Relating to time and its passage
• Looking back and looking forward • [<1 MIN READ] The last time New Year’s Day fell on a Growlers Group Run day was in 2020. Looking back to that year at noon, 3 of us ran. Last week at 3:30 p.m. we did better by 67% when 5 of us ran. The photo captured … More First Things (#290: 2025’01’08’W)
• That’s what it is and I’m sticking to it • [1 MIN READ] Being the compulsive sort that I am, round numbers have always been important. For that reason, I’m going to stop short of the end of a run or add on to it to get the final number to the nearest full … More Altered States: Distances (#171: ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/2/24)
• Significance, at least • [1 MIN READ] Last week was a trip-around-the-sun celebration for a particular Growlers Group Run club member. Personally, I’m uncomfortable with group celebrations of birthdays because it places particular value on those who don’t mind a little attention. I’m especially uncomfortable when the birthday doesn’t fall exactly on the day … More In the Eyes of the Beholders (#267: 2024’07’31’W)
• Unusual and usual • [1 MIN READ] Sailing into Glennallen, Alaska, 06’28’S, I did my usual It’s-time-for-you-to-get-out-of-this-car run. The team defenestrated me 13 miles from our destination and I did my usual Saturday long run, just point-to-point in AK. It was unusual for a few reasons, though. One is that it’s less common for … More ITFYTGOOTC 2024 (#264: 2024’07’10’W)
• A grammar for the practice • [1½ MIN READ] I’m not a terribly canny social media person, even as an information specialist. I understand the role of hashtags, but I don’t use them well. For my purposes, the only ones I’ve bothered to use are the ones I’ve created: #negativesplitorpositivesplat and #dothedue. They’re in … More Hashtagging (#149: ZY Weekly Newsletter 1/6/24)
• Years seem like minutes • [1 MIN READ] A recent run became the opportunity for some roasting of your Ruminations contributor. It wasn’t the subject matter or the writing style that drew derision but rather a much more petty element of the writing: reading times. The practice began as a courtesy to the audience, … More The Passage of a Little Time (#148: ZY Weekly Newsletter 12/30/23)
• Do you mind? Kinda busy here. • [1 MIN READ] Some of you SRC readers may have noticed the estimated reading durations that have been a part of my Ruminations for a few months. I started noticing durations as a thing on NewYorkTimes.com. Most of my Rums hover between 1 and 2 minutes to … More TL;DR (#134: ZY Weekly Newsletter 8/26/23)
• Just a part of life • [2 MIN READ] Music services with their suggestion feeds make it possible for David Bowie’s 1971 classic to be known to those who continue to come long after that year. I was in single digits of years old when that first got radio play. Yesterday, I turned single … More Changes (#215: 2023’07’26’W)
• The running group isn’t that academic, either • [1 MIN READ] Academic types have a way of thinking about things they know or want to understand in the space of other existing knowledge. Why else would they spend so much energy reading and investigating the work of other academics? If someone else has written … More Not Quite Academic Writing (#203: 2023’04’26’W)
• Cerebruns and the Growlers Group Run • [2 MIN READ] This Cerebrun marks #200 which began as thoughts then “Thoughts” 4½ years ago (2018’09’26’W). (If you want to see the numerical progression as the weeks go by, check out each posting on Cerebruns by CtCloser.) ATTENDANCE: Since the first, the attendance has changed just … More What’s Changed and What’s Stayed the Same (#200: 2023’04’05’W)
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