Daily Archives: Friday, December 7, 2007

I am a self-proclaimed YouTube-ologist…

One of my favorite entertainments is cruising through You-Tube videos. Specifically, I like the paranormal – UFO – face on Mars – pyramid building aliens – end of the world – Illuminati – government conspiracy – brain-sucking aliens — and other fun stuff like that. And I love to leave comments. But I am not a troll, my comments are genuinely intended to be a, well, a comment. Seriously, I am very appalled at the scientific ignorance displayed in the comments for each and every video (if comments have not been disabled). Not only scientific ignorance, but ignorance of the English language, spelling, and grammar. I do not know if they are just lazy or if they really type “sum” repeatedly when they mean to say “some”. Or they type “hoo r u” in lieu of “who are you”. They leave out nouns, verbs, vowels, conjunctions, so that their sentences … Continue reading

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Weather improved for today’s 6.5 km run…

I ran a 7:22 pace today, doing the 6.5 km in 0:47:54. This is slightly slower than last time but still faster than my 7:30 goal. The temperature was minus 11 C. The weather is and has been warming up. It is supposed to get near zero this week.

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