January 2010
48 posts
my kingdom for a hotel treadmill that I can run on without putting my head through a ceiling tile.
leaving the gym this morning I’m reminded of the words of mark twight: it doesn’t have to be fun to be fun.
its days like today that remind me all the sacrifices and trade offs I make to live in SLC are worth it.
dear ladies of spin class: my eyes are up here.
pro-tip for all you Sundancers enroute to SLC: the furrier the boots and the wider the cowboy hat the more you look like a REAL local.
meeting with the auditors = slayed (the meeting, not the auditors)!
OH from a portfolio company CEO: I’m confident the personal money I put in our last round will be the best invesment I’ve ever made.
if the salt lake airport were Cheers, I’d totally be Norm.
Tools I'm Using
In my last post related to LoseIt, I got a handful of people asking, in comments and reblogs, what tools I’ve been using as part of my fitness regimen so I thought I’d create a separate post to do just that. Here they are, in no particular order:
LoseIt: I have to admit that since hitting my weight target I haven’t been using this much. I keep it on my homescreen more as a...
8 glasses of water a day FT..hold up, I’ll brb….W!
Ella: “dad, why did you do that?” Max: “because he’s awesome!” my quest to create the ultimate hype man is nearly complete! mwhaha!
tho anyplace is better than SLCs highs in the 20s, I’ve been told my ticket is for OAK not PHX. good thing they stopped me on the jetway.
lacing up the Chuck T’s for my first basketball game in over 5 years.
honey do list = slayed! grabbing the kids an running for the hills. this gnar isn’t going to schralp itself.
spin class: it’s like starting your morning at a rave!
looks like @disqus has been down most of the day. kinda pissed, but the VC in me always cheers when a great product hits scaling issues.
every time you shorten a link with @bitly an angel gets it’s wings.
Conversation that happens with random people...
Random Person: Woah, you're really tall.
Me: Yep.
Random Person: I'm pretty short.
Me: Yep.
Random Person: Do you play basketball?
Me: Nope.
lesson learned switching from a suunto to garmin HRM watch: if you don’t support Mac or have a decent web interface you hate your customers.
You know people that run every day, mostly because they run every day. It’s...
– Great post from my friend Andy on gaining, and keeping, momentum in life and business.
Working Out to Eat →
heyitsnoah:
This New York Times article about Japanese nerdery is sort of interesting in-and-of-itself, but the description of a Japanese treadmill really got me:
I was on a Japanese treadmill gazing at the usual numbers, speed and calorie count and so on, when I started to get mesmerized by the little images of food and drink on the screen. At 35 calories, there was a frothy cappuccino, and...