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Category Archives: just saying
Schnellensteigen
According to Google translate ‘Schnellensteigen’ means ‘fast rise’ in German. Which makes sense and sounds appropriately and totally demonic* as it is the name of this insane trail run we did every fall for ski team in college. Up Mt. Greylock, mach schnell!! The Schnellensteigen was an amorphous cloud of dread that hung over fall semester and motivated you at every practice so as not to, um, die**.
Apparently time heals all wounds. Just signed up for a trail race at Blue Hills. Looks like fun, right? Right.
*like most words in Deutsche.
**At least for the alpine skiers. Nordic skiers would yawn at the top and be done with breakfast before the downhill team was halfway up the hill
How to See Boston on Foot in 3 Easy Steps
1. Run 20 to 30 miles every week for eight years, or until you’ve developed a serious endorphine addiction. Which ever comes first.
2. Go for what is supposed to be a quick jog on a beautiful night in June.
3. Get totally caught up how much you love this city and just…. keep… running.
Writing is fun
but sometimes its hard not to feel like this…
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Riding My Bike 100 Miles Over the Pass
Possibly the greatest sports interview of all time. All time? All time, all time.
Thoroughly enjoying this playoff season so far. But I miss Perk. And Scal. Obviously.
A Post In Which I Change My Mind
As a young unmarried young female I’ve always kind of had a “sure whatever if i decide to get married I’ll probably change my name. seems easier” attitude. Now, I have a diploma with my name on it and someday in the near future will have another one. And I have a professional reputation and yada yada yada. But people get married and change their names. That’s cool, I’ve always been pretty ok with it.
But then today I signed up to reserve a username for Stellar, which is a website sharing thing from @kottke. I signed up solely on the basis of the fact that I like most things that come out of the Kottke shop. But the thing is that I automatically typed in “jacquimiller” as my reserved name… because its my name and also my twitter handle and because I subscribe to the philosophy of the online world exemplified here.
And for the first time in my life (I think) I had a negative reaction to the thought of changing my name. I’m assuming that our emails and twitter names and whatever comes next are only going to become more important and, frankly, I spend a LOT of time in the online world. And it seems a LOT harder to change your online “brand name” than it is to tell all your acquaintances to refer to you as Mrs. So-and-So.
So there you have it. I’ve come to a point where I feel more that I’ll want to keep my birth identity than want to ditch it. Through the magic of the interwebs.
This post features both smart and dumb people
Will Weider, CIO of Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System, writes a fairly compelling blog about being the Chief Information Officer of a large hospital system. You can find it here.
Today, he sharply (and justly) criticizes a horrible Windows commercial. Basically the commercial conflates cloud computing with both remote access and being idiotic. Between this and their “a phone to save us from our phones” ad campaign I’m going to go ahead and say that Microsoft is… well… as a generally unapologetic Apple fanlady my opinion is wholly irrelevant. But check the links and come to your own conclusions.
Why, sir, a carpenter.
A list of Shakespeare’s worst speaking roles. You know, just in case someone asks. And they might.
