Officially Lucky ❡ a blog by Clint Ecker

Ran this last night with Jacqui and Chris.  It was at 6:30pm on July 30.  It was humid and roughly ~80°F.  So it was pretty tough, I generally head to the gym when it gets too humid or much hotter than 80.

That being said, I pushed and I did respectable, but my slowest 5k race time to date.  My final numbers:

• Total time: 29:46
• Pace: 9:35
• Placing: 
  • Overall: 1336/2414 - 55%
  • Sex: 785/1116 - 70%
  • Age Group: 154/200 - 77% (25-29 year olds)

The upside here is that I did really awesome in my first 2 miles.  I hit the first mile marker at ~8:55 and the second mile marker at ~18:00.  Thereabouts I had some horrible lower back muscle cramps/pain.  It felt like a horrible stabbing pain on my right side.  I ran on it at my pace for a while but it was intolerable and I had to slow it down a bit.  It eventually subsided towards the end of the run, but the damage was done!

I’m still pretty proud of the good time (for me) in the hot/humid weather.  On the plus side, I sweated so much I had a great weigh-in this morning, 214.  Lowest of the summer so far!

Just a quick note that I’d updated my short URL Safari 5 extension (still the best one, IMO) to 1.0.3.  It now has a real toolbar icon and extension icon (courtesy of Mr. Aurich Lawson).

I also whipped up a nice little webpage for it and submitted it to Apple.

I couldn’t find these on the OpenStack site,  but here are the Swift and Nova documentation in PDF:

• Nova (197 KB)
• Swift (246 KB)

If you are seeing this page much further beyond July 19, 2010, this documentation is likely very out of date.

I generated these by compiling the RST docs into LaTeX using Sphinx and then compiling them to PDF using pdflatex (from MacTeX).

The media ships their work every day, sometimes multiple times a day.  They stick it right in front of thousands if not millions of people for instant inspection and criticism. It’s right up there, front and center, and more often than not, these days the journalist is expected to engage directly with that mob and back up every decision they made during the production of that work.

If you think you know how it feels to put your heart and soul into something only to have people shit all over it and tear it apart (usually for trivial, stupid, spiteful, and hateful reasons), go become a popular writer or an online journalist and get back to me.