Lets run!!!

In one of my earlier blogs i did mention about the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. Yes its there down below.

I just ran into one more good article on running in nytimes and i thought it might interest you all as well. How humans are superior to other animals in running? How we have evolved over generations(feets, joints, toes etc) to outrun other animals?

Here's some more

Spitballs and Goofers

So i ran into "Rationale Saurus" last night. He didnt look all that hunky dory so i thought i rather sit down with him and straigthen some things.


Me : How are you?
"Rationale Saurus" : Well lay off....... I am not in the mood to answer anything.

Me : So what happened? You can't get away without telling me.
"Rationale Saurus" : If you so insist. We just played spitballs.

Me : SpitBalls?
"Rationale Saurus" : Oh yeah.

Me: Whats that?
"Rationale Saurus" : Well for starters, someone spits, you make a ball, catch that, spit some more, throw it again, spit some more, till you make a huge spitball. And you keep playing there's no time limit.

Me : Sounds fun?
"Rationale Saurus" : Yep, it is when other people are involved.

Me : So what actually happened last night?
"Rationale Saurus" : Nothing, a huge spitball was generated yesterday noon maybe, and became a huge one by the evening.

Me : And who were playing this?
"Rationale Saurus" : All the goofers, me, myself, irene and the whole battallion.

Me : Does spitball solve problems?
"Rationale Saurus" : Heck no!! It leaves bad taste in everyone's mouth, since there is so much spitting involved especially if you care about all the people involved.

Me : How do you stop playing spitballs?
"Rationale Saurus" : Well for starters, dont react emotionally(which is pretty pretty hard, if the goofers involved are from the family). There's tact and then there's forgiveforgetaus and moveonlifesaurus.

Me : What's forgiveforgetaus, now you are confusing me?
"Rationale Saurus" : Well its simple forgive and forget. Thats a gothic word, has deep meaning(maybe asterisk comics would love to patent this word). It has deep ramifications often misunderstood by all the goofers in the world including me, myself, irene and the whole battalion.

Me : And whats moveonlifesaurus?
"Rationale Saurus" : Its just Move on with life, again very simple, but very very hard to follow.

Me : Did you take the blue pill/ red pill when Morpheus offered you one?
"Rationale Saurus" : I took the blue pill unlike neo who took the red pill. But I do try movonlifesaurus and forgiveforgetaus.


Me : So it seems you dont like spitballs
"Rationale Saurus" : Oh yeah!! No wonder i keep watching tv, all these goofers contact generate lots of not so constructive spitballs.

Me : Wow you have a spitball cure, watch more tv
"Rationale Saurus" : Yeah, every one of us goofers has some vices. I have this. I am not sure watching tv can eliminate all the spitballs.

Me : How can you eliminate the spitballs?
"Rationale Saurus" : Take the red pill. Drink lots of fluids then implement forgiveforgetaus and movonlifesaurus. Again easier said then done. Remember only Neo took the red pill, everyone of us has taken the blue pill.


Me : So you mean to say your last night was not fun?
"Rationale Saurus" : Nope, made me write this whole thing in third person.

Me : You love writing in third person and interviewing yourself?
"Rationale Saurus" : Oh yeah, thats the fun part.

Me : But it doesnt make sense. Looks like you are rambling to yourself?
"Rationale Saurus" : At 5 am in the morning, having not slept all night, writing in third person helps.

Me : So who gets these?
"Rationale Saurus" : My niece would have loved it. Because i and her connect on these spiritual mundane inane things. She will get my spitballs and goofers and the asterisk comics, others would say eeks weird, whats wrong with this one goofer.

Me : Who else will get this?
"Rationale Saurus" : I dont know if i throw it out again to the batallions, they wont get it again, and generate a huge spitball again.


Me : I just googled didnt find your deep meaning word (Spitballs, goofers, forgiveforgetaus, moveonlifesaurus), did you just make them?
"Rationale Saurus" : Oh yeah, i do get creative at times.

Me : Who's Irene?
"Rationale Saurus" : The girl in red dress(remember the matrix).

Walkman vs MP3 player

Walkman, well if you were growing up in 80's, i am pretty sure you must have owned one up. I remember my elder sister had a walkman(when she went to medical school, dad bought it for her). Whenever she would be home on vacation all other siblings(4 of us) would go after the walkman like anything. Walkman had short battery life(often 3 hours) and the tape would start playing slow once the battery starts dying. I am sure still no one would give up listening till the battery actually died. I had many great moments in my life with walkman.

Today's mp3 player are more sophisticated, better battery life, and holds thousands of songs with the shuffle functionality. Shuffling songs is the best part of the whole experience.

Recently, BBC gave one teenager the walkman to carry for a week and write the experience. Here's more

Running with walking breaks

Here's the marathon list for this year....

1. New York City Marathon (11/01/2009)
Check out the interactive maps of the city for the marathon

2. Chicago Marathon (10/11/2009)
Registration has already been closed

3. Washington DC Marathon (03/20/2010)

Here's some more link on to getting started.

Run - walk - run helps marathoner achieve great results.

Races happening around harrisburg area.

Daily Reads

There are times when you come across some good articles and you sure your coterie of friends and family members too might/would enjoy reading those.

Sharing them through emails is cumbersome(& obnoxious), I for the most part never open any forwarded email as a rule. Junk emails simply eat bandwidth which can be really used to do some more fruitful work in this world. The worst harmless online sin you can ever commit is to forward a mail with reply to all. I can go on and on that................ but that's another story...........

Anyway the only intent to write on this blog spot is to share some of my various finds/good articles across the vast internet and share it with others. I would try to moderate it and keep it inspiring/motivating/knowledgeable web posts suitable for all ages.


Here's an interesting article to start with :

Ever heard of Tarahumara