Blognitive Dissonance

“Mann trakht und Gott lakht”

12,000 Calories A Day

danithew | August 16, 2008

Michael Phelps is my hero because he wins gold medals in swimming AND fuels all that exercise by eating 12,000 calories a day.  The New York Post writes that “the average man of the same age needs to ingest about 2,000 calories a day” and then specifically describes the massive meals Phelps eats so he [...]

Jogger + Juggler = Joggler

danithew | August 16, 2008

On our walk in Central Park this morning, we saw this guy jogging and juggling at the same time.
I pointed at my camera, he grinned in response and I snapped this picture.

I came home and googled a bit, to see if I would find out anything about this. I ended up learning that “joggling” [...]

Ducks

danithew | August 16, 2008

It was a glorious Saturday morning.  Lots of sunshine but not too hot.  So we went to Central Park for a nice extended walk.
Some ducks were having a great time swimming around.

New Jogging Baseline

danithew | August 12, 2008

I jogged for twenty minutes this morning, incorporating a new path extension into my jogging route.  My previous baseline was fifteen minutes but I was starting to get bored.  It was definitely time to extend it a little bit.
I recently heard that for a person to start losing weight, he or she needs to exercise [...]

Temporary Error 502

danithew | August 11, 2008

Edit: it’s been fixed now.
Can’t login to Gmail right now … here’s what it’s telling me:
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please [...]