I should really draw a graph for this.

When I started running my current 5k circuit in February '06 (having previously run what I thought was a 5k circuit but turned out to be closer to 4k), I turned in a first time of 29:44.82, which equates to about a six-minute kilometer or 10kph. Tonight I turned in a 20:46.25, about 4:09 for a kilometer or 14.6kph. I'm rather pleased with this improvement, particularly given that my running schedule for the second half of last year was something like 6 times in July and three in October.

pesky three-branch government

"It's unfortunate that congressional Democrats continue to choose the route of confrontation."

Why? Because now there's a vague chance that someone might call the Republicans to account for what they've been up to for the last several years? (Of course, I'm expecting is this just going to evaporate like the last time.)

I like this.

Marble-based computing:

"every once in a while, a marble would bounce off at an odd angle, and become ejected from the machine, resulting in a computational error."