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Week of 13 August 2007
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08:20
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The end of their around-the-world run is in sight for the Blue Planet
Run runners, with only a bit more than three weeks and 3,500 miles
left. They'll be in Vail, Colorado this afternoon, Denver tomorrow, and
Kansas the following day. In one week, they reach St. Louis and cross
the Mississippi River, which brings them back into the eastern US.
As far as I know, no official announcement has been made, so I'm
wondering how they'll handle the end of the run. Mary Chervenak was the
first runner. She took the baton at the start of the run on 1 June, and
departed from the UN. Presumably, they'll have her finish what she
started by carrying the official baton on the last leg of the run, when
they arrive back at the UN on 4 September. I hope it's not just Mary,
though. All 21 of the runners should cross the finish line together.
The astronomy book is getting into the end stages. Brian Jepson, my
editor at O'Reilly, just sent me the marked up Preface, with the
comment, "We're almost there!". I still have 25 constellation chapters
left to review, but those typically take only a few minutes to a couple
hours each, depending on how much needs to be done. I'm hoping to have
everything complete this month, which will let me concentrate full-time
on the home chem lab book.
Ars Technica has an interesting article up about Google's decision to abandon the downloadable video market.
Anyone who "bought" any of these DRM'd videos from Google is SOL come
Wednesday, when they'll no longer be able to watch what they paid for.
Google is giving people coupons instead of a refund.
If a company the size of Google can leave people holding the bag, why
not Microsoft or Apple? The moral here is that if you give people your
money for music, video, or software that continues to work only as long
as they decide to let it work, you may end up holding an empty bag.
Yesterday, only half in jest, I sent this message to Pournelle's back-channel mailing list:
From: Robert Bruce Thompson
To: Chaos Manor Advisors
Date: Yesterday 20:04:01
Re: Computer Glitch Causes Massive Delays at Los Angeles Airport
Computer Glitch Causes Massive Delays at Los Angeles Airport
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293006,00.html>
Any truth to the rumor that a WGA malfunction shut down LAX? ;)
Wouldn't it be a hoot if that's what really happened?
11:10
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SCO stock, which closed Friday (before Judge Kimball's decision was
announced) at $1.56/share, has been falling all morning, reaching a low
of $0.35/share. The words "rats" and "sinking ship" come to mind.
08:37
- Update from Paul. The image captions are his comments.
From: Paul Jones
To: Paul Jones
CC: <many recipients>
Date: Yesterday 19:28:55
Re: run in space
Team Silver truly entered the
eastern US today as they crossed the Continental Divide, running
through Independence Pass at 12,095 feet (I know, I counted). I thought
I would hang out for this shift and give myself, and you, a taste of
what a shift is like (well, sort of - they didn't stop for breakfast in
Twin Lakes).
I camped about a mile and 1500
feet below the pass and pulled myself out of bed, or bag, rather, and
was at the pass by 4:10am. I was very early, but wanted to catch some
of the Perseids. I wasn't alone as the parking area was nearly full.
Most of these people were, cleverly, wearing pants. I believe I was the
lone person on scene in shorts. Did you know that in the wee hours of
the morning at 12,095 feet it is cold? I pulled a blanket out of the
truck and lay down on the parking lot. The sky was amazing; the
zodiacal light was by far the best I've ever seen and the stars were
solid lights - they twinkled hardly at all. The Milky Way was visible
horizon to horizon and (for my astronomy friends) I counted 15 stars in
the Pleiades and 31 in the square of Pegasus. The Perseids cooperated
with, I estimated, better than one meteor per minute with a number of
bright fireballs.
It's taking me a bit to get to
the Run because it took the Run awhile to get to the Pass. They started
just outside of Aspen and headed uphill. Emmanuel and David split most
of the 15 miles leading up to the Pass with Shiri picking up a couple.
They had two guest runners for about four miles coming to the Pass.
Mary and Shiri joined the foursome about a quarter mile from the top
and they all crested together, which was quite exciting and caught the
meteor observers (many of whom I suspect had fallen asleep) off guard.
Shiri took off from the top and ran five miles downhill, joined by a
guest cyclist who stayed on through the shift. David picked up the last
of his "official" leg and then Mary finished the last ten. Mary's leg
was at an average elevation of 9,400 feet and she looked really good
finishing. I was around for the exchange between runners and groups as
Mary handed off to Team Green's Simon.
