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San Francisco Marathon, first half

Well, today's a day for signing up for races. I'm going to run the first half of the San Francisco Marathon on July 26th. It starts obnoxiously early in the morning (like 5:30am), but the first half is the part that goes along the Embarcadero and over the Golden Gate Bridge, so I can't help but pick it. I figure this will probably be a bit harder than the mostly flat Shamrock n' Half Marathon, so we'll see if I can keep up a similar time. Oh, and I'm determined to run the full San Francisco Marathon next year. (This is my year for half marathons, next year is going to be the year for marathons.)

Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat | Video on TED.com

via ted.org

Interesting talk on how we as Americans eat too much meat, how it's bad for us and the environment, and how we got to this point.

2009 Stadium to Stadium 10k

No one ever seems to take me up on these, but I'm going to continue trying. ;-) I'm going to be running this year's Stadium to Stadium 10k. It's on June 20th. You should join me, because it will be fun, and it's kinda neat to end the race on the field at Candlestick. Anyways, for more info and to register. Holler if I've managed to convince you.

Emma is a posing queen and a dancing machine

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Amir with Mom and Dad

Because we know you haven't had quite enough Amir pictures, here are some more, but this time with the rest of us for scale. (We tried to get Emma to pose, but she decided that she didn't want to at the time.)

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Interesting talk on Scala

A good high level overview of a lot of the neat features and idomatic ways to do things in Scala. It would be nice if he went more indepth on some things, but I found it generally informative, and it's enough information that one could easily look up more detail in the documentation.

(Via the Scala blog)

Amir Matteo Jones-Bey

For those of you that have not already heard, our family has increased in number by one. Amir Matteo Jones-Bey was born on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 at 5:53pm. He was 7 pounds 7 ounces, and 18.25 inches long.

EDIT: I used to say March up there. Obviously, I no longer know what month it is. I've fixed it to say May, as it properly should.