procrastination diagram

If you are a regular visitor (ha!), you may have noticed that my machine was down for a good chunk of last week. The story involves transatlantic trips, blown fuses, dead batteries, and having to break a window, and if Mark isn't going to tell it, I certainly won't. Anyhow, here are some semi-disconected thoughts I've had while my primary blogging outlet was down:

I'm still walking. I don't think I've really lost any weight (at least, before my apartmentmate moved out and took her scale with her, I was creeping up again) but I do still seem to be getting narrower. Furthering this goal, I have obtained an MIT athletic card and am investigating martial arts classes. (Starting martial arts again after 13 years seems to remind one of a lot of muscles that one probably hasn't used since...)

Part of my morning routine for a while has been to make and drink a couple of cups of tea, which seems to provide the right mix of alkaloids and taste to get me moving in the morning. As the fact that the house that I live doesn't have air conditioning begins to impact me more and more, hot tea in the morning seems less and less appealing, so I've started picking up iced tea at the 1369 coffeehouse (which, sadly, no longer seems to have free wireless) on my way to work in the morning. They have sugar water that you can add to it for the proper sweet-tea experience. (And yes, unsweetened tea has far fewer calories and all, but this is breakfast...)

The fact that the three previous paragraphs end with ...) probably doesn't say anything good, does it?

And now, links:

• Colored Duct Tape

  For all your duct tape needs.

• Built tough like a Game Boy

  "Wiseman congratulated the Game Boy by walking up to it and shooting it at point-blank range"

• John Battelle's Searchblog: A Morning With Danny Hillis

  It seems quite likely that I will never be worthy of a work environment that cool.

• Project ICECE

  Because to some people, it makes sense to install a computer that it is challenging for one person to lift in your car.

• Electricity around the world: everything about plugs, sockets, voltages, convertors, etc.

  The really horrifying part is that there are parts of the North/Central American 120V/60Hz zone that evidently use the wonderfully overengineered British plugs.