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Don’t read it, just watch:
Do you like arts and crafts? Well, when I saw this on Tumblr I thought of you!
Finally, we’re going to get see Jozy Altidore run:
Walked a mile. Ran two stadiums. Ran two miles. Let’s call this a rest day. Especially after the 5.36 miles I ran yesterday.
And there will be a whole lot of running next week …
I do not know what is happening.
Yesterday I learned a bit about your basic fly fishing cast. I grew up fishing for bass and bream and catfish so this is all new to me. My father-in-law is an old pro, though. So I got the motion down in a yard yesterday. This evening we stood in a chilly stretch of river and threw little tiny bits of plastic and hair at hungry fish.
Here I am, showing off how good a pair of borrowed waders can look:
Here’s Bob, showing us where all the good fish are:
The Yankee got one. Her dad got one. I had one on the line early, but I couldn’t get him in. I spent most of the time just making the fish hungry for the guy a little farther down stream, who was catching everything in site. Fish from other rivers where getting in to this water for the pleasure of being on that guy’s hook.
Things to read … because reading is always worth a nibble.
Mastering the Internet of everything:
The IoE is about the intersection of people, processes, data, and things. Personal knowledge mastery (PKM) is a framework for making sense of data, information, and knowledge flows. Processes, data, and things are relatively easy to control, but people are complex adaptive systems in their own right. How can people be part of the IoE but not be overly controlled by the other three dimensions? What new skills will be needed to master the internet of everything?
Much of PKM is about finding balance. This will be even more important with the IoE. In seeking knowledge sources, we have to balance aggregation, or getting as much information as possible, with filtering, or ensuring that we have more signal than noise. What happens when we add processes and things to all these data sources? Will it make things easier, or perhaps less visible? Our networks of people may help, as long as they are diverse enough, as we will be ever decreasingly able to keep track of [the internet of] everything.
We will have to get skilled at constantly lumping data and things together, then filtering and categorizing the changing landscape. We will have to become adept at breathing information in and out, able to only make sense of a small portion at a time. Our reliance on other people for sense-making will increase.
Will algorithms do that for you? There are only more sophisticated questions coming as we swap paradigms.
How Not to Pay the Price for Free Wi-Fi:
Part of globe-trotting nowadays is flitting from one free Wi-Fi network to the next. From hotel lobby to coffee shop to subway platform to park, each time we join a public network we put our personal information and privacy at risk. Yet few travelers are concerned enough to turn down free Wi-Fi. Rather, many of us hastily give away an email address in exchange for 15 minutes of free airport Internet access.
So how to feed your addiction while also safeguarding your passwords and privacy?
Ever wonder how some historic football team would fare against their modern counterparts? Check out this infographic on player size and you’ll see, they’d be mauled.
Two media prospectuses:
The Pricewaterhouse Cooper Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2014-2018
Ericsson predicts tenfold increase in mobile data traffic in five years
Ran three miles today. My mother-in-law, who is a thoughtful and giving lady, picked us up something called the Arctic Chill Towel which … oh, let’s let this enthusiastic corporate spokesman explain it to us:
Felt pretty great around my neck on the track today and it should come in very handy this summer.
Here’s what I did last month. The pitiful amount of red represents the bike. The dark blue denotes the running and the light blue marks the pool. I also included the Alaskan hikes that I could measure because the calendar would look pretty awful without them. I have to do more, and now.
This morning we ran the Ft. Benning Reverse Sprint Triathlon. It is a short course, featuring a 5K run, a 20K ride and a 450-meter swim, in that order. Here we are after the finish:
This is the first triathlon we did last year, making this the first time we can compare times to previous efforts on the same course. I have a few things to be pleased with here.
The run is almost perfectly flat, and there are a lot of soldiers in the race, so they dominate the run, of course. You see them at the start and somewhere on the bike course or in the pool, if at all. So I’m not running with those guys, but I pulled away from a few people in the run. In fact, I didn’t get passed at all. My time was still slow, but I shaved a great deal off of last year’s run.
The bike is a super-fast ride with only two real rollers to think about. I was pleased with the ride last year, and I did it in three-and-a-half minutes less time this year. When you look at the average speed I was on the upper-end of average riders and almost break into the fast rider speeds. Only one guy dropped me here, and I’m not sure how. I looked down at my gears on that first roller, looked up and he was gone. I didn’t see him again until I passed him in the last 100 meters of the pool.
