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August 11th, 2007 — Uncategorized
Charlie has taken four skate lessons now at the West Palm Beach Skate Park. He’s had a really good time and he reports learning lots of new tricks (three today alone). One big challenge for this series of lessons was getting comfortable on the medium size ramp. Hint: It only seems like a medium size ramp when you’re not standing on top of it. Charlie tried four different times today to drop in and just couldn’t clear his head enough to do it. Then some fellow skaters showed up and dropped in and all of a sudden it wasn’t so hard. He quickly followed suit. Charlie then rattled off 5 drop ins like a pro without a bobble. Good on ya Charlie – I’m so proud of you! Enjoy the video.
August 11th, 2007 — Uncategorized
John appeared from around a corder the other day with quite an outfit on. Soon, Julia had followed in suit. Enjoy.
August 11th, 2007 — Uncategorized
On the way to Lion Country Safari with Charlie, John and Julia a couple of weeks ago we amused ourselves by making videos in the truck. Enjoy.
July 29th, 2007 — Uncategorized
Airport travelers and local drivers in the West Palm Beach, Florida area were treated to a strange and puzzling site on Sunday afternoon at Palm Beach International Airport (PBI). There, on one of the runways sat a British Airways 747. British Airways doesn’t fly to Palm Beach International and to my knowledge 747 Jumbo Jet’s don’t land here.
Shortly after 5PM EST we were driving our car east bound along Southern Boulevard which runs parallel with the main PBI runway. That’s when I noticed the 747 – it’s distinctive mass and overpowering size dwarfing the regularly sized planes. Then I noticed the fire truck and emergency vehicles surrounding the plane. Something caused that plane to land where it wasn’t supposed to land. It appeared from our distance that the 747 was in normal condition – the reason for the landing not apparent. We can hope that nothing more than frayed nerves befell the passengers.
We turned on the local radio in the car while the plane was still in sight as we drove past. No news that we could find anywhere. We arrived home and went to the Internet. We pulled up the local newspaper site, The Palm Beach Post. Nothing. We searched local T.V. stations as well – nothing that we can find anywhere on the story.
It’s been hours since we saw this and NONE of the three major newspapers are reporting ANY story. Nothing is reported on British Airways site that I can find either. Nothing on any of the local news network sites such as Topix.net. Nothing on big news aggregators like CNN or Google. It’s as if it didn’t happen. You might wonder if this Sunday was an especially busy news day here in West Palm Beach but it’s not. Most of the stories that are running I recognize from two days ago.
It all just strikes me as amazing that something so out of the ordinary wouldn’t even garner the smallest of headlines for businesses whose business it is to report local, state and national news. It strikes me as a bit pathetic.
[tags]British Airways, PBI, West Palm Beach International Airport, Palm Beach International Airport, 747, mishap[/tags]
July 28th, 2007 — Uncategorized
| I was in New York again this week, spending Monday night there. I went out for a walk in the evening and it was a splendid night. 64 degrees and just the occasional rain drop, remnants from the day long rain that passed through during the day.
Activity
| Route: |
– |
Elev. Avg: |
51 ft |
| Location: |
Long Island City, NY |
Elev. Gain: |
+0 ft |
| Date: |
07/23/07 |
Up/Downhill: |
[+101/-101] |
| Time: |
08:30 PM |
Difficulty: |
1.6 / 5.0 |
Performance
| Distance: |
3.52 miles |
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| Time: |
0:00:00 |
| Speed: |
0.0 mph |
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| Pace: |
0' 00 /mi |
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| Calories: |
0 |
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Notes
My walk around New York City. The weather that evening was in the low 60's – a perfect retreat from a Florida summer.
I had a great meal at Luna Piena at 253 E 53rd Street between 2nd and 3rd. Amazing, truly authentic Italian food. Not to be missed if you're a carb whore like me.
Map
Elevation (ft.)
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July 21st, 2007 — Uncategorized
| First run with my replacement phone. The Samsung upstage died due to a run in the rain. Plus, it was completely unreliable from a gps standpoint. I purchased the LG Musiq or LG 570 from Sprint yesterday on the advice of Bim Active. They gave it top billing for gps reliability and accuracy for all the current Sprint phones. The Sanyo models ranked 2nd and 3rd in their top 3 so they are good units as well.
Activity
| Route: |
– |
Elev. Avg: |
4 ft |
| Location: |
Palm Beach, FL |
Elev. Gain: |
-4 ft |
| Date: |
07/21/07 |
Up/Downhill: |
[+91/-95] |
| Time: |
08:34 PM |
Difficulty: |
2.2 / 5.0 |
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| Weather: |
A Few Clouds |
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75F temp; 93% humidity |
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79F heat index; winds Calm |
Performance
| Distance: |
5.52 miles |
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| Time: |
0:45:18 |
| Speed: |
7.3 mph |
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| Pace: |
8' 12 /mi |
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| Calories: |
0 |
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Notes
First long run with my new phone – the LG Musiq or LG 570. I ran last night for 3 miles but unfortunately the BIM Active application disappeared at some point. I was switching back and forth between the music player on the phone and Bim active so perhaps I hit a button that ended the run by accident. It didn't prompt me, I know that much! This run I just kept the phone lid closed and didn't use the music player and it worked great.
