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06:39 pm
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Penguin action
A little something for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thirdbase, and really, for anyone else up for a quick diversion.
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10:36 am
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Last night, I got a call from my sister. One of my childhood friends was killed over the weekend in Afghanistan.
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11:10 am
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Quick stuff in the middle of work.
Still doing pushups and jogging, but I got tired of the repeated entries. I need to stick to general highlights. Not yet in cruise mode.
Still wondering if I can make a Fringe show. :-(
Ran across an interesting discussion on economics, health care, and pollution. Must read it later.
My computers seem to be breaking all at once. Sound card on one is apparently dead. Graphics card on the other died apparently to rampant overheating (NVidia GeForce 8800); replaced it with an ATI Radeon 4850, and now I find the DVD/CD drive in that machine is not responding either, so its only interface to the outside is via my router, and my fingers. I can run additional tests on both, but it may have to wait.
Tags: computer, economics, fringe, one hundred pushups
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03:41 am
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Back from the reunion.
'Twas fun.
Finished Thud!. Meantime, I found some pretty amazing sketchwork.
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11:34 am
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Holy Crap on a Pancake.
So I finally get around to going through a friends' LJ backlog... wow. I thought I was the only one in this crowd who happened to read Least I Could Do. (Hopefully I'm not the only one reading lfgcomic.com or Crimson Dark, either.)
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10:25 am
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NOLA, Day 2
So, 1 hour of sleep out of 35, a beer, nine grilled oysters, a Hand Grenade, part of a Horny Gator, and two and a half Hurricanes seems to be my limit.
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07:45 am
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Push-ups: Week 6, Day 1, Try 4
45: no problem.
55: jellied at 51. 1 better than before.
35: no problem - in fact, I blew right through it. (I did have to rest a bit longer than planned - IM convo)
30: no problem - blew through this, too.
55+: jellied at 45.
206 in all. Not as much progress as I'd hoped, but I was at least doing them much faster; fewer pauses to let my muscles recuperate. Unlike last time, I'm also out of breath at the end of the last 45. I think Try 5 may be where I'm finally back on track, but that won't happen until Thursday at the earliest, and then I'm on vacation...
Tags: one hundred pushups
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04:43 pm
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Push-ups: Week 6, Day 1, Try 3
45: no problem.
55: jellied at 50.
35: barely again.
30: done, but... "ohhh, I tink I'm gonna barf..."
55+: jellied at 39.
199 in all. Heh. Getting there...
Tags: one hundred pushups
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05:39 pm
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Push-ups: Week 6, Day 1, Try 2
Second try after a long hiatus. 45 55 35 30 55+. I'm resting about 3 minutes between each.
45: no problem.
55: shoulders went to jelly around #37, after several short pauses; I elected not to push further with this set.
35: barely made it.
30: jellied out after 11. I don't see much point in trying the last set as a result.
My arms are getting pushed now, at least, rather than my exhaustion. Speaking of which, time for another run.
Tags: one hundred pushups
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05:01 pm
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Back to it.
We'll restart week 6, day 1.
45: oh boy. I can tell this won't end well.
55: stopped after about 40. This time, I'm actually out of breath, not out of muscle. So no more for now.
So, yeah, I've let myself get out of shape. Time to jog, and get this train back on track.
Meanwhile, vball: well, that was ass. First game went something like 25-20 them. Second game, though - 30-32... them. We actually started playing better. Even so, game 2 ended on a sour play: we made a bad set. Ah well. This was a good team we played; they'll be moving up a league next season.
Which starts this Wednesday. Onward.
Tags: one hundred pushups, volleyball
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05:54 pm
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Another playoff.
Our volleyball team barely made it as fourth seed in the playoffs.
We've tended to hold our own well enough, from season to season. We have the advantage that one of the teams that tended to dominate our tier finally did what it should have done, and moved up to the next one. But the other teams are getting more challenging, and some new entities have entered the field. So it's still hard, and that's actually a good thing.
What is somewhat less of a good thing is that we are still vulnerable to morale swings: if we lose two points, we'll lose three more. It's silly. I wish I knew how to fix it, or whether it's fixable, or whether the stuff I usually do is helping or hurting.
Still, we did well last week, taking 2-3 from a tough team, who I think we'll see again tonight - but that's assuming we can beat the #1 seed. Next season, I still need to work on a float serve, and get back to regular exercise. The cold weather has kept me from jogging, and I can often feel the windedness by the second game of a match. I also still need to get back to push-ups; I stopped in the middle of week 6 of the regimen, and I still intend to pick it back up, and continue doing it periodically.
Off we go.
Tags: volleyball
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12:09 pm
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Really glad I friended this fellow.
I was thinking the same thing.
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12:42 pm
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ROFL.
Fuck you, penguin!
Push-ups - alas, year-end events have conspired to dissuade me from pursuing this further. And so close I was! But I'll take it back up once time frees up again. Busy-ness can't last forever.