The pool was an improvement for me as well, if only because I was barely swimming last year. Remember, I was still dealing with shoulder problems and couldn’t even pretend to freestyle. I was disappointed in my swim today. The lanes were crowded for the first half of the short swim. Meanwhile, it takes me almost that entire distance to get warm anyway. I also had some energy excuses. (I even came up with a phrase for the latter, the red line of regret. I could have redlined the thing. I should have. Then I wouldn’t have regretted what I left in the pool because I was a little tired and winded. I could have been faster, but I didn’t overcome the red line of regret.)
Overall, my time was 17 minutes faster than last year’s race, which was very slow. This year’s was merely slow. But that’s a fair amount of improvement, with plenty of areas in which to continue to grow.
I’m bummed that I won’t get to do that race again for another year now. I want to measure these performances against another effort.
Today was senior day for Auburn baseball. Here the mother of one player and the grandmother of another shared a big hug and a kiss on the cheek of celebration. They’ve been coming to these games for four years. They’re going to miss each other.
They are sweet ladies.
Here’s another one. This is Morgan Jackson, Bo Jackson’s daughter. We’re buds:
This was the last time we’d see the team on the field this season:
My new Aubie gimmick — no one steal it! — is the Aubie selfie:
Another of Aubie, relaxing with the ladies.
Auburn lost the game, 8-1, bringing their season to a close with a 28-28 record (10-20 SEC). But the friendships are the thing: parents of five different players came to say goodbye to us today and then we had a cookout tonight with the nice group of people with whom we sit. That’s not a bad season at all, captured in one sentence.
After the cookout we picked up the traditional post-triathlon celebratory ice cream:
Received an email from a student that read, in part, “I just wanted to thank you for your character and personality throughout this year … ” So maybe I got something right this semester. I receive a few of those a year, and they are all appreciated and gratifying.
Today I graded things, working down the stack to the point where, really, it can’t grow back into something insurmountable. There is only 113 more things to read, if you’re keeping track.
We listened to baseball on the radio and the good guys won, 8-1.
We went for a run. We got caught in the rain:
This is the time of the year, suddenly, where it is warm. And after it rains it is proportionately more intense. On the one hand I could run under tree branches, jump up and shake one down upon me. On the other hand we have 90 percent humidity.
I’d much rather ride my bike in the rain. I don’t know why, but riding in it is just amusing. Running is something else. At least the cleanup is easier.
Things to read … because reading in the rain would be the best.
This is just hard to conceive. After 6 siblings lose houses in Limestone tornado, family ‘home place’ burns week later:
April 28 was the only time the Farrar siblings didn’t consider living in close proximity a good thing. The homes of six of the seven siblings were struck by the EF-3 tornado that ripped through western Limestone County just before 5 p.m., but the family emerged from a nearby storm shelter grateful. They were all unharmed and “the home place,” built by their late mother and father, sustained the least damage of any of the five homes.
The siblings, children, nieces, nephews and grandchildren moved into temporary housing in local motels and tried to regroup.
Then, exactly one week later, on Monday, May 5, the home place on Parker Road burned after catching fire when power was restored to the area.
This sounds like a lovely family. IRONMAN Mourns Passing of Dean Bullock:
It is with great sadness that we pass on the news that 2013 Kona Inspired winner, Dean Bullock, succumbed Thursday to the brain cancer that forced him to call it a day at the IRONMAN World Championship last October.
A day after Bullock was pulled off the bike course, his wife and nine children did the marathon course for him to take care of his “unfinished business.”
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Last August, Gaylia Osterlund wrote a profile on Bullock. “He talked about death openly,” Osterlund remembers of her interview. “He told me if he died tomorrow or when he was 100, he did not want to be remembered for racing. He wanted to be remembered for his now 37 years of marriage, his kids, grandkids and his faith in his Heavenly Father. He truly believed nothing else mattered.”
He was 59, running the Ironman and had 17 grandchildren.
This one is unique: Denmark’s unprecedented media scandal – A gossip mag takes a page from News of the World’s playbook.
Analytics are the key here: Internal innovation report says the New York Times needs to up its digital game or else.
Have a nice day: ‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’.
