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 a bit behind the times here. So I got one called Spinerval Ultra Conditioning. I like the cutesy name and it’s a workout that combines stationary bike work with pushups and dumbbells. It’s an intense workout, but any DVD based training is easier than hitting…
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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 writers have decided that this means they have been touched by God and need to do a bit more preaching than they used to. And some decide to explore other mediums besides the boring world of the novel. Audrey Niffeneggerwrote one of my all time…
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 that we never actually get around to writing anything. Just start typing. I used to take blogging pretty seriously-I was pretty active on Blogcatalog, Technorati, and Digg. Not so much now. But recently I got a couple of emails asking me to check out their…
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 cover. Why some ideas survive and others die. Hmm, sounds like my kind book. And it is. Covering everything from the urban legend of the stolen kidney to the success of the Jared Subway commercials, this is really way cool stuff. Ok, saying really way…