I ran the Oakland 1/2 Marathon yesterday, the inaugural Oakland running festival which had other running events like a relay, 5k, and of course the full marathon.
I had a lot of fun, the course is super fast and flat, folks were great/happy/excited, the running shirt was nice. The support was awesome, no shortage of volunteers and spectators. I was surprised by the number of people that were out and about cheering (moreso than the San Francisco marathon).
Ran into a few folks Derrick and Dr. Bean from IronTeam. Ben was at the finish line volunteering.
More thoughts from other folks
The other day, I encountered eight (eight!) people who had come to town just for the marathon. All of them made a point of saying how surprised they were to discover what a beautiful city Oakland is. It was totally heartwarming.
A friend of mine was telling me that the prettiest money she ever saw was the Dutch guilder. I had to look it up and I now have to agree. Wouldn’t be a bad collection to framed up on a wall somewhere.
Top of lift six, Cornice Express at Kirkwood.
What a great snow year in Tahoe! We’ve been up a few times, wished we could have gone up more. We’ve really only gone to Kirkwood which gets a ton of snow early in the season and it got dumped on this year, so we just kept going there.
Here, I’m all Burton-ed out. Jacket is from the Shaun White collection. Shirt is a snowboarding shirt from Burton too. Snowboard pants are denim (goretex but it does still get cold and wet so good for warm days…but they do look cool). Boots are Burton Hail. The helmet is Giro, the bindings are Flow, the sunglasses are Oakley, the cap is from Rapha.
I’m more than happy to model Burton’s 2011 collection next year…Call me :-)
[Apologies for the lack of writing, going back to writing now, hopefully a post a week if not more].
Great job! Lot of great changes to help move the web forward.
Check out http://hacks.mozilla.org to test drive our new toy.
Palm Pre looks pretty good, probably will wait for the next version though. Even with the iPhone 3GS, it’s probably the right upgrade path from a Treo. A lower price/plan, better battery life would have knocked the Palm Pre out of the ballpark, but still good. Walt Mossberg’s review
Other stuff I’ve been playing around with:
- an unlocked G1 phone (w/ Android 1.5, fun to play with)
- mobile wireless via Sprint (though heard AT&T’s was 3x faster)
I check out the Netbooks every once in a while and I like the Dell Minis but there’s so many out there now. It’s an interesting (and confusing) product segmentation — second laptop, ultralight for business travelers, kids.
Some good ideas for a vegetable garden (especially for people with a new empty backyard).
Square Foot Garding from Frugal Dad
Another cool photo. Discovery launch — supposed to launch in two days if the weather cooperates.
The Last Great Race on Earth
Thought this was a neat photo set from The Big Picture blog. There are some crazy races out there, the Badwater Ultramarathon is up there but the multiday endurance races in extremely cold or hot weather are the ones that are even crazier for me.
Green collar jobs are blue collar jobs in green businesses – that is, manual labor jobs in businesses whose products and services directly improve environmental quality (Pinderhughes, 2006). Green collar jobs are located in large and small for-profit businesses, non-profit organizations, social enterprises, and public sector institutions. What unites these jobs is that all of them are associated with manual labor work that directly improves environmental quality.
Here’s more info:
We’ve been hearing about Green Collar jobs in Oakland for quite some time — because of Van Jones and the Ella Baker Center which is on 40th Street, a little over a mile from where we live. The rest of the country is going to hear more about it so might as well link to the source of the Green Collar job concepts.
