Electric Josh

Todd, who gave me a copy of the Grey Album, which is pretty interesting, and who should himself be writing a space like this one, instead just points us to Beatallica: "The mashup craze continues. I haven't heard any of these songs, but I love the titles—my favorite is The Thing That Should Not Let It Be." I, myself, am partial to Got To Get You Trapped Under Ice.
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This space would be way easier to maintain if my life were actually ridiculously interesting rather than mundane and computery like most of these sorts of spaces. This is quickly understood by reading, for example, EFF guru and Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow's account of how he plans to get in shape:

Ordinarily, I would no more be able to afford months of Canyon Ranch care and supervision than mount my own private Mars mission, but I am the beneficiary of a providential intervention by Alexander Tsiaras, a huge-hearted Greek who is probably the world's leading artist in 3-D medical imagery. His company, Anatomical Travel, has recently embarked on a series of television productions aimed to deepen public understanding of how the body works (or doesn't) by giving detailed interior tours of the region.

Alex and I met last summer in Toronto where we were both speaking at a conference. We took to one another immediately. Alex, a former Olympic athlete, was concerned that my physical modus operandi was not long-term sustainable. To his empathic eyes, the wear already visible on my chassis was hard to behold. He and Liponis had been thinking about how to convey what Liponis had been discovering about health and aging to a wider audience when they hit on the idea of a TV special that would be a cross between a medical documentary, a reality show, and a remake of Incredible Voyage using an actual body. The body they selected was mine.

Nervous as an ocelot on meth, I rushed outside and smoked a Marlboro Light 100 to the root.

Me getting in shape means jogging, and maybe swimming. No being on television. No smoking, obviously. I won't bore you with the details.
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