Where’s the peanut butter?!

In two weeks it will be one year since I migrated my webhosting from Dominet to Dreamhost. I’ve always had a bunch of domain names and great money making schemes for them that never get executed. The original was KeyboardShortcutGuru (defunct) where I would provide a tip a day of keyboard shortcuts for various contexts. Instead that turned into a brief and adequately successful testing ground for me to play with XML/XSLT and never came to fruition. The most recent is FringeUser where I would cover my exploits using computer hardware or software in unintended, unconventional, or emerging ways. Both were planned to earn me nickles a month, hand-over-fist.

But where was I? Right - web hosting. So when I migrated away from Dominet, I updated most of my website URLs to the new DNS so they would point at my actual host but I left fringeuser pointing at Dominet and today, what do you know? They still haven’t turned off my account! That’s both a testament to the popularity of my blog and to their inability to get a cron job set up to purge expired user accounts.

I got props from the coach today for helping setting up some run maps for the weekly long runs. Woot! Right now the maps are all for 10+ mile routes since that’s about my threshold for the “long” in “long run” but I’ll try to throw together a couple other popular routes that leave from the store since I know there are lots of people whose interpretation isn’t quite the same as mine. Heck, it was barely a year ago that I went out for my first long run with the club for an hour and a half and I can remember thinking to myself “I’m sure I’ll die any minute now and this will all be over.”

Jupiter, originally uploaded by Peru Tha Damaja.

Boston.com runs a series called The Big Picture where terrific, fairly high resolution photos from something relevant to the news is covered. Today they’re running a series on Views of Jupiter which contains various photos collected of the largest planet in the solar system over the past 30 years. They are all incredible.

After some running in the heat yesterday I was in the mood for a cool relaxing evening and really hoped to find an outdoor movie. I came up short there, but did catch Roman de Gare at The Crest with Joe, who ran his way to a free pair of sneakers earlier that day. My web searches turned up the following remaining summer schedule for movies, though:

• 7/19 Ghostbusters - Fremont
• 7/26 An Inconvenient Truth - Fremont
• 8/1 Princess Bride - Movies at the Mural
• 8/2 Juno - Movies at the Mural
• 8/2 The Omega Man - Fremont
• 8/8 Goonies - Movies at the Mural
• 8/9 Batman Begins - Movies at the Mural
• 8/9 Cloverfield - Fremont
• 8/9 Rocky Horror - Movies at the Mural
• 8/16 The Iron Giant - Fremont
• 8/23 Hairspray (2006) - Fremont
• 8/30 Juno - Fremont
• 9/6 Fireball XL5 - Fremont
• 9/13 TBA

There’s also a series in West Seattle at various locations.

I’ve got to be the last person in the world to see this, but this homage to BillG’s last day at Microsoft from the last CES almost makes me wish I stuck around long enough to see the goodbye footage. I wonder how this year’s company meeting will go without him?

Also - I can’t help being reminded of this terrific video from about 8 years ago around this time as Clinton’s second term was wrapping up: