http://www.harrypark.com Thoughts and Experience Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:03:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may not be aware that for the past day an war has been raging on the Internet. Specifically, the fight over the HD-DVD key. Rudd-o posted this article covering the battle. He sat at ground zero. In a nutshell, Digg got a story that had a key that allowed people ... http://www.harrypark.com/may-1st-the-day-techies-fought-for-freedom-of-piracy Moving out forces you to take stock of all your belongings and ask you that important question: Is this really worth moving? I've had an Orbitrek elliptical machine for a while and it's been a pretty good home cardio machine. Since I've started mountain biking, I haven't used it all that ... http://www.harrypark.com/craigslist-is-a-great-way-to-clean-house It’s been a while since I’ve posted, almost two years. I got sick of Movable Type. The pings and trackback spamming were driving me insane. It’s pretty awful when managing the blog frustrates you to the point that you don’t blog. With Wordpress, I can hopefully start again. There’s been ... http://www.harrypark.com/blogging-again America is in crisis. Much like the homo sapien citizen, our elephants have succumbed to too much TV and super-sized meals. And in that vein of thinking, Americans, as the world's fitness experts, have done for our elephant brethren what we do for ourselves: buy exercise equipment. Yes, an elephant ... http://www.harrypark.com/america-in-crisis-plump-pachyderms Jim Lee is a cool guy. Here are two of his blogs: The old site: GELATOMETTI The new site: Sun of GELATOMETTI He writes, draws, inks, and does whatever else a cool comic book needs. I got a recent set of his Batman comics. They were impressive. Stan Lee, unfortunately, is not Korean, but ... http://www.harrypark.com/jim-lee-is-the-coolest-korean Hurricane Katrina brought widespread devestation to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region. Many have opined that a new better New Orleans will rise from the polluted waters of the city. Much like an episode of the 4400, there may be ripples... Notice that Mike Brown has stepped down from FEMA ... http://www.harrypark.com/could-katrina-wipe-out-washington President Bush recently suggested that the Pentagon should take over disaster relief efforts to avoid the "cluster f***" that was the response to Hurricane Katrina. I guess he got this idea while hanging out at NORCOM. Among all those screens and reports, he probably realized that, "Hey these guys know ... http://www.harrypark.com/pentagon-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us I was looking through a copy of Real Simple the other day. Examining new options for cleaning my closet, reorganizing my life, and getting stains out of my delicates. I saw an article about exercising and it mentioned indoor rowing. I was reminded about my days in college, rowing for the ... http://www.harrypark.com/concept2-self-flagellation-improved I woke up on a Sunday morning and was greeted with evil. I walked out of the house and hopped into my car ready to drive up to see my folks for the day. I looked over the parking lot and saw a sherriff's car. I thought it was weird ... http://www.harrypark.com/mean-people-suck Soemtimes I'll see politicians say things and I just want to write about how dumb they are on my weblog. I've been getting that feeling more over the past 5 years, but for some reason restrained myself. Restrained no more, Everyone needs to hear my own dumb views. Hillary in 2008 ... http://www.harrypark.com/political-pressure