Thursday, March 03, 2011

Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor ft. Pitbull (Main Version)

I just heard this and thought "Wow, how BEP!" However, it's not a far stretch to liken this song to early 90s dance club stuff. Biggest difference is the addition of a bit of rap and updated electronics. All in all, I REALLY liked this song. If nothing else, it mentally took me back to places like The Edge and JJ Whispers in Orlando, FL. Those were the days...

Beautiful day for a run...

I'm still slower than I would like, but my 10K pace on this was 51:30. A couple of weeks ago, that pace was 54:19. Keep running!

I just signed up! - 05/30/11 Mercedes Benz Cotton Row Runs 10K, 5K, and 1 mile | Huntsville, Alabama 35801 | Monday, May 30, 2011 @ 7:00 AM

05/30/11 Mercedes Benz Cotton Row Runs 10K, 5K, and 1 mile | Huntsville, Alabama 35801 | Monday, May 30, 2011 @ 7:00 AM

Here's the course map/elevation profile...

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Sarah Palin's bizarre view of the First Amendment

Animals gone wild...

Amazing Collection of Animal Photos at Smithsonian Wild! http://t.co/y9uBbO4

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

New REM album coming out next week....

I wouldn't normally make mention of album releases, but I noticed via NPR's FB page that you can give the entire album a test drive at http://www.npr.org/2011/03/01/133998085/first-listen-r-e-m-collapse-into-now. Besides, I listened to these guys a fair amount back in the day...

Dichotomy...

I'll start with the virtue...

Now for the vice...

I enjoy doughnuts! Me and my best friend (and several hundred other folks) ran the Krispy Kreme run in Huntsville this past November. I like the local doughnut shop in Athens. While watching TV last night (Unique Eats on Cooking Channel), they featured a doughnut joint in Portland, OR.

WARNING! Not for the easily offended

Voodoo Doughnut

Monday, February 28, 2011

Frank Buckles, Top 10 in THOMAS, Another semi-pseudonymous Sarah profile

An era of American history has partially come to an end. Frank Buckles, the last known surviving US veteran of WWI, passed away yesterday.

Top ten legislative items searched on THOMAS, compiled on 2/13/2011 from weekly usage statistics

H.R. 1 - [112th] - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011
H.R. 514 - [112th] - FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011
H.R. 3590 - [111th] - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
H.R. 3 - [112th] - No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
H.R. 3082 - [111th] - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011
H.R. 1 - [111th] - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
H.R. 4173 - [111th] - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
H.R. 2 - [112th] - Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
H.R. 658 - [112th] - FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011
H.R. 3200 - [111th] - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

It probably won't be up much longer, but it seems that a certain ex-Alaska governor has a need for a semi-pseudonymous profile on twitter.com. Earth-shattering? Not really. Slightly odd? If truly created by her (this profile was discovered by searching twitter.com for her personal Gmail address), then it is indeed:

a) Hopefully not supposed to borrow its name from Mount McKinley (vice mckinely)
b) Yes, very strange

Sunday, February 27, 2011

A couple of videos and the weekly NRC thing....

In honor of this week's final flight of Discovery, let's look back at some video of the very FIRST launch of Discovery in August 1984:

AND

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-D

While watching UFC® 127 last night, someone was talking about BJ Penn performing an impressive feat of a three foot vertical jump out of a pool. I had to see the video for myself. I'd love to have the strength to do this. Here's the video:

Not much of interest for my plant from the NRC over the past week, but here it is: