Doing More With Less Since 1972
Lots of good stuff from the morning keynote and customer panel. I think I’m most excited about the announcements of the changes in OpenGraph and pages for the objects created there. Being able to follow and comment on objects created in apps you don’t even have access to is huge.
Funny thing is that I accidentally stumbled into a lot of these features at the end of last weekend when I was doing some tinkering.
Embeddable “Like” and “Follow” buttons are going to be great as well!
Dear gmail: give me a way to act on an email (“Like”, “Thanks”, “Will Do”, etc) by just pushing a button. Let me configure these myself. If the original sender is a gmail/Google apps user, actions can just appear as attributes of original message with a browser notification if that’s what the sender is configured for. If outside, or if the sender wants message notifications to continue, go ahead and send the person an email for me.
But don’t make me type these things out a hundred times a day.
Even better–you could give me the option to white-list individuals to turn their messages into Google+ posts instead of emails from my perspective and I can just +1 them from there.
Thanks!
Scott
Played this in my head on loop for roughly 35 minutes this morning.
You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
Tell me doping isn’t happening on a pretty broad basis among age group athletes, and I’ll be more surprised than if you told me it is.
No sour grapes here, mind you. I’m an MOP age-grouper, and I’m only racing myself. So it doesn’t matter to me if age groupers are doping or not. It just seems very likely that it’s happening.
Let’s look at my age group as a ferinstance. If you check out the bikes at a big event, the nicest bikes seem to be in the 40-50 yo age group. It seems like there’s a higher density of high-end bikes there than there is even in the pro group. Based on nothing other than the bikes I see, I’d guess (have no stats on this) that the median income of my age group is well above the median income for triathlon pros, and my observation is that lots of guys in my age group don’t have a problem dropping cash on gadgets and equipment.
In other words, they are more than happy to pay for speed.
In addition, I’d imagine it’s not very tough for a guy in this age group to obtain prescriptions for a wide-range of pharmaceuticals that can help their performance. The question is, how many would actually do it?
Let’s look at a hypothetical situation many of us may be able to relate to. Let’s say an athlete starts off in triathlon in his 30s and works up to the 140.6 distance. Over the next few years he completes multiple iron-distance races, reads a gazillion books, buys a top-of-the-line bike, hires a coach, gets his diet in order, and trains like a madman with hopes of one day qualifying for Kona. We’re talking about years of preparation for a single goal.
He wakes up one day and he’s 39 (turning 40 in the calendar year). He’s moved up an age group, and does a little research to find that he’s on pace to be about 10 minutes away from winning a Kona slot at his A race which is scheduled later in the year. Ten minutes doesn’t sound like much, but then again, 10 minutes is a lot of time to cut off of the time he’s worked so hard to get over so many years. Can you imagine the level of temptation he’d be facing to employ every tactic available to get that 10 minutes and get that Kona slot?
Think very few triathletes would do that just because it’s against the rules?
Remind yourself of that next time a peloton blows by you on the bike during a race.
Now, if all those people in all those pelotons in all those races are willing to let people see them break a rule to go faster on race day, why would they care about breaking a rule in the privacy of their own homes during training to go faster on race day?
I stink. Seriously, I’m really stinky.
And I sweat a lot. Any run over 8 miles usually results in my feet making squishing sounds with each step. So once I’m deep into a training program, my shoes are in a perpetual cycle:
I usually don’t actually rinse them though. So they build up a dried out, soaked in stinky smell. I try sprinkling them with Gold Bond and baking soda every now and then if I remember, but they usually just end up stinking to high heaven.
The other day I Googled this problem and found a great solution–cat litter.
I filled some old rugby socks with cat litter and stuffed them down into my shoes and left them overnight. This removed about 90% of the smell in the shoes.
I’m very proud to share this little trick with you, and when I find out how to get the cat litter smell out of my shoes I will be sure to post the solution.
You never hear these kinds of allegations against Jazzercise.
Investigators allege Wright ran a prostitution operation out of her Zumba studio in Kennebunk and taped her encounters on video equipment set up by Mark Strong, an insurance agent from Thomaston.
As an insurance agent, Mr. Strong clearly has a firm grasp on the concept of risk management.
Hookers–they aren’t just for rugby any more.
HT PacePerMile
An observation:
People who drive slower than me are idiots. People who drive faster are maniacs.
People who make less than me are lazy. People who make more are greedy.
These two statements are equally true, rational, and reasonable.
I been could do all these tricks. The impressive part is that this guy stayed in Zone 2 for the whole thing.
The end of “running-as-a-punishment” in sports? This is ridiculous on so many levels.
We’re getting soft.
HT Remy’s World
I saw two men keenly interested in the Presidency have a lively discussion about the roles and responsibilities of the job.
Still, I can’t bring myself to vote for Jim Lehrer.
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