February 2012
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Doldrums
I’m guessing these are sort of the Winter doldrums for me. I have perhaps delayed them with exercise. But after doing my first-ever 13.1 mile training run last week, I rationally took a longer number of days off than usual. Then when I ran again on Monday, it was unusually hard to get through 6 miles (plus a one-mile walk). I skipped yesterday and ran 7 today and it was still tough.
So I...
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CSI: Hamlet
HAMLET: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
HORATIO: That's true (puts on shades) but my philosophy... doesn't include murder. *YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH*
Woody Harrelson and the No-Good, Very Bad Reddit... →
Hope this doesn’t double-post. This was fun, even though I like Woody Harrelson as an actor. Still—Reddit, man. There be dragons in them there Internets.
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Bad Thought Catalog: The Vanishing Valley →
badthoughtcatalog:
A year ago I weighed 285 pounds. I now weigh 205. Many things have changed on my body since I began exercising, eating right and losing weight, particularly my navel.
I’ve always had a fairly deep “innie.” I used to think it was strange. My cousins, redneck boys who ran around all Summer growing…
I am amazed this didn’t happen sooner.
January 2012
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Ow. My brain.
How did I once blog about crime for 14 hours straight?
Oh, right: Adderall.
Seriously, though, blogging about news stuff is a muscle and I haven’t flexed it in a while. I’m not complaining, I like having the work—a lot. But I can feel the gears slip and grind, still, sometimes. That’s why I resurrected this as a place to practice.
And you know, whenever I do feel like...
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Many of you may know I’m also an opera...
Seeing an interesting if profoundly disturbing...
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Greg Kelly, Fox 5 News Anchor and Son of NYPD... →
Well, this is interesting.
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Can You Decipher This Mysterious Postcard? YOU... →
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Once-Convicted Con Man Eric Stein Arrested,... →
Have added some weeknight blogging to my freelance duties for the Observer. This one was right up my alley.
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The Suspicious Package Fairy Has Come to Atlanta →
The location seems supicious.
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No. miles run: 8.08. No. miles run in regret for...
I love the trails by my house. I started walking them back when I was a great big fat person, did all my early runs on them and still get on them a few times a week. They’re authentically wild, though, the kind of woodland trails that would disappear within months if the parks department stopped maintaining them. That means there are hazards for a tired runner (in addition to copperhead...
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Hey Guys, it's Steve Huff's News Blog! →
Something I’ve realized since I began blogging for the Observer again is blogging about news/entertainment/stuff that happens in the world is a reflex. At least for me. I have intellectual muscles I haven’t flexed in a while (my first weekend blogging for the NY paper was tough—it was a very, very slow news cycle and I was also working into the mindset) and just as I had to get...
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“An article published in the Solar System Research magazine reported Several...”
– Life Spotted on Venus - Russian Scientist | Science | RIA Novosti
Photo accompanying the article makes it look like some weird soft-shell space crab is menacing the lander.
SPACE CRAB.
HUFF.JUX.COM →
This is my Jux. Not replacing Tumblr with it. It’s damned interesting, though.
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Sinking of the Costa Concordia: A Bad News Roundup... →
I guess I could have been funnier but in spite of the farcical side of the shipwreck, it’s still a tragedy.
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“Preppers, though are, worried about no government.”
– Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization’s collapse | Reuters
Two people are credited as having edited this Reuters piece—and it’s an interesting article, by the way—yet it still contained the strangely punctuated sentence above. Weird.
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A Sealpocalypse Now: Heidi Klum Divorcing Seal |... →
I probably went too far with that title. I mean, I hope I did.
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“THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 3 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST...”
– http://www.weather.com/weather/alerts/localalerts/…
Winter weather in the South. Ah, we have fun.
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“A strong solar flare began erupting at 8:42 a.m. EST on Thursday, NASA reported....”
– Geomagnetic Storm to Enhance Northern Lights Saturday
WE’S ALL GONE DIE no probably not.
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jendenbrat replied to your quote: Authorities have identified the man whose head,…
True crime is intriguing, but I can only handle so much. I’m interested in the sociological & psychological aspects of human behavior, in general, but I am far too freaked by the motivations (or lack of) behind murder and such.
I’m very much the same. I discovered by writing about it full-time for a...
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“Authorities have identified the man whose head, hands and feet were found in the...”
– Body Parts Found in Hollywood Identified: Coroner | NBC Los Angeles
This case just gets weirder and weirder. How does a 67-year-old retiree end up dismembered under the Hollywood sign?
