In high school gym class, I was placed in "Group 3."  Group 1 was for athletes, and Group 4 was for slackers.  My scores were good enough for a higher group, except for two categories: flexibility and cardiovascular fitness.

Running days for Group 3 required that we run 2 miles in under 20 minutes.  I would race my friends around the track, and we ( Read more... )

Some friends of mine (including mawiwa and njschiffer ) were considering bicycling this weekend.  Because I had such great luck with renting a bike  last time, I decided to try once more before the winter hit.

My brilliant plan was: take a bus 1 1/2 miles west from my office to the Outdoor Center, rent a bicycle, ride it 3 1/2 miles east to my apartment, and then ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, several of us (including mawiwa) traveled up to Madison, Wisconsin to visit a friend of ours that's going to leave for England in a few months.  We wandered around Madison, took pictures, and ate at our favorite Madison restaurants.  The last time we were up there, hankdmoose was with us too.  Since we visited the same places as when hankdmoose was along, ( Read more... )

Let's try a word problem together, shall we?

1) Let's assume we have a vengeful prankster.  We will call him mj_notes.  Our prankster arrives at his office to see his office cube filled with balloons and chairs, and sees a confession about said prank by one of his friends on Facebook.

He decides to retaliate by completely packing his friend's front door with ( Read more... )