucks, run that to the TV so I can use it as a secondary output. This saves me from wanting to repurchase games for the 360. Win.

Other than that.. I dunno. I guess I have small dreams.

Sadly touching

Sad is when one of your cats is separated from their brother for months. Sadly touching is when they see each other on the computer screen via web cams, recognize each other, and one starts pawing at the screen to reach them. When that fails, trying to get to the other side of the screen where they obviously must be.

Jif absolutely recognized Luke when he was sighted sitting in Lauren's lap. He cocked his head from one side to the other, trying to figure out how Luke got into the screen. Sadness... I'm pretty sure Jif's theory these days is that Luke is actually hiding in the bedroom closet.

Exercise

The cooling units were out at the Y again today. It wasn't even that it was the smell of sweat there, it was the smell of misery. Everybody looked absolutely miserable. So I followed my first instinct, turned around, and went to the track upstairs. Bet you thought I was going to just leave!

So I ran 72 laps on their tinyass track. 3 miles in 35 minutes. I'd say I did ok for my random speeding up, cramping, slowing down to recover, and zooming again. I figure it builds my stamina. I would have gone for a fourth mile, but my right foot was feeling twingy like it wanted to cramp. So I dropped, did 30 pushups, and headed out.

When I went to log my running in the exercise room it was even hotter than it had been before. Now that I know I can trust myself to keep at it on the track, I may head straight for that in the future.

exercise

Only ran two miles today. It was blazingly hot in there when I showed up. I just can't operate in those elevated humidity environments.

fight club haiku

worker bees can leave
even drones can fly away
the queen is their slave

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- Eric Hoffer

http://www.xkcd.com/210/

http://www.xkcd.com/217/

http://xkcd.com/231/

http://xkcd.com/262/

http://xkcd.com/280/

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
- Evan Esar

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
- E. V. Lucas

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
- Janet Long

exercise

refamiliarized myself with how much it burns one's lungs to run under freezing.

ran to drop off rent then back home.
drove to the Y.
RAN FIVE MILES!
OMFG!
I can't believe I did it.
I almost gave up at 2 miles.

Excellent joke

A mathematician, a physicist, and a biologist see two people walk into an empty building. A while later they see three people walk back out. The biologist says "they must have multiplied". The physicist says "no, our initial count was likely off". The mathematician nods sagely and says "actually, if one more person walks into the building then it will be empty again".

Exercise

Did 50 pushups this morning.

Went to the Y, had too much water, ran 3.15 miles in 35 minutes. Had to alternate between running and trotting to not get stomach cramps. Bleh.

Will set up for sit ups in a few.