It was about nine o’clock before the belly dancer came out. We had listened to a half an hour of the band warming up, and another forty-five minutes of their introductory numbers. She swept down to the floor all the way from some distant back room behind the raised bar, her bare feet silent against [...]
I had planned to make all kinds of comments about a Gizmodo post yesterday afternoon, which complained bitterly about the new iPod Nanos and their incapability to work properly with the Nike+ attachment. The only thing that stopped me was that, within about an hour, the posted had been yanked.
Fortunately, Digg provides an inedible archive [...]
One of my secret New Year’s Resolutions was to see if I could run 1,000 miles this year, starting from the moment when I bought my iPod Nano with the Nike+ attachment (no, I’m not getting paid for linking this stuff… I wish I were that important).
There are days when the stupid battery died, and [...]
So, as those of you who have taken to brutally mocking me already know, I have decided to supplement my regular workout routine with skipping. The more workout-dude-appropriate term for this, apparently, is jumping rope; however, throughout my entire life, when I see someone with a rope and they are hopping it — at [...]
Not to dwell on my recent double-whammy illness, or perhaps my overall exercise addiction, but I’ve got to tell you: There’s nothing like a five-day stomach flu to help you drop the weight.
I’ve been feeling self-consciously pudgy since the New Year, despite being generally observed as near-skeletal. I have my own personal criteria [...]