I sat in the van for a bit and it
is, if possible, dirtier, smellier and more chaotic than my truck. I
have better food. Mary attempted to hand the baton to me but I wouldn't
let her. Mary and Team Silver proceeded to Golden, CO (Days Inn), which
is where I now am, though I stopped off for a quick swim in a mountain
lake and some elk jerky. Did you know that mountain lake water above
10,000 feet is really cold? The elk jerky was quite good, though.
Mary and her teammates are
getting massages this afternoon and run next tomorrow morning on the
0900-1500 shift. Obviously, things are going to get a bit flatter as
they move into eastern Colorado and they shouldn't have another run
above 7,000 feet. There is still no official word on team changes. Mary
got an email Sunday that said word would come in time for Monday runs.
Ah, well.
Several new things have happened on the website. There is now a China video.
Also, Mary says that the throat singer featured in the Mongolia video
was her team's driver. Will Dobbie, who was with us at lunch and is a
really funny guy, now has a biography up. He claims never to have heard the philosophy he lives by, but doesn't disagree with it.
I took a number of photos this
morning that I'll send along. The one attached to this email is of the
team in front of the sign announcing the pass. As you can tell, I was
not the principal photographer.
Cheers, Paul
This is part of the incline leading up to the pass. If you blow it up
and look in the upper portion, you can make out the guardrail in
places. This is just before the Pass.
This is the sign in daylight. Note the snow. The peaks in view are
above 13,000 feet.
This is just outside Twin Lakes. Mary is running with Mark, the night
shift paramedic who did 6 miles with Mary and another mile with David
and Emmanuel on the ascent. The cyclist is the guest cyclist, Elyse.
Note the BPR videographer above and behind them. This is about two
miles into Mary's leg.
Mary has dropped the doc. This is within a few hundred feet of the
end. She is slowing to cross over to us - for reasons that aren't clear
to me, the runners run on the right. This makes sense when the pilot
vehicle is accompanying them, but that isn't typical in the daytime.
Mary and Shiri are relieved. Simon and Fast Eddie (seriously, that's
what they call him) discuss...I don't know, women, last night's scores?
Something serious, anyway.
Mary knocks Simon over with her mind.
Seriously, your johnny-on-the-spot photographer has just missed the
baton exchange. The two of them are reciting the poem that is recited
at every exchange. They appear to have it memorized.
Team Silver and the Night Crew. Mark, David, Janell, Emmanuel, Shiri,
Mary, Alessandro.
You'd really like to know what's going on here, wouldn't you?
Well, Mary is headed toward the end, obviously.
Where I had breakfast, along Mary's route. This is about 200 yards
before the first running photo I sent. The coffee really is that good.
Maybe it is just that you haven't had a deep breathe for a couple of hours.
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
08:17
- I just happened across a neat 15-second video on YouTube of someone firing a .45 ACP MAC-10 with the Sionics suppressor.
Years ago, I sometimes carried one of those. I've described the
sound of the MAC-10 with the Sionics (assuming new wipes) as being like
a "full-auto cap pistol", which some people have questioned. As this
video makes clear, the MAC-10 really does sound pretty much like a full-auto
cap pistol. Mitch Werbell knew what he was doing when he designed the
Sionics.
Some people also doubted my assertion that the Sionics suppressor
reduced recoil so much that the MAC-10 could be held one-handed and
still keep most of the rounds on a silhouette target out at 50 feet. If
you watch the (lack of) recoil in this video, you'll see what I mean.
Still, I can't imagine many situations where the MAC-10 would be my
first choice. The combat-pistol champion Kenny Hackathorn once
commented that a MAC-10 was useful only if you were going to have a
gunfight in a telephone booth. And he's right. At about 20 rounds
a second, a magazine empties fast. (I carried the MAC-10 in a shoulder holster with six spare magazines in a
holder at the rear of my belt.)
One day, one of the MAC-10 bigots I worked with took issue with my
comment that I'd rather have my High Standard 10-B riot shotgun than
the MAC-10. So we decided to do a head-to-head trial. We both loaded
up. Someone shouted GO and we both started shooting at silhouette
targets 50 feet down range. When the smoke cleared, his target had 20+
bullet holes in it. My target was pretty much gone, with only a few
shreds of paper hanging from the target frame. Of course, as one of the
bystanders commented, we'd both ruined the bad guy's day.
Last night I started reading Ridley Pearson's Killer Weekend.
