Welcome to my site. Here you will find some info about me, the things I do and a listing of upcoming (and past) presentations and lectures. While I initially expected most of my posts to be about Open Source/Free Software (hence the name), these days it's mostly rants and ramblings about running.

photo, Aug 23

Posted August 23rd, 2011 by eric

photo, Aug 22

Posted August 22nd, 2011 by eric


I had two thoughts when I saw this license plate, the first was thinking of the car speaking with a Homer Simpson voice, the second was of Dana Lyons' old tune "I'd go anywhere to fight for oil to lubricate the red, white and blue" which you can listen to at http://www.cowswithguns.com/cgi-bin/listen_lube.cgi

final week before the 5k

Posted August 21st, 2011 by eric

All 5 of you (ok, maybe 10) that regularly read my silly little blog know that I started running a few months ago. Amazingly, the Couch to 5k training actually seems to have worked -- I've been running about 5k three times a week for the past few weeks.

Most things I read about keeping motivated when returning to running after so long suggest that you should register for a 5k race, giving yourself a goal that is tangible -- in 3 months I will be in shape enough to run a 5k without walking.

Well, it's 3 months later and the race that seemed so far off when I started is now around the corner. This coming Saturday I'll be running the Percy Sutton Harlem 5k.

I wish someone had suggested that I check out the course the race would take and train accordingly. I mapped out the route today http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5024346 and then went to google maps street view to check out the course. I totally failed to train for running the hills that are part of this course. I'm a bit nervous about it. My best time so far for my perfectly flat, east river park training course was 27:15, I'll be excited if I manage to finish the race in under 30 min.

It has been 29 years since I ran an organized race, and I have never run a race with this many people (it will be between 1500 and 2000 people). I'll let you all know how it goes.
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Today's photos:

photo, Aug 20

Posted August 20th, 2011 by eric

photos, Aug 19

Posted August 19th, 2011 by eric


I was alerted to this odd bike storage (art project?) by my one of my favorite blogs, EV Grieve: http://evgrieve.com/ who linked to the initial post at Curbed.com http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2011/08/19/check_out_this_wacky_bicycle_st...
 
 

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