Cape Wind Comedy Daily
http://youtube.com/v/LEaOkhWOZ1A
The Wind Farm — a blight on the horizon?
Discovery disbands without backer
Sad news:
“Lance Armstrong’s former team Discovery is to disband at the end of the season after failing to find a new sponsor.”
$45 million over three years is a steep price in sports marketing to be associated with the most tainted sports of all. Sad, the legacy of Discovery — formerly US Postal — as the team that drove Armstrong to seven Tour de France palmares should have been as one of the preeminent franchises in any sport. Now it sputters out without a whimper like my subscription to VeloNews which expires with the current issue.
Let’s see if pro cycling’s slide in irrelevancy does two things:
1. Kill off the big surge in yuppie cyclists (self included) riding $10,000 bikes
2. Cause other sports to crack down preemptively on doping to keep their ranks clean (except pro wrestling which needs freaks as part of the draw).
Guess my new Giro Discovery helmet is destined to become a collector’s item someday.
Giant statue of Hadrian unearthed
“Parts of a huge, exquisitely carved statue of the Roman Emperor Hadrian have been found at an archaeological site in south-central Turkey.The original statue would have stood 4m-5m in height, experts estimate.
His achievements include the massive wall built across the width of northern Britain which bears his name.”
A reminder, one of my favorite novels, historical or otherwise, is Marguerite Yourcenar’sĂ‚Â Memoirs of Hadrian. Published in France in 1951, it is a favorite recommended to me by a college girlfriend. Yourcenar’s The Abyss is another great find.
Into the blog roll goes this foodie blog — an excellent stroll through taqueria cuisine.
Being a big fan of the urban food log burrito, this is the mexican equivalent of the excellent pizza blog, Slice
(given the food content of today’s posts, can we guess who came off of a ten day fast?)
This is a personal list, nothing more
Greatest novel: The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy. This one was declared by Uncle Fester, who has impeccable taste in all things and is not known for backing off of declarations such as the ..
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Greatest album: Again, Fester made the claim, and I agree: Astral Weeks, Van Morrison. Here is Jimmy Guterman on this masterpiece.
Greatest film: Ordet. Thanks to my son Eliot, the film auteur, for this recommendation. Danish. Black and white. Religious. Go figure. Still, floored me more than any other movie.
Greatest Car: 1974 Dodge Dart with a slant six.
Best taqueria: La Cumbre, Valencia between 16th and 17th, San Francisco
Best bar: Tosca, Columbus St. San Francisco (one must drink a Negroni, neat, while listening to a Caruso aria on the juke box after eating at the ….)
Best Chinese: Brandy Ho’s, Columbus and Pacific, San Francisco, across the street from Tosca. Smoked ham.
Forbes.com Entrepreneurs LinkedIn Group
As I wrote a while back, show me a LinkedIn spammer and they are a member of a Forbes.com LinkedIn group. Try to join such a group and … good luck. I worked there and can’t join.
Scott Allen (who I am not accusing of being a LinkedIn luser) writes about the torture of joining one of these useless bands of Forbesians.
“I had a reader write to me asking how to join the Forbes.com Entrepreneurs LinkedIn Group (of which I’m a member). So, being the helpful guy I am, I went to go look it up to send it to him. Imagine my surprise when I couldn’t find it!”
JEALOUSCOMPUTERS.COM | A global warning
Best viral I’ve seen in over a year. From Nokia for it’s N-Series of phones.
So this is it. Last day on the so-called Master Cleanse fast — lemonade made with maple syrup, fresh lemons, spring water, and cayenne pepper. Why? Pal Marta, one of the fittest people I know was pretty persuasive and I needed to: a) lose some weight, b) reset eating habits, c) generally clear out the plumbing.
Random observations:
1. Fasting makes people uncomfortable. “Whaddya going to do? Get all spiritual, meditate, and swallow a string?”
2. I was never hungry — the lemonade mixture took care of that. I did crave stuff, specifically: french bread and cheese, dal makhani, a grilled chicken breast. Pizza, hotdogs and the stuff the kids push into their mouths never got me that worked up.
3. I lost 8 11 pounds.
4. I was able to exercise regularly with no increase in heart rate or decline in erg scores.
5. I slept better. I feel better.
Tomorrow I taper back onto real food — starting with orange juice, then soup, etc. The issue is what to stay with to keep the weight coming off and the exercise continuing.
Happy to see other people on it too.
“This move confirms just how hard it is for news organizations to generate subscription revenue online: If the Times can’t do it, almost no one can (the one modest success story, the Wall Street Journal, will presumably be next to throw in the towel). The failure of TimesSelect is also yet more proof that newspapers will have to fundamentally restructure their businesses as the world migrates online. The revenue-per-reader the companies can generate online is only a fraction of what they can generate in print, and the online businesses simply won’t support the same cost structure.”