media thoughts

Interesting

Thanks for the link, mactavish.

Here's a snippet of a comment I posted about it:

When you get right down to it, the people in the boardroom are answering to the viewers. They must answer to the viewers. We Americans complain voluminously about what our media choose to portray, and then WE KEEP WATCHING exactly what we complain about. We keep responding to the tactics of "show more old sniper footage" even if old sniper footage is not what we say we want to see.

I guess it's a case of "everybody gets what the majority deserves". :-J

Vicodin

Vicodin is GOOOOOOOOOOD.

Drugs. More drugs. I like drugs.

I hope Vicodin isn't too addictive. I could see myself eating three a month -- seven or eight if I could drive while taking it. But I'll run out soon.

Latest Physical Challenge

To help myself get and stay fit, I have the idea of setting physical challenges for myself. Ideally, a challenge will be something I secretly fear that I cannot do, but also something that with sufficient training I might at least attempt without seriously injuring my knee.

The first one was hiking to the top of Half Dome. That fit the bill, and I was immensely happy having done it. My knees weren't comfortable at all, but as far as I could tell neither one was damaged any further, so that was a success.

My most recent idea was to run a 5K. I wanted to find a road race and give myself enough training time for it. I never did find a race. I ran more than 5K on one of my training days, and for this goal I will content myself with that.

So here's my latest idea: Bay to Breakers.

( Pros and cons )

I'll keep thinking about it.