Anyone outside of the soon to be former Alaska governor’s inner circle commenting on Sarah Palin’s motivations for resigning is speculating. Here’s mine.
The Palin memoirs will be written. Palin will go on book tour and follow it up with a regular TV or radio show. She will run for president in 2012 with Rush Limbaugh as her running mate.
I challenge you, given her history and apparent personality, to come up with something more plausible.
July 4th, 2009 | Category: Politics | 
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If you are one of the regular readers here we have a new feature to look forward to each month: weight day. This is the day of the month where my miles exceed my pounds. I’ll identify the day each month and list the weight (as measured in the morning) and my miles so far in the month.
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239.8, measured at work on the doctor’s office scale. |
| Miles |
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240.2 after a bit of looping to make sure I made it past the weight |
Tune in late next month for the next Weight Day.
June 29th, 2009 | Category: Bicycling | Print This
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Not a hard and fast limit. But I think this is just a Good Idea to pay attention to:
if the temperature drops below 50° it is time to wear more than sandals, bike shorts, and a light weight Hawaiian shirt.
Not sayin’ it has to be that way. It’s just a Good Idea.
Postscript: Despite my light attire and the cool temps I still did work up a sweat on the eleven mile, relaxed pace ride.
June 29th, 2009 | Category: Bicycling | Print This
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There, I Fixed It is devoted to questionable repair jobs and work arounds. Not all are duct tape based. But those that are …
You have to see to believe.
June 29th, 2009 | Category: Web Curiosity, Weird | Print This
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Today featured Just for the Pleasure of Riding Ride #2 for 2009. The weather featured a brisk NNW wind. What do I do? Go about three and a half miles south east of my home and start a fourteen mile ride west and north. Yeah, spend the bulk of my ride soloing into a headwind. That’s what every recreational rider aspires to do on their Sunday leisure ride.
The endorphin glow does feel nice.
June 28th, 2009 | Category: Bicycling | Print This
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Plant what you want to get.
– My Grandfather, Ted Rindahl
The New Scientist breaks the new, based on an Australian study that men prefer averagely shaped women. Gee have 100 guys “judge the attractiveness of 201 line drawings of female torsos” and they pick the ones most like real, and average, women.
Now think about this for a moment. For countless generations men have been choosing women. Ya think, maybe just maybe, over those thousands of years of selective breeding that the preferred body type has become dominant? Does this news come as a surprise to you?
Next up: studies show people prefer foods that taste good.
June 12th, 2009 | Category: Science | Print This
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Respected publication The Economist lets loose a, to some, heretical notion:
THE most important factor that led to America’s stunning success in information technology was not the free market but government regulation.
Say what? Big, bad government regulation didn’t crush the creative impulse with stifling regulation? It was instead the most important factor supporting innovation?
Read all about it.
June 11th, 2009 | Category: Financial | Print This
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There were no power chords from Boston providing a soundtrack to the morning commute. It was just a ride. But it left me with a wide open feeling in my chest I associate with Prednisone. In those unfortunate years when seasonal allergies hit hard and my air ways draw closed my doctor prescribes Prednisone for the anti-inflammatory effect. I really enjoy Prednisone. After a day or two it feels like my lungs have grown and are cleaned out and the sensation of breathing is free and open. It’s side effect of inducing euphoria is not to be discounted either. You should note my wife hates it. Being a steroid there seems to be other mood or personality affecting side effects. While I’m feeling great, she has to put up with some Dr. Hyde elements.
Now today, thanks to a ride or two I have the same feeling in my chest a peaceful easy feeling of being able to breathe enough to fly with the eagles on my next ride. No personality shifting side effects go with this inducement of respiratory relief.
However beyond the natural health effect there is more than a feeling to the benefits from the ride. More than I, or presumably anyone, gets from the drug. During my last bout with Prednisone I set out for a ride. Confidence ran high. With lungs this open I’m going to be able to climb steep grades, go faster than normal and generally be as super of a rider as I can be. It didn’t happen. The feeling in my chest was just that, a hollow feeling. As soon as the ride demanded more oxygen for the muscles I was gasping. Today there was more than a feeling. I climbed. I sped. I enjoyed the benefits of riding a bike as it did more than a drug can do to make my life better.
Two days after my worst bike crash ever I sat on the examine table missing a couple of teeth, a dozen stitches in my face, bruises and scrapes from head to ankle. I asked my doctor “You said to ride a bike to improve my health. You still say that with this?” He had this reply:
Absolutely. For any treatment there are side effects. If exercise were a drug going through clinical trials and the side effects of occasional bruises, broken bones and everything were balanced against the benefits it would still pass and be approved. There are so many short and long term benefits to exercise that the injuries that sometimes happen are worth the risk. Bottom line Michael, if exercise were a drug every doctor would prescribe it to every patient. It’s that good. Don’t let this crash get in your way.
The effects of a few days riding vs a few days of Prednisone add another inflection to his statement. It’s more than a feeling.
June 10th, 2009 | Category: Bicycling | Print This
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