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I don’t know quite what to make of this, or the fact that I found it so funny.

Amazon Rank. It’s a miserable failure.

• Gorilla Espresso A Go-Go
• Gimme - both Deep Disco and Leftist Espresso blends sound good
• Various blends from Klatch Roasting look good
• Blend developed from an HB contest.

And I still haven’t tried all the ones from my last list. I am glad I got through a couple of bags of Lifesaver before Ritual discontinued it.

Word is, Caffe Ladro’s espresso blend is worth trying. Linking it here so I won’t forget it.

This analysis is correct. My take is a little different, though. They didn’t *break* the internet; they broke IPv4. By doing that, they have slyly added a reason (i.e. impending doom) to accelerate adoption of IPv6, where their scheme will no longer suck. Greater adoption of IPv6 will *save* the internet. So they didn’t break it… they saved it. Q.E.D.

After the last post, I need to move to “trivial and fun.” So, here’s last weekend’s long run, and my current favorite for the deadliest run I know in Arlington. The hills around mile 4 mean business. If you take the hard trail from miles 4 - 6 or so (resist the temptation to bail back out to the W&OD…) you won’t even notice the climb on mile 9.5 - 10. Click here if no map appears below. Course completed in 95 minutes and change.

I almost tagged this “politics,” but it isn’t, really. It’s not unrelated to politics, but calling it that trivializes the issue in a way I’m not comfortable with. Regardless of who’s controlling which branch of whichever government you like to harp on, there should be no room in our society for something like this to happen. What’s worse, it sounds like this might even be in the range of outcomes considered “good”.

I’m not familiar with the St. Petersburg Times at all; their politifact site seems pretty interesting though. Assuming they’ve fairly aggregated his promises and the results, it should be a good way to track how well the new administration delivers on its early promise.

Unfortunately, life has again imitated The Onion. The Bush presidency seems to have a very high concentration of events that imitate The Onion. I wonder what that says.

Since the half marathon I signed up for is in March, I’m forced to change my working definition of “the season”. My normal view is that, if it’s too cold to run in shorts, it’s too cold to run, and that temperature for me falls somewhere in the upper 30s depending on the wind. I haven’t been a slug or anything, but I haven’t had an honest long run since just after Thanksgiving. Though short runs have been enough to keep me on track so far, I need to start with some of the longer work or I won’t be ready to go 13.1 in 69 days.

So today, to really get into the groove, I visited the hill that makes me reconsider the wisdom of running every time I climb it. Temperature was 36 or 37, windchill was damn cold. Here’s today’s course:

It looks innocent enough, but hit the full screen button, turn on “show elevation” and look around mile 4. That hill pretty much always begins at approximately (end of long run - 3 miles) for me. If I’ve been working as hard as I ought to, that means I’m cooked by the time I hit (end of long run - 2 miles). I suspect that visiting this hill regularly over the next 9 weeks will serve as good preparation for how I expect to feel around mile 11 of the race.

Today’s run: 7.22 miles in 1:00:43. (8:24/mile). I seem to have improved 30 - 45s per mile for this distance versus what I was doing before I backed off the long runs. The evil mile took 8:43 even with a fierce head wind, and the two following that were 8:43 and 8:52. I’m extremely happy with this run. It’s just slightly off my 10k race pace from October.