ABOVE THE CLOUDS, MOUNT WILSON, CALIFORNIA
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A User's Guide to the Infinite Art Tournement
The Infinite Rice Army
Alleviating hunger through the taking of quizzes since March 21.
30,200 grains earmarked!
The Brackets!
Active First Round Pairings
- Gaudier-Brzeska v. Gauguin
- Gaddi v. Gainsborough
- Froment v. Gabo
- Friedrich v. Frink
- Play-In SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 10
- Frankenthaler v. Freud
- Fragonard v. Francis
- Foujita v. Fouquet
- Flavin v. Fontina
- Fautrier v. Feininger
- Play-In SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 9 -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Fabritius v. Fantin-Latour
- Etty v. Van Eyck -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Ernst v. Estes -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Ensor v. Epstein -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
- Eakins v. Elsheimer -- POLLS CLOSE SOON
Active Second Round Pairings
Active Third Round Pairings
Active Fourth Round Matches
Left Bracket, Round 2
- Elimination: Albers v. Alma-Tadema
- Antonello da Messina v. Archipenko
- Claude Lorraine v. Clouet
- Christo v. Chagall
- Tie-Break: Bellows v. Bourgeois
- Tie-Break: Bingham v. Botero
- Champaigne v. De Chirico
- Böcklin v. Buren
- P. Blake v. Boltanski
- Catlin v. Carrà
- Caro v. Catena
- Canova v. Burra
- Calder v. Canaletto
- Jan Bruegel v. Bronzino
- Bomberg v. Boccioni
Left Bracket, Round 3
The Hypothetical Hypermarathon
- Michael5000's Running Avatar has left Portland and is running generally east, out into the great big world.
- May 19th -- Passing through The Dalles, Oregon.
- May 12 -- The Avatar passes back into Oregon at Hood River and continues eastward on the Mark Hatfield Trail.
- April 28 -- Passing by Beacon rock in the beautiful Columbia Gorge.
- April 23 -- Standing on the corner in downtown Camas, Washington.
- April 17 -- THE AVATAR IS HOME!!!
The Humanly Prowess -- since August 2009
- May 19 -- 8.26 is a best-ever mileage for the 19th. I'm also at 14 consecutive Sundays, 1 short of the record, as well as 14 consecutive Saturdays.
- April 27 -- A nice 9.06 mile run passes us over the best-April-ever mark and gives me an record of 11 consecutive running Saturdays.
- April 25 -- By the by, I've currently tied the records for most consecutive Saturdays and most consecutive Wednesdays run. But who's counting.
- April 20 -- 9.62 miles is a surprise all-time record for the 20th of the month!
- April 14 -- 5.53 miles is an all-time record for a run resulting in hospital treatment for dog bite injuries!
- April 6 -- 10.1 miles is the first ever double-digit run for April.
Our Mission Statement
190 or Bust
- May 16 -- Weigh-in for work weight-loss contest: 208
- May 3 -- 208
- March 10 -- 205.4
- Feb 24 -- 206.0 -- but clearly we've got a little problem to work on here.
- Feb 23 -- 207.6 -- Uh-oh...
- January 5 -- 204.4. Oops!
- July 1 - 200
- June 24 -- 200
Labels
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- Arts and Letters (54)
- The Classical Music (52)
- The Bear Chronicles (50)
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- Michael5000 vs Shakespeare (27)
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- How This Thing Works (22)
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- Jazz (13)
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- My nieces are better than your nieces (12)
- I Like Presents (11)
- The Beaver State (11)
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- Castle5000 (9)
- Mercifully Brief Reviews (9)
- Quarterly Report (9)
- The Hypothetical Hypermarathon (9)
- Acquisition and Divestiture (7)
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- Yuletide (6)
- Before There Was Mrs.5000 (5)
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- Home Recording (4)
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- Meme Duty (3)
- Michael5000 vs Dickens (3)
- michael5000 rocks (3)
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3 comments:
"I learned to read for myself when I was six. To congratulate me, my grandmother--Sarah--sent me a picture postcard. The picture was of a rabbit reading a book. On the back she wrote, 'Well done! Now you can find out all the secrets of the world.' When I saw her next time, she asked if I liked it. I said, 'I like it so much, Gran, I wish I had a postcard every week.' And since then she's sent me a picture postcard every week. Never misses. Doesn't matter if she's ill. Or away on holiday. Whatever. Every week she sends me a card. Even though I live with her now, she still sends them. By post. When there's no post, like when there was a postal strike once, she puts that week's card through the letterbox herself . . . I've kept them all from the very first. There are seven hundred and eleven so far."
from Postcards from No Man's Land
by Aidan Chambers
THAT is totally wonderful.
Really.
I lurved my boring card! Actually, I'm not sure it *was* boring... Either way, the result was the same: I put on my awesome "You can fry but you can't resist" tshirt and had a M5K Day!
Thinking of firing up the old blog again to see how she runs...
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