I was surprised that Ridley included a pretty detailed description of
how to make potassium chlorate from laundry bleach and potassium
chloride salt substitute and purify it by recrystallization.
Obviously, that information is readily available on the Internet, but
you have to know to go looking for it.
I hope some kid doesn't decide to follow Ridley's instructions.
Potassium chlorate is pretty dangerous to mess with. In combination
with wax or a similar substance, it forms a powerful plastic explosive
that can be detonated with a blasting cap. Even unconfined, when mixed
with most any organic substance, such as table sugar, it forms a pretty
potent low explosive.
I had my own experience with potassium chlorate when I was in eighth
grade. There was a chemical storage room adjoining our science
classroom. I was back there, unsupervised, and mixed up some potassium
chlorate and red phosphorus. I stored the mixture in a rolled paper
tube, intending to set it off after school. I left it lying on the work
table.
A little while later I was sitting in class when there was a loud whump
noise and clouds of white smoke and sparks came rolling out the open
door of the chemical storage room. My teacher, Mr. Lanahan (I think his
name was), rushed to the door and grabbed the fire extinguisher. I was
right behind him. He grabbed the fire extinguisher, pointed it into the
room, and started squeezing the handle. Nothing came out. He started
looking at the mechanism, still holding it by the squeeze
grip, and had the thing pointed at himself when I reached over and
pulled the pin. His navy blue suit turned white when the fire
extinguisher went off.
He showed great restraint. I would have strangled me. Instead, he
sent me down to the school office to report the problem. I told them
there seemed to have been a minor explosion and fire in the science
classroom. They pulled the fire alarm and evacuated the school. Oddly
enough, I didn't get in any trouble. Afterwards, they asked me what had
happened and I told them exactly what I'd done. They told me not to mix
potassium chlorate and red phosphorus, but they didn't even ban me from
working in the chemical storage room. They didn't even require me to
work with supervision.
That was actually the second of three times that I did something that
caused a school to be evacuated. The first time was in sixth grade. We
had a group project and we decided to make a model of the Mexican
volcano Parícutin. My friend David Silvis built the model, with
a plywood base and the volcano formed from aluminum foil and plaster of
Paris. I supplied the charge, which was a couple of pounds of a mixture
of potassium nitrate, table sugar, sulfur, and one or two other things.
David managed to be absent the day we were to demonstrate our projects.
I touched off the charge and was quite satisfied with the result. An
intense flame shot up two or three feet from the mouth of the volcano,
accompanied by copious flows of lava and clouds of choking gas. Just
like the real thing. Too much so, apparently. My teacher ran out into
the hall and pulled the fire alarm.
They evacuated the school, and we all stood around waiting for the fire
trucks to show up. Afterwards, the teachers and staff went back in and
opened all the windows. It was an hour or more before they'd let us go
back in. Happily, we did get an A on our project.
As to the third time, that was in high school. I had nothing to do with
it, and they couldn't prove I did. And anyway it wasn't that big of an
explosion. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
08:21
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When Barbara got out of the shower yesterday morning, she said she'd
barely made it before the hot water ran out. A year or two ago, I
noticed that the hot water wasn't very hot. I turned up the dial a
notch and thought nothing more about it. Then two or three months ago,
I noticed that the hot water was again just warm. I turned up the hot
water another notch and our hot water was again hot, very hot.
Then, a month or so ago, I asked our next-door neighbor, Gerald, who's
a contractor. He said that a hot water heater was good for about 10
years before it needed to be replaced. Ours was installed in May of
1997, so it was about time.
Barbara suggested I called Logan Heating and Air Conditioning, which
installed the hot water heater at the same time they replaced our
furnace and air conditioning. The nice lady at Logan told me that they
only installed hot water heaters as part of a larger project, and
anyway they'd end up charging us much more than a plumber would charge.
So I called our plumber. He showed up, measured the old water heater,
and headed off to buy a new one. They got it installed this afternoon.
I have to say I was surprised by the amount of the bill. It was $941
for the water heater and labor. We've known Jerry for years, and I know
he wouldn't rip us off. I asked him about the high price, and he said
the price of water heaters has gone out of sight. There are apparently
only two or three companies left making them, so there's little
competition, and the cost of freighting them is very high.