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06:35 pm
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The Internet is a series of YouTubes
Now with extra Python:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqX-tkDXEk
Tags: humor
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05:09 pm
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Push-ups: Week 6, Day 2
22 22 30 30 24 24 18 18 58+ 45sec between
I'm taking at least 90sec between; shorter sets, so less rest. I went up to 120sec after the fourth set. The last pushup wasn't pretty, but it was done.
246 in all.
Tags: one hundred pushups
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05:32 pm
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Push-ups: Week 6, Day 1, take 4
You things are getting bad when you've memorized the drill... As usual, that second set threatens to wind me all by itself. The next two sets, welcome relief.
I ended up resting almost four minutes instead of the usual three I was doing, and my arms nearly gave out on the last set, right at #50. But not quite. So, I'm finally able to call this day done.
190 in all.
Tags: one hundred pushups
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06:23 pm
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Push-ups: Week 6, Day 1, take 3
40 50 25 25 50+ 60sec rest between
I'm resting at least 3 minutes between.
Once again, that first set of 50 almost threatens to end me. The two sets of 25 feel almost like they're part of the rest periods separating them - two sets designed to prepare me for the final push, giving me respite without allowing my arms to lose their feeling of trial. Even so, I feel a dull thrum of inevitability, that today will not be the day I complete this.
In this case, at least it didn't feel painful. Rather, it was the all-too-familiar feeling that a fuel gauge in each arm was banging against the "E", starting around #20, and then they ran completely out of fumes around #35.
It wasn't much better than Monday, as a result, in terms of numbers. However, I noticed that on Monday, my form didn't feel as good. I was letting my body sag on Monday, and was trying extra hard to keep it as straight as possible today. No doubt that consumed a critical amount of energy.
So, we try this a fourth time on Saturday. Gotta remember to eat well before it.
(Meanwhile, we got righteously owned in the volleyball semi-finals. Partially our fault, partially due to their team being really good. So it goes; next week begins yet another season.)
Tags: one hundred pushups
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12:53 pm
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"It's not us; it's them."
So, this is a bittersweet victory for many Obama supporters in California, as I suspect most of them no doubt also opposed Prop 8. For those reading this who happen to not have heard, this was an initiative to amend the CA state constitution to not recognize gay marriage. It passed, 52% to 48%, even while the presidential vote in CA went about 8-5 in Obama's favor.
Naturally, I'm on the Internet around that time. (Playing World of Warcraft, if you must know.) That's when I hear one of my friends, a UC Berkeley student, say:
"They're gonna pass prop 8.
I thought we were better than this."
This was in a channel within earshot of maybe four or five other people. The next thing said in there was something unrelated, and it ended there. I'm not sure how anyone else felt, and I suspect I was the only one who felt like a stinkbomb was just dropped.
I thought we were better than this.
Now, personally, as a single person, I'm not extremely aware of what perks the state affords to married people, let alone what California affords. As a libertarian, I'm generally sympathetic toward recognizing deep interpersonal commitments as an implied mutual power of attorney. If I lived in CA, then depending on the exact wording of the proposition, I would have voted the same way you'd expect from a garden-variety libertarian.
But as someone who reads endless political and civics discussions on the Internet... well, I haven't seen everything, but I have seen an awful lot, including a lot of people who thought about it, would think Prop 8 was a good idea, and weren't frothing at the mouth baby-eaters. This seems borne out from the election results. Unless an unreasonably large number of people turned out just to vote on Prop 8 without voting for president, there are people who voted for both Prop 8 and Obama. Some of them probably have college degrees. Some of them are Democrats. Some of them probably advocate gay rights. All of them honestly think they're doing the right thing.
I don't fully understand them, and I don't fully agree with some of what I do understand, but I can see there's something there. I know that to casually dismiss this would be to undermine even deeper traditions of discourse, whose severance would make this cultural divide look like a barditch. Anyone who can't get past the civil rights issue to see this meta-problem is setting themselves up for a struggle they'll never win, which they'll conclude on their deathbeds is because only the other side is being stubborn.
Disagree with them, discuss with them, correct mistakes, but don't ever. EVER. assume you're objectively better than them. This is the exact sort of belief-based inanity that would get my friend from Berkeley called elitist.
Tags: politics
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11:13 pm
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Symbolism
"This is a great symbol of what America is all about... we hope and pray for the success of our new President."
-Karl Rove, on Obama, a few seconds ago
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06:41 pm
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Thought from today
Someone put this well:
If you're this worried about who will win on Tuesday, it may be a sign that your government is too powerful.
I'm maybe a bit worried, but there's little I can do about it at this point. What little I can do, I just did, by posting this.
Meanwhile, I'm reminded of a pledge Jeff Jarvis introduced back in 2004. Still a good pledge.
After the election results are in, I promise to:
: Support the President, even if I didn't vote for him.
: Criticize the President, even if I did vote for him.
: Uphold standards of civilized discourse in blogs and in media while pushing both to be better.
: Unite as a nation, putting country over party, even as we work together to make America better.
Tags: politics
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