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cooking [May. 17th, 2012|09:48 pm]
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Made a balsamic vinaigrette for the for the first time.

Trying to get better about cooking at home now that I moved in with Dustin (1) and can get home at a reasonable hour (8 minute commute by bike).

In other news, I got a parking ticket despite having an parking permit and I'm pissed.

That's about all for now.
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Cherry Blossom 10-miler Results [May. 2nd, 2012|02:23 pm]
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Time: 1:14:43 (7:28 pace)
Negative Splits (38:01 first half - 7:36 pace, 36:42 second half - 7:20 pace)
Top 10% overall (1712th out of 18,749 racers)
Top 20% in my age division (198th out of 1,088 racers)

http://www.cherryblossom.org/aboutus/results2012.php
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Triple Crown Trail Race Results [May. 2nd, 2012|02:03 pm]
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Half Marathon: 1:52:23 (8:35 pace)
10k: 58:11 (9:23 pace)
5k: 32:48 (10:35 pace)

20th Place Overall
6th Place in my age group (I was shooting for top 10; FWIW the winning pace was ~7:57 avg)
68 people started the race, 54 finished.

It's a pretty tough course, so I'm not too disappointed with my paces.

Read more... )
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Honda Civic for Sale [Feb. 25th, 2012|05:30 pm]
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I am selling my 1998 Honda Civic HX Coupe. It has roughly 160,000 miles on it and is registered through September in PA.

Manual transmission, AC doesn't work, some other minor ticks, but a solid car that will stay on the road for a long time. Comment here if you're interested and we'll talk numbers...
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Civic Arena Demo [Jan. 28th, 2012|01:20 pm]
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Wow.

The Pittsburgh Civic Arena was completed in 1961 and was an indoor hockey arena/venue (and location for Face Off) that was made out of steel that had a retractable roof. Pretty amazing structure. They're now cutting it apart. Very intense video.

http://www.thepensblog.com/tpb/jan2012/video-the-tearing-down-of-our-childhood.html
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_Arena_%28Pittsburgh%29
More Images: https://www.google.com/search?q=pittsburgh+civic+arena&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=9TskT-v0B-X50gGZ7KD6CA&ved=0CD8QsAQ&biw=1217&bih=664
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Vintage Mac Hardware Giveaway [Dec. 27th, 2011|12:13 pm]
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I have a bunch of vintage (late 1980s early 1990s) Apple Macintosh 
computer hardware that I'm getting rid of.

All if it runs MacOS 7, but very little would run MacOS 8, at least not 
well.

Included are:
  - various laptops (100 series, mostly, with some duos as well),
  - a couple of IIci's,
  - scsi drives and an external case or two
  - lots of laptop parts for the above laptops
  - a monitor
  - heaps of cables - phone net, modems, apple desktop bus (ADB) cables, 
      some keyboards, mice, etc., scsi, etc.

I also have a G3 and first gen G4 tower, both of which have some issues, 
but might be salvageable.

One of the really cool things included is a data acquisition box and 
software that you could use to control something, assuming you wanted to 
do some cheesy experimenting and write code on an old mac.

For pickup only, in Carrick or the suburbs of Philly.
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Stuff I'm giving away [Nov. 11th, 2011|07:39 pm]
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If you want any of these things, please let me know and we can arrange a pick-up or delivery:

- metal futon frame and black mattress, goes from couch to bed
- old canning thing - basically a hot water bath for you to put the jars in to do canning
- juicer
- Small wooden dining room table
- ikea desk
- set of dishes and possibly some silverware
- brass chandelier
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Moving to a New City [Oct. 13th, 2011|02:17 pm]
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A friend is moving for the first time, and I passed along some of my experiences from moving to different cities:

treatise on moving )
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Honda Civic for Sale [Aug. 3rd, 2011|10:09 am]
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If you or anyone you know is looking to buy a well maintained, good running condition 1998 Honda Civic (manual transmission, ~150k miles), let me know. Details upon request.
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last few races [Jun. 29th, 2011|06:54 pm]
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I gave up competitive racing in 1992 when I entered college. Just wasn't into it, both the competitive aspect and the pavement pounding: I was happier hashing and on trails.

But after doing one or two runs just for fun, I've found myself getting back into it.

Here are the races I've done since I "quit" in '92:
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