Don’t throw it awaaaaay!
Artist: Jeff Weigant
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world domination
Another score as prolific Google rolls out yet another useful free beta download. The Google VPN client offers a layer of security to those of us surfing the net with easy to snoop WiFi. All of the up and down bits and bytes are encrypted and flow through cyberspace via Google Servers as described thusly. Not that there isn’t a lock that can’t be picked… We trust that the mothership won’t mine our data ;-0
BOS layover
Not a place that I aspire to it but Revere Beach does have the ocean view on the one side so it does have merit. I saw many scrappy, rough looking retirees, some with Florida quality tans getting their sunshine worship. I can’t report on the sand as a running surface but the blvd sidewalk is ultra wide. From hotel to turn back point: 6.4 mi and flat.
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JAX layover
Smooth running in the Jacksonville Tradeport. The infrastructure is in place for a planned office business park/industrial development. But until the building phase commences a perimeter view of natural wooded area is a superior. No cars mixing it up neither. The trace route loop is 5.9 miles of wide sweeping blvds.
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if you are,
were, or knew somone who knew a nerd you might enjoy Napoleon Dynamite – a film. (S’man is pretty good with the soundbytes)
first test run
With an expanding podcast directory and not enough idle time, I borrowed B.O.U.R.Girl’s iRiver and a pair of cast off headphones. Unwilling to dull the senses I’ve always taken my exercise without props. Breaking with this tradition I tuned into TWIT episode 22 and went for a jog. This mp3 player, mounted to an armband holder is unobtrusive. The dangling cable is a slight distraction while the earbud pieces do tend to produce mechanical noise of howling wind if there happens to be a breeze. Another initial bug was the less forgiving problem of having sweat rivlets rolling down the temple and onto the ear piece. The left one plugged up / shorted out at about the 4 mile mark! More testing is in order. I’m sure that an ideal setup will be found because the audio is a nice brain diversion from the pain – gain thing.
Here is a useful podcast source: NPR. Talk radio is back baby! Think what your VCR (PVR) does for your TV viewing experience. Podcasting is audio on your schedule.
antithesis of raisins
I put my brownbag leftovers in the hotel room’s fridge — I pulled them out just now and found everything half frozen including the green grapes. Actually, they tasted somewhat like Grape Popsicles.
mini bite size.
not bad.
LAS layover
One lap jog of Las Vegas via Paradise Rd – Riviera – (the)Strip – Flamingo Drive. Plenty of desert heat and hard pavement sidewalk. The wide open front doors of the casinos beckon tourists while allowing huge cold air to spill outward conditioning the blvd. Las Vegas is a spectacle. Even in the harsh sunlight, giant LED powered LCD video billboards dazzle. Traditional barkers have been surpassed with surround sound audio, which is synchronized to seamlessly play the width of a resort building, time shifting so as to prevent echo. It’s a kind of twisted adult theme park with shades of pirates-of-caribbean sin. Surprising though, to see other runners taking in these sights with exercise shoes on.
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IAD layover
LAX layover
Stepped off of the “Ocean Express” which is a free bus trolley – no doubt funded by local merchants to draw touristas from airport hotel highrises to Manhattan Beach shopping. I kept my plastic holstered however and put my shoes to the cement at Rosecrans and Highland – 4 lanes from the Beach. The Strand runs further than you or I can go and ran north with empty and isolated El Segundo Beach on the one and city utility, co-generation plants and industry on the other side. At the Hyperion Sewage Disposal Plant prior to Imperial hiway, I turned back, for a GT of 5 miles.
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