I checked Lowes for natural gas water heaters. They had some small,
cheap units for around $300, but the brand Jerry installed was much
more expensive. The American Water Heater 50-gallon unit he installed
cost about $600 at Lowes, so $941 for that water heater installed isn't
at all unreasonable.
I'll have to remember to warn Barbara when she heads for the shower in
the morning. She's used to taking a shower with almost all hot water,
which she won't have to do any more. Jerry set the temperature dial one
notch above default. The default setting is a CYA setting that the
manufacturers use to make sure they don't get sued for delivering hot
water that's too hot. I tested the temperature after Jerry left, and
it's stable at 129 °F. That's hot enough to cause third-degree
burns after 30 seconds' exposure. If we had kids or elderly people in
the house, I'd drop that to 120 °F or even 110 °F, but 129
°F is safe enough for Barbara and me.
Update from Paul.
From: Paul Jones
To: Paul Jones
CC: <many recipients>
Date: Yesterday 22:04:36
Re: Re: run in space
Hi from Kansas,
Mary ran from Colorado into
Kansas this afternoon under a big, bright sky that heated the world up
quite a bit. I found Mary running with guest runner Ned along what I
would call a section line but Colorado calls County Road V. It was very
dusty and, as I said, hot, so I left them in peace. Guest runner Ned*
(who had run with Emmanuel yesterday) dropped out after about 8 miles
and Mary almost finished alone. However, I had stopped at the
intersection of County Road 60 (it had changed designation crossing the
state line) and had framed what, if I do say so myself, was a fine
looking photo opportunity. Dill had been accomanying the runners on his
Vespa and he came by and we talked a bit. He liked my idea and flagged
down Chris and Polly (the photographer and videographer) and they set
about lining up many more photos and Polly did a short video interview.
Dill said they were 25 minutes ahead of schedule and only had a mile
left. They shot some good footage I think and I got a couple of pics
(I'll only send one this time, I promise). Unfortunately, along highway
24 (running alongside I-70) Kansas has no sign saying "Welcome to
Kansas!" So, we get the shot of Mary entering Kansas looking back into
Colorado. Anyway, we then let Mary alone to finish her leg.
She'll be running tomorrow at 9am central about 30 miles east of Oakley. I'll be making my way to Salina, KS.
*Ned was the guy behind setting
up a guest runner for every leg in Colorado. He is the head of an
organization called Water for People and is an accomplished distance
runner. He was a really nice guy and he and his group raised a lot of
money and really cheered the runners through the state. Team Green,
heading off to cross Kansas was really bummed to discover that they
didn't have a guest runner.
11:25
- Updates from Paul.
From: Paul Jones
To: Paul Jones
CC: <many recipients>
Date: Today 10:29:38
Re: Kansas, knees and painkiller
Good morning,
Mary is running as I type about
30 miles away. I thought I'd give a quick early update. She was
complaining this morning that her knee is hurting again. I think this
happens when she gets tired, which is happening a lot lately.
Hopefully, the modern pharmacopoeia can deal with it. This reminded me
that I haven't really told you guys how the team is doing. They're very
tired. Even the seriously strong professional and semi-professional
runners have slowed considerably and are availing themselves of
therapeutic massage and Advil and disturbing rates. Several runners are
injured, though no one is absolutely not running (I suspect there are
at least two runners who should not be running, but I won't tell them
that - it isn't Mary (yet, fingers crossed)). Tempers have gotten
shorter and everyone I've spoken to for any length of time has
expressed a quiet, intense desire to be home.
Anyway, I just wanted to be sure
I wasn't making it sound too easy. I'm very impressed with how tired
and sore they all are and yet they still go out and run and, when the
time calls for it, they're in good spirits and put on a nice show for
the crowds, which are steadily growing. Colorado gave them a nice
turnout and there are supposed to be some good events planned in the
college towns in eastern Kansas.
Oh, and there is a new BPR video.
This is the main video on the home page. You probably watched a version
before the Run started, but they've replaced a lot of the generic
running footage with footage from the actual Run. It isn't especially
important to watch, but you can catch Mary in a few places. Based on
the shoes, I think her feet are prominently displayed.
Have a good day. -Paul
And this.
From: Paul Jones
To: Paul Jones
CC: <many recipients>
Date: Today 10:52:08
Re: Re: Kansas, knees and painkiller
Of course, I left out the main
bit of news. David was transferred to Team Yellow with Will coming over
in exchange. It looks like that is it as far as team switches go, so
Mary will likely finish out on Team Silver. A lot of runners have
requested switches and an equal number, more or less, have dug in their
heels and refused to move (see previous email about tempers
shortening).
