I was trying to get back into deadlifting on Friday. I pulled something in my lower back somehow. I didn't think my form was terrible. Whyyyyyy...

At least it doesn't seem to be impacting biking.

I have spent depressingly little time on the bike this year so far. 270 miles, 18 hours. Stupid weather. However, I did get a shot at riding on Saturday, and discovered that, of course, my fitness level isn't quite where I want it to be. The handful of hours I have spent on the trainer have helped, as have the days where I could ride to work, but ( Read more... )

Whee, made it home on one of the weirdest nights ever. It all started at work. We finally turned off service for our original product, and started drinking beer and champagne to celebrate, since everyone hated working on it with a passion. The drinking continued at a bar named The 75 in the Seaport district, but ultimately, the night ended as a 2 ( Read more... )

Well, now the recovery period in the gym begins. One 24 hour stint in the hospital and a bit over a week of doing virtually nothing, and things are worse than before... but I expected that. A small price to pay.

Sweet. A little bit over a week post-surgery, and I was able to ride the Trek around Davis Square a little bit with no issues. I had to buy a new helmet, thanks to a crash a few weeks ago, and a whole ton of Cadbury Mini-Eggs ( Read more... )

I was about to complain about not getting shared folders working correctly when using the Parallels VM provider for Vagrant, but installing Parallels Tools 9 in the base box instead of Parallels Tools 8 seems to have fixed my earlier problems. Sweet ( Read more... )

Recovering from surgery is the worst ( Read more... )

I moved my bike trainer to the basement after a few weeks of feeling upset about it bothering the neighbors when I used it in my apartment. It seems like that'll work out pretty well. I got 30 minutes in on it just doing the warm-up before what would have been a 20 minute time trial. My legs and lack of time on the bike make the whole experience ( Read more... )

OpenCL has been on the list of things to mess around with, but I find myself simply not caring about it once I get down to trying to write real programs in C. I think I've been spoiled by the laziness of Java and Python.

Somewhere along the way, I have allowed myself to be mediocre ( Read more... )