tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-127645952011-07-07T17:57:46.679-06:00"If you had one shot... or one opportunity... to seize everything you ever wanted... in one moment... would you capture it? ...or just let it slip?" (EMINEM)Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09483804338121959811noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12764595.post-74579574893619371422008-07-09T10:14:00.003-06:002011-01-03T10:03:37.976-07:00

This blog is still alive and well, but moved and better set up at Semplicity.Cheers,Scott

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...how Optimus Prime feels about Microsoft Small Business ServerOnce upon a time, we used pen and paper to record and calculate. If we made a mistake, we used an eraser. If a pencil lead broke, we sharpened it. If the pencil lead was low-quality and constantly breaking, we threw the pencil away and picked up a newer, better one.So answer this: If you had a pencil that was as reliable as your

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Blackberries are all the rage. "Push email"* has become the latest multi-tasking tool that keeps Pavlov and his dog in chapter one of Introduction to Psychology.Unfortunately, the interruptions caused by push email effectively reduce your IQ by 10 points - 2.5x greater than smoking marijuana.** If you’re trying to be productive -- to GET SHIT DONE -- a drop in your IQ is the last thing that any

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Dear Fellow Airline Travelers,If you are passing through airport security and you have metallic objects in your pockets, take them the f&%€ out BEFORE you get to the body scan. Those handy gray bins are really handy for scanning your junk while you simultaneously walk through. Amazing, eh?Thank you.Sincerely,The Rest of Us Who Are Waiting Behind You, Hoping You'll Get Your Shit Together

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The following is my contribution to an email exchange on fueling for performance:Hello lads. I've been thinking about this for the past week or so, because I think that both food prescriptions and food "freescriptions" have their place. It depends on the sport-type and the goal.The number one performance contributor (WAY above fuel choices) -- especially when juggling devoted sport, full-time

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...and soon the wireless "service providers" will be scrambling -- like that guy sitting on the toilet when the T-Rex shows up in Jurassic Park -- to make up for their ignorance of the former and their faith in the latter.May there always be consequences: Hello, Ma GoogleMOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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I'm back. And I'm inspired, which, if you've read any of these posts before, you'll know that that means I'm pissed off. This time, at an airline.Stragglers still exist. In an age where Apple, Google and Skype are give, give, giving to their customers and get, get, getting billions, you'd think that the airlines, banks, utility companies and cell phone "service providers" would get the point:

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No wonder they can't get any-fucking-thing done...Those who have read this blog before will no doubt start to see a pattern: I tend to connect points by their straightest lines, and traveling reveals that my method of analysis is not universal. And that I think it should be.I am in Malaga, Spain. where the weather is good, the limestone awesome, and time, irrelevant.Yesterday Greg got his bag (

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The problem is not solved if you send an email.The problem is not solved if you leave a voicemail.The problem is not solved if someone tells you they will handle it.The problem is not solved if you tick it off your list.The problem is not solved if you get it off your desk.The problem is not solved even if you eliminate every symptom.The problem is only solved when the problem is solved.And it is

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"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."A friend and training mentor once told me, "The secret of the pros is that they train in secret." For a while that made sense. It seemed that where performance is highly optimized -- and where optimization is highly coveted -- it

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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."- Dante Alighieri

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"No, no, no. It's the German. It's 'DEE, Hippie, DEE.'"Greg Thaczuk taking a break from the sprints with Dumbbell Clean & Jerks.

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Moose in Real Life, dodging spindrift.Jesus fucking Christ, Torr thought. Hardy was trying to get himself killed again, and doing it, as usual, in the worst-run park in the world: Yosemite.Torr looked down at the letter in his hand, shaking his head. “Because you’re in the middle of nowhere again, and because I know how much you like general human contact, I think it’s safe to tell you a little

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I'm sitting in a German Internet cafe. School just let out. Unfortunately I don't have a digital camera.I swear that, every April 1st, fashion moguls must sit around and think, "What's the stupidest-looking thing we could make popular this year?"

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The first symptom is nostalgia.To cure: Ignore the future. Forget the past.

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Busta Hymes bustin' in the Great White North I was conditioned as a child to sit silently beside a moving window. I grew up 40km from the nearest town. For 18 years, I rode a school bus, a back seat or gripped a steering wheel for at least an hour, often two. Silent reverie became a pastime. Thinking has become an art.Right now I'm on a train, heading south in Germany. The deeper I go into

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Greg Thaczuk on Day 80. It is probably worth explaining what happens when you work for 90 consecutive days in an isolated environment. The first week is the hardest, especially because most of us are accustomed to a maximum of five work days followed by two days off. Whether we acknowledge it or not, this creates an unconscious expectation. Our psyches budget our energy for a five day stretch.

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Maradi Desert Racing Slicks with Scree Traction Toes

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"I wish it could have been water. Oil makes men idle, whereas water makes them work." - King Idris of Libya, commenting on Libya's 1950s discovery of oilShade & Coveralls Heli-bags are dropped every 120m. We unload the bags and plant six geophone stations between them -- two cables, twelve geophones per bag. With a crew of ten, that works out to about a 15-pound maximum per person. After four or

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www.gymjones.com

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Beta Arabia (photo: Greg Thaczuk) In Oman, I have learned to relax.Today is day 81. The beast within that went without and wrote "Philadelphia" has calmed down marginally -- probably due to the hour-and-a-half nap I had today at "work."I am prone to action and a neurotic foot-tapping when it stops. I was once asked, "Can you relax?" I responded saying that I thought relaxation, along with

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"All future-desire is revealed as degrees of nostalgia." - Mark Kingwell

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Local fauna: scorpion in a bottle. (photo: Greg Thaczuk) If a man's interest in women is suppressed for thousands of years, will he pursue men? In cultures where extra-marital male-female interaction is condemned or impossible, does homosexuality become increasingly acceptable? Here in Oman, the answer is yes.Calling someone a "lady boy" is a favorite insult. But rubbing noses while shaking hands

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An evening in Muscat. I am working in Oman (just east of Saudi Arabia) and at the moment I am in the strangest place possible – a Radisson hotel. I am sequestered in this white cube of Western architecture because, as everyone knows, thinking critically is one thing, but vocalizing criticism is a sure sign that you’re over-worked. Therefore, I needed a break. But a Radisson is about as Omani as a

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A first generation design of a quadriped. I think it was Jack Tackle – one of North America’s most prolific alpine climbers – that said, “90% of alpine climbing is buying the plane ticket.” Well, the same seems true of large-radius-social-circle acquaintenances that want to fill my Inbox with garbage.Why does travel draw people to a keyboard? Why does setting Birkenstock and backpack in a new

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