Life and stuff

I went running for the first time in 3 weeks. It was one of those things where I guilt-tripped myself into moving instead of burning the entire day cooped up with the computer. Feeling a little ambitious, I thought that 3 miles would be doable. That quickly changed as I headed over to Drake Stadium with stiff legs — 2 miles looked a lot more realistic at that point. Within the first 100 meters on the track, laziness cut it down again to targetting only one mile.

And so I went around the track 4 times, slowing down slightly with every round. On the home stretch, I saw two fairly cute girls jogging along a bit ahead of me. “Well, they’re not too far, might as well catch up with them.” I sped up slightly, passed them, and was preparing to head out when I heard a distinctive “pat-pat-pat” slowly creeping up behind me. It was a guy I passed earlier on the track. Call it being competitive or whatever, but I felt that I couldn’t just let him get ahead of me, so I sped up yet again. I ended up running another 2 laps before finally calling it quits.

My mind is a very suggestible thing.

Something I can relate to: fellow soul on the internet has no artistic skills, goes and creates a CSS file that produces a random layout and color scheme with every reload. The result, Strange Banana. The results are usually butt-ugly, but I find it somehow amusing — good enough to make me hit CTRL-R at least 20 times to see what it came up with.

Also keeping me amused while I wait for class, The Man Project (via ambiguous.org).

Russian scientists who invented hangover cure make pill that keeps you drunk (telegraph.co.uk)

Recent pics that have been waiting to be posted somewhere:

Rabbit found hopping around UCI

Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne

Scaled Composites’ Proteus

Bird of Paradise (in front of Moore Hall)

squirrel near the UCLA dorms

Apple’s marketing machine is hella effective. I’ve had that iPod Shuffle commercial music stuck in my head all day, and it doesn’t seem like its going anywhere soon. Its gotten to the point where I’ve gone through the trouble of finding a decent quality “sample”. Anyway, if you want to scratch that itch or are just plain curious, I have it up and available for the grabbing (for the next few days at least):

The Caesars - Jerk It Out

Argh, did I just write “hella” somewhere? Damn Bay-Area influences!