[A sample Bug post about climate change from 2007]About 20 years ago, I came out to my grandfather. From 3912 miles away. Via a letter. Weeks later his snail-mail response arrived: He advised me to give up this "dirty habit", as though I were smoking tobacco ( Read more... )

Vanguard is a not-for-profit mutual fund company with the lowest fees in the business. That's why I keep some of my extra money with them. Right now my Vanguard money is split between the Prime Money Market Fund (up 5.14%) and the STAR Balanced Fund (up 6.58 ( Read more... )

I don't see any official results posted on the web yet, but by my watch I ran the half in 2:04:31, which is a personal best by 31 seconds. That's good enough for me ( Read more... )

I think my occasional posts about increasingly dire economic news have been making some of you wonder about what exactly is coming next ( Read more... )

Yesterday, while shopping in the Castro neighborhood, I saw somebody wearing a t-shirt saying, "Ask Me About Me ( Read more... )

That wasn't so bad, actually felt easier than either of the 20-milers. And the post-run ice bath is somewhat more tolerable now.

Now I know I can run the full distance in San Francisco!

A life expectancy calculator at ( Read more... )

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously.-- Tom Robbins, ( Read more... )

I woke at 5 a.m., hoping to beat the heat. I got in about 15 miles before the heat arrived. Those first 15 miles I averaged about 11 minutes per mile, but the last 5 miles I averaged about 13 minutes per mile as I slowed down to avoid getting sick. And, yes, getting sick was a real possibility, ooog ( Read more... )

Despite the recent scary stories about stalling or falling home prices, dozens of bankrupt mortgage lenders, and an unprecedented wave of upcoming home foreclosures, so far 2007 has been kind to stock and bond investors. Although we've seen a few sharply down days on world financial markets, as of last night all of Vanguard's mutual funds are in ( Read more... )