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Furthermore, it's really hot today.
I dunno. I decided to post all the Crossfit fitness stuff over thataway, in my midlife crisis blog. I just can't manage to juggle two separate LJ logins. As you know, I'm not very technical. -
Fran, take 4
Yesterday I did the Crossfit Fran in 5:26, two minutes faster than my previous time (and more than 6 minutes faster than my first time). Modifications made: 35-lb thrusters instead of 65lb, inclined body-weight rows on a bar instead of pull-ups. The limiting factor on this run was cardio.
Someday I'll do a real pull-up. I can dream. -
Exercise report
Two Crossfit-based workouts so far this week, ( behind the cut because this is mostly for my own record... ) -
Safari 4
Safari 4 looks awesome, but I have just discovered that I can't use it until I have a working adblocker for it. The web is intolerable when it's unfiltered.
ETA: ClickToFlash is 80% of the way there. This is a WebKit plugin that works fine with Safari 4. -
Can you unit-test fun?
I've spent more time than I care to admit this weekend doing the World of Warcraft Valentine's Day achievements. They call it "Love is in the Air", just like they call Christmas "Winter Veil", but we all know what they mean ( Read more... ) -
modern source control systems
I'm contemplating moving my personal projects from a subversion repository to one of the modern distributed control systems. This isn't because of any discontent with subversion, but more to make myself experiment with new tools. Choosing one, however, seems tricky. There's a lot of the usual holy war nonsense ( Read more... ) -
Signs you are reading slash
Fingers "ghost" over a part of somebody's body.
For an encore, they "card" through someone's hair.
Then they "map" whatever body parts haven't previously been ghosted or carded.
To conclude, they "scissor" somewhere unmentionable.
These verbs need a few weeks of vacation in Aruba. Maybe months. -
Fitness proceed apace, though not alas thinness
Today I did a wussy version of the Karen Cross-fit exercise. I didn't do 150 of them, only 60. And I used an 8-pound ball. And I didn't do them for time. Which was good. Because the wussy version slaughtered me.
My trainer has cranked up the intensity. I spent the hour today convinced I was going to die. -
Robotic vacuum cleaners
So I'm sold on the Roomba already, though I'm still trying to figure out which one to get. (I wish for Steve Jobsian product simplicity everywhere sometimes.) What about the sudsy Scooba, though? Have any of you ever used one? The net seems more mixed on the Scooba than on the Roomba ( Read more... ) -
On that programmer OCD topic...
From The Psychology of Computer Programming, by Gerald M. Weinberg, 1971: And speaking of garbage, one of the most easily identifiable personality needs in programming is a modicum of neatness. We are not speaking here of personal grooming, though in one case a programmer actually smelled so bad that nobody could sit next to him long enough to look ( Read more... )