Random or Not?

I don't know what to make of this, but it sure is fascinating. What would it actually mean if random number generators were somehow anticipating certain kinds of events? And how would that be happening? Is entropy one big giant field, with local fluctuations?

The skeptic in me says that we are pattern-making animals, and we simply must correlate one unusual event to another... whether or not there's any actual causal linkage. But how interesting if there were more to the story!

Run 1

3 miles
45 minutes

Okay, not really much of a run. More like three miles of mildly accelerated stroll.

But I had my running gear on, new shoes and all. And I ran for 30 seconds of every two minutes. Which ended up giving me an overall speed of about 4 miles an hour, but who's counting?

The weather was lovely, the foot twinges minor. I plan to maintain this very gentle pace for at least the next week.

On the downside: in a fit of virtue, I arrived home and decided that while I was still warmed up, I should do some stretching. I put my workout tape in the VCR and did some stretching (I'm so stiff it's pathetic). Then, when I went to eject the tape ~ NO!

It wouldn't eject. Little VCR motor made sad, sad noises. Then silence.

Unplugging, shaking, prying, cursing ~ nothing seems to make a difference. My VCR is DOA. Now, mind you, I've had the thing since 1991, and it wasn't even very expensive back then, so I can't complain. And since I acquired a cheap DVD player recently, I suppose all is not lost. I just have to find a stretching DVD that I like.

Oh well. Hard to be too upset.
I got to RUN! And the weather was nice.