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Picture of the day, 3 January 2013

Classic grade I or mild grade II inversion sprain, with bruising halfway up the calf and in the toes. Day 3.

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Picture of the day, 1 January 2013

18 hours later:

Swelling has distributed [1], bruising is pretty good. Dogs are very disappointed. Their new year is so far not off to a good start – we are not going for any long hikes today.

[1] If you are an athlete, or just clumsy, you have to get one of these medical quality icing devices. Right up there with impact drills in goodness.

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Happy New Year

Here’s me getting into shape for the new year:

6:33 pace, 116 bpm HR.

And that bump on the right? It matches this bump on the left:

All my ankle braces are for the other ankle.

Sigh. Training. It’s always something, some setback. Thanks be to eBay for the Donjoy Iceman, which I’m still hoping to get reimbursed for on the HCSA.

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Picture of the day, 27 December 2012

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Picture of the day, 25 December 2012

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Picture of the day, 24 December 2012

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Picture of the day, 20 December 2012

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BASE jumping off the fiscal cliff

This is fun. I picked all the liberal/socialist/commie options (gas tax, cap and trade, single payer, stimulus, let tax cuts expire, etc), and I get 4% growth, and a $62 B surplus by 2021.

So what is it that we’re arguing about?

In other news, I want to play NLHE with the prez. I’m not very good but I think I could walk away with Fort Knox.

h/t Atrios

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Picture of the day, 19 December 2012

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Picture of the day, 18 December 2012

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Utterly and completely corrupt

I was going to go off on a rant, but Matt Taibbi hit every note I was going to hit.

Launder billions of drug money at the highest level, and defer your bonus for five years. Defer. Not lose. Fall asleep on the subway, and spend the night in Rikers. And pay for the DNA sample they’re going to take.

The US government is utterly and completely corrupt, run by the banksters, for the banksters, and not even bothering to shear the sheep, just sending them off to the slaughter for maximum profit this quarter.

Tagged OWS

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Scott Adams has spies everywhere

Dilbert is once again setting up shop in my workplace:

This is my day every day this week. Sigh. I used to be a scientist.

Also this. And this.

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Picture of the day, 17 December 2012

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TIL

And cops. Today a motorcycle cop almost hit me when he swung out and made a (what would be for any of the rest of us) illegal U-turn in order to give someone a ticket for DWB. Guess it was important to give that ticket Right Now, and not wait three seconds for me to not be in the way. Luckily there wasn’t a car parked right there or I’d have been off the bike again.

Add cops to the list of Things That Would Rather Kill Me On The Bike Rather Than Wait Five Seconds.

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TIL

Everyone on the road is trying to kill me. Everyone. Trucks, vans, cars, motorcycles, pedestrians, cats, dogs, squirrels, rabbits, and cyclists.

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