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Archive for August 1st, 2005

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Monday Fitness Blogging Cool Tools Edition

The GMaps Pedometer kills. You draw your running or bike route onto a Google map and it calculates the distance and, if you choose (gross) calories burned. The first time through you have to center it on your neighborhood manually, from what I can tell. But that’s the only drawback. I will use this a [...]

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Outdoor Fireworks

A tip that I didn’t learn myself for almost forty years: When you’re going to a concert, always always always stop at the ticket booth on the way in to see if they have any upgrades available. Customers return tickets; radio stations and band management release tickets they’ve been holding. Last night at Wolf Trap, [...]