Running, Resolutions follow-up
So I've been running a lot last week. I ran 20 miles over 3 days. Which is a lot for me, because I hadn't been running in a long time.
Why would I do this to myself? I was in a competition with a friend on nikeplus.com ... we wear our iPod nanos and use the Nike+ device that counts our steps... tracking distance and speed. Anyway, we were competing for the most distance over a month. And she had been running consistently, and I was trying to catch up at the last minute. I came close, but didn't quite catch up.
I started enjoying running again... especially when I ran 9.7 miles one night to Natural Bridges and back.
I don't have a weight scale here at the University Inn, but I don't think I've made much progress on that part of my New Year's Resolutions... yet, at least.
Time for a new Nike+ Challenge? I think so.
You can add me to your challenge:
Nike+ username: rpechler
Posting a lot on Twitter
I haven't posted here in a while... I'm busy with school, and a bunch of projects. When I do feel like sharing some thoughts with the world, I've been doing that over at my Twitter account: http://twitter.com/rex
If you're not using Twitter yet, you can get started by taking out your cell phone and texting "Follow Rex" to '40404'.
My Courses for Winter Quarter 2008
I'm taking 3 awesome classes. Music and the WWW, Marketing, and Accessibility.
For Music and the WWW, I'll be researching Music Discovery on the Internet. Things like Last.fm and Pandora. For the final project, I'll develop an interactive website, but I have to use original content so I'll be making some music myself.
My Marketing professor is the craziest and most intense I've ever had. He'll start each lecture with "storytime," where he tells us about doing business in one of the supposed 178 countries he's been. Yesterday he talked about dancing with a Chinese drug lord on the top of Victoria Peak in Hong Kong, in the Police Chief's Mansion with 7 Rolls Royces in the driveway. And he's promised to take us to the "Promised Land."
I just had my first Accessibility lecture, where we'll be learning about disabilities and technologies to overcome them. My professor does research in guidance systems for the visually impaired among other things, but this General Education class is more focused on the social impact of disabilities than the technological. My interest here is Web Accessibility, and how I can take that into consideration when I'm developing websites.
Feel free to contact me if you'd like to know more about the course content.