She will be switched around for
individual runs around Midland and Elmira. This is likely to start
happening a lot as we get in the east, and especially Michigan which
has a high proportion of runners. The runners are able to request
certain legs for family and/or home reasons. Dow wants her to be around
for the big Midland event and she has requested an afternoon leg
through Elmira. Don't be surprised if she peels off and heads to the
Moosewood.
It will be hard for her to select
a leg in the DC/Baltimore area as lots of runners are selecting legs
there and they have to keep havoc to a minimum. Okay, well, I'd like
them to keep havoc to a minimum, but they don't seem too keen on that.
-Paul
08:53
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Netflix is getting smart. A year or so ago, I had to go through hoops
to find a toll-free customer support number for Netflix, or any number
at all, for that matter. Like most companies, Netflix really, really
didn't want to talk to its customers on the phone. Now they've done a
180. Clicking on the Help link now displays this:
Netflix customer service can be reached at:
1-877-638-3549
24 hours a day
And, mirabile dictu, their call center is located in the US and staffed
by people whose first language is English. Obviously, Netflix is doing
this to complete with Blockbuster. Although Netflix still has twice as
many customers as Blockbuster, for the first time ever last quarter
Netflix actually showed a net loss in customers, while Blockbuster
showed a large net gain. Blockbuster's new program, which allows
rent-by-mail customers to return discs to a local Blockbuster and
replace them immediately with a disc from the local store's stock, is
apparently really hurting Netflix.
I wouldn't belong to Blockbuster on a bet. I prefer the convenience of
renting purely by mail, but even if I found the local return aspect of
Blockbuster's program attractive, the problem is that Blockbuster
simply can't compare to Netflix in any other aspect of renting discs.
In terms of breadth of selection, Netflix simply kills Blockbuster.
I've been a customer of both. When you get past the popular movies,
there's simply no comparison. Netflix is deep and broad. Blockbuster is
shallow and narrow.
Even worse, Blockbuster's fulfillment simply sucks. Netflix almost
always ships the same day it receives a disc back from me. About 95% of
the time, the service is one-day both directions. I send a disc back on
Monday. Netflix receives it Tuesday and ships the replacement disc the
same day. I receive it Wednesday, watch it Wednesday evening, and send
it back on Thursday. Netflix receives it Friday and sends the
replacement disc the same day. I receive it Saturday. Rinse and repeat.
I rejoined Netflix on 21 May this year. For the calendar month of June,
Netflix sent me 26 discs on the three-at-a-time plan. For July, they
sent me 22 discs. So far in August, they've sent me 14 discs.
During my 2-week trial with Blockbuster, when presumably they'd be on
their best behavior, I got worse service than the worst I'd ever
gotten from Netflix. (That was January of 2006, when Netflix sent me
only 13 discs.) Blockbuster never once showed me one-day service in
either direction. If I sent a disc back on Monday, it would be
Wednesday or even Thursday before they admitted receiving it. And they
almost never sent out a replacement disc the same day that they
admitted getting back the original disc. When they did send me a disc,
it always took at least two days and sometimes three to arrive. And
this during the free trial period, when presumably they'd be doing
their best to impress me with their service.
Based on that experience, I made a few assumptions and ran a
back-of-envelope calculation. It turned out that, assuming Blockbuster
service didn't get worse once I started paying for it, I could expect
only 9 or 10 discs a month from them in a bad month and only 12 to 14
discs on a good month. Call it 11 discs per month on average, versus
twice that with Netflix. Even if I were willing to drive to the local
Blockbuster and return discs there, assuming they had anything in stock
that I wanted, I'd end up getting fewer discs per month with
Blockbuster.
I sometimes get email from readers asking how we could possibly watch
that many discs, but it really isn't difficult. Barbara and I watch
almost zero regular TV, so nearly all of our TV-watching time is spent
watching DVDs. Lately, we've been running through the 35 discs of
Midsomer Murders, a British mystery program. Each disc contains one
100-minute program, so even in the peak month of July that would amount
to only 2,600 minutes of programming, for a daily average of about 84
minutes. We usually start a disc when we sit down to dinner, pause it
while we clean up and walk the dogs, and then watch the rest of it.
Sometimes we watch a second disc that same evening, if we have one
available, and a few evenings we've watched three.
