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Scenes from a pastoral ride:
A nice view to wrap up an easy 73-mile weekend.
It was 91 one degrees at the end of the ride, but my feet felt fine in a pair of new socks:
That’s just marketing you say, and I would agree. But then I turned one of the socks inside-out, and you can see that technology.
All of your socks should look like that.
I managed to talk the sun into staying up long enough yesterday evening to get a 25 mile ride in. And then today we took a 30-mile spin.
It took me a long, long time to catch up to her for this picture:
She’s pretty fierce.
When you want to go home, but they won’t let you …
… because they must paint this door frame.
No, farther down.
Down here! This is a new pet peeve:
If every media outlet uses an interrogative as a social media tease, every time, they stop working. Be clever, avoid question mark fatigue.
— kenny smith (@kennysmith) August 20, 2015
The striking thing, to me, about the sport of football is that we can easily forget the human element of the game. Every so often you get a very sharp reminder of that. This is one of those examples:
I had my first meeting with the newsroom staff tonight. As we all got settled in I realized that I know more of this bunch at the beginning of the year than I ever have. And they are talented young journalists. We expect a big year.
Here’s something you never expect, a shopping cart road block:
Like they’re saying, “You didn’t buy enough stuff! Go back inside!”
I didn’t buy anything because, for four days in a row I’ve been there for a specific thing and they have managed to not have it in stock.
Ran a nice 10K today. That was all in one continuous motion, even. According to those classic gym charts I was at 70 percent of my max heart rate. My last mile was under nine minutes.
It was a nice workout, begging the question “Why didn’t I feel like this on Sunday when I was falling apart in the Chattahoochee Olympic?”
Finally, I’ve been watching the third season of Newsradio on Crackle recently. I haven’t watched the show in some time, long enough to have forgotten how smart the writing routinely was. In the third season it gets difficult to watch Phil Hartman, though, because there’s something in his eyes that makes you wonder what difficulties he and his wife were already dealing with at home. But that could just be because you know what would happen a short time later. But this is an exception to that, and perhaps one of the best three or four studio scenes from the entire series:
Talked about this video in my social media practices class today:
This is the first time I’ve taught this class, but I’m pretty excited about it. We’ll talk about the personal usage aspects for the first week or so and then get into more professional applications. I know a handful of the students from other classes or projects and as a group they are a sharp bunch. I hope they get something out of it.
I tend to spend a lot of my time on campus in just two or three buildings which are all nearby. But today I had to go across the quad to pick some equipment that had been, let us say, misplaced. And I saw a food truck:
That was a new one to me.
I remember, last week, watching the GOP debate thinking This should be pretty fun on Saturday Night Live. But that was a 20th century response. I should have been thinking about a modern response, because this is brilliant:
Kasich inspired this post’s title.
