I remember when I first heard about Nike Grid in the spring and I thought it was so cool. It takes the telephone box (I was thinking, they still exist) and turns them into markers for runners to track their progress as they make the rounds around the city. Once registered, all you need to do is run between telephone boxes and punch in their unique user id at each location to log the run so you can collect the points. So the more runs you do the more points you get and the person with the most points in each postal code area claims bragging rights and they took a page out of foursquare by giving out badges for reaching certain goals.
I wonder how well received it was and how many participated. I will probably look for details but something like this is pretty cool for your enthusiast crowd and makes something these people do every day much more interesting.
Here is the day3 video of boys vs girls:
My Random Idea:
You know I would love a contest or something from north of Toronto to the downtown core. I would all have it be the same distance but different starting points but have the people involved have to take the trails and paths to get to the finish line and be tracked by GPS as they go. I think it would work to showcase how easy or hard it can be to get from one place to another and highlight the missing links if any that need to be connected together to connect these paths.
So I have had lots of ideas and mostly they just sit in the back of my mind but kind of like writing I need a place I can put them. That usually goes into a notebook that I carry around. The problem is I forget about them or don’t look back. So with this section I am finally going to put my insane ramblings out there for all to see, crucify and play with (all one of you).
So not all ideas are equal but I like the ones that electrocutes because it means it has heat, energy and that can be the start of an amazing ride.
We all have those dark moments, that is much a part of life as the good. This comes from one of those dark moments in the abyss. This was the truth of that moment, the breaking. I am not sure I can be much more honest than this. That is not to say that this is who or what I am but in that instant, this is what poured out out.
That is all, I am a pretty good guy I think, maybe a bit broken but tell me who isn’t broken to some degree. What matters is despite the breaking, no matter who says it cannot be made whole that you keep on trying. That is a lesson I continue to learn in each battle every day. So this may be a little dark but through the darkness is how you can see the light and recognizing that is one way to go forward and try to meet it.
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I am the broken, the pain, the hurt who finds hell in the fabric of the every day.
I seek solace from the chaos that acts as 1000 needles each inflicting the little deaths upon my soul.
I am the hollow, the wind blows through me, around the core of my being, ever present as it takes what little warmth remains and makes it cold.
Am I at the end? That is the question, does hope still exist when you all you feel is emptiness, when the cup has long turned to dust and the ashes carried by the air.
The sun’s warmth can bring joy but it can also bake it, where there was once warmth there can also be burning.
That is where I live, what I feel and the extent to which I am nothing but a memory that will be forgotten as soon as it is read.
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Ad guy, strategist, tech nerd, writer, gamer, travel lover, and social media addict learning the ways of the web.
I use this blog as my own personal sounding board, I don't write for perfection so the grammar will not always be perfect.
I just write for perspective on the fun and my experiences through the chaos of life.
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