We also don't necessarily watch every disc we get. For example, we
rented Series 1, Disc 1 of a British show called Absolutely Fabulous.
We watched part of the first episode, decided it should have been named
Absolutely Horrible, and returned the disc. Same thing for a British
comedy named Father Ted, except that time I rather foolishly rented
three discs of it at the same time. We watched about five minutes of
the first episode and sent all three discs back unwatched.
But generally the Netflix recommendation system works pretty well. For
example, we'd rented Duchess of Duke Street last year. Only the first
series, five discs and 14 episodes, was available at the time. I made a
mental note to check periodically to see if the second (and final)
series had become available on DVD, but it never showed up. The other
day, I was looking at the recommendations Netflix had for me, and there
was Series Two of Duchess of Duke Street, which is now in my queue.
If you're bored with what's on cable or satellite and you don't already belong to Netflix, I highly recommend you give it a try.
I may have created a monster...
From: Robert Bruce Thompson
To: Mary Chervenak
CC: Paul Jones, Barbara Thompson
Date: Yesterday 09:35:57
Re: New water heater
We had our hot water heater
replaced yesterday, so we have plenty of hot water again. I know you'll
probably have a thing about hot showers for the rest of your life, so
any time you're over at our house, feel free to jump in the shower.
From: mary chervenak
To: Robert Bruce Thompson
Date: Yesterday 21:54:53
Re: RE: New water heater
Be careful -- I may just shower at your house all the time, once I'm back in Winston.
On a more serious note, I sent Mary an email to offer my encouragement
and support. Obviously, that's pretty meaningless, but there's nothing
else I can do at this point. All of the runners are, in a literal
sense, running on empty. The only things keeping them going are guts
and determination. As Paul said, even the world-class professional
runners are running slower legs. They're all simply worn out at this
point, hurting and with no reserves left. Finishing this last 3,000
miles or so must seem more of a challenge to them than finishing the
first 12,000 miles was.
Only 18 days left, and I'm sure they're all counting the minutes.
08:37
- Updates from Paul.
From: Paul Jones
To: Paul Jones
CC: <many recipients>
Date: Yesterday 17:32:23
Re: OSU >>> OU
Hi all,
We're in Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas and Jayhawk
basketball. I myself drove by Allen Fieldhouse just an hour or so ago.
I stopped in to have lunch with a friend I know in the chemistry
department. We had hoped to attend a big BPR event on campus this
evening, as I had heard from a BPR staffer that there would be such an
event at the "Kansas University". KU is in Lawrence, of course, and I
had told Rich about the event and he and his wife were planning to come
by. It was funny, though that the website showed the Run getting to
Lawrence tomorrow morning. Checking into it, I discovered the event was
in Manhattan (no, not that Manhattan) at...Kansas /State/ University.
Many of you will know that I'm quite sensitive about this type of
mistake and was a little embarrassed at having told Rich there would be
a party near him. Of course, he's been at KU for quite awhile and so is
used to such mix-ups. So, just a reminder to everyone to double check:
University of or State University. This is important, like the
difference between good and evil (in Oklahoma at least). :)
Mary and Team Silver wrapped up their shift today with a run through
hot rolling hills. Mary continues to complain of a sore knee and says
she's getting slower with each run. Most of the runners have similar
stories and despite the fact that if any of them sit for more than a
couple of minutes they go to sleep, the Run continues apace. She now
has a day off and we have a run overlooking the Kansas River. Her next
run will be during the 3pm to 9pm shift on August 19 somewhere in
Missouri.
Dad sent this link:
http://www.kansan.com/stories/2007/aug/17/run/
BPR has a new video up (Japan):
http://blueplanetrun.org/run/video
It appears to have a western US video, but that also links to the Japan
video. If you click on US-West from the Japan video page it takes you
to the Route. I'm sure that'll be fixed in a few days, or at least by
the end of the Run.
The video guys are actually quite good, I think and these videos have
been really cool. Mary isn't in the Japan video and given what she's
told me of her time in Japan that may be good for all of us.
-Paul
And
From: Paul Jones
To: Paul Jones
CC: <many recipients>
Date: Yesterday 23:04:28
Re: US-West video
The US West video is up and working at this link:
http://blueplanetrun.org/run/usa-west-video
Let it be known that in the events filmed at Independence Pass, I am just off camera. /This/ close to fame!
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