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Spinervals-I like it

I was sitting around watching some late night TV the other day when one of those fitness infomercials came on.  But this one wasn’t for the Insanity Workout or P90X, it was for some kind of Spinning Workout. So I hop over to Amazon and find about 120 Spinning DVDs.  Well, I guess I am …

July 8, 2011 – 3:13 pm | By Descartes | Posted in cycling, cycling clothes | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Night Bookmobile

The second time I saw The Night Bookmobile it was another chance encounter. Something wonderfully odd happens to people who have huge bestsellers-they kind of lose their minds.  Stephen King, James A. Michener, and J.K. Rowling all decided that having a base of reader meant they could crank out stories with millions of words.  Other …

December 9, 2010 – 8:45 am | By Descartes | Posted in book review, random thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Inner Game of Blogging

Timothy Gallwey’s brilliance was discovering that the subconscious has a lot more to do with success in sports than most people thought.  What we think, and when we think too much, can cause our performance to decline.  The same holds true with blogging, we can spend so much time looking for something to blog about …

July 19, 2010 – 10:13 pm | By Descartes | Posted in random thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Made to Stick

Walking around the library I find my way to the new books shelve and start scanning the titles. It’s the usual suspects, latest bestsellers and graphic novels, stuff for the restless mind that wants to get away from it all. Then there is a book with a fairly convincing bit of duct tape on the …

May 23, 2007 – 9:28 am | By Descartes | Posted in book review, great stuff, you should read it | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)