Well, as a “sedentary person” who is finally (now that the snow and cold weather is gone) getting out and walking again, I was happy to read What’s the Best Exercise? (NY Times): [I]n general, a sedentary person’s risk of dying prematurely from any cause plummeted by nearly 20 percent if he or she began brisk …
I use the Share on Facebook bookmarklet a lot to share links with people, not because I love Facebook but because it’s a lot easier than copying the link, switching to email, creating a new email, pasting the link, and typing the page title. But a friend suggested that it might not be be best …
I hastily set up kieranchapman.net back in 2000 in part to help my job search, and since then I have done one minor design update. After 11 years of pretty much the same design, an update to my site was long overdue. I’ve been thinking about it for years but never got around to it because …
Roger Ebert has a pretty active Twitter account with often interesting links. However, I noticed that links to his personal Sun Times blog sometimes have ugly or bizarre URLs. This one was especially bad, with the page being not-quite-HTML-code for four nonbreaking spaces (emphasis mine, obviously): blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/strange-3/nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-nbsp-my.html I wasn’t sure what point I was going …
All those kids doing wheelies & skids on fixed-gear bikes need to learn better tricks. Come on, “Quicksilver” was almost 25 years ago!
So I’m sitting here — sitting! — reading kottke.org and he points to this: Phys Ed: The Men Who Stare at Screens “Men who spent more than 23 hours a week sitting had a 64 percent greater chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for 11 hours a week or less. What was …
I just felt the need to give some positive feedback to Raynham Hardware. Our basement, like many people here in our area, took in water. In the past we’ve never even had so much as a puddle, so we didn’t own a water pump to take care of it, and everyone we knew who had …
Cute joke, but it’s her laugh that really gets me every time.
I didn’t grow up with Nintendo. I played plenty of arcade games, but for some reason we picked the “wrong” home video game systems: Odyssey 2 instead of Atari 2600, Atari 7800 instead of NES. Of course I’ve played Super Mario Bros. but I didn’t “grow up” with it the way my wife, many of …
Just the other day I was wondering what the “Heinz 57 varieties” on the ketchup bottle was. Then out of nowhere the internet brings the answer to me via kottke.org— I didn’t even have to Google it myself. Super-convenience…