Map
Elevation (ft.)
Pace (min/mile)
Splits
| Mile |
Pace (min/mile) |
Speed (mph) |
Elevation
Gain |
| actual |
+/- avg |
actual |
+/- avg |
| 1 |
8' 37 |
+0' 25 |
7.0 |
-0.4 |
-13 ft |
| 2 |
8' 05 |
-0' 07 |
7.4 |
+0.1 |
+3 ft |
| 3 |
8' 01 |
-0' 11 |
7.5 |
+0.2 |
-3 ft |
| 4 |
8' 10 |
-0' 02 |
7.3 |
+0.0 |
+4 ft |
| 5 |
8' 08 |
-0' 04 |
7.4 |
+0.1 |
-3 ft |
| end |
8' 07 |
-0' 05 |
7.4 |
+0.1 |
+9 ft |
| Versus average of 8' 12 min/mi |
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July 14th, 2007 — Uncategorized, vlog
Here’s a response to Rupert Howe and his recent vlog comment about commenting via vlog instead of text. Here’s Rupert’s vlog post on blip.tv.
Rupert Howe posted a video comment about doing video comments or vlogs. It’s an idea whose time has come.
July 5th, 2007 — Uncategorized
I decided today to go on a running steak. My goal is to run every day – no matter what. At least one mile and I must run – not just jog. I went yesterday for 2.3 miles in the rain (no matter what) but my GPS phone didn’t work with BIM so this will serve as a record. I’m at two days. 
Activity
| Route: |
– |
Elev. Avg: |
2 ft |
| Location: |
Palm Beach, FL |
Elev. Gain: |
+0 ft |
| Date: |
07/05/07 |
Up/Downhill: |
[+19/-19] |
| Time: |
10:35 PM |
Difficulty: |
1.8 / 5.0 |
| |
| Weather: |
Fair |
| |
79F temp; 90% humidity |
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85F heat index; winds S 5 |
Performance
| Distance: |
2.01 miles |
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| Time: |
0:17:23 |
| Speed: |
7.0 mph |
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| Pace: |
8' 36 /mi |
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| Calories: |
286 |
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Map
Elevation (ft.)
Pace (min/mile)
Splits
| Mile |
Pace (min/mile) |
Speed (mph) |
Elevation
Gain |
| actual |
+/- avg |
actual |
+/- avg |
| 1 |
8' 46 |
+0' 10 |
6.8 |
-0.1 |
-13 ft |
| 2 |
8' 22 |
-0' 14 |
7.2 |
+0.2 |
+10 ft |
| end |
16' 40 |
+8' 04 |
3.6 |
-3.4 |
+3 ft |
| Versus average of 8' 36 min/mi |
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July 5th, 2007 — Uncategorized
Here’s a video of my son Charlie and I longboarding around West Palm Beach and Palm Beach on the 4th of July.
June 13th, 2007 — Uncategorized
| This was a truly sad performance. It was terribly hot and humid and my energy peaked at mile one and just got worse from there. I had to actually walk at two different points of the ‘run’ which for me is extremely unusual.
Activity
| Route: |
– |
Elev. Avg: |
5 ft |
| Location: |
Palm Beach, FL |
Elev. Gain: |
+0 ft |
| Date: |
06/12/07 |
Up/Downhill: |
[+82/-82] |
| Time: |
09:28 AM |
Difficulty: |
2.4 / 5.0 |
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| Weather: |
A Few Clouds |
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82F temp; 74% humidity |
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87F heat index; winds Calm |
Performance
| Distance: |
5.20 miles |
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| Time: |
0:49:41 |
| Speed: |
6.28 mph |
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| Pace: |
9' 33 /mi |
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| Calories: |
718 |
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Map
Elevation (ft.)
Pace (min/mile)
Splits
| Mile |
Pace (min/mile) |
Speed (mph) |
Elevation
Gain |
| actual |
+/- avg |
actual |
+/- avg |
| 1 |
8' 23 |
-1' 10 |
7.2 |
+0.9 |
-3 ft |
| 2 |
8' 34 |
-0' 59 |
7.0 |
+0.7 |
-10 ft |
| 3 |
8' 30 |
-1' 03 |
7.0 |
+0.8 |
+7 ft |
| 4 |
10' 47 |
+1' 14 |
5.6 |
-0.7 |
-7 ft |
| 5 |
10' 18 |
+0' 45 |
5.8 |
-0.5 |
0 ft |
| end |
15' 35 |
+6' 02 |
3.9 |
-2.4 |
+13 ft |
| Versus average of 9' 33 min/mi |
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