Couch-to-5K update

by Lawrence on September 3, 2010

Awhile back I mentioned that I was just starting the Couch-to-5K running program.

Without wanting to resort to too much hyperbole, Couch-to-5K is the single greatest thing in fitness that I’ve ever come across.  By keeping the week-to-week increases slow and manageable, the program is able to make it easy to get your running past the 40-day mark where behaviors become habituated.

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No ifs, ands, or butts about traffic.

by Lawrence on September 1, 2010

Miranda's butt

As part of the work I do for my wife’s business, I spend a lot of time looking through web analytics and referrers for both her website and this one.

Much of it’s fairly boring, routine stuff, but when it comes to this website it’s made one thing really clear to me:  people really, really like Miranda’s butt.

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Goodbye to All That, Part 6

by Lawrence on August 27, 2010

Crohn's Disease

My wife took my story with all the quiet dignity and reservation of a pissed off God.

I couldn’t quit until I had found something else, and my gut killed me as I realized that I’d have to go back into the office again and again until then.

I moved my workspace into the locked and secure server room and I delegated all the phone duties to my assistant.  The weeks and months passed slowly as I quietly sent out resumes and interviewed, hiding in my ventilated room the whole time.

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Assassin’s Creed 2 final thoughts

by Lawrence 08.23.2010
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Before I say a word about Assassin’s Creed 2, let me make one thing perfectly clear:  I hated the first Assassin’s Creed. To me, it felt rough and unpolished, with the gameplay elements disjointed from one another to the point that the entire game felt more like a proof-of-concept or technology demo.  In addition, I left [...]

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Upgraded to Thesis 1.8

by Lawrence 08.23.2010

Just upgraded the website’s theme to Thesis 1.8.  If anyone notices anything hinky please let me know. Thanks!

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Final Mass Effect 2 thoughts, or Bioware WTF?

by Lawrence 06.22.2010
Miranda

I finished Mass Effect 2 over the weekend without actually intending to. If that sounds like there’s something wrong then I’d have to wholeheartedly agree with you. In short, if you want to fully enjoy Mass Effect 2 never go through the Omega 4 Relay. There are spoilers from here on out, so be warned.

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Couch to 5K

by Lawrence 06.21.2010

Just about the time I started this site I decided to begin dieting. Over time, the idea morphed from pure dieting to the idea that I’d focus on getting fit and hoped that weight loss would come naturally.

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Kayak!

by Lawrence 06.19.2010

I’ve been wanting a kayak for years but have never gotten around to buying one – mostly due to wife’s stern warnings not to. A couple weeks back, however, good friends of ours who are into kayaking bought a new one, needed to get rid of one of their old ones to make room, and [...]

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The Costas Club Sandwich is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy

by Lawrence 06.14.2010
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Sorry, Ben Franklin, beer is awesome but the Club Sandwich eats awesome for breakfast. I spent the first nine years of my life living in a part of Pennsylvania that could charitably be called impoverished and even by that place’s standards we were poor.

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Brother Joseph Belanger

by Lawrence 06.10.2010
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Of the two positive male role models I’ve had in my life, one is my step-father and the other was Brother Joe. In many ways, I’ve come to think that my step-father helped lay the foundation of the person that I’ve eventually become and Brother Joe was the one that helped me begin to imagine [...]

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Follow-up Mass Effect 2 Thoughts

by Lawrence 06.09.2010
Miranda - Mass Effect 2

Quick note: I’ll be avoiding any Mass Effect 2 spoilers in this post. As I’ve continued playing through the game I’ve been surprised by just how well the various gameplay elements blend well together.

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Ooh! Something shiny!

by Lawrence 06.08.2010

One of the benefits of low readership is that I don’t feel a responsibility to write if I don’t feel like it or, as the case may be, if I get distracted by things that are more fun. Over the past couple months things have been a bit hectic and now that they’re beginning to [...]

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Mr. Beer, Week 10

by Lawrence 03.15.2010
Beer!

This weekend was a big one when it comes to the ongoing Mr. Beer Witty Monk project – the fermenting bottles were moved from their temporary home in the laundry room and into the fridge. Unfortunately, this wasn’t nearly as easy as I had hoped.

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Ben and Jerry’s Roundup: Chocolate Macadamia

by Lawrence 03.15.2010
Ice cream!

The latest flavor of Ben and Jerry’s to cross my path in my ongoing crusade was their Chocolate Macadamia. In a nutshell, the claims to fame for this flavor are its use of fair trade swirled chocolate and vanilla mixed with fudge-covered macadamia nuts. What made me pick it was not either the chocolate or [...]

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Ben & Jerry’s Roundup: Cherry Garcia

by Lawrence 03.08.2010
Ice Cream!

As much as I love ice cream, I’ve always been something of a purist when it comes to what I like in it. If we’re talking soft-serve ice cream, the only allowable additional topping/mix-in is (in my mind) rainbow sprinkles. If we’re talking hard ice cream, we’re talking almonds in chocolate ice cream and chocolate [...]

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