today i felt philosophical, and after two cups of strong coffee i sat down and thought for hours: idle thoughts and serious thoughts, very sobering thoughts and wouldn't-it-be-cool sort of thoughts ..

.. all sorts of thoughts. but in the end, my last thoughts became dark and dismal: i thought about utopias, how "utopia" is a negative idea (like ( Read more... )

I think I've developed a new weblog genre: the running post.

I ran well, today .. but unlike other days, saying that seems kin to a Renaissance soldier saying that "I fought well today." Just to keep going and keep running, that task felt like a tangible adversary and to reach my goal it felt like combat, every other step of the way ( Read more... )