Gutterspeak

1. I guess I didn’t do any Coffee Notes over the weekend. Or even on friday. Friday is my work-at-home day, and in some ways feels like part of the weekend. But, I assure you I do work on friday (my boss isn’t reading this, is he?).

2. Today was the day 2 of week 5 for Get Running. I expected it to be the same as day 1, which has you run three times for 5 minutes each. Imagine my surprise when I was told to run twice for EIGHT minutes each. I’ve never run eight minutes in my life. Heck, I’ve probably never run five minutes in my life. Or three. But I managed those runs. And I managed the eight minute run as well. In fact, physically, it wasn’t really all that difficult. At this point, my main obstacle is mental. Half way through, my brain starts to tell me that it doesn’t want to run anymore. I tell it to shut up, but it won’t listen. It never does. I do believe that I can now get to week 9, where I am to run for 30 minutes. But I worry what happens after that, when I’m on my own. Somehow I need to figure out how to keep going with the running, even when I no longer have a narrator telling me what to do.

3. I have a thing for historical mysteries. One mystery I am particularly interested in is the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. There’s a group called Tighar that searches for, and recovers, lost aircraft that has been looking into the AE case for over twenty years. Tighar’s theory about what happened seems pretty reasonable It isn’t a conspiracy theory. In fact, it’s really just the original theory put forward by some people of the time, which is that Earhart and Noonan, her navigator, were traveling on a line of position that would send them past Howland Island, where they were supposed to land. If they traveled north on that line, and missed Howland, they would fly out into a part of the ocean without any landfall. If, however, they traveled south on that line, and missed Howland, they would travel on through to the Phoenix island chain. Tighar assumes that Noonan would have known this fact quite well and would have taken them south, not north. That would put them in a position to land on an island in the Phoenix chain, and the most likely candidate for landing is an island now called Nikumaroro. Tighar has a fair amount of circumstantial evidence that suggests Earhart and Noonan did, in fact, land on Nikumaroro, and eventually died there. I can’t do the evidence justice, so be sure to check out their site.

What I like about Tighar is that they appear to be quite serious about using the scientific method to investigate what happened to AE. They are quite willing to toss evidence that doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. I have a few problems with their hypothesis, but I think they make a pretty compelling case.

4. I’m thinking of setting up my Twitter account so that it also posts to Facebook. Am I crazy? Why do I even care about Facebook? I’m not sure. But if tweeting also posted to Facebook, then it would look like I’m updating Facebook to my friends, which might be kind of interesting.

Or, maybe I should just delete my Facebook account. Jury’s still out.