Pino Per Diem

Nike+ Fuelband.

Pino44 — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:25:15 +0000

Get up.

Let’s talk Nike + Fuelband.

According to Nike’s site, the “Nike+ Fuelband tracks your activity through a sport-tested accelerometer, then translates every move into NikeFuel. Nike+ Fuelband tracks running, walking, dancing, basketball – and dozens of everyday activates. So put it on and get moving.”

Patiently I’ve been waiting to have my write on this product. As an early adopter and a huge fan of Jawbone, I opted to get the “Up” in early November. However, that didn’t pan out; after doing a bit of athletic activity, the …

A Young Girl’s Dilemma.

Pino44 — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:25:14 +0000

Welcome to the Party Life.

Meet Angela, 21, at the formative age of legally repealing underage prohibition, with the rest of her life ahead of her. But what lies ahead of her is a tunnel vision that she’s honed in on her two decades plus round this earth. She has pseudo-fallen in love with the man that she would marry, a man she could only dream of, right before her. But Rob is penalized; for he is a decade too early.

While Rob is whispering sweet something’s in her ear, …

LOFTY. GOALS. SUMMER. 2012.

Pino44 — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:20:34 +0000

THERE'S A LONG HARD ROAD AHEAD.

It’s early May and I’ve got the itch – scratching the surface of achievement. Sure, January 1^st comes, and we’re as focused as focused can be. A month later, February 1^st comes, and like Invisiline, you’re trying to wear braces, trying to adjust those goals, without letting anyone know. Then March and April come around, and you realize you fell off. Completely off the wagon.

Yet in true Chumbawamba fashion, I get knocked down – but I get up again. My …

Ralph on Relationships: Going Away

Pino44 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:45:32 +0000

Good Luck.

Meet Julie, in the midst of penultimate phases of a life she’s always known. She’s 18, beautiful, smart, et cetera – looking forward to college, all while leaving her classmates and high school behind, forever more.

Her boyfriend, will call him Will, is in limbo. They never went to school together. They’ve always enjoyed their distance during the day, and spent time before or after school, through recesses and holidays, with each other. But college, through the lens of a fresh-out-of-high-school-er is a different kind of program. Albeit …

How-To Tuesdays: Comeback.

Pino44 — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:20:11 +0000

WE BACK.

The month of April has been shaping up to be a resurrection of the things I used to do in the past – back to writing, playing basketball, even reconnecting to one of my old coaches from yesteryear. Fully ensconced in a book called “When Nothing Else Matters” (book review coming soon), an account by Michael Leahy of Michael Jordan’s final comeback to professional sports, it documents Jordan’s painful attempt at playing full speed in a younger, faster, and merciless NBA, while trying to go full speed after …

WHAT I LEARNED ON SUNDAY – CHANGES.

Pino44 — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:28:41 +0000

WHITE LEAVES.

Another Sunday has passed, surely with another lesson to be learned. Apologies to my readers, who have been without the Pino Per Diem’s ever since I left for Asia. I haven’t had the writing conflagration I used to, and I’m trying to get the spark back.

But, back to basics.

As we all know, Sunday was a holiday – Easter.

Aside from celebrating the resurrection of Christ, I look at Easter (which usually falls in the beginning of April and Spring) as a rite of passage, with the …

CAN RELATIONSHIPS START FROM ONLINE DATING?

Pino44 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:21:09 +0000

CLICK.

I haven’t talked to Nick in months. Like my blog, which used to be dazzling, consistent, and thorough, my relationship with him was nothing more than an occasional text, or sparse offline Gmail chats.

But here we are online, text in flurries, all just got back to having my back, and pen, against the wall (and paper to keep a parallel analogy) writing.

It sounded simple enough. A G-chat convo – I asked him what was new. Nothing, he said.

Then it slipped his mind that it slipped his …