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a new year’s eve 13 miler with a new toy!
due to the snowdeal holiday travel schedule santa arrived at the snowdeal household on the eve of new years eve ( much to odin’s chagrin ). and i was very surprised to get a nifty timex ironman watch from kris and odin! no more jostling with my phone to check my pace with runkeeper ( [...]
day 3103: odin shows off his lego millennium falcon.
like a lot of kids his age odin loves lego and while he hasn’t seen the star wars movies, he somehow seems to know a lot about them and really likes the millennium falcon, so he was super excited to have gotten the lego ship as a gift for christmas from his grandparents. while it [...]
odin talks with siri.
odin walked up to his mother and handed her this piece of paper. “what’s this?” she asks. odin replied, “here’s where we can get a good computer.” kris asked him how on earth he learned you could get a good computer at the west town mall 76 miles from viroqua. “siri told me!” turns out, [...]
92 year old george white recently started my new, favorite blog.
someone should tell 92 year old george white, who recently lost his wife of 67 yrs and has started my new, favorite blog that, well, blogging is dead. no, but seriously, george is an inspiring example that we never, ever tire of telling ( and hearing ) great stories, and that it’s never too late [...]
Little War on the Prairie
this american life has an outstanding episode, “Little War on the Prairie”, on the dakota war of 1862 which led to the public hanging of 38 sioux, the largest mass execution in american history in mankato minnesota. i’m not a minnesotan, but it’s amazing to me that i’ve never heard of the battle or what [...]
recommendations for Phase II fitness program reading.
i’ve ran over 2,011 miles after 67 wks which is close to the shortest distance across US ( 1,722 miles in 2012! ) and i’m within pounds of hitting my goal of losing 90 pounds by the new year! hurray! huzzah for long term goals! i still plan on losing a few more pounds, but [...]
you’re probably overconfident about the 50% of the facts you know which are actually wrong.
i never tire of reading about the cognitive basis for irrationality with one of my favorite cognitive biases being the overconfidence effect where, generally speaking, even when you’re 100% certain in something you’re probably only actually correct 80% about of the time. to make matters even more uncertain, new facts are piling up at an [...]
day 3095: hanging out with family on the eve of christmas eve.
per usual, we had whirlwind travels to see friends and family over the holidays. on the eve of christmas eve, odin and us had a fun time hanging out with grandparents and cousins! odin and his cousin jonah only get to see each other a few times a year, but that doesn’t stop them from [...]
going for a leisure run in a blizzard. and a sign from the thrash metal gods.
the first really good storm of the season hit southwest wisconsin with predictions of up to 18 inches of snow, sustained 25-30mph winds with gusts of up to 40mph and wind chills in the low teens. perfect running weather! just me and deserted streets, conveniently emptied so that i could run right down the middle [...]
gun control & america’s unique gun culture
in light of tragedies like the sandy hook elementary school shooting, i tend to gravitate towards “easy answers”. i’ve never understood how anyone could be against buy-back programs, reasonable regulations on distribution & sales, mental health screenings, hardware safety rules ( e.g. trigger locks ) and so on. but whatever happens we all have to [...]
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