Month: June 2009
Ben
Go Stags
My friend and teammate from college DJ is in the 3rd heat of the men’s 1500m at the US Champioships, he runs in half an hour and it’s on live. 51 runners in the semifinals get reduced to 12 for the finals so it’s gonna be crazy. DJ’s heat isn’t too ridiculous…I think he has a shot though he’ll have to run faster than his 3:43 seed time. Back in the day he used to dust me, now he can run my 800m PR twice.
drop table
SQL comic for you
still not getting old
credit to mlsurfs
so-called “Miracle on Grass”
I could barely make it through the 43 second highlight video. Soccer…what a snooze-fest.
post office
Allow me to vent again about Berkeley. The post office is a WHOMPING disaster. I went in there, took a number: 39. Five minutes later, I finally heard them call a number: 15. So 5 minutes time (39-15) = way longer than my lunch hour. This was all at like 2pm! I felt like…going postal? By that I mean, using the automatic postage machine computer to mail my envelope, and put off buying stamps until I can get back to my small yet efficient Kensington contract post office.
In running news, the New Mexico high school kid who set the national HS record in the DECATHLON this year just placed third at the HS outdoor national championships in the 800 meters, running 1:50.75. That’s totally amazing.
UC
Just got back from the UCB Postdoc Social aka Gathering of Weird Foreigners where I ate four hot dogs. Four! I think they were Turkey Dogs so that’s ok right? Right? Berkeley just announced that they will likely be cutting our salaries by 20% because of a budget problem. That seems fair, especially since my salary comes from a grant, from which they take 40%, meaning, all things considered, they’ll actually be LOSING $150 million by cutting our grant-funded salaries. But I guess if they were thinking rationally and actually calculating numbers they wouldn’t be in this position in the first place. I say fire the foreigners! Go xenophobia go! I guess that would be me too, since I’m not a Californian really, despite my love of suntans.
Noctambulator 