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Elm City Triathlon starts in T-13 hrs. Never feel ready, because never am, but always enjoy the outcome and in recent years the process too.
| @ddeeps Non-recyclable manhole covers? Good idea! And another sign we're entering the Age of New Materials http://tinyurl.com/5qds2w |
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| @lucas_gonze, @danyork When it's a warm monsoon, and if you're prepared to accept maximum wetness, it can actually be fun. |
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| Advantage of running in a monsoon: When you're done, you've already had your shower. |
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| @edbilodeau Theft of manhole covers too? Wow, that's harsh. |
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| The tax credits for clean wood-burning appliances are now tied to the Fannie/Freddie bailout in #HR3221. That's an unsavory sausage pie. |
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| @hughmcguire no, not my house and not my pipe. a near neighbor. but geez, that's the /third/ local pipe-stealing episode this summer. |
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| Sign of the economic times: One night, after your house burns down, some asshole sneaks past the yellow tape to steal all your copper pipe. |
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| @mndoci Baron de Coubertin? Click, click. Oh. "L'important n'est pas de gagner, mais de participer." Nice! Didn't know about that, thanks! |
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| @SoundSystemSDC Isn't the former a necessary (though insufficient) condition for the latter? |
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| @quistuipater But the myth could be made real. Not sayin' it will be. Only that it could. |
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| Asked if I'll compete in Saturday's 1K-30K-10K Elm City Triathlon, I say: "No, I'll participate." For me it's about doing it, not how fast. |
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| Digital democracy is so close, and yet so far. |
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| The New Yorker profile on Garrett Lisi fails to identify him as an open notebook scientist. He uses TiddlyWiki: http://tinyurl.com/2vh2kh |
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| Cycling on Rt 10 we saw police ahead, then a spray of motorcycle parts, then the twisted Harley in the weeds. We doubt the rider survived. |
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| Feeling sorry for Ryan Lizza. His in-depth New Yorker story on Obama's political education was utterly eclipsed by The Cover. |
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| @cgerrish I guess there's no avoiding homophily but it exists at different scopes, and it's good to cross scope boundaries when you can. |
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| Ethan Zuckerman: "Homophily makes you stupid." [homophily: the tendency of birds of a feather to flock together] (http://tinyurl.com/6p6pso) |
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| @jthvedt Smoking holds no appeal, but decade by decade -- after kid independence -- I can see hang gliding, base jumping, wingsuit flying. |
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| John Faughnan re: post-1999 market: "Our current retirement plans are to take up smoking, hang gliding, base jumping and heroin at age 65." |
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