Sunday was the 21st annual Los Angeles Marathon. The first one across the finish line won $100,000 + $25,000 + a new car. But this is a person who runs everywhere. Howabout 1,000 pairs of shoes instead? There has only been one other time in the history of the L.A. Marathon when there was a fatailty. This year there were two. This year there was also the highest number of runners—over 26,000—so statistically it was bound to happen sooner or later. I did not run the marathon but I was on my feet all day.

It’s about this cold, detached, online “connection” thing. Does it really bring people together or does it just make us think so? A friend of mine—yes, someone whom I know in real life—recently posted his addendum to one of those bulletin surveys making its way through myspace (which, by the way, is a messy, clunky, slow website, but I digress), and the bulletin asked people to semi-anonymously reveal how many of their “friends” they had actually met in real life. Only one of those people had actually met all of his friends.

I received 33 e-mail spams yesterday. Three of them the mail filter missed, and the other 30 were automatically placed in the Junk Mail folder. My thought is, if you’re going to send me unsolicited buik e-mail, at least use something halfway resembling grammar. I don’t respond well to phrases like, “Me and Dre had sat with himsrqfkov kicked it and had a chat with him.” Also, if spellings like “0ffffer,” “0nlllline,” L000king,” and “clllickk,” are supposed to get past the mail filter and trick me into believing in your product, it ain’t working.

Web sites that play sound with them. Either audio files or MIDI files. They give you no warning and frequently play loud and/or obnoxious sounds. And they usually have nothing to do with the content of the offending page(s). Frequently I catch myself asking, “where the hell did that sound come from?” Obnoxious web designers out there, do me this favor: save the sounds for multimedia files. Or at least let us turn them off. Or at least give us warning. Or at the very least, try to use good sounds that contribute to the web page (is that even possible?

It was a lot of fun. I only got to shake their hands and present them with a copy of the movie, but it was a good experience nonetheless. They seem like nice people. And they support biodiesel. That Darryl Hannah, she’s a smart one. She’s well-versed in the facts on biodiesel. It’s too bad that we didn’t get her to appear in the doc or at least narrate. But it is what it is and I wouldn’t change it one bit. All of the crew worked so hard and did a great job.