Today, I focused on cardio exercise… and surprised myself! 14 minutes on the treadmill, no breaks, with (after a minute or so of walk-in) a constant pace of 7 km/hr 15 minutes on the stationary cycle, no breaks, but not at a constant pace because the damned thing kept trying to push me into more difficult levels. Another 10 minutes on the treadmill, trying Shawn’s suggestion of intertraining… that translated to 3 one-minute bursts of 10 km/hr, and the rest walking at 4 or 6 km/hr. I stopped more because I decided to head out and do some marking before …
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Getting Easier
It’s getting easier, and I’m feeling less like hell after workouts now, though I’m sure my arms will be complaining soon… and my legs, tomorrow. Treadmill: 12.5 min @ 6.6km/hr (no breaks!); Stationary cycle: 10 min @ 20km/hr (no breaks!); Rowing 5 min @ who knows what (I got bored); some upper body weights. I’m shooting for 15 min each on the treadmill and cycle next week. Slowly will work my way up to 20 min over a few weeks.
Saturday Afternoon Rush
Was meeting Lime for a healthy Greek dinner in Seoul, and got to the gym a touch late, but it’s okay — trying to ease myself into this anyway. Pulled off 12 minutes actual running (7km/hr, but there were a couple of breaks in there), 10 minutes on the rowing machine at roughly 25-30 klicks, and 40 painful situps.
Not So Bad, But There’s A Reason
Arrive at the gym late, and the guard told me it was closed from 8pm on. I told him I thought it was 10pm on, and he let me in for a little over half an hour. So: 10 minutes actual running on the treadmill; 10 minutes on the stationary bike; and about 10 minutes of weights and situps. Then came home dripping in sweat. Forgot my water bottle, too, and must go retrieve it in a bit… if he’ll let me in.
Painful
First day back to the gym in 8 months: treadmill (20 min); stationary bike (10 min, sort of); weights (15 min); moping (15 min). It’ll get better.
Human species ‘may split in two’, says dimwitted British Evolutionist
Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. Uh, okay, along what lines? The logical outcome would be two sub-species, “gracile” and “robust” humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine. Now I am laughing. He thinks our over-dependence on technology will lead to this? Look at yourself, Mr Curry: we have no claws, no fur, no fangs. We’ve been dependent on technology since we first were human. And who’s to say, if only two clades emerged, …
Tagging air travellers
Here’s another little snippet, this time from Telegraph Expat, on how privacy is being chopped off and fed to the big terror-eating monster. You know, there’s a wager being bet on right now, and it’s this: that the biggest threat to freedom today isn’t, oh, the governments who are legislating immense powers for themselves, but some guys far away who hide in caves when the American military comes half-heartedly looking for them. What you think about that wager has everything to do with what you think is the more immediate threat, but that’s unfortunate. After all, if you think of …
Hey Idiot! Now You Want To Give Them More Rights With Censorship?
Adam’s posted about some moron in America who wants to ban Fahrenheit 451 from his kid’s school. I’ll let you go over and read Adam’s post. Go on. Then come back and read on. Back? Good. Aside from Adam’s scathing and totally correct criticisms, there are two things I’d like to add. The Bible is also full of references to getting drunk, violence, “dirty talk” (if he means that talk about sex is dirty, there’s lots of it in the Bible… though why he should think sex is dirty is, well, a topic for a whole other, sad, discussion). Has …
Like Totaly wanna be a Top Bloggar!!1
I’ve, like, decided that my way is to b TOP. So I’m gunna spell things wrong and like, refer to people in my life as letters L can be Lime and like the people I work with can be H an L and S and J, and I’m gonna post like a totally long thing about stuff that’s goin on. heee. No, I’m not directing this at anyone in particular, but my god. It just makes me imagine what the slush piles of old looked like, before people cold get their “writing” illusions served by instantaneous self-publishing. I imagine it …
MissIzzy on Traditional Values and Economic Status of Nations
MissIzzy always has something interesting to say, and this time, what caught my attention was her thoughts in a post titled Traditionally bad is the Contemporary Good.A sampling: Countries that suffer from the yoke of traditional values and survival ethics are the worse off (Nigeria, Parkistan, Ghana) Countries that are extremely secular-rational but are on the extreme end of the survival/self-expression dimension, on the survival side (the bit characterized by low levels of subject well being, report relatively poor health etc.) make somewhat about twice as much in GNP per capita (and are some of the most progressive nations in …