Putting badjon back in the box…
Saturday 23 Aug 2008
I’m listening to my personal traditional hangover music, a portent of bad things.
The sun is shining too-brightly outside, it’s 1.29pm, my room is a disgrace, my slept-in clothes (and shoes) are strewn on the floor, and I have the suspicion of kebab, but no actual proof. Bartender-tipping single bills are all over the place, napkins with curious biro drawings stuffed into a pocket, and what’s this thing?
…… yeah…… it was another Friday night.
A(nother) Brooklyn Runner
Thursday 21 Aug 2008
Partly inspired by an excellent local running blog [Brooklyn Runner], I thought I’d post my current favourite running route that takes in at least one rather awe-inspiring landmark. 
This route [WalkJogRun] is about 12km, and is a roundtrip across the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges on the East River. It’s great training since both bridges provide long steady inclines and fresher air than at street level, and ofc much-reduced road traffic. There are, however, boatloads of pedestrians to avoid on the BRK bridge and it can be insane on the sidewalks around Chinatown. I reckon it makes for good dodge-training though, and my anticipation of where the hell huge trucks and tiny OAPs want to go is now unbeatable!
Now that Autumn is coming around, long runs become more realistic and indeed, very pleasurable. This time last year I was training for the Amsterdam marathon on the south coast of England. Running on the beachfront was beautiful and the tail-end of summer provided just enough heat through the early part of the run to get warmed up, before cooling as the sun went down.
I have no marathon to train for this year, but will try to explore some more strictly Brooklyn-based routes to better get to know the Borough. I must see Prospect Park!
I’ll post my favourite Manhattan-based run later in the week…
Stretching my legs
Tuesday 05 Aug 2008
26 days til the Nike 10k in NYC (and 20-odd cities around the world). Wish I hadn’t taken the past 3 weeks off from running – I didn’t even have a clear reason, just lots of things seemed to happen.
Nonetheless, it’s time to lace on my new sneaks, time to get the playlist in order, time to run across some landmarks :)
And just to give myself a little public-facing encouragement: my PB for a 10k is 42 mins. I want sub 40 this time!!
Hello world! (Again)
Monday 04 Aug 2008
This is my new site, welcome. I’ve chosen to start my writing afresh for a few reasons:
- I didn’t want to keep on paying $100+ per year for my old domain. Dreamhost were excellent, but I simply wasn’t using the storage or bandwidth for my meager blog.
- I got tired of the name of my old site: “SortingShapes” just wasn’t doing it for me anymore.
- I really don’t have time and sometimes (thanks to my ropey provider at home) not even the access to properly administer the blog site myself. The old website was running an out-of-date installation of WordPress, I never got round to writing my own web apps (which I naively thought I might like to try), barely customised anything and had a few junky subdomains that really needed archiving. The whole lot needed to be saved or dumped. I’ve chosen the latter.
So here is where I will start writing again. This blog is hosted and maintained by Automattic – the lovely people that let you simply get on with writing – and as before is run on WordPress. I plan to tweak the CSS a little, and drop in the occasional widget, but essentially I’m done with even pretending that I want to develop. I just want to write. In the coming days I will replicate the above work for my career-oriented blog www.jonathansedar.co.uk.
I have somehow barely documented the most interesting period of my life so far (moving to NYC!) – I expect mostly because I been living it, rather than writing it – but that’s no excuse. Must try harder.
From now my old site www.sortingshapes.com will no longer be updated at all and I will take it down in a few days.
Bathtime In Clerkenwell
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Thanks to Nayab for finding this – one of my favourite shorts from the Tribeca Film Fest
