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Website:My Barack Obama page
Location:San Mateo, California, United States
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Bio:I may post several times a day. If that bothers you, please don't add me as a friend.

I was a chemical engineer (BS in chemical engineering with applied physics) and software consultant, work for a doctor, privately teach high school kids, and now plan to apply to physician assistant school in 2009, to practice medicine.

My Barack Obama team from Palo Alto, CA (and Stanford University) just returned from a week in Philadelphia, helping with the election.

Though I don't believe in astrology, I am Libra and have all the good qualities of a typical Libra, yet none of the bad! Haha...

The main sections of Runner's World magazine, including Ask the Running Doc.
SportsMed Web (Injury page). For endurance athletes.
Science Daily: latest scientific research (on fitness, etc.)
New York Times Fitness & Nutrition. Health Guide (3000+ Topics).

Philosophy Talk: weekly philosophy radio show from Stanford University. My favorite radio show!
Brian Johnson, founder and "philosopher" of Zaadz, an online community of idealists who care about philosophy, examining life, and changing the world. Purpose of Zaadz.

Brian also created a place to learn philosophy and wisdom: thinkarete.

If you'd like to chat, check if I'm on Yahoo Messenger now.

This journal chronicles my life, as I prepare to apply to PA school. It also covers my move from couch potato to triathlete.

I will do the Olympic triathlon: 1.5 km swim (.93 mi), 40 km bike ride (24.9 mi), and 10 km run (6.2 mi).

My favorite, brilliant radio drama: Joe Frank.

You may watch ALL of these dramas online, free! Click links.
Favorite current TV dramas: Jericho, Prison Break, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Office, Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Pushing Daisies, 30 Rock, House, M.D., and 24

And of course:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Colbert Report
Indecision 2008 (all election coverage, by both TV shows)

New to triathlons:
http://www.trinewbies.com
Beginner Triathlete

Silicon Valley Triathlon Club
Team In Training: world's largest endurance sports training program
TRIbe Triathlon: San Jose triathlon club
USA Triathlon

I use these books to help me train:

- ChiRunning: A revolutionary approach to effortless, injury-free running by Danny Dreyer

Total Immersion books by Terry Laughlin:

- Triathlon Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Anyone to Master Open-Water Swimming
- Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier
- Swimming Made Easy: The Total Immersion Way for Any Swimmer to Achieve Fluency, Ease, and Speed in Any Stroke
- Freestyle: Made Easy (DVD) ****Excellent****

Terry Laughlin's Total Immersion techniques will seriously increase swimming efficiency of beginners and advanced swimmers alike! He teaches you to swim like a fish.

- Triathlon Training in Four Hours a Week by Eric Harr

Articles:
- Anyone Can Be A Triathlete (Men's Health)
- 20 Great Reasons to do a Triathlon
- Training Timeline

Magazines:
Triathlete Magazine
Inside Triathlon

Find a triathlon race: http://www.trifind.com
Swimming: Total Immersion
Find a pool anywhere in the world: http://www.swimmersguide.com
Running: ChiRunning, Pose Method, Runner's World

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi
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Sow a thought, and you reap an act; 
Sow an act, and you reap a habit; 
Sow a habit, and you reap a character; 
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. 

Charles Reade
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires
than him who overcomes his enemies,
for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Aristotle "Florilegium"
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the
dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act
their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T.E. Lawrence, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist 
in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. 

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, 
in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Sagan
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; 
it will be seen that they go mad in herds, 
while they only recover their senses slowly, 
and one by one.

Charles Mackay
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