PolarLava::Blog

So a few weeks back I came across One Hundred Push Ups.  This site promotes the personal challenge to do 100 push ups.  I filed it a way, came back a couple of weeks ago and printed out the entire program.  I'm going to do this.  I need to do this.  Now I just need to get on-track and start on it.

Shockingly enough when I brought this up at work the video game addicted, junk food eating (mostly) 20-nothings that I work with…was largely a collective yawn.  Disappointing, but not unexpected.  That's OK, I'm nearly twice the age of most of them and I'm certainly in much better shape.  Now I just need to get mentally tough and raise the bar even higher.  …more

I was really bummed out to hear this morning that George Carlin died of heart failure yesterday at 71.  George was a comic genius like none other.  His very matter of fact, casual observations of simple subjects were always insightful and more importantly truthful.  George could find the absurdity of most any situation and most often in ones that the rest of us would take for granted.  We'll all miss you George.

I understand the need for CAPCHA (because of the annoying scumbag spammers) and I'm used to seeing some with less than clear images or squiggly characters.  But this one takes the cake…

Please enter all letters having a below.



Seriously?  This is what it now takes to avoid spammers and robots?  It took me a few tries, but I finally deciphered this as being "L9DC".  Insanity.