Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

March 5, 2010 1

Duty, Honor, Country

By morgamic in Personal

On Tuesday I was a pallbearer at my grandfather’s funeral. It’s the first time since eighth grade that I had lost someone so close to me.

You forget that empty feeling after a while. A week earlier, as I watched him take his last breath, it fell over me like an old and familiar [...]

January 25, 2010 3

Bye Conan

By morgamic in Personal, Showbiz

Before singing Free Bird with Beck, Ben Harper, ZZ Top and Wil Ferrel Conan said something pretty profound. For one, he thanked all his fans for turning an otherwise sad moment in his life into a joyous and inspirational one while choking back tears. But in a sobering moment, he pleaded to his [...]

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January 6, 2010 1

Heart statistics

By morgamic in Personal, Sports, Technology

So I got this Garmin device that does GPS in hopes that it’d make me run more. So far it’s been successful. The GPS and Google maps mashups on their activity summary web app are super cool (see full example):

Over time, if you keep up with it you can see improvements in different [...]