K. Todd Storch

Weekend Training, Christmas and Verizon FIOS

Another very busy weekend.  On the triathlon front, I spent some quality swim time on Saturday and had a 2 hour and 15 base building ride on Sunday.

Swimming is my weakest discipline and I more or less have learned how to "get through" the water vs. "glide effortlessly".  A part of my H2F ("Headed to Florida") training includes some needed swim instruction.  The main drills I'm working on focuses on my kick and balance in the water. 

I tend to rotate too much due to poor arm position under the water and I need a better kick.  All in all, I spent about an hour and a half in the pool on Saturday.  Added bonus was running into Jim Lukanich and his wife at Starbucks, as I prepared for my Christmas shopping weekend.

Sunday's ride was a great ride through Las Colinas and surrounding areas with 3 other H2F'ers (as we will call them).  We averaged just over 18 mph and what fun it is to just ride vs. hammer during the spring/summer months of training.

After the ride on Sunday I got 99% of my Christmas shopping done.  I typically take a day or afternoon each year where I have my hit list of gifts and stores for my Christmas shopping.  I really enjoy the time on my own getting gifts for Tara, friends and some people at work.

We also had 2 of Tara's brother's families over for dinner on Sunday.  Awesome seeing Chris, Kary and their families.  For as close as we all live, we just don't get together near as much as we should.

Also, Verizon finished the installation of the fiber optic Internet and phone connection on Saturday.  You can read more here if you are interested.

Hurricane Rita Updates via SMS

Radio station, 99.5 the Wolf/KPLX has been using text messaging to keep their listeners updated and informed on all types of things.

The latest is hurricane Rita.

Text in "RITA" to 94525 if you would like the SMS updates.

Disclaimer:  KPLX is owned by SRC, the company I work for

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Tipping Point for TiVo?

The Fed gives the ok to the feature I've been waiting for since becoming a Raving Fan of this service (yeah Government!).

What I have always wanted, was to be able to watch the programs I've recorded from other locations. For example, watch a program that I've saved during a lunch hour at work (would of been tough to leave the office during the Tour de France!).

It will be very interesting to see how easy it will be to transfer saved TV shows to my home/work computer, but if they make it easy, TiVo could explode.

Check out the full article on Yahoo! News.

Cell Phones - The Most Amazing (and most promising) Product Ever?

A few buddies of mine (both named Matt...) have a similar conversation every month or so of what "will someday" be possible with our cell phones. We all know you can buy stuff out of vending machines with cell phones in China, but what are the real possibilities?

Pretty soon you will plug it into your car and listen to anything you want, get directions, etc. Here's a great article from Intel's research labs.

http://www.deviceforge.com/articles/AT5785815397.html