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Christmas list
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Epic gym day ( Read more... ) -
GM Volt
I have a dirty secret ( Read more... ) -
Why I don't study a 'real' martial art.
http://cattanga.typepad.com/tabby_cat_gamespace/2007/09/the-goldilocks-.html
Plus, to paraphrase Clint Eastwood, you can't get too worked up about being attacked, 99% of the time your doing other stuff anyway. -
BodyBuilding.com
I've got to plug a site I've been using recently. BodyBuilding.com is a kind of social networking site for, of course, bodybuilders. They have some really neat goal tracking tools for fitness related goals and their workout tracker is awesome. I always relied on just vaguely remembering what I lifted last time to gauge my workouts, but now I can ( Read more... ) -
Speculation is fun!
More finance musings. Last Wednesday after the stock market sunk for the second time this week I was thinking that we had reached something like the bottom, I could only see the market going up. I am not a financial wizard, that was just my gut-level take on everything going on. I was so convinced that I dabbled in some theorycrafting for my ( Read more... ) -
Commuting
I think that a lot of the people who bemoan the American use of cars must live in downtown urban areas. Let me describe two days of eco-friendly commuting out in the suburbs for you ( Read more... ) -
Finance ponderings.
What is to stop me from shorting every share of Wal-Mart out there? It's currently at 59.73 and I can buy a synthetic forward at 60 in 518 days for sixty cents. Assuming I can get 6.5% on the money (high in the short run, but not unrealistic), I can make $4.93 on the deal with no stock risk ( Read more... ) -
What is "Man who discounts" in Latin?
I really wish that I could find some way to get my butt back into the habit of practicing Tai Chi (taiji). Instead I seem to keep choosing video games over the martial arts, and I have been doing that pretty consistently since I moved to Seattle. The game provides periodic rewards and offers a sense of completion; at some point in time you have ( Read more... ) -
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In an ongoing series where I explore my goals and how to achieve them - What exercises should I do ( Read more... )