Vaguely related: was reading tonight about a true crime author whom I got to know a little bit at one point and...
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WRITE 350 WORDS ON POLITICS ON YOUR TUMBLR THEN...
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Ryan Brunn is trending on Twitter because the evil...
No one will ever feel bad about this.
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“Ironically, the restaurant at the Costa Concordia broadcast ‘My Heart Will...”
– Costa Concordia: The music of “Titanic” when the ship went aground - World News: Europe - tdg.ch
I tweaked the translation slightly but yeah… that fucking happened.
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“Los Angeles police have found pairs of hands and feet during a search of trails...”
– BBC News - New severed limbs found by Hollywood sign
GOOD MORNING, Y’ALL.
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Hey guys let's find a serial killer or... →
… For realsies, no playing.
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“‘Two dogs were playing with it, and that’s when the dog walkers...”
– Human head found in Hollywood Hills
“Who’s a good puppy? Whatcha got there, boy? You got a bag? What’s—OH MY GOD—”
Oy.
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“But when Christian Gerhartsreiter enters a courtroom for a preliminary hearing...”
– Murder Charge Awaits Man Who Took Rockefeller Name | Fox News
Stories about Gerhartsreiter will never not be interesting to me. Impostors in general are fascinating, impostors who manage to run the scam for decades with nary a hitch are their own kind of sociopathic genius.
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“The White House is currently locked down because of ‘smoking...”
– The Obama Presidency. Minute by Minute | POLITICO 44 - POLITICO.com
This is going to be an interesting year.
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“A severed human head was found in a bag below the iconic Hollywood sign in the...”
– Severed head found in bag under Hollywood sign, police say | Reuters
Gotta wonder what kind of story this will be when it has a Hollywood noir beginning like this.
I imagine James Ellroy sitting up at his computer elsewhere in the city and sniffing the air, feeling something move in the wind,...
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Is This Mystery Mountain Man One of the FBI's Most...
Police in Iron County Utah want to talk to this man about a long-running series of burglaries of mountain cabins in the region. He’s between 5’11” and 6’3”, weighs around 190 and Iron County authorities believe he’s very dangerous. How dangerous?
“He does a substantial amount of damage,” Iron County Sheriff Mark Gower said of the individual on...
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If there's a novel out there about an immortal and...
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shorterexcerpts replied to your post: Dang
Is there any decent rule/guideline for how many miles before a gel or some other form of caloric boost is needed?
Honestly I think it depends on the runner and the day. For me I started thinking I should carry one when I started clocking 7-8 mile runs on the regular. I had a really tough 7 mile run where I clearly had pretty low blood sugar by the time I...
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Dang
I ran 11.19 miles this morning.
Not that bad for a great big fat person.
Okay, I’m not fat anymore but I still think of myself that way.
I’ve noticed when I run more than 8 miles or so my body starts doing odd stuff it doesn’t do at lower mileage: cramping sensations, stomach acts up (just a little), vision gets blurred here and there. You’d think all this is scary but...
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Old person checklist
☑ Rising early whether I need to be up or not
☑ Making an unreasonable amount of coffee for one person, drinking all of it
☑ Eating a healthy breakfast like, say, oatmeal with raisins
☑ Using artificial sweetener on the oatmeal and in my coffee
☐ Yelling at damn kids to get off my lawn
☐ Hiking britches up around my breastbone
☑ Calling pants “britches”
To be continued
Zappos Hacked! Millions of Accounts Potentially... →
Filed under: things you might want to know, just cuz, you know.
Fun stuff today at the Observer →
This is a much more interesting news cycle than last weekend, which was complete shit. Stoked because I’ve syndicated a couple of items to Betabeat, which is, in my biased opinion, an excellent tech blog.
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Height meme?
Honestly, kind of a blah meme.
I’m 6’0” but as I’ve noted here before, no one believes that until they stand beside me. I’ve actually gotten tired of hearing ‘you’re taller than I thought you were.’
(Explanation for me being an optical illusion: I have a long torso and short legs. My wife has the opposite issue, so people always think she’s...
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“In Mountain View, 46-year-old Polly Beltramo is accused of biting two children...”
– Two children bitten by woman at Mountain View bookstore | abc7news.com
Yeah. That happened. WTF.
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“PHYSICS lost its innocence on 16 July 1945, when researchers involved in the...”
– We need to fix the holey biosafety net - health - 13 January 2012 - New Scientist
This article sort of confirms what I thought the first time I read about the creation of a real super flu—they created Captain Trips, and just the fact that someone admitted to doing so changes everything.