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Have a looksee yourself: StateMaster.com has the stats to determine how your state is doing in the fabled war on tooth decay. No one seems too shocked as to which states are losing the most teeth (brings new meaning to the quote: He’s got a real pretty mouth on him, don’t he?); however, I was pretty surprised to find that the two states I’ve occupied the most time in manage to keep more of their chompers in than all the rest.

I guess all that swishing and spitting back in the 80’s was well worth it.

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Future…
…concert piano player?
…soccer goalie?
…boxer?
…one man band performer?
…juggler?
…music conductor?
…burger flipper?
…pickpocket?
…traffic director?
…American Idol contestant?
…super hero?
…super villain?
…ladies man?

Any others?

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Ok ok… here’s the update about my first tri: in all its video-esque glory:

Enjoy the show. If you want a higher-res copy, let me know and I’ll point you to a link.

Update: An overpriced thumbnail of me crossing the finish line can be seen here.

Update 2: A terribly flattering photo of me coming out of the swim can be seen here.

Here’s to hopin’ I did something right in training!

Awesome:

SYDNEY, Australia — New Zealand is not for sale, despite somebody in neighboring Australia trying to offload the nation of 4 million to the highest online bidder.

With a starting offer of just one cent, brisk bidding for the prime chunk of South Pacific real estate quickly boosted the price to 3,000 Australian dollars (US$2,330) before eBay pulled the plug on the auction this week.

“Clearly New Zealand is not for sale,” eBay Australia spokesman Daniel Feiler told the New Zealand Press Association, adding that 22 bids had been made before the company acted.

The rivalry between the two countries is intense and in his advertisement the man said New Zealand had “very ordinary weather.” (AP)

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The definition of insanity that we are all familiar with is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I offer to you this day an alternate version of the defintion: signing up and paying for a second triathlon when the first triathlon has yet to be run.

Yes, folks, I have signed up for the June 17th Utah Summer Games triathlon that takes place on the same course as the tri tomorrow morning. Why? Perhaps I know that I’ll be too chicken to do it anytime after tomorrow. Yes, that must be it.