Spending the day at the aquarium.
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Live Tardy
The personal site of Kirk Tardy.
Photos, Thoughts, Video, and whatever else comes up in the life of a Tardy.
Blogging from the iPhone
If you haven’t heard yet, I now have the latest and greatest iPhone. I just loaded the WordPress app, and now I’ll be blogging while I’m out and about. Hopefully you’ll be seeing more frequent updates. Stay tuned.
July 22, 2008 – 7:03 pm
Reason
The primary purpose of reason is to help us discover what is true. The primary tool of reason is argument. An argument is a specific kind of thing. Think of it like a simple house, Read More
May 18, 2008 – 3:31 pm
Run it Faster
But you could’ve run it faster than that, right?
Evan T—after hearing my Half Marathon time
April 26, 2008 – 1:58 pm
Country Music Half Marathon 2008 Pictures
Here are a few shots from the race.
This first picture shows how dense the roads were. With over 30,000 runners, the roads really didn’t clear up the entire time.
April 26, 2008 – 1:55 pm
Country Music Half Marathon 2008
I did it! I survived and finished the Country Music Half Marathon. It was an exhilarating experience that was definitely worth the effort. I’ve been training for this 13.1 mile race every since I set the goal back in January.
Here are a few of the details of what it took to cross the finish line.
- 116 days of training
- 234.11 miles of running
- 35 Hours, 7 Minutes, and 58 Seconds of actual running time
- $237 of shoes, shorts, shirts, socks, gloves, and a gym bag
- $58 of Clif Bars and Accelerade sports drink
- $266 for a gym membership, Nike+, and the race fee
- Great friends to train and run with
That’s about it. For those of you I couldn’t talk into running the race with me, that’s what you missed out on—plus the experience.
My official race time was 1 hour, 53 minutes, and 39 seconds.
April 26, 2008 – 1:54 pm
Search Me
Search Me—You’ll know it when you see it. Visually search the web like browsing through your iTunes library.
April 23, 2008 – 7:42 am
Edwin Villanueva
Well it looks like someone actually likes the simplicity of my site’s design enough to try it out for themselves. Although I don’t plan to release this design as a theme, I don’t mind sharing what I’ve done. Edwin was even nice enough to contribute to a new book I bought today, Boundaries. Thanks Edwin, and enjoy the new look!
April 11, 2008 – 3:56 pm
Baby Steps
My wife officially launched her blog today!
She jumped ahead of at least three other people waiting on me to help them set up their blogs and managed to talk me into designing her site with a scrapbooking look. She did most of the work and created all the scrapbook images.
Be sure to visit Baby Steps, and let her know what you think of the site. You can also subscribe once you’re there to keep up with the latest Baby Steps she’s taking.
April 11, 2008 – 3:55 pm
Monopoly
Spent the weekend playing Monopoly with the family.
This is so much more fun than the old version—probably because you can spend money so much faster!
April 1, 2008 – 7:17 pm
Sushi and a Sea Urchin
Once again, our sushi chef held nothing back in preparing a wonderful assortment of sushi for the evening.
He even surprised us with a sea urchin (the raw quail egg and sea urchin held in a cucumber on the left side of the plate). This is supposed to increase your manhood, but I wasn’t able to keep it down—great treat nonetheless.
Maybe next time…
April 1, 2008 – 7:06 pm
Running 11 Miles
Just out running 11 miles—only 4 weeks away from the big race!
March 29, 2008 – 7:55 am
Underwater Astonishments
Take 5 minutes and be amazed at by some of the creatures of the ocean.
My favorite is the very last scene with an octopus blending into the environment.
Appreciating God even more than before.
Can’t see the video? Click Here
March 18, 2008 – 8:07 pm
Blooming Lilies
The lilies we received at the hospital are still blooming and look great.
March 10, 2008 – 10:49 pm
10 Minute Jesus Paiting
Jesus Painting done in 10 minutes by my dad several years ago.
The original size is at least 5 x 8 feet.
March 2, 2008 – 3:17 pm
Plan Your Room with mydeco
mydeco let’s you plan out your room with incredible details and options. They’ll even pay you if someone buys a product in your room design.
From the room dimensions, actual furniture, paint colors, floor surfaces and more, you can virtually create or redesign your room in just a few minutes. This looks much better than the FloorPlanner that I used to use.
February 26, 2008 – 6:11 pm
100 Miles
Just logged 100 miles for the year—the last three of those miles came in at 8:18/mile.
February 25, 2008 – 10:40 pm
Strawberry Cupcake
Just enjoying my wife’s homemade strawberry cupcake.
It tastes as good as it looks!
February 24, 2008 – 5:34 pm
Lunar Eclipse
In case you missed the Lunar Eclipse last night…
Taken in the freezing cold from right outside our front door.
February 21, 2008 – 8:03 pm
You Don’t Know
Several years ago I was in a band during high school called Watermill, and just the other day I came across a CD with some of the songs we used to play.
Here’s the acoustic version of our popular song, “You Don’t Know.” I’ll try to post a few other songs from the CD in the future. They’re actually not too bad!
February 20, 2008 – 5:49 pm
Image Resizing by Seam Carving
Image resizing is so much cooler than it used to be. Here’s the original video I saw a while back using the smart resizing technology.
Can’t see the video? Click Here
February 15, 2008 – 8:53 pm
FotoFlexer.com
I’ve been looking for a tool like this for a long time. Now I can make pretty intense changes to my photos with FotoFlexer even if I’m away from Photoshop. The feature I love the most is the “Smart Resizing” tool. Check out how you can resize your images.
These are a few shots of me testing out the tool. The man on the beach needs to go! Just select what you want to remove (you can even select what you want to keep), and begin resizing.
February 15, 2008 – 8:40 pm
Country Music Half Marathon Registration
I just registered for the Country Music Half Marathon. Prompted by the fear and rumor that the 22,500 participant limit was already full, I went ahead and signed up today! I officially have to run the half now.
Training Update
I started training January 7, and I’ve already run just over 75 total miles. My farthest run was this last Saturday totaling 6.5 miles. That’s half of the total distance I’ll have to run on race day.
February 12, 2008 – 7:41 pm