http://timhodge.org it is what it is Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:33:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For some reason three friends and I have teamed up to do a beginner's adventure race in April, so today I went on the first of many training runs.  My goal for this run was simple: keep moving for 30 minutes.  I started with a 6-minute warm up, did some ... http://timhodge.org/2008/12/training-run/ I mean seriously: Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down. Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday's video may ... http://timhodge.org/2008/11/what-is-wrong-with-people/ For the first time in a long time gas is below $2 a gallon in my neighborhood. Hopefully this doesn't mean we lose our focus on the need for more sustainable transportation options, but I'm not terribly optimistic about that. It seems that people only really change when ... http://timhodge.org/2008/11/192/ Monsanto is surely taking over the world. It's bad enough they already own most of the seeds used to grow our food, and their growth hormones contaminate most of our milk, but now they are taking it over the top by trying to patent pigs. It's almost too ... http://timhodge.org/2008/11/patent-for-pig/ I'm going to start getting my photo albums up.  First one is The Zoo, where I will collect adorable pictures of the animals running around our house.  Enjoy. http://timhodge.org/2008/11/photo-albums/ I'll believe it when I see it, but given the incoming President's environmental stances along with this recent quote from Harry Reid, and I'm starting to feel a little better about it: "Yucca Mountain is history, OK?" Reid said in an interview Wednesday. "Just watch, we'll see what happens real soon, ... http://timhodge.org/2008/11/yucca-mountain-finally-going-to-die/ If you've flown out of Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport anytime in the last couple years you know what a mess it can be to find a good parking spot.  Hopefully things will get better with Tuesday's opening of the new Economy lot where the old rental car lots were ... http://timhodge.org/2008/11/more-parking-at-mccarran/ Last year Dubai World dropped $6 billion for a 9.4% stake in MGM Mirage and a 50% interest in City Center.  Now the investment arm has gained approval to aquire up to a 20% stake in MGM Mirage, although it is planning to wait until market conditions warrant such an ... http://timhodge.org/2008/11/dubai-world-is-taking-over-the-world/ Just a couple hours ago I made reference to a study that claimed Lake Mead has a 50 percent chance of drying up by 2021.  On a slightly more optimistic side, researchers at the University of Colorado released on Tuesday a report that says there is a less than 5 percent chance ... http://timhodge.org/2008/11/better-numbers-for-lake-mead/ At the beginning of this decade the WHO estimated that 1.1 billion people did not have access to clean water.  The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells us that by 2050 that number will climb to 2 billion, and 3.2 billion in 2080.  That's roughly half the people on Earth. ... http://timhodge.org/2008/11/some-numbers/